Who is forcing people to smoke their first cigarette?
I take it you're cool with one bad decision wrecking someone's life as a matter of practice, rather than an exception. One bad decision that merchants of death encourage as much as they can.
Once addicted they can still choose to either get help to quit, quit on their own, or keep smoking.
This is a non-standard definition of "choose". If people could reliably quit on their own, they wouldn't be addicted, would they? My observations of people seriously trying to quit is that it's an unreliable process at best, and often requires many tries even when it works.
The changes made by C++11, 14 and 17 are all pretty minor.
That is not the opinion of anybody I've seen who actually uses the language. The changes make C++ a much better language.
It always astounds me how those new revisions of the language got people to write better code, which would have worked fine with C++98 as well.
Some of the new library features were adapted from Boost, but you're welcome to try writing lambdas and using move semantics (and std::unique_ptr) in C++98. "auto" was completely repurposed, since as far as anyone could tell nobody actually used it, and you can use it to write templates you couldn't in C++98. Plenty of other changes.
I appreciate your process and comfort, but another C++ advantage is that lots of people know C++, whereas it appears that only a very few people (perhaps just you) understand your framework and how to use it. For a one-person project that doesn't need to outlive its maintainer, that's not a problem.
There are constructs in C++ that you should just avoid in almost all cases. If programmers are using them constantly, they're bad programmers. All computer languages are tools and none are perfect. C++ is the Swiss Army chainsaw of languages.
That's how scientific models work. You have a quote from the IPCC saying that almost all predicted more warming than was observed by 2014, and a lot of speculation, If I take a look a NASA graph, I see an increase from a baseline temperature, which looks about 1975, to 1 degree about now. 1975 to 2015 is forty years, so that would be one degree over four decades, or 0.25 degrees per decade, pretty close to the 0.3 you claim didn't happen. Where are you getting your claim that the warming was about half that?
Let's see. Imperial, related to an empire or emperor. Fiat, declaration of something with some enforcement behind it. Fiat could apply here. However, the US is not an empire (at least not internally) and doesn't have an emperor. No government edicts are imperial. This is done by your suggestion of looking up the definitions of both words and combining them.
So, AC was tossing out a phrase because he or she liked the sound of it, nothing more.
Ever heard of something called "barriers to entry"? "Natural monopolies"? We're talking about large area networks with thousands and thousands of individual connections. That's bloody expensive.
How are you going to get right of way? To run a connection to my house, you're first going to need a connection to the area. That's all either public or private property. You're not going to get very far negotiating with each individual property owner, and that's not sufficient anyway. My house is in an area completely surrounded by municipal property. There need to be some sort of rules concerning who can do what with it.
Allowing companies to do what they want does not work in circumstances like this.
The other problem is that the thing is going to come down somewhere, if it takes off, and I'd rather not be killed by a flat-earther with a homemade steam rocket. Can you imagine explaining that to whoever you encounter after death?
There's little brown-nosing in undergrad education. If you want an academic job, you need to go to grad school, get a postdoc, get a tenure-track position, and then get tenure, and a relatively small number of people can screw your career over at any time. Once you have tenure, of course, you don't have to give a crap.
Four-year degrees often leave people with very important general and portable skills. They aren't intended to slot into jobs.
Thanksgiving, like Columbus Day, celebrates white privilege. That seems pretty clear from the history. There were a few whites around, and a whole lot of natives, and the natives were going to get the shaft.
I don't know what you're going on about. Your brother-in-law picked up a differing thought and opinion at his university. You seem to be intolerant of that.
Even assuming that what you say is mostly true, this is still the best time to be living in than all the others.
Endless war? That's been going on, um, endlessly. The modern wars are a lot easier on the population. Mass shootings? They affect only a very few people. Rioting in the streets? Old hat. We had real riots when I was a kid, not like the kind we have now. College has normally been a sign of privilege, and getting sick has always been dangerous.
First, how is this different than today? We already have mas migrations and wars. Been that way for centuries, go read a history book.
We have had carbon dioxide in the air for centuries. What's different now? We've had planetary warmth for centuries. What's different now?
If we have more crop failures and loss of land to the sea, and hence more and bigger mass migrations, and hence more and bigger wars, does that count as a difference?
Honestly, although the process will be very painful, the effects on social structure will be a progressive's wet dream.
And up to here you were making sense. Progressives don't want huge government and military growth. Leave the political stupidity out and you'll do better.
Sea ice floats. It displaces as much water as it masses. Therefore, when it melts and turns into water, sea level doesn't change. You can observe this for yourself with a glass of water with a couple of ice cubes. This isn't quite accurate, because we're melting fresh ice water into saline sea water, but that would reduce the density of the sea water a touch and make sea levels go up.
Land ice has no influence on sea level as long as it sits on land. Put some of it into the sea and sea level goes up.
If we're talking about something denser than water, we can get water level to go down. Imagine a load of steel bars on a barge. They raise the water level by the amount of water they displace, which is proportional to their mass. Dump them overboard, and the steel raises the water level by their volume, which is roughly a fifth of the volume of the water displaced. That's not what we're talking about, though.
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I take it you're cool with one bad decision wrecking someone's life as a matter of practice, rather than an exception. One bad decision that merchants of death encourage as much as they can.
This is a non-standard definition of "choose". If people could reliably quit on their own, they wouldn't be addicted, would they? My observations of people seriously trying to quit is that it's an unreliable process at best, and often requires many tries even when it works.
Do you contend that all government actions are National Socialism? Or is that just your kneejerk reaction?
All Presidents are elected through the Electoral College, and although they aren't great in number they're pretty important.
I'm cool with that, as long as you're willing to guarantee I don't have to put up with your foul-smelling carcinogens in any way.
It's said that the limit to your freedom to swing your fist is another person's nose. Have a little consideration for other people's noses.
As long as he keeps lowering the cost to Earth orbit, I'm happy to help give him subsidies for pocket cash. What new exploration are you opening up?
Ah, so you'd prefer to keep ignorance for convenience in scoffing. Okay.
That is not the opinion of anybody I've seen who actually uses the language. The changes make C++ a much better language.
Some of the new library features were adapted from Boost, but you're welcome to try writing lambdas and using move semantics (and std::unique_ptr) in C++98. "auto" was completely repurposed, since as far as anyone could tell nobody actually used it, and you can use it to write templates you couldn't in C++98. Plenty of other changes.
I appreciate your process and comfort, but another C++ advantage is that lots of people know C++, whereas it appears that only a very few people (perhaps just you) understand your framework and how to use it. For a one-person project that doesn't need to outlive its maintainer, that's not a problem.
There are constructs in C++ that you should just avoid in almost all cases. If programmers are using them constantly, they're bad programmers. All computer languages are tools and none are perfect. C++ is the Swiss Army chainsaw of languages.
That's how scientific models work. You have a quote from the IPCC saying that almost all predicted more warming than was observed by 2014, and a lot of speculation, If I take a look a NASA graph, I see an increase from a baseline temperature, which looks about 1975, to 1 degree about now. 1975 to 2015 is forty years, so that would be one degree over four decades, or 0.25 degrees per decade, pretty close to the 0.3 you claim didn't happen. Where are you getting your claim that the warming was about half that?
Have you any evidence that other scientists have less of what you call "bad faith"?
I dislike reading things from viewpoints that involve malicious lies. You want to maintain that lying is a conservative value, you go right ahead.
Let's see. Imperial, related to an empire or emperor. Fiat, declaration of something with some enforcement behind it. Fiat could apply here. However, the US is not an empire (at least not internally) and doesn't have an emperor. No government edicts are imperial. This is done by your suggestion of looking up the definitions of both words and combining them.
So, AC was tossing out a phrase because he or she liked the sound of it, nothing more.
Ever heard of something called "barriers to entry"? "Natural monopolies"? We're talking about large area networks with thousands and thousands of individual connections. That's bloody expensive.
How are you going to get right of way? To run a connection to my house, you're first going to need a connection to the area. That's all either public or private property. You're not going to get very far negotiating with each individual property owner, and that's not sufficient anyway. My house is in an area completely surrounded by municipal property. There need to be some sort of rules concerning who can do what with it.
Allowing companies to do what they want does not work in circumstances like this.
Were I born in different circumstances, I'd be ignorant. Stupid is a different thing entirely.
The other problem is that the thing is going to come down somewhere, if it takes off, and I'd rather not be killed by a flat-earther with a homemade steam rocket. Can you imagine explaining that to whoever you encounter after death?
You know, there's more than one professor in the country. You got one that sucks. It happens.
Also, I'm free and unarmed. It's called civilization, and it works a lot better than individual weapons. Try it sometime.
There's little brown-nosing in undergrad education. If you want an academic job, you need to go to grad school, get a postdoc, get a tenure-track position, and then get tenure, and a relatively small number of people can screw your career over at any time. Once you have tenure, of course, you don't have to give a crap.
Four-year degrees often leave people with very important general and portable skills. They aren't intended to slot into jobs.
Sue them for what? If it's legal to pull that crap, the courts aren't going to help you.
Try Wonder Woman. Not any of the others.
Thanksgiving, like Columbus Day, celebrates white privilege. That seems pretty clear from the history. There were a few whites around, and a whole lot of natives, and the natives were going to get the shaft.
I don't know what you're going on about. Your brother-in-law picked up a differing thought and opinion at his university. You seem to be intolerant of that.
Even assuming that what you say is mostly true, this is still the best time to be living in than all the others.
Endless war? That's been going on, um, endlessly. The modern wars are a lot easier on the population. Mass shootings? They affect only a very few people. Rioting in the streets? Old hat. We had real riots when I was a kid, not like the kind we have now. College has normally been a sign of privilege, and getting sick has always been dangerous.
We have had carbon dioxide in the air for centuries. What's different now? We've had planetary warmth for centuries. What's different now?
If we have more crop failures and loss of land to the sea, and hence more and bigger mass migrations, and hence more and bigger wars, does that count as a difference?
And up to here you were making sense. Progressives don't want huge government and military growth. Leave the political stupidity out and you'll do better.
Sea ice floats. It displaces as much water as it masses. Therefore, when it melts and turns into water, sea level doesn't change. You can observe this for yourself with a glass of water with a couple of ice cubes. This isn't quite accurate, because we're melting fresh ice water into saline sea water, but that would reduce the density of the sea water a touch and make sea levels go up.
Land ice has no influence on sea level as long as it sits on land. Put some of it into the sea and sea level goes up.
If we're talking about something denser than water, we can get water level to go down. Imagine a load of steel bars on a barge. They raise the water level by the amount of water they displace, which is proportional to their mass. Dump them overboard, and the steel raises the water level by their volume, which is roughly a fifth of the volume of the water displaced. That's not what we're talking about, though.