I don't own a car, either. However, I've also driven after having a few drinks - possibly even being over the legal limit - and I've never been pulled over, killed anyone, or wrecked my car as the result of it. Because when I'm over 0.08, I'm just not drunk. At most, I talk a little too much, and that's about it.
You fucking moralistic shitbag. I hope you die of a venereal disease.
Assuming 9/11 had still happened, etc. the world still would have been far better off with Gore as president, if for no other reason than that Gore wouldn't have been stupid/venal enough get us into the Iraq quagmire.
That's a wonderful idea. Someone should just go tell the computer scientists and engineers to get their thumbs out of their asses and invent us some artificial intelligence, since obviously all they do now is sit around playing D & D and doing bong hits.
No, pretty much not. The problem with the moderation on slashdot is that it depends on the same fucking morons who read and post to do the moderation. They don't bother thinking about/reading the articles before commenting, why bother with either when judging comments?
Close, but not quite. Chomsky's UG is the biological endowment for language in human beings, serving as a set of constraints and requirements for the development of actual instances of human language.
(hopefully, there's another linguist around who has a different reading of whatever the fuck Noam's getting on about that'll contradict me)
I understand perfectly well how commas work. I also understand how native speakers of a language can take a potentially ambiguous orthographic representation and determine the proper reading from it by use of pragmatic factors, world knowledge, and an understanding of intonational features that would be present in a spoken rendering of said sentence.
Finally, there's nothing wrong with my sense of humor; I just didn't find the post funny.
If you're writing a scheduling system, you want everything in UTC. Cause it's independent of locale.
For display purposes, you display a time that's appropriate to the user's locale. If you're concerned about historical data, you have your display be intelligent enough to know that the DST switch happened in 2007.
Sorry; I'd written my post for native speakers of English, who are able to speak the sentence with proper intonation, such that the indented reading is clear.
That's a good point. Some dudes at sun with a bunch of schlubs in their underwear at home can figure out the various office formats and save their docs to them. Why can't MS work that out
You mean the same Arlen Specter that slipped a provision into the Patriot Act at renewal time that greatly broadened the White House's ability to replace US Attorneys without the consent of Congress (which they've done quite quickly, replacing longtime attorneys with politically connected Republicans)? The guy who totally rolled over on the illegal wiretapping program? That guy?
It's nice that you're so optimistic about the possibility of Republicans acting in the interests of the nation rather than their party and president. But you're naive if you really expect anything long term to come of it. After all, 2008 is coming, and it's time to pander to the fringe.
suddenly Novell are left with an operating system which is dying on the vine as nobody else is supporting it
Huh. Novell stuck with a dying OS that nobody else is supporting. Why is it that sounds so familiar?
I was shopping for a new laptop recently and saw that the Dell Latitudes with Merom support up to 4 GB of memory (if you really wanna shell out that kind of money for a 2-GB SODIMM).
If your contention was that you were unable to determine if my post was intended as humor, it speaks volumes about you that even the dipshits that get mod points at Slashdot (no offense, guys) got the joke. Unless you're just trying to the mask the fact that your sense of humor rises little above the level of the racist/homophobic, in which case you've done a rather incompetent job of it.
And, for the record, my attitude was not "holier than thou." It was "more intelligent and better educated than thou." I mean, come on, "jockularity?" Is that the quality of being a jock? And I shan't even condescend to correct your spelling of "condensending," if only for fear you might intend some term related to condensation.
Sometimes, we normal* people say things of a certian kind to produce a specific effect, often called "humor."
If we view this in set theoretic terms, then assuming a universe of discourse, U, containing statements, there is a set of statments which may be characterized as having this property, "humor."** We will call this set, H. The set H contains a variety of partitions - "slapstick," for example. Among these partitions is one, which we will call S, which contains those statements which are, or contain a subpart that is, deliberately counterfactual or contrary to the actual opinions and attitudes of the speaker. That is, the speaker says the opposite of what s/he actually might think or feel, so as to produce a statement that will be considered a member of the larger set H. The statement I made in the post to which you are responding is a member S; that is, it involves the use of counterfactual remark.
I hope this clears the matter up for you.
* I say "we normal people" because I am, perhaps uncompassionately, characterizing whatever makes you unable to recognise a fucking joke as some kind of brain disorder.
**I am aware of the difficulties that can arise from defining sets by properties (fuck you, Bertrand Russell!), but the lack of formal rigor affects the matter very little in this particular instance.
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I don't own a car, either. However, I've also driven after having a few drinks - possibly even being over the legal limit - and I've never been pulled over, killed anyone, or wrecked my car as the result of it. Because when I'm over 0.08, I'm just not drunk. At most, I talk a little too much, and that's about it.
You fucking moralistic shitbag. I hope you die of a venereal disease.
Because, sadly, it's true.
but he was also an Objectivist. But I repeat myself.
Assuming 9/11 had still happened, etc. the world still would have been far better off with Gore as president, if for no other reason than that Gore wouldn't have been stupid/venal enough get us into the Iraq quagmire.
That's a wonderful idea. Someone should just go tell the computer scientists and engineers to get their thumbs out of their asses and invent us some artificial intelligence, since obviously all they do now is sit around playing D & D and doing bong hits.
The sheer vision - it borders on godlike.
That statement is proof positive that you have no fucking idea what constitutes a good quality RDBMs or when you ought to use one.
Is that what Rush tells you?
Maybe you should find yourself a non-drug-addled source for news.
http://base.google.com/base
No, pretty much not. The problem with the moderation on slashdot is that it depends on the same fucking morons who read and post to do the moderation. They don't bother thinking about/reading the articles before commenting, why bother with either when judging comments?
You don't always have to act like a 6-year old with impulse control problems.
Close, but not quite. Chomsky's UG is the biological endowment for language in human beings, serving as a set of constraints and requirements for the development of actual instances of human language.
(hopefully, there's another linguist around who has a different reading of whatever the fuck Noam's getting on about that'll contradict me)
No, I'm not, but I'm a married adult with a job and interests in the real world.
It's just the end of the current round of the long count in the calendar. Then it start over.
It's not the end of anything in any significant sense, just the turning of a wheel. It's just as reasonable to think of it as a beginning.
I understand perfectly well how commas work. I also understand how native speakers of
a language can take a potentially ambiguous orthographic representation and determine
the proper reading from it by use of pragmatic factors, world knowledge, and an understanding
of intonational features that would be present in a spoken rendering of said sentence.
Finally, there's nothing wrong with my sense of humor; I just didn't find the post funny.
If you're writing a scheduling system, you want everything in UTC. Cause it's independent of locale.
For display purposes, you display a time that's appropriate to the user's locale. If you're concerned about historical
data, you have your display be intelligent enough to know that the DST switch happened in 2007.
Sorry; I'd written my post for native speakers of English, who are able to speak the
sentence with proper intonation, such that the indented reading is clear.
That's a good point. Some dudes at sun with a bunch of schlubs in their underwear at home can
figure out the various office formats and save their docs to them. Why can't MS work that out
Don't you feel the burning irony of posting this on Slashdot, one of the more prominent MySQL users?
I'd bet not; nor would I. I'd imagine that the grandparent poster is merely someone who likes writing applications against a more featureful database.
You mean the same Arlen Specter that slipped a provision into the Patriot Act at renewal time
that greatly broadened the White House's ability to replace US Attorneys without the consent
of Congress (which they've done quite quickly, replacing longtime attorneys with politically
connected Republicans)? The guy who totally rolled over on the illegal wiretapping program?
That guy?
It's nice that you're so optimistic about the possibility of Republicans acting in the interests
of the nation rather than their party and president. But you're naive if you really expect
anything long term to come of it. After all, 2008 is coming, and it's time to pander to the
fringe.
suddenly Novell are left with an operating system which is dying on the vine as nobody else is supporting it
Huh. Novell stuck with a dying OS that nobody else is supporting. Why is it that sounds so familiar?
Super faggity fag fag.
I was shopping for a new laptop recently and saw that the Dell Latitudes with Merom support up to 4 GB of memory (if you really wanna shell out that kind of money for a 2-GB SODIMM).
Any idea why the MBP only supports 3?
Heh. 3270 emulator. Thanks for the chuckle.
At least there won't be a new EBCDIC.
If your contention was that you were unable to determine if my post was intended as humor, it speaks volumes about you that even the dipshits that get mod points at Slashdot (no offense, guys) got the joke. Unless you're just trying to the mask the fact that your sense of humor rises little above the level of the racist/homophobic, in which case you've done a rather incompetent job of it.
And, for the record, my attitude was not "holier than thou." It was "more intelligent and better educated than thou." I mean, come on, "jockularity?" Is that the quality of being a jock? And I shan't even condescend to correct your spelling of "condensending," if only for fear you might intend some term related to condensation.
Sometimes, we normal* people say things of a certian kind to produce a specific effect, often called "humor."
If we view this in set theoretic terms, then assuming a universe of discourse, U, containing statements, there is a set of statments which may be characterized as having this property, "humor."** We will call this set, H. The set H contains a variety of partitions - "slapstick," for example. Among these partitions is one, which we will call S, which contains those statements which are, or contain a subpart that is, deliberately counterfactual or contrary to the actual opinions and attitudes of the speaker. That is, the speaker says the opposite of what s/he actually might think or feel, so as to produce a statement that will be considered a member of the larger set H. The statement I made in the post to which you are responding is a member S; that is, it involves the use of counterfactual remark.
I hope this clears the matter up for you.
* I say "we normal people" because I am, perhaps uncompassionately, characterizing whatever makes you unable to recognise a fucking joke as some kind of brain disorder.
**I am aware of the difficulties that can arise from defining sets by properties (fuck you, Bertrand Russell!), but the lack of formal rigor affects the matter very little in this particular instance.