This I agree with. I spend some time in #gentoo arguing with people new to game that -march=blah -O2 -pipe is fine. The use -fobliterate-regparms-nstacks-nstuff isn't really going to benefit anyone. Of course the same people have their boxes overclocked and then wonder why gcc can't compile programs.
I'd recommend -Os instead of -02. It's all the -O2 optimizations, except for the ones which increase code size. The end result is slightly slower binaries that are often significantly smaller, meaning they fit better into cache, which often can outweigh the loss of some optimizations.
This gives me an interesting idea - take some copyrighted file and encrypt it with a weak password - using RAR, AES, whatever. Change the extension and offer it for download as "large blocks of pseudorandom data for scientific applications". You could even use a file splitter to split it so you don't have a bunch of conspicuous 700mb filesizes. Then a master list would be made telling you what to download for which files - ie files 1, 3, 7 and 14 make up such and such.
I've never heard of it done before, but it seems simple enough that somebody must have. Anyone know if it's already been done, and if so, what the outcome was?
...though since I almost never close Mozilla, it doesn't really matter. What I really like is having a group of tabs associated with the "Home" bookmark. At the moment, one click opens up:/., explodingdog, maddox, the LP's homepage, wikipedia, suprnova, where's george?, and google news. These are all the pages I view at least daily, so I like having them at my fingertips.
When was the last time Rupert Murdoch came into your house, stuck a gun to your head and "forced" you to buy a particular channel?
Didn't think so.
You are not being forced into doing anything. If you don't like the way Dish runs their business, buy from a competitor whose business practices you prefer. Or go without TV. You could even start your own satellite company; that's the beauty of capitalism.
If any other sector of business did this, it would be illegal
If I make and sell decks of playing cards, I don't have to sell you an ace of Spades by itself if I don't want to. I can choose to sell single decks or even packs of 100 decks, if I want.
Similarly, Dish Network doesn't have to sell you Comedy Central by itself if they don't want to. They can choose to bundle channels however they want, and you can choose to buy them or not.
Hell, your argument means Microsoft's monopoly is okay too - after all, no one *has* to buy anything from them...
In a capitalist system, there is no such thing as a true monopoly. Anyone can, at any time, start a company that can compete with Microsoft or Dish or any other such giant company. What's illegal is when a giant company uses its monopoly power to force other, smaller companies out of business.
This forces people to just pay for all the crap at once, rather than be able to pick 'n choose.
You're not being 'forced' into paying for anything. If you don't like the way they offer their channels, DON'T FUCKING BUY THEM! Who are you to claim you have a right to force someone else how to run their business?
You're always dependent on some developers, not necessarily the same developers as you've always had.
What happens if the developers just stop developing?
What happens if the developers just stop developing a closed-source product?
With an abandoned closed-source product, you've got nothing to do except look for an alternative, use the old version, or write one yourself from scratch.
With an abandoned open-source product, you can get new devs on your team, or the code can be forked. No open source project is truly abandoned if there is continued interest in developing it.
Wouldn't the more enlightened country be the one that realizes no one is forcing you to work like a dog with only a week's vacation? You are free to ask your employer at any time for more vacation time. If they refuse, nothing is stopping you from quitting and finding another job that gives you more vacation.
Sounds like you'll like Gentoo. You won't need to compile anything by hand anymore, but if you insist on doing so, portage provides the emerge --inject command, which tells it that a package you installed yourself is on the system and should not be considered an unsatisfied dependency.
The wasted efforts of the courts and police officers. One is to say, "We should get rid of all civil suits that are less than 10,000 dollars too. They just tie up the court system while other bigger money cases need to be settled." Same idea, same bad idea.
Civil suits are a bad analogy. Should people really be imprisoned for a nonviolent, consensual act in their own home, while thousands of murders, rapes, robberies etc go unsolved?
The big drug cartel controllers will shift their whole focus, causing a domino effect down the ladder. That gangster who used to sell pot, is now selling stolen stereo systems or something else.
Stolen stereo systems is a far smaller market than drugs. Also, the time and money spent fighting the drug war could then be reapplied to fighting and prosecuting true criminals, such as murderers, rapists, and thieves.
So.... your theory is that people who have already proven themselves to be untrustworthy and dangerous, and have undergone no rehabilitation at all, should be as equally trusted as people who have posessed firearms for decades without using them to detrimental effect?
If they haven't been rehabilitated, they should not be released from prison in the first place. It's that simple. If they have been rehabilitated enough to be released, they are also rehabilitated enough to own a firearm.
If a violent criminal has proven that they can and will hurt people if allowed to exercise second amendment rights, they have, through their own choices, forfeited their rights in favor of the rights of innocent people.
When they go to jail, that is forfeiting their rights. They should not be released until they have been rehabilitated, and when they are, they should have their full rights restored, including 2nd Amendment rights.
This holds even more when you consider how many violent criminals are released on "good behavior" solely due to overcrowding
The overcrowding is caused by the nonviolent criminals who should not be there in the first place. Release all nonviolent "criminals" who have not committed any true crime, and overcrowding will disappear overnight.
and how many violent criminals simply return to prison anyway.
Then make jail time even steeper for violent criminals who commit a second crime. But some ex-cons may be genuinely rehab'd, and deserve their full rights back.
"Free healthcare" is just as nonexistant as "free lunch". There is always a cost. In this case, property, in the form of taxes, is taken by force from citizens by the state. This stolen money is used to pay for your "free" healthcare.
I personally think only violent felons should be barred from gun ownership but the law says different.
If they're trusted enough to be released from prison, they also should be trusted enough to own a firearm. I say give ex-cons their rights back once they're out of jail, and instead impose a hefty penalty of jail time for any ex-felon who commits a second violent crime, with or without a firearm.
However, if local communities agree that this particular act of expression grossly infringes on the rights of their citizens (i.e. like Child Pornography infringes on the rights of the children), then that community is perfectly within bounds to establish ordanances to prevent that act.
A local community cannot infringe upon the rights of any of its citizens, even if a majority of those citizens wants to.
The general test for an action being a crime is if it involves coercing another into doing something. Murder, rape, theft, assault, etc. all have an element of coercion and are thus crimes.
Speeding is not a crime, because it involves only me, the car, and a road, none of which are being coered into doing anything. The same arguments apply to smoking pot, owning a gun, or developing and selling a videogame. No one is being forced to do something, therefore IT IS NOT A CRIME.
A "liberal" is someone who promotes liberty. In the U.S., a liberal is someone who promotes the liberties identified by our constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence.
Correction: A liberal is someone who promotes a few liberties, and ignores the other ones that they don't like. Unless you want to find me a liberal who doesn't try to twist the meaning of the Second Amendment.
If you want the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence, you want the Libertarian Party
Government-mandated product safety regulations are always a Bad Thing. It is not up to you to tell me what I should have in my car to make me "safer". Let the technology develop, and if there's a demand for it, car companies will start offering it optional on their cars.
It's set in the present day. James Cameron is exploring the Titanic shipwreck when his sub accidently bumps DiCaprio's waterlogged corpse. This causes him to wake up and become a zombie. He then infects the entire expedition's crew, including Cameron, and they run around Hollywood raising hell. Ash comes in and kicks major ass, and the world rejoices and names Ash their new king. The fucking end.
Seriously, who the fuck wouldn't pay to see Bruce Campbell kick the unholy shit out of DiCraprio with a chainsaw and a sawed-off?
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This is a republic, not a democracy. Abridging the rights of a minority group is not OK, even if a majority group supports the idea.
Condorcet would be better than IRV.
Have you looked into ccache as well? It caches compiled code, so parts of your project that haven't been updated don't get rebuilt again.
I'd recommend -Os instead of -02. It's all the -O2 optimizations, except for the ones which increase code size. The end result is slightly slower binaries that are often significantly smaller, meaning they fit better into cache, which often can outweigh the loss of some optimizations.
I've never heard of it done before, but it seems simple enough that somebody must have. Anyone know if it's already been done, and if so, what the outcome was?
...though since I almost never close Mozilla, it doesn't really matter. What I really like is having a group of tabs associated with the "Home" bookmark. At the moment, one click opens up: /., explodingdog, maddox, the LP's homepage, wikipedia, suprnova, where's george?, and google news. These are all the pages I view at least daily, so I like having them at my fingertips.
When was the last time Rupert Murdoch came into your house, stuck a gun to your head and "forced" you to buy a particular channel?
Didn't think so.
You are not being forced into doing anything. If you don't like the way Dish runs their business, buy from a competitor whose business practices you prefer. Or go without TV. You could even start your own satellite company; that's the beauty of capitalism.
If any other sector of business did this, it would be illegal
If I make and sell decks of playing cards, I don't have to sell you an ace of Spades by itself if I don't want to. I can choose to sell single decks or even packs of 100 decks, if I want.
Similarly, Dish Network doesn't have to sell you Comedy Central by itself if they don't want to. They can choose to bundle channels however they want, and you can choose to buy them or not.
Hell, your argument means Microsoft's monopoly is okay too - after all, no one *has* to buy anything from them...
In a capitalist system, there is no such thing as a true monopoly. Anyone can, at any time, start a company that can compete with Microsoft or Dish or any other such giant company. What's illegal is when a giant company uses its monopoly power to force other, smaller companies out of business.
You're not being 'forced' into paying for anything. If you don't like the way they offer their channels, DON'T FUCKING BUY THEM! Who are you to claim you have a right to force someone else how to run their business?
You're always dependent on some developers, not necessarily the same developers as you've always had.
What happens if the developers just stop developing?
What happens if the developers just stop developing a closed-source product?
With an abandoned closed-source product, you've got nothing to do except look for an alternative, use the old version, or write one yourself from scratch.
With an abandoned open-source product, you can get new devs on your team, or the code can be forked. No open source project is truly abandoned if there is continued interest in developing it.
Wouldn't the more enlightened country be the one that realizes no one is forcing you to work like a dog with only a week's vacation? You are free to ask your employer at any time for more vacation time. If they refuse, nothing is stopping you from quitting and finding another job that gives you more vacation.
Sounds like you'll like Gentoo. You won't need to compile anything by hand anymore, but if you insist on doing so, portage provides the emerge --inject command, which tells it that a package you installed yourself is on the system and should not be considered an unsatisfied dependency.
I'd mod it up, but I sold all my mod points for cash and bought some crab juice.
Civil suits are a bad analogy. Should people really be imprisoned for a nonviolent, consensual act in their own home, while thousands of murders, rapes, robberies etc go unsolved?
The big drug cartel controllers will shift their whole focus, causing a domino effect down the ladder. That gangster who used to sell pot, is now selling stolen stereo systems or something else.
Stolen stereo systems is a far smaller market than drugs. Also, the time and money spent fighting the drug war could then be reapplied to fighting and prosecuting true criminals, such as murderers, rapists, and thieves.
If they haven't been rehabilitated, they should not be released from prison in the first place. It's that simple. If they have been rehabilitated enough to be released, they are also rehabilitated enough to own a firearm.
If a violent criminal has proven that they can and will hurt people if allowed to exercise second amendment rights, they have, through their own choices, forfeited their rights in favor of the rights of innocent people.
When they go to jail, that is forfeiting their rights. They should not be released until they have been rehabilitated, and when they are, they should have their full rights restored, including 2nd Amendment rights.
This holds even more when you consider how many violent criminals are released on "good behavior" solely due to overcrowding
The overcrowding is caused by the nonviolent criminals who should not be there in the first place. Release all nonviolent "criminals" who have not committed any true crime, and overcrowding will disappear overnight.
and how many violent criminals simply return to prison anyway.
Then make jail time even steeper for violent criminals who commit a second crime. But some ex-cons may be genuinely rehab'd, and deserve their full rights back.
"Free healthcare" is just as nonexistant as "free lunch". There is always a cost. In this case, property, in the form of taxes, is taken by force from citizens by the state. This stolen money is used to pay for your "free" healthcare.
This is exactly why Libertarians advocate privatization of roads.
If they're trusted enough to be released from prison, they also should be trusted enough to own a firearm. I say give ex-cons their rights back once they're out of jail, and instead impose a hefty penalty of jail time for any ex-felon who commits a second violent crime, with or without a firearm.
GimmeFuel, also a Proud Libertarian
A local community cannot infringe upon the rights of any of its citizens, even if a majority of those citizens wants to.
Speeding is not a crime, because it involves only me, the car, and a road, none of which are being coered into doing anything. The same arguments apply to smoking pot, owning a gun, or developing and selling a videogame. No one is being forced to do something, therefore IT IS NOT A CRIME.
Correction: A liberal is someone who promotes a few liberties, and ignores the other ones that they don't like. Unless you want to find me a liberal who doesn't try to twist the meaning of the Second Amendment.
If you want the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence, you want the Libertarian Party
Government-mandated product safety regulations are always a Bad Thing. It is not up to you to tell me what I should have in my car to make me "safer". Let the technology develop, and if there's a demand for it, car companies will start offering it optional on their cars.
It's set in the present day. James Cameron is exploring the Titanic shipwreck when his sub accidently bumps DiCaprio's waterlogged corpse. This causes him to wake up and become a zombie. He then infects the entire expedition's crew, including Cameron, and they run around Hollywood raising hell. Ash comes in and kicks major ass, and the world rejoices and names Ash their new king. The fucking end.
Seriously, who the fuck wouldn't pay to see Bruce Campbell kick the unholy shit out of DiCraprio with a chainsaw and a sawed-off?
TV Tome has a ton of useful TV show info also.
Nah, that line of code is part of a subroutine, and a while loop is already set up to check if it's an election day and fire that subroutine if so.
What's wrong with \r or 0x0D?