Kind of like how my 2 year old daughter carrying dishes to the sink. She's trying to be helpful, but occasionally she drops one.
HEh. My daughter's 4 and she's never accidentally dropped a dish. That doesn't mean she's never broken one, though....
My son's two, and it's impossible to tell if he drops dishes on purpose or on accident, because he does it so much.
Should've named my daughter Linux and my son Windows. Now we're having another one, what should I name him? BSD? What's he gonna do? Sit there and whine about how nobody loves him 'cuase he's the only true eunich left? Or is he gonna spend his time crying because right after he's born they're gonna cut him into three pieces and each person will claim their piece is better than the whole?
Wow, first time I've ever trolled BSD. I feel strangely liberated...
People that write bad code will always write bad code, the point is that C/C++ gives you more power to create better code than other programming languages do, because they are much more flexible.
So, what you're saying then is that if someone writes good code, it doesn't matter if they just cracked open a book and started learning or if they've been coding for decades, they have always written good code? And that if someone writes bad code, it doesn't matter if they just started their very first programming class or if they've been coding since you were in diapers, they have always written bad code?
How do you account for inexperience? I sure in the hell didn't understand pointers my first run through them, and I don't really program all that much. But I can guarantee you that 10 years ago I would've forgotten to release memory back to the OS that I would never forget now. On the other hand, there's plenty of places, especially when learning a new class library, where it's possible to just not *know* that you had to release the memory back to the OS. Then you get an errata sheet for the library that tells you and you go "oh shit, you mean that program I just wrapped up and sent to my customer is leaking memory?"
Saying that people write bad code is the reason for crashes is like saying all black people are criminals. It's just plain wrong. There are a LOT of reasons computers crash in general, and specific systems crash. There are entire chains to be dealt with, including information delivery (school?), that it's just not possible to point to one specific problem and shoot a silver bullet right through it. It is, in fact, easier to point to a problem and whine that it can't be solved rather than actually trying to locate as many of the problems as you can and solve the ones you can solve.
Here in the Slashdot world of "definately" and "righting", I've learned that any posted comment that makes high-school-level grammatical or spelling errors is not worth my time and I immediately skip the post. I've been doing this quite rigorously lately -- blah blah blah "seperate" PAGE DOWN.
You are just asking for it.:) Yes, you are. So here it is:
"high-school-level" should not be hyphenated. That is a High School level grammatical error.
That sound you hear is the toilet flushing your shit away.
Software is incomprehensibly fragile -- any single thing can cause a crash, taking the whole system or application down. And even those critical parts of things like airplanes have multiple redundancies, something that's hard to build into software. You can do things like catching exceptions, but you typically can't recover as gracefully as if there was never a problem at all.
I don't know how to tell you this, but airplanes and cars are also very bad analogies. When software has been in development for a hundred years, *then* you can compare it to another hundred-year industry.
There's many reasons we don't use zeppelins anymore, and instead use airplanes. I'll give you a hint: stability was one of them.
The question is, 18 months from now, will I be able to find the Glade2 tutorial ? Only if you bookmark it, and much more easily if you publish your bookmarks.
I forgot to mention a couple of things.
First: Free-for-all link farms and crap have brought Google and the other engines to a point where they have to consider them spam and ban sites listed in them. They have had problems with these link farms polluting the results. One of the ways they identify a link farm is by seeing a lot of links on a page that are unrelated. So your Bookmarks page (and your Guestbook) could actually damage the sites listed instead of helping them. For more information, you'll have to go to Search Engine Watch and dig. But it's there.
The second thing is, you can use the "site:" command on Google (and some other engines) to limit your search to one specific site. So if you can just remember where the glade2 tutorial was, you should be able to find it after google adds it to its database.
Tell me - how does your reasoning apply to the current situation in Baghdad? Is the US military doing profoundly the wrong thing by instituting a strict law & order policy, whereas it would be better to let the chaos sort itself out? Does the distribution of weapons affect this? Does a history of living under a very repressive regime? Is perhaps your argument actually rooted strongly in the American frontier culture, and not translateable to regions that have been civilized (more or less) for millenia? What does Baghdad show us?
My reasoning is mostly theoretical. Historically there have been many cases of anarchy, and inevitably the responsible people I was referring to establish a government to sort it out. Mind you that sometime before there was this oppressive regime in Iraq, there was anarchy, and either through a succession of regimes or directly, the most recent was established. Anarchy is a lot like communism in that it's a beautiful theory, but probably impossible to implement.
The important thing to keep in mind is that the responsible people usually install government to deal with all of the protocols. The thing I was mostly opposing in the grandparent post was the idea that in an anarchist state people would run crazy without any check on their balance. Frequently I see people suggest that and characterize all people as psychotic killers kept in check solely by the rule of law. Since the rule of law was established by people, it doesn't stand to reason that law is the only thing keeping people in check. There is more, and there must be, otherwise government could not exist and people could not live together.
To more directly answer your question about Baghdad, I don't know if the US military is doing profoundly the wrong thing or not with their strict law and order policy, but I do know that if they threw it to chaos and let Darwin step in and choose a government, there's absolutely no guarantee that we won't find ourselves in this same situation in another 10 years. (we'll assume for the sake of argument that the US government will install a wonderful, beautiful democracy and that the Iraqis won't immediately overthrow it)
The distribution of weapons always corresponds to the distribution of power. See how the US government continues to take more power, while it also continues to disarm its own citizens. While these two facts may not be related other than the me drawing a conclusion with them, they are both true.
While my argument is mostly rooted in American frontier culture, it stands true throughout history. It's just important to understand that in order to establish protocols for interaction responsible people have always installed government.
Perhaps one of the reasons why google ignores new pages and pages designed to screw their rankings is that people like me, who are google's customers, don't want brand new pages in the rankings, and don't want control over the ranking passed to anybody who can spew out hundreds of pages linking to the same thing. Why should the Glade2 tutorial be in google now ? It is on slashdot. The question is, 18 months from now, will I be able to find the Glade2 tutorial ? Only if you bookmark it, and much more easily if you publish your bookmarks.
Um, no?:) Google's ranking algorithms favor older, more established pages. That's just how it is. They have been severely criticisized multiple times for it, and they probably won't change their minds on the matter. I've been working in search for too long not to know this.:)
I interpret that to mean that they are smoking pot on YOUR property? You have every right to report them--if they get caught otherwise you may well be neck deep in shit because two minors were doing something illegal on a chunk of dirt that is your responsibility. Now, perhaps you ought to have a word with the mother first, but after a while..you made your good faith attempt to get it resolved, call the cops. So they get evicted. that sucks. It would also suck for you to get brought up on drug charges because of someone else's kids
That's a good conclusion, except that I didn't tell you that my neighbor is my upstairs neighbor. We live in the same house, I live in the basement, and her and her drug addict kids live upstairs. So there's not a lot of danger, especially since it's a rent-house. Otherwise, you're absolutely right, I would have to say something, if only to cover my own ass.
So what is it? Are you Korean or American? That's right, I don't give a shit what you look like. If you're gonna identify your nationality, you should either identify what nation you are a citizen of, or what nation you are loyal to. Fuck all this *-American bullshit. It only perpetuates the race problem. Know what I am? I'm an American. I'm not always proud of America, but I will always stand up and declare my citizenship properly.
It dogs them forever -- who can recall Dan Quayle and not think of "potatoe", or Al Gore "Inventor of the Internet"?
Um, me. When you say Dan Quayle, I think instead of Ollie North. When you say Al Gore, I think "That bitch's husband." Of course, the reason I think that about Al Gore is because Tipper's actions in the '80s have continued to dog her steps even now, so I haven't exactly disproven your point.
In the absence of any restraint on personal liberty, you have chaos; suppose I choose to exercise my personal liberty by murdering random strangers on the street? If you try to stop me, you are abrogating my liberty.
You know, I get so sick of people equating anarchy to chaos. There is no such thing as an absence of restraint on personal liberty. You really think that without a government, individual citizens wouldn't take up arms to protect the public safety? How many VOLUNTEER cops do we have? How about our VOLUNTEER army? Yes, individual citizens do take responsibility for this stuff, and they put their lives on the line whenever necessary to protect the public at large. The main difference between anarchy and outright democracy is that democracy is slow to effect changes, while anarchy works more like the bazaar of open source development, except on a social scale.
Why won't you go out and commit blind, mass murder in an anarchist state? Because you will be killed. Simple as that. In a democracy people have to obey the laws and will be more likely to get the law involved than take matters into their own hands. Someone figures out you killed a couple of people, determines you had no good reason for it, and bang! you're dead. He then shows to the world (somehow) how he, in fact, HAD a good reason to kill you, and nobody fucks with him. They might even pay him for the service.
The absence of government doesn't immediately introduce immorality and chaos. Know why? People are essentially responsible and moral.
Normally I ignore AC posters, but... Indeed, I am an American. And you're also right. Feel free to check out my journal, where I bemoan the return to McCarthyism.
Return? Homeboy, we never left. IN the 70s and 80s, instead of ruining people for being communist, it was ruining people for being satanists. Some of that stretched into the 90s, but in the 90s Political Correctness hit full throttle, and anything you said that wasn't PC got you in deep shit. Ain't nothing changed. It's about time we realize that America has been heading downhill for longer than it ever went uphill and do something about THAT. The constitution, as beautiful as it may seem, doesn't fucking work. Personally I think the main problem is in the voting method, but right now the constitution isn't working because people are just plain ignoring it. It's become just like the old witchcraft laws, still on the books but nobody pays attention to it anymore.
Luckily every decade we've had has had some sort of witchhunt going on. Free? America? It's always been Amerika, and it always will be Amerika.
And before you people chime in with "IT sure beats whatever comes in second place", I'll just say "fuck off" right now. Fuck off.
for fudgefactor: sorry about the rant in response to your post, I get so sick of hearing about how wonderful america is. I get so sick of hearing how wonderful anyplace else is, actually.
What would Bush say if China wasn't willing to lend support to the "coalition of the willing?" God knows it wouldn't be anything too bright, but what would Bush say?
Probably something like:
"The Chinamen have nukilur weapons and so do the North Kur'ns. It's obvious that the Chinamen gave the nukilur weapons of mass destructio' to the Kur'ns, since they didn't stand and fight when everyone, that's all amur'cans, needed them to defend our way of life. They are a terrorist regime supporting a terrorist nation by their inaction. If the events of Tin-man Square aren't enough to tell you---wait, what? Tin-men square, that's what I said. That's right, Tin-men square. Yeah, we should drop a nukilur bomb on them thar."
Korea has got a long history of brutal, authoritarian government. Democracy is a very young thing in Korea, and not something the culture is very conducive toward. Koreans on matters tend to be very rightious, extreamly infactic, authoritarian, and prepared to smash whatever gets in the way of completing the task at hand. So don't be surprised the government is behaving this way, even their Buddhist monks have been known to go on riots.
Not to mention that if you really piss off Korea, they'll hire their own internal assassins to come and rip your guts out. Sinanju, baby. Sinanju.
Get a web page, and keep a list of links you find useful or interesting.
If enough people do that, then google will naturally work better.
So you're saying that someone who likes Glade 2 should create a FFA page, link to Glade 2, and get Glade banned from Google? That's a good idea.
I'd also point out that the #1 reason Google wouldn't display this page at the top of an otherwise relevant set of keywords is because the page is new. Google and PageRank favors older, more established pages. So no matter how fuckin' relevant your page is, if it's brand new, Google don't give a shit about it.
It's a very good thing they didn't try to make an IDE, because one already exists: Anjuta. And best of all, Anjuta not only offers all the usual editor/compiler mumbo-jumbo, but it also calls Glade for GUI creation.
I've been enjoying Anjuta as well, with one minor bitch, for which I haven't solved the problem. It saves C++ files with a.cc extension. Since I use wxWindows, and I want my stuff to compile in MSVC++, I need to have a.cpp extension instead, but there appears to be no way to change the default. I would *really* love it if someone would tell me.:)
Your first example - This is a drug-free neighborhood. - Well, I hate to break it to you, but by your own admission it isn't. So, if your attitude is the same as the rest of the people who voted to create a DFN in your area, you are all hypocrites.
I moved into the neighborhood, I didn't create it. However, I don't think that a family should be broken up over something like that that should really be dealt with in a non-legal fashion. I disagree with drug laws, therefore I want no hand in enforcing them.
Your second example is completely contrived, and I can only say they you should probably stop watching CSI/L&A/etc for a while - at least until you can live in the real world without transposing onto it fictional court cases which are developed by a team of writers and psychiatrists whose aim is exactly what you have succumed to
It's not as contrived as you might think. First off, I don't watch TV because TV makes you just as stupid as pot does, if not more so. I don't smoke pot either. Second, I have known women who were in similar situations to what I described who reacted that way. When a woman has been raped once or twice before, she has reason to fear again.
That is ILLEGAL in the US, and immoral everywhere. You don't decide who the law applies to, the legal system does. If there are mitigating circumstances, they will be weighed by an authority(legal/social), not by the mob.
If our legal system actually worked, I would whole-heartedly agree with you. 'nuff said?
If you read the article, you'd see that they were infact model employee's until JUST AFTER they reported what they found.
I read the article, and the article said that the employees said they were model employees unti ljust after they reported what they found. In my experience, and it is many, when employees pop off about how perfect employees they are and how hard they work, they're full of shit. Never once have I worked with someone, or had someone work for me, who said they were the best employee and didn't actually turn out to be lazy little fucks who were better at shooting their mouths off than actually working. The article gave me a STRONG impression that these two are just like all the other "perfect" employees. They're full of shit, trying to look good in the press.
The computers Trinity hacked were part of the 1999 simulation. Ergo they were running 1999 software. Ergo all that Unix crap is A-OK.
Right, right, but Trinity was in the simulation in 2199. That is when she is alive and doing shit. What the simulation is simulating is irrelevant to the fact that everything she does in the simulation of 1999 happens in 2199.
What was Red Dwarfs audience compared to the Matrix ?
It should come as no surprise that an intellectual British comedy carries a smaller audience than a mass-consumption grade american action film. My point was that they had plenty of time to approach the subject since Red Dwarf could do it in 20 minutes more than once, and each of those episodes included many of the same elements that already exist in the Matrix.
The success of Matrix was its appeal on many different levels. Pure action, and some good mind twisting with some decent theology/philosophy basis.
The same can be said about Red Dwarf, in fact. Even though it wasn't a smash hit in the states, but it's quite a rarety for foreign-produced entertainment to smash the states the same way as domestic-produced entertainment. It's my opinion that the attempts to Americanize Red Dwarf ruined it to the point where it couldn't be successful here, but the original would do just fine.
Now is a good time to point out that Red Dwarf's medium is totally different than the Matrix's. TV serialized shows have a lot more room to explore shit, but they can only do serious exploration within a smaller time frame. But over the life of the series, they typically have a lot more room.
I think they did a good job of opening up new issues of the matrix for discussion and expanding the scale and epic sense of the action for this movie.... after all you have to recall the economic drive which creates this movie.
I don't remember much about the original, I certainly don't remember actually liking it that much. I haven't seen the sequel, and it's not anywhere in my to-do list. But I'd like to point out that Red Dwarf also has an economic drive....
The mixed reviews are no surprise to me... hell the damn thing would have had tell us the meaning of life in a holodeck 3d experience to fullfill the hype.
These days every movie gets mixed reviews, and every movie gets more hype than it lives up to. Except the new star wars movies. I haven't noticed any hype around them. Heh. Of course, I haven't noticed any hype in general, I like to live a hype-free life.
Anyways, if they had wanted to add that level of complexity, leaving you wondering what's real and what isn't, they could've done so without significantly altering the plot or the runtime of the movie, since it already has all the elements needed (at least, the first one did, iirc). It's not really a qeustion of what the audience will digest, with those things I mentioned in consideration. It's more a question of intent. So it's safe to conclude that they either 1) didn't intend to leave you with that feeling, or 2) they did intend, and failed to execute properly.
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And no, it's built in to the motherboard, so it isn't wasting PCI bus bandwidth in housekeeping overhead.
Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't onboard sound still hooked up to the PCI bus? It all goes through the southbridge, doesn't it?
I ran several Windows95 OSR2 systems with uptimes approaching 90+ days, and had no problems with them locking up.
Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.
/me says nothing.
Kind of like how my 2 year old daughter carrying dishes to the sink. She's trying to be helpful, but occasionally she drops one.
HEh. My daughter's 4 and she's never accidentally dropped a dish. That doesn't mean she's never broken one, though....
My son's two, and it's impossible to tell if he drops dishes on purpose or on accident, because he does it so much.
Should've named my daughter Linux and my son Windows. Now we're having another one, what should I name him? BSD? What's he gonna do? Sit there and whine about how nobody loves him 'cuase he's the only true eunich left? Or is he gonna spend his time crying because right after he's born they're gonna cut him into three pieces and each person will claim their piece is better than the whole?
Wow, first time I've ever trolled BSD. I feel strangely liberated...
People that write bad code will always write bad code, the point is that C/C++ gives you more power to create better code than other programming languages do, because they are much more flexible.
So, what you're saying then is that if someone writes good code, it doesn't matter if they just cracked open a book and started learning or if they've been coding for decades, they have always written good code? And that if someone writes bad code, it doesn't matter if they just started their very first programming class or if they've been coding since you were in diapers, they have always written bad code?
How do you account for inexperience? I sure in the hell didn't understand pointers my first run through them, and I don't really program all that much. But I can guarantee you that 10 years ago I would've forgotten to release memory back to the OS that I would never forget now. On the other hand, there's plenty of places, especially when learning a new class library, where it's possible to just not *know* that you had to release the memory back to the OS. Then you get an errata sheet for the library that tells you and you go "oh shit, you mean that program I just wrapped up and sent to my customer is leaking memory?"
Saying that people write bad code is the reason for crashes is like saying all black people are criminals. It's just plain wrong. There are a LOT of reasons computers crash in general, and specific systems crash. There are entire chains to be dealt with, including information delivery (school?), that it's just not possible to point to one specific problem and shoot a silver bullet right through it. It is, in fact, easier to point to a problem and whine that it can't be solved rather than actually trying to locate as many of the problems as you can and solve the ones you can solve.
Here in the Slashdot world of "definately" and "righting", I've learned that any posted comment that makes high-school-level grammatical or spelling errors is not worth my time and I immediately skip the post. I've been doing this quite rigorously lately -- blah blah blah "seperate" PAGE DOWN.
You are just asking for it. :) Yes, you are. So here it is:
"high-school-level" should not be hyphenated. That is a High School level grammatical error.
That sound you hear is the toilet flushing your shit away.
Software is incomprehensibly fragile -- any single thing can cause a crash, taking the whole system or application down. And even those critical parts of things like airplanes have multiple redundancies, something that's hard to build into software. You can do things like catching exceptions, but you typically can't recover as gracefully as if there was never a problem at all.
I don't know how to tell you this, but airplanes and cars are also very bad analogies. When software has been in development for a hundred years, *then* you can compare it to another hundred-year industry.
There's many reasons we don't use zeppelins anymore, and instead use airplanes. I'll give you a hint: stability was one of them.
The question is, 18 months from now, will I be able to find the Glade2 tutorial ? Only if you bookmark it, and much more easily if you publish your bookmarks.
I forgot to mention a couple of things.
First: Free-for-all link farms and crap have brought Google and the other engines to a point where they have to consider them spam and ban sites listed in them. They have had problems with these link farms polluting the results. One of the ways they identify a link farm is by seeing a lot of links on a page that are unrelated. So your Bookmarks page (and your Guestbook) could actually damage the sites listed instead of helping them. For more information, you'll have to go to Search Engine Watch and dig. But it's there.
The second thing is, you can use the "site:" command on Google (and some other engines) to limit your search to one specific site. So if you can just remember where the glade2 tutorial was, you should be able to find it after google adds it to its database.
Tell me - how does your reasoning apply to the current situation in Baghdad? Is the US military doing profoundly the wrong thing by instituting a strict law & order policy, whereas it would be better to let the chaos sort itself out? Does the distribution of weapons affect this? Does a history of living under a very repressive regime? Is perhaps your argument actually rooted strongly in the American frontier culture, and not translateable to regions that have been civilized (more or less) for millenia? What does Baghdad show us?
My reasoning is mostly theoretical. Historically there have been many cases of anarchy, and inevitably the responsible people I was referring to establish a government to sort it out. Mind you that sometime before there was this oppressive regime in Iraq, there was anarchy, and either through a succession of regimes or directly, the most recent was established. Anarchy is a lot like communism in that it's a beautiful theory, but probably impossible to implement.
The important thing to keep in mind is that the responsible people usually install government to deal with all of the protocols. The thing I was mostly opposing in the grandparent post was the idea that in an anarchist state people would run crazy without any check on their balance. Frequently I see people suggest that and characterize all people as psychotic killers kept in check solely by the rule of law. Since the rule of law was established by people, it doesn't stand to reason that law is the only thing keeping people in check. There is more, and there must be, otherwise government could not exist and people could not live together.
To more directly answer your question about Baghdad, I don't know if the US military is doing profoundly the wrong thing or not with their strict law and order policy, but I do know that if they threw it to chaos and let Darwin step in and choose a government, there's absolutely no guarantee that we won't find ourselves in this same situation in another 10 years. (we'll assume for the sake of argument that the US government will install a wonderful, beautiful democracy and that the Iraqis won't immediately overthrow it)
The distribution of weapons always corresponds to the distribution of power. See how the US government continues to take more power, while it also continues to disarm its own citizens. While these two facts may not be related other than the me drawing a conclusion with them, they are both true.
While my argument is mostly rooted in American frontier culture, it stands true throughout history. It's just important to understand that in order to establish protocols for interaction responsible people have always installed government.
Perhaps one of the reasons why google ignores new pages and pages designed to screw their rankings is that people like me, who are google's customers, don't want brand new pages in the rankings, and don't want control over the ranking passed to anybody who can spew out hundreds of pages linking to the same thing. Why should the Glade2 tutorial be in google now ? It is on slashdot. The question is, 18 months from now, will I be able to find the Glade2 tutorial ? Only if you bookmark it, and much more easily if you publish your bookmarks.
Um, no? :) Google's ranking algorithms favor older, more established pages. That's just how it is. They have been severely criticisized multiple times for it, and they probably won't change their minds on the matter. I've been working in search for too long not to know this. :)
I interpret that to mean that they are smoking pot on YOUR property? You have every right to report them--if they get caught otherwise you may well be neck deep in shit because two minors were doing something illegal on a chunk of dirt that is your responsibility. Now, perhaps you ought to have a word with the mother first, but after a while..you made your good faith attempt to get it resolved, call the cops. So they get evicted. that sucks. It would also suck for you to get brought up on drug charges because of someone else's kids
That's a good conclusion, except that I didn't tell you that my neighbor is my upstairs neighbor. We live in the same house, I live in the basement, and her and her drug addict kids live upstairs. So there's not a lot of danger, especially since it's a rent-house. Otherwise, you're absolutely right, I would have to say something, if only to cover my own ass.
I'm a Korean-American
So what is it? Are you Korean or American? That's right, I don't give a shit what you look like. If you're gonna identify your nationality, you should either identify what nation you are a citizen of, or what nation you are loyal to. Fuck all this *-American bullshit. It only perpetuates the race problem. Know what I am? I'm an American. I'm not always proud of America, but I will always stand up and declare my citizenship properly.
It dogs them forever -- who can recall Dan Quayle and not think of "potatoe", or Al Gore "Inventor of the Internet"?
Um, me. When you say Dan Quayle, I think instead of Ollie North. When you say Al Gore, I think "That bitch's husband." Of course, the reason I think that about Al Gore is because Tipper's actions in the '80s have continued to dog her steps even now, so I haven't exactly disproven your point.
In the absence of any restraint on personal liberty, you have chaos; suppose I choose to exercise my personal liberty by murdering random strangers on the street? If you try to stop me, you are abrogating my liberty.
You know, I get so sick of people equating anarchy to chaos. There is no such thing as an absence of restraint on personal liberty. You really think that without a government, individual citizens wouldn't take up arms to protect the public safety? How many VOLUNTEER cops do we have? How about our VOLUNTEER army? Yes, individual citizens do take responsibility for this stuff, and they put their lives on the line whenever necessary to protect the public at large. The main difference between anarchy and outright democracy is that democracy is slow to effect changes, while anarchy works more like the bazaar of open source development, except on a social scale.
Why won't you go out and commit blind, mass murder in an anarchist state? Because you will be killed. Simple as that. In a democracy people have to obey the laws and will be more likely to get the law involved than take matters into their own hands. Someone figures out you killed a couple of people, determines you had no good reason for it, and bang! you're dead. He then shows to the world (somehow) how he, in fact, HAD a good reason to kill you, and nobody fucks with him. They might even pay him for the service.
The absence of government doesn't immediately introduce immorality and chaos. Know why? People are essentially responsible and moral.
Normally I ignore AC posters, but... Indeed, I am an American. And you're also right. Feel free to check out my journal, where I bemoan the return to McCarthyism.
Return? Homeboy, we never left. IN the 70s and 80s, instead of ruining people for being communist, it was ruining people for being satanists. Some of that stretched into the 90s, but in the 90s Political Correctness hit full throttle, and anything you said that wasn't PC got you in deep shit. Ain't nothing changed. It's about time we realize that America has been heading downhill for longer than it ever went uphill and do something about THAT. The constitution, as beautiful as it may seem, doesn't fucking work. Personally I think the main problem is in the voting method, but right now the constitution isn't working because people are just plain ignoring it. It's become just like the old witchcraft laws, still on the books but nobody pays attention to it anymore.
Luckily every decade we've had has had some sort of witchhunt going on. Free? America? It's always been Amerika, and it always will be Amerika.
And before you people chime in with "IT sure beats whatever comes in second place", I'll just say "fuck off" right now. Fuck off.
for fudgefactor: sorry about the rant in response to your post, I get so sick of hearing about how wonderful america is. I get so sick of hearing how wonderful anyplace else is, actually.
What would Bush say if China wasn't willing to lend support to the "coalition of the willing?" God knows it wouldn't be anything too bright, but what would Bush say?
Probably something like:
"The Chinamen have nukilur weapons and so do the North Kur'ns. It's obvious that the Chinamen gave the nukilur weapons of mass destructio' to the Kur'ns, since they didn't stand and fight when everyone, that's all amur'cans, needed them to defend our way of life. They are a terrorist regime supporting a terrorist nation by their inaction. If the events of Tin-man Square aren't enough to tell you---wait, what? Tin-men square, that's what I said. That's right, Tin-men square. Yeah, we should drop a nukilur bomb on them thar."
Korea has got a long history of brutal, authoritarian government. Democracy is a very young thing in Korea, and not something the culture is very conducive toward. Koreans on matters tend to be very rightious, extreamly infactic, authoritarian, and prepared to smash whatever gets in the way of completing the task at hand. So don't be surprised the government is behaving this way, even their Buddhist monks have been known to go on riots.
Not to mention that if you really piss off Korea, they'll hire their own internal assassins to come and rip your guts out. Sinanju, baby. Sinanju.
have to endure five years of crappy Ghostbuster jokes all over again!??!!?
That's right baby. We came, we saw, we kicked its ass.
I suspect you don't like Mozilla all that much, do you? Ever type out a xul document?
Get a web page, and keep a list of links you find useful or interesting.
If enough people do that, then google will naturally work better.
So you're saying that someone who likes Glade 2 should create a FFA page, link to Glade 2, and get Glade banned from Google? That's a good idea.
I'd also point out that the #1 reason Google wouldn't display this page at the top of an otherwise relevant set of keywords is because the page is new. Google and PageRank favors older, more established pages. So no matter how fuckin' relevant your page is, if it's brand new, Google don't give a shit about it.
Frustrating, I know, but that's life.
It's a very good thing they didn't try to make an IDE, because one already exists: Anjuta. And best of all, Anjuta not only offers all the usual editor/compiler mumbo-jumbo, but it also calls Glade for GUI creation.
I've been enjoying Anjuta as well, with one minor bitch, for which I haven't solved the problem. It saves C++ files with a .cc extension. Since I use wxWindows, and I want my stuff to compile in MSVC++, I need to have a .cpp extension instead, but there appears to be no way to change the default. I would *really* love it if someone would tell me. :)
Your first example - This is a drug-free neighborhood. - Well, I hate to break it to you, but by your own admission it isn't. So, if your attitude is the same as the rest of the people who voted to create a DFN in your area, you are all hypocrites.
I moved into the neighborhood, I didn't create it. However, I don't think that a family should be broken up over something like that that should really be dealt with in a non-legal fashion. I disagree with drug laws, therefore I want no hand in enforcing them.
Your second example is completely contrived, and I can only say they you should probably stop watching CSI/L&A/etc for a while - at least until you can live in the real world without transposing onto it fictional court cases which are developed by a team of writers and psychiatrists whose aim is exactly what you have succumed to
It's not as contrived as you might think. First off, I don't watch TV because TV makes you just as stupid as pot does, if not more so. I don't smoke pot either. Second, I have known women who were in similar situations to what I described who reacted that way. When a woman has been raped once or twice before, she has reason to fear again.
That is ILLEGAL in the US, and immoral everywhere. You don't decide who the law applies to, the legal system does. If there are mitigating circumstances, they will be weighed by an authority(legal/social), not by the mob.
If our legal system actually worked, I would whole-heartedly agree with you. 'nuff said?
If you read the article, you'd see that they were infact model employee's until JUST AFTER they reported what they found.
I read the article, and the article said that the employees said they were model employees unti ljust after they reported what they found. In my experience, and it is many, when employees pop off about how perfect employees they are and how hard they work, they're full of shit. Never once have I worked with someone, or had someone work for me, who said they were the best employee and didn't actually turn out to be lazy little fucks who were better at shooting their mouths off than actually working. The article gave me a STRONG impression that these two are just like all the other "perfect" employees. They're full of shit, trying to look good in the press.
In Soviet America, Pravda reads you.
The computers Trinity hacked were part of the 1999 simulation. Ergo they were running 1999 software. Ergo all that Unix crap is A-OK.
Right, right, but Trinity was in the simulation in 2199. That is when she is alive and doing shit. What the simulation is simulating is irrelevant to the fact that everything she does in the simulation of 1999 happens in 2199.
What was Red Dwarfs audience compared to the Matrix ?
It should come as no surprise that an intellectual British comedy carries a smaller audience than a mass-consumption grade american action film. My point was that they had plenty of time to approach the subject since Red Dwarf could do it in 20 minutes more than once, and each of those episodes included many of the same elements that already exist in the Matrix.
The success of Matrix was its appeal on many different levels. Pure action, and some good mind twisting with some decent theology/philosophy basis.
The same can be said about Red Dwarf, in fact. Even though it wasn't a smash hit in the states, but it's quite a rarety for foreign-produced entertainment to smash the states the same way as domestic-produced entertainment. It's my opinion that the attempts to Americanize Red Dwarf ruined it to the point where it couldn't be successful here, but the original would do just fine.
Now is a good time to point out that Red Dwarf's medium is totally different than the Matrix's. TV serialized shows have a lot more room to explore shit, but they can only do serious exploration within a smaller time frame. But over the life of the series, they typically have a lot more room.
I think they did a good job of opening up new issues of the matrix for discussion and expanding the scale and epic sense of the action for this movie.... after all you have to recall the economic drive which creates this movie.
I don't remember much about the original, I certainly don't remember actually liking it that much. I haven't seen the sequel, and it's not anywhere in my to-do list. But I'd like to point out that Red Dwarf also has an economic drive....
The mixed reviews are no surprise to me... hell the damn thing would have had tell us the meaning of life in a holodeck 3d experience to fullfill the hype.
These days every movie gets mixed reviews, and every movie gets more hype than it lives up to. Except the new star wars movies. I haven't noticed any hype around them. Heh. Of course, I haven't noticed any hype in general, I like to live a hype-free life.
Anyways, if they had wanted to add that level of complexity, leaving you wondering what's real and what isn't, they could've done so without significantly altering the plot or the runtime of the movie, since it already has all the elements needed (at least, the first one did, iirc). It's not really a qeustion of what the audience will digest, with those things I mentioned in consideration. It's more a question of intent. So it's safe to conclude that they either 1) didn't intend to leave you with that feeling, or 2) they did intend, and failed to execute properly.
I didn't really dwell on the idea the last time because I dismissed it as too much for a movie to go into,
Bullshit, Red Dwarf did it twice during it's run, and you're only talking about 20 minute episodes. Why can't a 2-hour movie go into it?
Because we are starting to exclusively explore our philosophies through violence
Starting?