I'm long time Java developer myself and I find Python to be a natural transition.
We've been using CherryPy at work and it's a pleasure to use. Clean, concise and simple. And it has a number of templating languages to use as well.
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GWT is nice, but it's different than most web frameworks. It's Java code compiled into Javascript. The times I've used it I've come away thinking it has some great features, but it's a little heavy for my taste. Haven't used it in about 3 years though.
I did the exact same thing, bought a 13.3 pro this fall.
Macs are more expensive, but your spot on about the little things. Makes all the difference. And outside of games, I don't miss anything.
Democracies are run by politicians, not demagogues. A demagogue is not an inherent part of a democracy, for he can exist in a dictatorship or monarchy. Not so for a dictator or monarch.
Well, what are you gaining by having that extra 10% with XP or Linux? Another running program? At a certain point, if you have the resources, a 10% gain/loss doesn't really mean anything.
And memory prices being what they are, you have all the resources you need for a reasonable price.
I've camped there that last two years and when we would go into town to eat or take a shower, we noticed almost all of the restaurant workers, etc, were all foreign.
I struck up a convo with the proprietor of one of the restaurants we ate at and he said these workers come over for the summer, work their ass off, make some decent coin( relative to Slovakia ), and return home. He said the American kids are always wanting a day off to go party.
It's not his marketing, but the program itself. It looks good but performs terribly.
It's bug ridden to the core and to top it off, the developer is an asshole. He's always promising releases and never delivering(Read the News post and comments). Pixel is a waste of money, buyer beware.
CCW laws don't solve the problem of violence. They merely increase the likelyhood that someone else gets shot.
Odd statement too make, as there is no statistical evidence to back that up. If anything, the someone else getting shot is the perp. Regardless, your whole statement wreaks of an irrational, emotive bias against weapons. That's fine, but as such, your not making a whole lot of sense.
Firefights are not won by who shoots first, but by who gets shot, period. If one person in that classroom had a gun, odds are much greater that the VT shooter would have been dead or driven away from a classroom of defenseless people. This is such an obvious point, it beggars belief that it needs an explanation.
I live in Michigan which passed a Carry and Conceal Law in 2001. Your line of thinking used to be mine as well. I remember arguing that any two fools involved in a traffic dispute would suddenly start blazing away.
In short, it hasn't happened. People who apply for said permits are adults, not children, prone to violent temper tantrums.
I think that most of the time, the best qualified get the jobs, but it's certainly not the end of the story. American corportations are some of the most prolific advocates of Affirmative Action. Ford, Exxon, Bank of America, Xerox, etc, etc.
I don't know what the exact percentages are, and they certainly vary from company to company, but I don't think it's unreasonable to assume it's similar to college rates, typically 10%.
These two snippets are 'all together different'?:
"Kill disbelievers wherever you find them." and "And slay them wherever ye find them, "
Are you daft? The two aya's are identical in meaning, if not syntax. I don't know why you included 190 and 192, other than to buttress a weak argument.
Someone should take the above comment and put it in a time capsule to forever show the world the idiocy of the politically correct. Take this gem: "They showed a religious figure as a terrorist, using his "towel" to hold a bomb. This wasn't just against the religion, this was against a whole group of people, painting a whole religion with one brush."
We go from religion, to a people, back to a religion. To the emotive politically correct mind, there is no difference. If you criticize an idea, aka religion, you are, horribly *demonizing* a whole group of people. This is of course, nonsense. Criticizing Islam says nothing about Muslims. Islam is theory, Muslims are the practice and the practice varies.
That being said, any serious student of Islamic history knows that Islam is a supremacist religion. It historically brooks no criticism from it's followers and certainly not from the inferior Kuffar. That is the source of anger from the illiterate Pakistani in streets of Peshwar. He's pissed because the-infidel-has-insulted-the-Prophet-and-the-Proph et-embodies-the-One-true-religion-and therefore-cannot-be-insulted, not because they feel 'demonized' or 'generalized'.
'Complaining' about it? Is this what the effete, pantywaste pc crowd calls death induced rioting nowadays? Hilarious.
The left/right divide comes down to the division of Right and Proper -- the Right-wing desires the government to do that which is morally correct, while the left desires the government do that which is legally proper.
That's absurd. Currently, the only moral issue I can think of that drives the Republicans is abortion. And other than the emancipation of slaves, every moral issue that has faced this country has been on a united front, both Democrats and Republicans.
As far as I can tell, the only thing that currently drives the Democratic party is it's pathological hatred of George Bush.
Hey, that's never stopped conspiracy theorist before, because by definition, they never have credible evidence to begin with.
If you look a the current babblings of the Deibold Conspiracy gang, you'll find no actual evidence of vote rigging, merely things like donations to political parties, hackable machines, etc. I love how these people are already setting themselves up for lower expectations come November 7, by pre-emptively claiming vote rigging, because you know, polls ARE NEVER WRONG.
What's even stranger is that once one of the voting-machine companies might be controlled by a leftist, the leftist conspiracy theorists have nothing to say about it.
I'm not suggesting that we should weather Islamism by giving in to it - I'm suggesting that we should weather it by refusing to modify our open, tolerant, liberal societies in response to a spectacular but statistically insignificant level of violence.
Again, I'm not referring to violence, but the threat of. Since the murder of Theo van Gogh, everything is judged against the risks of offending Muslims, be it with the Mo-Toons or the utterings of the Pope. England, at one point, was considering extending religious hatred laws to cover Islam, ignoring the fact that Islam is an idea, not a race(did this pass?). This is, imo, the response your saying you wish not to have. You're modifying your liberal societies so you won't be harmed.
Yes you do, because otherwise a small number of people can hijack a democracy just by making threats.
Which, ironically, is exactly what Islamist are doing.
It's Islam and its adherents you have to worry about, not the modern day terrorist( although wait about 15 years, then you you will). The issue shouldn't be whether you want to 'weather' Islamism, but rather do you really want to take the giant steps backwards that this would entail?
Want to know what a Europe that has weathered Islam looks like? Look to the Middle East.
How about Ayaan Hirsi Ali? A member of Dutch parliament so constantly threatened with her life, she chose to flee the Netherlands.
The problem isn't violence, it's the threat of violence, from a large segment of the Dutch immigrant community. You don't wait until bombs(or people) are exploding all over the country to realize you have a HUGE problem.
I suspect those poll numbers are caused less by our President, and more by European stupidity, arrogance, and weakness.
Europe has a long, long history of slagging America, regardless of who the President is or was.
Many countries have used nuclear weapons? If your a geek, your not a very knowledgeable one.
As for the US nuking of Japan, it was certainly justified.
Actually, the Bali terrorist list a boatload of reasons for their violence, one of which was Australian interefernce in East Timor. Did America force you into that. If you seriously believe that the sole reason you were attacked is because of your relationship with America, then your the idiot.
Insert head back in sand.
But in the context of culture, kaffir is equivalent to nigger:
"Used as a disparaging term for a member of any socially, economically, or politically deprived group of people:", via Dictionary.com. Minorities living under Muslim rule were deprived, in that they were not equal under Islamic law to Muslims. Furthermore, Islamic literature is replete with disparaging references to the infidel. Kaffir is a term of disgust, not respect.
The jizya is not comparable to the tax levied on all people in the US, regardless of their race, religion, or creed. The jizya was *not* imposed on Muslims. Certainly Muslims were taxed to varying degrees, but the fact remains that if you were a non-Muslim, you payed *extra* for protection. So 'pretty much' isn't accurate and your simply dismissing something that is fundamentally unjust. Furthermore, the comparison of the US Justice system with Sharia is again dishonest. Under US laws, if a Muslim commits a crime against a Christian, their testimonies are not weighted by their respective religions. Nor are females and males treated equally. You are right to say that laws from another culture cannot compete with the laws of the host, but if the laws of the host are patently unjust towards the other and are not weighted equally regardless of who you are or what faith you practice, then your justice system is corrupt.
And your last paragraph is merely opinion, but highlights the ironic superiority complex that a lot of muslims have. No one cares what you achievments you acomplished a 1000 years ago. What have you done for me lately? The Islamic world is overwhelmingly ignorant, illiterate, and contribues almost nothing except bombs,fanaticism, and oil to the world. America is by every measurement the richest and most influential empire to have ever existed, with the exception of the British who were as influential, but far smaller. The world speaks English, business is conducted via the dollar, communicates through the Internet, and travels the globe in the automobile and airplane. The list of documented American achievments is vast and is essentially an extension of the European achievments that preceeded it.
As long as the Islamic world harps on its past, which is certainly no greater than the Chinese, Persian, or Roman empires before it, then it will continue to decline and wallow in its ignorance.
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I'm long time Java developer myself and I find Python to be a natural transition. We've been using CherryPy at work and it's a pleasure to use. Clean, concise and simple. And it has a number of templating languages to use as well.
@WilliamBaughman GWT is nice, but it's different than most web frameworks. It's Java code compiled into Javascript. The times I've used it I've come away thinking it has some great features, but it's a little heavy for my taste. Haven't used it in about 3 years though.
haha. 'yeah kidz, watch Red Dawn. Get pumped up, like I am, in my armchair.'
You fucking pussy.
The pilots weren't concerned about the perps firing on them moron, rather the column of troops in the area, where they had been fired on earlier.
Also, rules of engagement state that you can't fire on a vehicle if it's marked, and the van clearly was not.
A few of the guys in the crowd were clearly up to no good, carrying AK47's, so embedding yourself with them is a risk, and those guys lost.
I did the exact same thing, bought a 13.3 pro this fall. Macs are more expensive, but your spot on about the little things. Makes all the difference. And outside of games, I don't miss anything.
Here's the actual roundtable for your viewing pleasure.
Democracies are run by politicians, not demagogues. A demagogue is not an inherent part of a democracy, for he can exist in a dictatorship or monarchy. Not so for a dictator or monarch.
Well, what are you gaining by having that extra 10% with XP or Linux? Another running program? At a certain point, if you have the resources, a 10% gain/loss doesn't really mean anything.
And memory prices being what they are, you have all the resources you need for a reasonable price.
Do you live in Montana or Idaho?
I've camped there that last two years and when we would go into town to eat or take a shower, we noticed almost all of the restaurant workers, etc, were all foreign.
I struck up a convo with the proprietor of one of the restaurants we ate at and he said these workers come over for the summer, work their ass off, make some decent coin( relative to Slovakia ), and return home. He said the American kids are always wanting a day off to go party.
It's not his marketing, but the program itself. It looks good but performs terribly.
It's bug ridden to the core and to top it off, the developer is an asshole. He's always promising releases and never delivering(Read the News post and comments). Pixel is a waste of money, buyer beware.
Odd statement too make, as there is no statistical evidence to back that up. If anything, the someone else getting shot is the perp. Regardless, your whole statement wreaks of an irrational, emotive bias against weapons. That's fine, but as such, your not making a whole lot of sense.
Firefights are not won by who shoots first, but by who gets shot, period. If one person in that classroom had a gun, odds are much greater that the VT shooter would have been dead or driven away from a classroom of defenseless people. This is such an obvious point, it beggars belief that it needs an explanation.
I live in Michigan which passed a Carry and Conceal Law in 2001. Your line of thinking used to be mine as well. I remember arguing that any two fools involved in a traffic dispute would suddenly start blazing away.
In short, it hasn't happened. People who apply for said permits are adults, not children, prone to violent temper tantrums.
US combat fatalities outnumbered the French 2:1. And 15% of Frances total losses were to the Holocaust.
I think that most of the time, the best qualified get the jobs, but it's certainly not the end of the story. American corportations are some of the most prolific advocates of Affirmative Action. Ford, Exxon, Bank of America, Xerox, etc, etc.
I don't know what the exact percentages are, and they certainly vary from company to company, but I don't think it's unreasonable to assume it's similar to college rates, typically 10%.
These two snippets are 'all together different'?:
"Kill disbelievers wherever you find them." and "And slay them wherever ye find them, " Are you daft? The two aya's are identical in meaning, if not syntax. I don't know why you included 190 and 192, other than to buttress a weak argument.
Someone should take the above comment and put it in a time capsule to forever show the world the idiocy of the politically correct. Take this gem: "They showed a religious figure as a terrorist, using his "towel" to hold a bomb. This wasn't just against the religion, this was against a whole group of people, painting a whole religion with one brush."
h et-embodies-the-One-true-religion-and therefore-cannot-be-insulted, not because they feel 'demonized' or 'generalized'.
We go from religion, to a people, back to a religion. To the emotive politically correct mind, there is no difference. If you criticize an idea, aka religion, you are, horribly *demonizing* a whole group of people. This is of course, nonsense. Criticizing Islam says nothing about Muslims. Islam is theory, Muslims are the practice and the practice varies.
That being said, any serious student of Islamic history knows that Islam is a supremacist religion. It historically brooks no criticism from it's followers and certainly not from the inferior Kuffar. That is the source of anger from the illiterate Pakistani in streets of Peshwar. He's pissed because the-infidel-has-insulted-the-Prophet-and-the-Prop
'Complaining' about it? Is this what the effete, pantywaste pc crowd calls death induced rioting nowadays? Hilarious.
As far as I can tell, the only thing that currently drives the Democratic party is it's pathological hatred of George Bush.
Hey, that's never stopped conspiracy theorist before, because by definition, they never have credible evidence to begin with.
If you look a the current babblings of the Deibold Conspiracy gang, you'll find no actual evidence of vote rigging, merely things like donations to political parties, hackable machines, etc. I love how these people are already setting themselves up for lower expectations come November 7, by pre-emptively claiming vote rigging, because you know, polls ARE NEVER WRONG.
What's even stranger is that once one of the voting-machine companies might be controlled by a leftist, the leftist conspiracy theorists have nothing to say about it.
I'm not suggesting that we should weather Islamism by giving in to it - I'm suggesting that we should weather it by refusing to modify our open, tolerant, liberal societies in response to a spectacular but statistically insignificant level of violence.
Again, I'm not referring to violence, but the threat of. Since the murder of Theo van Gogh, everything is judged against the risks of offending Muslims, be it with the Mo-Toons or the utterings of the Pope. England, at one point, was considering extending religious hatred laws to cover Islam, ignoring the fact that Islam is an idea, not a race(did this pass?). This is, imo, the response your saying you wish not to have. You're modifying your liberal societies so you won't be harmed.
Yes you do, because otherwise a small number of people can hijack a democracy just by making threats.
Which, ironically, is exactly what Islamist are doing.
It's Islam and its adherents you have to worry about, not the modern day terrorist( although wait about 15 years, then you you will). The issue shouldn't be whether you want to 'weather' Islamism, but rather do you really want to take the giant steps backwards that this would entail?
Want to know what a Europe that has weathered Islam looks like? Look to the Middle East.
How about Ayaan Hirsi Ali? A member of Dutch parliament so constantly threatened with her life, she chose to flee the Netherlands.
The problem isn't violence, it's the threat of violence, from a large segment of the Dutch immigrant community. You don't wait until bombs(or people) are exploding all over the country to realize you have a HUGE problem.
I suspect those poll numbers are caused less by our President, and more by European stupidity, arrogance, and weakness.
Europe has a long, long history of slagging America, regardless of who the President is or was.
Many countries have used nuclear weapons? If your a geek, your not a very knowledgeable one. As for the US nuking of Japan, it was certainly justified.
Actually, the Bali terrorist list a boatload of reasons for their violence, one of which was Australian interefernce in East Timor. Did America force you into that. If you seriously believe that the sole reason you were attacked is because of your relationship with America, then your the idiot. Insert head back in sand.
But in the context of culture, kaffir is equivalent to nigger: "Used as a disparaging term for a member of any socially, economically, or politically deprived group of people:", via Dictionary.com. Minorities living under Muslim rule were deprived, in that they were not equal under Islamic law to Muslims. Furthermore, Islamic literature is replete with disparaging references to the infidel. Kaffir is a term of disgust, not respect.
The jizya is not comparable to the tax levied on all people in the US, regardless of their race, religion, or creed. The jizya was *not* imposed on Muslims. Certainly Muslims were taxed to varying degrees, but the fact remains that if you were a non-Muslim, you payed *extra* for protection. So 'pretty much' isn't accurate and your simply dismissing something that is fundamentally unjust. Furthermore, the comparison of the US Justice system with Sharia is again dishonest. Under US laws, if a Muslim commits a crime against a Christian, their testimonies are not weighted by their respective religions. Nor are females and males treated equally. You are right to say that laws from another culture cannot compete with the laws of the host, but if the laws of the host are patently unjust towards the other and are not weighted equally regardless of who you are or what faith you practice, then your justice system is corrupt.
And your last paragraph is merely opinion, but highlights the ironic superiority complex that a lot of muslims have. No one cares what you achievments you acomplished a 1000 years ago. What have you done for me lately? The Islamic world is overwhelmingly ignorant, illiterate, and contribues almost nothing except bombs,fanaticism, and oil to the world. America is by every measurement the richest and most influential empire to have ever existed, with the exception of the British who were as influential, but far smaller. The world speaks English, business is conducted via the dollar, communicates through the Internet, and travels the globe in the automobile and airplane. The list of documented American achievments is vast and is essentially an extension of the European achievments that preceeded it.
As long as the Islamic world harps on its past, which is certainly no greater than the Chinese, Persian, or Roman empires before it, then it will continue to decline and wallow in its ignorance.