My ability to look things up is not the same as you actually speaking your own words. There is an important distinction to it, so don't be lazy yourself. Or resentful that somebody tells you to make your case in full, rather than handwaves it.
Your ability to argue any technicality is astounding.
That's exactly how Islam spread across large parts of the world once upon a time - through sheer, terroristic violence. You know that neighbor of Frances'... Spain? Yeah, once upon a time Islamic terrorists overran that next door neighbor and set up shop there for quite a while.
Generally the Muslims in Spain were more tolerant of others than the Christians were. After the reconquista, Muslims were required to convert to Christianity or be exiled. This (along with a similar 'conversion' of Jews) led to something called the Spanish Inquisition, which was not the biggest display of Christian tolerance (but you expected that, of course).
Beirut Embassy Bombings - Got the US soldiers from the UNF out of Lebanon.
El Salvador guerrillas - they got significant power in the government. The current president of the country was a guerrilla commander
Maoist fighters in Nepal - King was stripped of political rights, and the maoists got power in government.
You could have easily looked these up, don't be lazy.
Repeated terrorism does put economic pressure on countries suffering from it, but I am hard pressed to think of a single case where that produced any effect that was productive to terrorism.
Beirut Embassy Bombings. El Salvador guerrillas in the 1980s. Maoist fighters in Nepal. There are plenty of example.
To the point, militant Islam really, really wants to be in charge, which makes pretty much everyone in the world either an immediate target or a future target. It's odd that you don't seem to recognize that.
Militant Islam isn't a single entity, it's an ideology followed by many competing groups. The attacks happened because someone, or some group thought it would further there goals. They thought it would be a better use of resources than attacking the US, or Hungary, or keeping fighters in Syria (and they might be correct, or they might not be correct, but they thought it would be a good idea).
So the real question is, who are these people making decisions, and why did they make those decisions? It's odd that you don't seem to recognize that.
I understand why terrorists attacked the WTC, because America was a major power in the middle east (both militarily and culturally, and the terrorists hate both). Furthermore OBL hoped to increase his reputation by pushing around the US military.
Why are they attacking France? What do they hope to achieve?
Who cares what the patients "support"? Patients for the most part demonstrably have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to medical treatments. We have highly trained medical professionals and we rely on treatments that can objectively be shown to work better than placebo for a reason.
Which raises the question.......what moron doctors are out there prescribing this stuff??
Google Wallet is sure great for transferring money. In almost every case there are no fees, it works quickly and easily. You don't have to hook it up to your bank account. I can't even think of anything to complain about it, although surely there is something.
Is it even possible to retroactively change the terms of a software license like that?
Or did the new license only apply to new versions of the software?
The Linux kernel it still runs binaries from 1992. The Linux kernel team is obsessive about backwards compatibility, and more than one of Linus' rants was at someone who broke it.
Some of the higher-level libraries don't have the same commitment, but you can still run things written for Motif.
No one wants to be the first to exit at the end of the day.
I am always happy to be the first one to leave at the end of the day. We shouldn't be unduly affected by peer pressure.
I can get away with it because my work is good, and I work hard during the hours I'm at work. If a company prefers "sitting in a seat" over "doing quality work," then I can find a better company.
I do think it's worth thinking about which is better, even if the author didn't give very good reasons. It would have been cool if he'd done a study that actually did show one to be preferable (or more likely, which situations each one is preferable).
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I'm saying you can't look at how people were 500 years ago and extrapolate that to assume they are the same today.
My ability to look things up is not the same as you actually speaking your own words. There is an important distinction to it, so don't be lazy yourself. Or resentful that somebody tells you to make your case in full, rather than handwaves it.
Your ability to argue any technicality is astounding.
That's exactly how Islam spread across large parts of the world once upon a time - through sheer, terroristic violence. You know that neighbor of Frances' ... Spain? Yeah, once upon a time Islamic terrorists overran that next door neighbor and set up shop there for quite a while.
Generally the Muslims in Spain were more tolerant of others than the Christians were. After the reconquista, Muslims were required to convert to Christianity or be exiled. This (along with a similar 'conversion' of Jews) led to something called the Spanish Inquisition, which was not the biggest display of Christian tolerance (but you expected that, of course).
Do they speak French at all in Syria? Serious question.
You forgot to supply the productive part.
Fine.
Beirut Embassy Bombings - Got the US soldiers from the UNF out of Lebanon.
El Salvador guerrillas - they got significant power in the government. The current president of the country was a guerrilla commander
Maoist fighters in Nepal - King was stripped of political rights, and the maoists got power in government.
You could have easily looked these up, don't be lazy.
Repeated terrorism does put economic pressure on countries suffering from it, but I am hard pressed to think of a single case where that produced any effect that was productive to terrorism.
Beirut Embassy Bombings. El Salvador guerrillas in the 1980s. Maoist fighters in Nepal. There are plenty of example.
To the point, militant Islam really, really wants to be in charge, which makes pretty much everyone in the world either an immediate target or a future target. It's odd that you don't seem to recognize that.
Militant Islam isn't a single entity, it's an ideology followed by many competing groups. The attacks happened because someone, or some group thought it would further there goals. They thought it would be a better use of resources than attacking the US, or Hungary, or keeping fighters in Syria (and they might be correct, or they might not be correct, but they thought it would be a good idea).
So the real question is, who are these people making decisions, and why did they make those decisions? It's odd that you don't seem to recognize that.
I understand why terrorists attacked the WTC, because America was a major power in the middle east (both militarily and culturally, and the terrorists hate both). Furthermore OBL hoped to increase his reputation by pushing around the US military.
Why are they attacking France? What do they hope to achieve?
Are you saying doctors are being paid to prescribe this stuff?
Who cares what the patients "support"? Patients for the most part demonstrably have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to medical treatments. We have highly trained medical professionals and we rely on treatments that can objectively be shown to work better than placebo for a reason.
Which raises the question.......what moron doctors are out there prescribing this stuff??
Google Wallet is sure great for transferring money. In almost every case there are no fees, it works quickly and easily. You don't have to hook it up to your bank account. I can't even think of anything to complain about it, although surely there is something.
PostgreSQL has one of the best-commented and cleanest code-base I've ever reviewed. FWIW
However, I imagine that a complex or "mathy" equation in a query could make it be CPU intensive. But maybe that's relatively rare.
Good point.
I can see it for new copies he gives out, but.....
What about the copies he's already given? Can he change the terms of those copies?
Is it even possible to retroactively change the terms of a software license like that?
Or did the new license only apply to new versions of the software?
How well does Linux run applications from 1996?
The Linux kernel it still runs binaries from 1992. The Linux kernel team is obsessive about backwards compatibility, and more than one of Linus' rants was at someone who broke it.
Some of the higher-level libraries don't have the same commitment, but you can still run things written for Motif.
No one wants to be the first to exit at the end of the day.
I am always happy to be the first one to leave at the end of the day. We shouldn't be unduly affected by peer pressure.
I can get away with it because my work is good, and I work hard during the hours I'm at work. If a company prefers "sitting in a seat" over "doing quality work," then I can find a better company.
That's all well and good, but oil can still drop down to $20 a barrel in the near future lol
I mean, most competent programmers can write a program that ransom your documents in two days.
The big question I'm having right now is why it took him two days. Did he get distracted by Foosball?
http://slashdot.org/story/99/11/17/2148249/how-to-write-unmaintainable-code
Do you claim copyright or may I copy your one liner for future pasting.,
I hereby grant you, Angel'o'sphere, full unconditional rights to use it in any way you like.
Nice post.
I do think it's worth thinking about which is better, even if the author didn't give very good reasons. It would have been cool if he'd done a study that actually did show one to be preferable (or more likely, which situations each one is preferable).
That's like trying to remember whether P or V is the operator to increment a semaphore.......
My main point was that gt and > is probably not going to make much difference either way when it comes to programming speed.
I'm pretty sure you had an interesting point in there, but I read your post three times and I'm not really sure what you were saying.