As you may or may not recall, during the Bush administration the Justice Department had this problem where some political appointees decided that they'd hire and fire people at Justice based on political affiliation (and possibly sexual orientation, in at least one case). Then the matter was investigated, by Congress, who couldn't get some individuals to show up to testify, which is contempt of Congress. When referrals for these contempt charges were passed to the Justice Department, they were promptly ignored, on the orders of - surprise - a political appointee of the President whose administration was being investigated in the first place.
Which is all to say, investigative powers are great, so long as the ability to compel testimony and subpoena (and obtain) documents is unimpeded, and that the investigative process is unimpeded and apolitical. What we saw over the last 8 years was the willing complicity of the legislative branch (till 2006, after which we saw some true cravenness), coupled with an executive that felt it was above the law. No simple IG provisions were going to fix that.
is perfectly OK for COBOL? No? But "do support" is a basic and much discussed (in syntactic literature) feature of English.
OK, but that's a question; how about a semantically identical paraphrase:
TO VERMOUTH ADD GIN GIVING MARTINI
What you point out is that a certain set of substrings of some computer programming languages look like English. That doesn't mean they are English, or that they're generated by the same grammar as English strings.
A little Googling will confirm that "{state} Federal Judge" is a pretty common idiom
And a little googling will confirm that this particular Judge is in the federal district of Central PA.
What's your fucking point? That the term "${state}" federal judge is current, according to Google, ignoring the fact that if you Goolge the fucking judge's name you discover *gasp* that he's not in NJ?
Fuck your family in the mouth. I hope you and your whole family dies of cancer. (not really, I'm just drunk and ranty)
A device attached to your started by people that sell used cars? Apart from the questionable legality, there's the expense (that'd take a cell connection with a monthly charge, or a big ol' broadcast tower), and the fact that anyone could go to their mechanic and have it removed.
So, you submitted the story this morning, in a rush, without checking the details.
Maybe you're an idiot (idiots seldom take responsibility for their idiocy); what's the editors' excuse for posting the story this afternoon/evening without checking any of the details, or apparently even bothering to click on the link you provided?
It looks like English superficially, but the reserved words in a computer language are really just arbitrary strings. Sure, they might have been selected at some point for their mnemonic qualities, but confusing one for the other is a bad idea. Comments are a different matter.
As for programming languages using English syntax, they don't, and most common languages aren't even superficially similar.
Hey, maybe people have a reason to use MySQL - a product that only supports that db, or developers who aren't particularly familiar with what relational databases are supposed to be like.
Perhaps I didn't phrase it in the best way - strip searching a 13 year old for a suspected drug offense is offensive and vile on every level, whoever is doing the search. I guess the issue of it being a law enforcement officer vs. a school official would be that in the first instance, strip searching people is conceivably part of their actual job description, and in the second it's probably child molestation, and at a bare minimum, grounds to be terminated and never permitted within 50 feet of a child again.
And then there's the whole idiotic drug hysteria. As you point out, the appropriate thing to do would have been to call the girl's mother, who'd be annoyed at how fucking idiotic the school is, and then it'd all be over after a day or two of silent fuming.
Sorry, not the fact that it exists; my dad was a doctor and I spent years flipping through a PDR. The fact that someone working in a school decided that suspected possession of prescription strength ibuprofen warranted having school employees perform a strip search of a 13 year old.
I've done desktop support before, so I'm used to dealing with some really fantastically stupid people, but my imagination just balked at this.
So, it's a container format with two different data streams in it, and you can stuff massively oversized files on your portable player, only you can only play the itty bity portion of that file that's the lossy one.
Dude. Shut the fuck up. Just completely shut the fuck up. There's exactly nothing rational or reasonable about this.
The school may be acting in loco parentis while the kids are there, but that just doesn't even begin to permit this kind of thing. The only thing that is unfortunate is that the school district will wind up paying for this, as opposed to the people who conducted the search or ordered that it be done.
Fucking prescription strength Advil - a pill as powerful as TWO regular Advil. The school officials responsible are a fucking menace to everyone in society if they're that stupid and/or removed from the realm of common sense.
Leaving aside completely the appropriateness of conducting a strip search of a 13-year old in school - by people who aren't law enforcement personnel - because she's suspected of having drugs on her, WHAT THE FUCK?
School officials actually ordered the search for suspicion that the girl was in possession of a drug that is like two over the counter Advil in one.
Every single school employee involved should be fired from their jobs, then forever forced to earn their living by begging on the street for money while people kick them as they walk by.
Read any number of remotely-related political articles over the history of Slashdot and you'll notice far, far more many "Representative-(R)" strings in the articles than "Representative-(D)" strings, regardless of whether the articles are positive or negative.
All you're saying here is that given a non-scientific sampling of data, you believe you've detected a trend that could quite well be merely an example of confirmation bias. I'm not saying that it's not true; I'm merely saying that a claim like that warrants better better support than claims of obviousness, particularly as it's not obvious to everyone (myself, for example).
Again, party affiliation only gets mentioned when it makes Republicans look evil or Democrats look good.
You got any stats you can cite to support that? Maybe you only notice the party affiliation when it makes Republicans look evil or Democrats look good.
You might not like either party, but you may have biases that lead you to see a pattern where there isn't one, or where it's not as significant as you think it is.
The issue wasn't whether volcano monitoring is a useful activity for the federal government to be involved in, but whether it belongs in a bill to stimulate the economy.
Well, presumably they'd be spending money on equipment and staff for that monitoring. Do you not quite understand the purpose of a stimulus spending bill?
Now if a volcano monitoring program will somehow get the economy back on track better than, say, cutting capital gains taxes
Now, why say capital gains taxes? I mean, yeah, I'd personally benefit from capital gains tax cuts, but they're still not in the best interests of the country as a whole. If you're going to do tax cuts, and you actually want to stimulate the economy, they're best targeted at payroll taxes. To be responsible, though, you'd want them at lower income brackets with a compensatory increase at the upper end.
Whoa, who took the sugar off of your Frosted Mini Wheats this morning?
Congratulations for picking on my wheat allergy!
I'm just taking out my general frustrations in life on Slashdot these days. Don't take offense, I'm just some jackass on the internets. You were correct, and Arlington county does deserve to be given recognition as part of the overall cluster of tech locales in the DC area.
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As you may or may not recall, during the Bush administration the Justice Department had this problem where some political appointees decided that they'd hire and fire people at Justice based on political affiliation (and possibly sexual orientation, in at least one case). Then the matter was investigated, by Congress, who couldn't get some individuals to show up to testify, which is contempt of Congress. When referrals for these contempt charges were passed to the Justice Department, they were promptly ignored, on the orders of - surprise - a political appointee of the President whose administration was being investigated in the first place.
Which is all to say, investigative powers are great, so long as the ability to compel testimony and subpoena (and obtain) documents is unimpeded, and that the investigative process is unimpeded and apolitical. What we saw over the last 8 years was the willing complicity of the legislative branch (till 2006, after which we saw some true cravenness), coupled with an executive that felt it was above the law. No simple IG provisions were going to fix that.
oh, so, a statement like
DID GIN GET ADDED TO MARTINI?
is perfectly OK for COBOL? No? But "do support" is a basic and much discussed (in syntactic literature) feature of English.
OK, but that's a question; how about a semantically identical paraphrase:
TO VERMOUTH ADD GIN GIVING MARTINI
What you point out is that a certain set of substrings of some computer programming languages look like English. That doesn't mean they are English, or that they're generated by the same grammar as English strings.
According to Thomas it was introduced by a Democrat.
But, sure, Republicans can sign on to bills that restore the rule of law to the USA, too.
And a little googling will confirm that this particular Judge is in the federal district of Central PA.
What's your fucking point? That the term "${state}" federal judge is current, according to Google, ignoring the fact that if you Goolge the fucking judge's name you discover *gasp* that he's not in NJ?
Fuck your family in the mouth. I hope you and your whole family dies of cancer. (not really, I'm just drunk and ranty)
Now that's fair. Bad Slashdot poster! No donut. At least, not until everyone else has gotten one and you have to pick from the rejects.
Never underestimate the depths of motherfuckertude people will sink to in order to get that dollar.
Presumably, these new netbooks also have a strangely oily layer of orange material inside attached to the remote kill switch.
So whatever you do, don't cut the red wire.
A device attached to your started by people that sell used cars? Apart from the questionable legality, there's the expense (that'd take a cell connection with a monthly charge, or a big ol' broadcast tower), and the fact that anyone could go to their mechanic and have it removed.
Try harder.
So, you submitted the story this morning, in a rush, without checking the details.
Maybe you're an idiot (idiots seldom take responsibility for their idiocy); what's the editors' excuse for posting the story this afternoon/evening without checking any of the details, or apparently even bothering to click on the link you provided?
The link in the summary is to the Scranton (PA) Times, and the judge is in the US District Court of Middle Pennsylvania.
I found this out by 1) clicking on the story link, and 2) Googling for judge's name and clicking on THE VERY FIRST LINK.
Seriously, can't the alleged editors of this site pretend to give a fuck about the accuracy of what they post?
It looks like English superficially, but the reserved words in a computer language are really just arbitrary strings. Sure, they might have been selected at some point for their mnemonic qualities, but confusing one for the other is a bad idea. Comments are a different matter.
As for programming languages using English syntax, they don't, and most common languages aren't even superficially similar.
Hey, maybe people have a reason to use MySQL - a product that only supports that db, or developers who aren't particularly familiar with what relational databases are supposed to be like.
It could also be that you're just talking to a fucking moron.
Perhaps I didn't phrase it in the best way - strip searching a 13 year old for a suspected drug offense is offensive and vile on every level, whoever is doing the search. I guess the issue of it being a law enforcement officer vs. a school official would be that in the first instance, strip searching people is conceivably part of their actual job description, and in the second it's probably child molestation, and at a bare minimum, grounds to be terminated and never permitted within 50 feet of a child again.
And then there's the whole idiotic drug hysteria. As you point out, the appropriate thing to do would have been to call the girl's mother, who'd be annoyed at how fucking idiotic the school is, and then it'd all be over after a day or two of silent fuming.
Sorry, not the fact that it exists; my dad was a doctor and I spent years flipping through a PDR. The fact that someone working in a school decided that suspected possession of prescription strength ibuprofen warranted having school employees perform a strip search of a 13 year old.
I've done desktop support before, so I'm used to dealing with some really fantastically stupid people, but my imagination just balked at this.
So, it's a container format with two different data streams in it, and you can stuff massively oversized files on your portable player, only you can only play the itty bity portion of that file that's the lossy one.
And the use case for this is?
Dude. Shut the fuck up. Just completely shut the fuck up. There's exactly nothing rational or reasonable about this.
The school may be acting in loco parentis while the kids are there, but that just doesn't even begin to permit this kind of thing. The only thing that is unfortunate is that the school district will wind up paying for this, as opposed to the people who conducted the search or ordered that it be done.
Fucking prescription strength Advil - a pill as powerful as TWO regular Advil. The school officials responsible are a fucking menace to everyone in society if they're that stupid and/or removed from the realm of common sense.
Leaving aside completely the appropriateness of conducting a strip search of a 13-year old in school - by people who aren't law enforcement personnel - because she's suspected of having drugs on her, WHAT THE FUCK?
School officials actually ordered the search for suspicion that the girl was in possession of a drug that is like two over the counter Advil in one.
Every single school employee involved should be fired from their jobs, then forever forced to earn their living by begging on the street for money while people kick them as they walk by.
This is a joke, right?
Right? Please?
All you're saying here is that given a non-scientific sampling of data, you believe you've detected a trend that could quite well be merely an example of confirmation bias. I'm not saying that it's not true; I'm merely saying that a claim like that warrants better better support than claims of obviousness, particularly as it's not obvious to everyone (myself, for example).
You got any stats you can cite to support that? Maybe you only notice the party affiliation when it makes Republicans look evil or Democrats look good.
You might not like either party, but you may have biases that lead you to see a pattern where there isn't one, or where it's not as significant as you think it is.
I think you misspelled "misspelled." ;-)
Well, presumably they'd be spending money on equipment and staff for that monitoring. Do you not quite understand the purpose of a stimulus spending bill?
Now, why say capital gains taxes? I mean, yeah, I'd personally benefit from capital gains tax cuts, but they're still not in the best interests of the country as a whole. If you're going to do tax cuts, and you actually want to stimulate the economy, they're best targeted at payroll taxes. To be responsible, though, you'd want them at lower income brackets with a compensatory increase at the upper end.
I just hope I get to be one of the guards at the re-education camp you get sent to.
We're gonna have a blast with you, I can see that now.
Congratulations for picking on my wheat allergy!
I'm just taking out my general frustrations in life on Slashdot these days. Don't take offense, I'm just some jackass on the internets. You were correct, and Arlington county does deserve to be given recognition as part of the overall cluster of tech locales in the DC area.
Jerk.