"It's just a fact, if we have six months to do a job, we'll finish in exactly six months. If we're given 12 months to do the same job, we'll finish in exactly 12 months."
This is why programmers should not be confused with engineers!
"...means that everything we have told him he has pretty much thrown away and done the opposite"
Having raised two children to adulthood I can tell you that this is what teenagers do. It is the way of life that your kids will challenge the status-quo after reaching puberty. There is a old saying that goes something like...
"When I was 16 my parents knew nothing, now I am 21 they listen to me and I can't belive how much they have learnt in just five years".
As for predators on the net, the overwhelming majority of kids are molested by trusted relatives and family friends.
Geezzzz, and I thought it was Liberals who where supposed to be the whiney one's, you know, always complaining about how the world's not fair, wallowing in self pity, ect, ect. Have you ever thought that maybe, just maybe, you get modded down for your "the whole world hates me but I don't care" shit? How young and stupid are you that you can't realize that moderators don't like tolls, or is it because your social failings are so complete you don't understand the concept of trolling?
It cuts both ways in a public space. When dealing with bouncers and cops near a drinking hole, don't let them draw you away from the camera's view, particularly if you are young, male and have been drinking.
Hate to answer my own post but ask yourself where and when did the currently muted tagret of 450ppm come from and why do so few ask what happens after 2100?
While GWB is not directly responsible for fate of these islands, he is reviled the world over for his willfull ingnorance that will cause far worse damage in the coming decades, he has justifyably become the last focal point of peoples anger. It's not because he does not conform to "orthodoxy", it is because he perpetuates ignorance to preserve the financial interests of what is now a very small club.
In other words he is seen as morally bankrupt, screwing all of humanity to pander to his base ("the elite"), for that alone he deserves far worse than just the ridicule and blame he draws.
OTOH: Bush, Murdoch and Howard have all acknowledged that AGW is a "serious problem" during the course of 2006. They are now busy trying to stitch up the economics of the nuclear fuel cycle so their "base" can safely move their money. Don't expect anything much in the way of mitigation from these clowns until ~2012.
"The only exception to this is their emotion-based rhetoric, that emotion, of course, being hatred. When it comes to stirring up hatred of President Bush, the rich, or even conservatives, left-wing politicians and commentators basically tend to take it as far as they can, regardless of if they themselves actually feel it."
Cosidering the rest of your post, the ending is dripping with irony.
"The things I believe, I believe because they're true. For example, I believe there is a God, that he has endowed us all with free will (hey, I'm on topic!), and with certain inalienable rights which the government ought not infringe. Those beliefs (along with a basic understanding of macroeconomics) make me a "neoconservative"."
They could also make you a socialist christian with a strong belief in human rights, take the time to contemplate my sig.
BTW: I don't mind "hyperbole" if it is funny, when it comes to Rush Limbaugh and Anne Coulter I never found them funny and I don't hear anyone laughing with them anymore. They are like a couple of little kids who cried wolf once two often and are now pleading that "it was all good natured fun" and we "don't have a sense of humour".
"I actually look forward to reading articulate arguments from the "other" side as they help me to clarify my own opinions. Peace, brother. Peace."
Pity I don't have any Liberal mod points, the "green lefty" in me just put down his bong and started clapping. The political "cold war" between republicrats only serves those who would subvert it.
"Nor is it only the criminal law where free will matters. Markets also depend on the idea that personal choice is free choice. Mostly, that is not a problem. Even if choice is guided by unconscious instinct, that instinct will usually have been honed by natural selection to do the right thing. But not always. Fatty, sugary foods subvert evolved instincts, as do addictive drugs such as nicotine, alcohol and cocaine. Pornography does as well. Liberals say that individuals should be free to consume these, or not. Erode free will, and you erode that argument."
In other words his conclusion is that Liberalisim is an evolutionary dead end. Yet the article goes on about "personal responsibility" and "the rule of law" but fails to find any implications for conservatives.
Now for my own troll:
Rational, intelligent people do not go into a brain spasm when confronted with two contradictory ideals. I belive in good food, good drugs, good sex, personal responsibility and the rule of law, everyone I know thinks likewise but they all differ about the definitions. OTOH: I subscribe to Eienstien's view that "a man cannot will what he will's.
"Slashdot is the ultimate haven of liberal idiocy out there....and I've read it multiple times a day for a LONG time now"
Most of us have better comprehension than that and can get the gist by skimming the comments, few even RTFA let alone study it multiple times a day. However, don't give up trying to comprehend the varing opinions in the world, there is more to it than just the republicrats you have over there.
The assumption when someone says they belong a political group is that all members of the group have identical "values". Personaly I don't see why "followers" label themselves as X or Y, except maybe they feel like they need to belong to a group so some of their "values" can be validated. Politics is about compromise in exchange for power, once you have absolute power there is no need to compromise and you are free to impose your "values" and ban toilet paper if you so desire.
Once you become a parent, it so easy to pick the evolutionary "dead enders" driving from the back seat of life.
BTW: Before you attempt to breed, please learn the difference between "then" and "than", it would be nothing short of irresponsible to pass on that vile language mutation to your offspring.
Call me old fashioned but K&R will always be my definition of simplicity and power in programming.
The thing that makes it messy in C is C's strong typing, you would have to pass and return everything as strings, but this is to be expected since the problem is contrived to demonstrate the brevity possible with weak-typing. The trade off is that you don't know exactly what your dealing with. In well written scripts that's no big deal, in a system with thousands of source files written by dozens of programmers it will quickly turn your brain to mush.
It used to be that weak typing in a language was a BadThing(TM), now it's a "feature".
Nah, the "face of god" pictures are different, CMBR is kinda like an imprint left by creation's flash bulb. The idea that I was trying to get across is that if stars have always existed (ie: an infinite cosmic past similar to the present) then the Universe must be filled with infinite energy across the entire spectrum, even if the Universe has infinite space!
I'm pretty sure the idea predates Eienstien, and I think it has been used to justify both the biblical and big-bang versions of creation.
...And then the matter forms into stars and turns back to light....Oooooh, I like that one! It has the wiff of recursion and I don't know enough to understand the rebuttal for the "steady state" theory.
Anyway you look at it, the current Universe is mainly hydrogen and ignorance.
"Ah, but if it's a 'syndrome', you can blame someone for it."
Not always, but you can get great drugs to treat it! Anger is a bad diagnosis from the blame/drugs point of view, if your "angry" they blame you, and then treat it by forcing you to hang out with a group of angry strangers twice a week.
There is a very old and simple "proof" that light has not existed for an infinite length of time. If it did then the entire universe would be (more or less) uniformly bathed in it in every direction. The reasoning works for both open and closed topologies.
Slashdot Mirror
All electric, 0-60mph in 4sec, 130mph top speed, 250 mile range on 3.5 hour charge. It's not 180 but even over here in Australia the highways have bends.
"It's just a fact, if we have six months to do a job, we'll finish in exactly six months. If we're given 12 months to do the same job, we'll finish in exactly 12 months."
This is why programmers should not be confused with engineers!
No, the "warden" would have to moon the monitor to qualify.
"So, poiting out the stupidity of the author / poster is being a troll?"
:)
Yep, your stupid and this post is a troll.
"...means that everything we have told him he has pretty much thrown away and done the opposite"
Having raised two children to adulthood I can tell you that this is what teenagers do. It is the way of life that your kids will challenge the status-quo after reaching puberty. There is a old saying that goes something like...
"When I was 16 my parents knew nothing, now I am 21 they listen to me and I can't belive how much they have learnt in just five years".
As for predators on the net, the overwhelming majority of kids are molested by trusted relatives and family friends.
Geezzzz, and I thought it was Liberals who where supposed to be the whiney one's, you know, always complaining about how the world's not fair, wallowing in self pity, ect, ect. Have you ever thought that maybe, just maybe, you get modded down for your "the whole world hates me but I don't care" shit? How young and stupid are you that you can't realize that moderators don't like tolls, or is it because your social failings are so complete you don't understand the concept of trolling?
"Meanwhile, where most intellectuals are fine with identifying problems with a system, he talked out an all-out solution."
A bit OT but it's a shame many acedemics and scientists have been relagated to "providing policy-makers with facts".
It cuts both ways in a public space. When dealing with bouncers and cops near a drinking hole, don't let them draw you away from the camera's view, particularly if you are young, male and have been drinking.
My bet is the guys on the monitors run an asshole of the month competition, I mean even without speakers it must already be a common occurence.
Hate to answer my own post but ask yourself where and when did the currently muted tagret of 450ppm come from and why do so few ask what happens after 2100?
While GWB is not directly responsible for fate of these islands, he is reviled the world over for his willfull ingnorance that will cause far worse damage in the coming decades, he has justifyably become the last focal point of peoples anger. It's not because he does not conform to "orthodoxy", it is because he perpetuates ignorance to preserve the financial interests of what is now a very small club.
In other words he is seen as morally bankrupt, screwing all of humanity to pander to his base ("the elite"), for that alone he deserves far worse than just the ridicule and blame he draws.
OTOH: Bush, Murdoch and Howard have all acknowledged that AGW is a "serious problem" during the course of 2006. They are now busy trying to stitch up the economics of the nuclear fuel cycle so their "base" can safely move their money. Don't expect anything much in the way of mitigation from these clowns until ~2012.
I didn't mod you down, trolls have no point.
"The only exception to this is their emotion-based rhetoric, that emotion, of course, being hatred. When it comes to stirring up hatred of President Bush, the rich, or even conservatives, left-wing politicians and commentators basically tend to take it as far as they can, regardless of if they themselves actually feel it."
Cosidering the rest of your post, the ending is dripping with irony.
"The things I believe, I believe because they're true. For example, I believe there is a God, that he has endowed us all with free will (hey, I'm on topic!), and with certain inalienable rights which the government ought not infringe. Those beliefs (along with a basic understanding of macroeconomics) make me a "neoconservative"."
They could also make you a socialist christian with a strong belief in human rights, take the time to contemplate my sig.
BTW: I don't mind "hyperbole" if it is funny, when it comes to Rush Limbaugh and Anne Coulter I never found them funny and I don't hear anyone laughing with them anymore. They are like a couple of little kids who cried wolf once two often and are now pleading that "it was all good natured fun" and we "don't have a sense of humour".
"I actually look forward to reading articulate arguments from the "other" side as they help me to clarify my own opinions. Peace, brother. Peace."
Pity I don't have any Liberal mod points, the "green lefty" in me just put down his bong and started clapping. The political "cold war" between republicrats only serves those who would subvert it.
The subtitle is:
"Liberalisim and Neurolgy".
The link between the two is:
"Nor is it only the criminal law where free will matters. Markets also depend on the idea that personal choice is free choice. Mostly, that is not a problem. Even if choice is guided by unconscious instinct, that instinct will usually have been honed by natural selection to do the right thing. But not always. Fatty, sugary foods subvert evolved instincts, as do addictive drugs such as nicotine, alcohol and cocaine. Pornography does as well. Liberals say that individuals should be free to consume these, or not. Erode free will, and you erode that argument."
In other words his conclusion is that Liberalisim is an evolutionary dead end. Yet the article goes on about "personal responsibility" and "the rule of law" but fails to find any implications for conservatives.
Now for my own troll:
Rational, intelligent people do not go into a brain spasm when confronted with two contradictory ideals. I belive in good food, good drugs, good sex, personal responsibility and the rule of law, everyone I know thinks likewise but they all differ about the definitions. OTOH: I subscribe to Eienstien's view that "a man cannot will what he will's.
"Slashdot is the ultimate haven of liberal idiocy out there....and I've read it multiple times a day for a LONG time now"
Most of us have better comprehension than that and can get the gist by skimming the comments, few even RTFA let alone study it multiple times a day. However, don't give up trying to comprehend the varing opinions in the world, there is more to it than just the republicrats you have over there.
The assumption when someone says they belong a political group is that all members of the group have identical "values". Personaly I don't see why "followers" label themselves as X or Y, except maybe they feel like they need to belong to a group so some of their "values" can be validated. Politics is about compromise in exchange for power, once you have absolute power there is no need to compromise and you are free to impose your "values" and ban toilet paper if you so desire.
Once you become a parent, it so easy to pick the evolutionary "dead enders" driving from the back seat of life.
BTW: Before you attempt to breed, please learn the difference between "then" and "than", it would be nothing short of irresponsible to pass on that vile language mutation to your offspring.
My bad, I should have said "stronger" rather than "strong".
Call me old fashioned but K&R will always be my definition of simplicity and power in programming.
The thing that makes it messy in C is C's strong typing, you would have to pass and return everything as strings, but this is to be expected since the problem is contrived to demonstrate the brevity possible with weak-typing. The trade off is that you don't know exactly what your dealing with. In well written scripts that's no big deal, in a system with thousands of source files written by dozens of programmers it will quickly turn your brain to mush.
It used to be that weak typing in a language was a BadThing(TM), now it's a "feature".
Nah, the "face of god" pictures are different, CMBR is kinda like an imprint left by creation's flash bulb. The idea that I was trying to get across is that if stars have always existed (ie: an infinite cosmic past similar to the present) then the Universe must be filled with infinite energy across the entire spectrum, even if the Universe has infinite space!
I'm pretty sure the idea predates Eienstien, and I think it has been used to justify both the biblical and big-bang versions of creation.
...And then the matter forms into stars and turns back to light....Oooooh, I like that one! It has the wiff of recursion and I don't know enough to understand the rebuttal for the "steady state" theory.
Anyway you look at it, the current Universe is mainly hydrogen and ignorance.
"Ah, but if it's a 'syndrome', you can blame someone for it."
Not always, but you can get great drugs to treat it! Anger is a bad diagnosis from the blame/drugs point of view, if your "angry" they blame you, and then treat it by forcing you to hang out with a group of angry strangers twice a week.
There is a very old and simple "proof" that light has not existed for an infinite length of time. If it did then the entire universe would be (more or less) uniformly bathed in it in every direction. The reasoning works for both open and closed topologies.
"Massively Massive Massive...."
Yep, after 10yrs of studing spam it would have to be hung like a donkey.