That's the purpose of a republican form of government. In exchange for reaping the benefits of the republic's services, citizens are expected to pay taxes to fund those programs.
The constitution, on the other hand, is supposed to protect the less powerful. This doesn't always work; for example, it hasn't done well at protecting the interests of the poor against the conflicting interests of the rich.
And darcs, as much as I love it, is extremely slow to handle large projects. Extremely slow. Sometimes on the order of hours. This will likely improve, but for the time being, darcs only hosts Linux as a stress test.
And Haskell support isn't a big deal -- it can always be compiled statically.
Excuse me, but the Bill of Rights is undeniably a list of limitations on federal powers. What part of "Congress shall make no law..." doesn't make sense to you? Sections 8 and 9 might also be illuminating.
Can you quote a single line of the US Constitution that forbids states or cities from taxing for a given purpose? Have you ever read the document? You don't seem to have the slightest semblance of a grasp of it.
The federal government does a lot of things that the Constitution doesn't allow it to. They often lump these extra powers under national defense or regulation of interstate commerce. You might want to thumb through a reference on constitutional law before shooting off at the mouth.
> But how many government programs have been a success?
Rural electrification? The interstate highway system? The Clean Air Act? Head Start? To some extent, Medicare and Medicaid? A number of aspects of NASA?
WIC? Senior centers? Food stamps? Subsidized school lunches?
In some areas, police and firefighting? Sewer systems? Water systems?
Never. It's a probe, and it's on a trajectory away from Earth.
The money is spent on the infrastructure required to receive and process Voyager's transmissions, as well as the numerous staff required to do that work.
Nightly builds are automated. They're not even guaranteed to work. A daily snapshot of a constantly developing project may very well catch a transitional stage where everything's fucked up.
1. I'm not too worried about Secunia noticing what porn sites I've been browsing. 2. The example doesn't send any data to the server anyway. The only person seeing your data in this particular example is you.
You can take a codeblock as an explicit argument. Make the final argument to the function something like &fnc, and fnc will be a Proc representing the passed block.
yield is just syntactic sugar, really. matz pulled it in from some other language he liked.
Unfortunately, Seaside can't run on any common HTTP servers, and it requires the use of the mind-poppingly bad Squeak user interface for some operations.
Other than that, I completely agree -- Seaside is an amazing piece of software that makes most other frameworks look primitive.
Then you might want to try not reading Slashdot on April Fool's. I know it might be hard for you not to read/. one day of the whole fucking year, but we're all pulling for you.
Next year, maybe. Or you could begin now. Get a running start at it.
Which version of anarchist government? Anarcho-syndicalism? Anarcho-capitalism? One of the other forms of anarchist organization that have been proposed over the years?
An anarchist government need not be unstable. There are ways to set up safeguards against (abuse of) private power.
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That's the purpose of a republican form of government. In exchange for reaping the benefits of the republic's services, citizens are expected to pay taxes to fund those programs.
The constitution, on the other hand, is supposed to protect the less powerful. This doesn't always work; for example, it hasn't done well at protecting the interests of the poor against the conflicting interests of the rich.
If there was a single worldwide government that answered to the collective will of the people, yes.
And darcs, as much as I love it, is extremely slow to handle large projects. Extremely slow. Sometimes on the order of hours. This will likely improve, but for the time being, darcs only hosts Linux as a stress test.
And Haskell support isn't a big deal -- it can always be compiled statically.
Excuse me, but the Bill of Rights is undeniably a list of limitations on federal powers. What part of "Congress shall make no law..." doesn't make sense to you? Sections 8 and 9 might also be illuminating.
Can you quote a single line of the US Constitution that forbids states or cities from taxing for a given purpose? Have you ever read the document? You don't seem to have the slightest semblance of a grasp of it.
The federal government does a lot of things that the Constitution doesn't allow it to. They often lump these extra powers under national defense or regulation of interstate commerce. You might want to thumb through a reference on constitutional law before shooting off at the mouth.
Since when is it unconstitutional for states and municipalities to levy taxes to provide services?
The US Constitution limits federal powers. There's nothing in there that limits the ability of local government to tax you.
So it's not illegal or unconstitutional. I'll leave you your mortality (sic).
> But how many government programs have been a success?
Rural electrification? The interstate highway system? The Clean Air Act? Head Start? To some extent, Medicare and Medicaid? A number of aspects of NASA?
WIC? Senior centers? Food stamps? Subsidized school lunches?
In some areas, police and firefighting? Sewer systems? Water systems?
Bueller?
And withholding needed services from the destitute and ill is, morally, murder.
I'd rather be a thief than a murderer.
Never. It's a probe, and it's on a trajectory away from Earth.
The money is spent on the infrastructure required to receive and process Voyager's transmissions, as well as the numerous staff required to do that work.
Private companies aren't expected to serve the public interest. The government is.
Of course, it often fails in that role, but that's not a reason to abandon public works entirely.
It is certainly the public's place to choose what's done with public money.
Nightly builds are automated. They're not even guaranteed to work. A daily snapshot of a constantly developing project may very well catch a transitional stage where everything's fucked up.
1. I'm not too worried about Secunia noticing what porn sites I've been browsing.
2. The example doesn't send any data to the server anyway. The only person seeing your data in this particular example is you.
Well, yes. Nightlies are unstable. That's the very nature of them.
It has nothing to do with open source or any other methodology -- nightly builds are expected to break things.
In the proc style, you can.
.. end, proc do .. end) works fine.
func(n, y, proc do
You can take a codeblock as an explicit argument. Make the final argument to the function something like &fnc, and fnc will be a Proc representing the passed block.
yield is just syntactic sugar, really. matz pulled it in from some other language he liked.
Unfortunately, Seaside can't run on any common HTTP servers, and it requires the use of the mind-poppingly bad Squeak user interface for some operations.
Other than that, I completely agree -- Seaside is an amazing piece of software that makes most other frameworks look primitive.
Who said anything about guns? A gun is a pretty lousy defense against a rapist in most situations.
A knife or a can of mace is much more useful.
What? I've never met a single leftist who would deny the right of another person to defend herself with a weapon.
You'd think the same about lambda.
Then you might want to try not reading Slashdot on April Fool's. I know it might be hard for you not to read /. one day of the whole fucking year, but we're all pulling for you.
Next year, maybe. Or you could begin now. Get a running start at it.
They did it last year. Remember the Evil Bit?
If they weren't, they would not be plutocrats.
Sedition hasn't been illegal since WWI, you know.
And I agree. Opposing political thought should definitely be quashed. Oceania is already busy enough fighting Eastasia.
Which version of anarchist government? Anarcho-syndicalism? Anarcho-capitalism? One of the other forms of anarchist organization that have been proposed over the years?
An anarchist government need not be unstable. There are ways to set up safeguards against (abuse of) private power.
You say that like it's a bad thing.