Wow, that's a pretty contrived example, don't you think? Honestly, someone doing something that galactically stupid should have their account info left there... anyone else who would find that information and used it would almost certainly use those resources better than a person that blatantly idiotic. And what if your CVS repository is on a file system that supports snapshots? What if it's been backed up in the meantime? What if someone else has already checked that code out before it gets deleted? Suddenly, it doesn't matter what code control system you're using... that data has been propagated and scrubbing it from everywhere is well-nigh impossible.
Yes, the world is run by supreme asshats, so let's by no means punish the garden variety asshats when they hurt people and continue to be asshats. Brilliant solution there, sparky.
Sure, motive counts, but why do we need to add hate crime laws to punish people when motive can already be taken into account? Why is it worse to beat and kill someone because they are gay/jewish/white/black or whatever, or to beat and kill them for their wallet? All these motives are reprehensible and evil but with hate crime laws killing for personal gain is now somehow better?
Who exactly appointed you to speak for the entirety of the blind community? I'm just curious, because my mom, who is blind, has made that joke too. Perhaps I should call her and tell her to get in line before the sightless Gestapo busts down her door?
spun hates libertarians. It verges on an obsession/phobia. He's really quite an interesting guy and I like him, but please don't get him started on it... it's every dreadfully boring anti-Objectionist/Ayn Rand caricature I've ever heard... the only thing more boring is Ayn Rand and Objectivism itself.
You don't get positive karma for Funny mods. I sometimes mod particularly funny things with insightful instead, because good humor is a kind of insight, and I'd like to issue a little extra reward for the joke.
Tyranny of the majority.:-) I would guess that the set of people who know h-j-k-l but not WASD is very small. I too, am an old-school vi guy, but I've also played enough games that I'm comfortable with WASD, too.
I'd bet it wouldn't be TOO difficult to hack together a greasemonkey script to give you h-j-k-l as well, or even in place of, WASD.
NASA releases all kinds of code. As an example, many people in the space science community rely on SPICE from JPL's Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility, and you can play from home. I think the newest version of Celestia has a CSPICE interface to get extremely accurate planetary positions and spacecraft pointings into it.
I normally don't respond to ACs, but if you're truly any sort of professional in the field of mental health, your writing oozes non-professionalism and a profound lack of empathy and caring. If you're a professional who thinks that goading people like that is okay, whatever professional certifications you have should be revoked.
True. I had a brain fart. Displacement is by weight, not density. Still, the point stands, melting ice in water doesn't have an effect on the level.
BTW, in the future, if you ever do have mod points, the conversation is better served by posting a correction, as you did, rather than just modding down.
Ice already in water is displacing a little over 90% of the volume it would displace once it melted, so that ice melting doesn't have much impact on sea levels. It's the ice bound up sitting on top of landmasses melting that will be the real problem for sea level changes.
p>1) Vote for a third-party candidate who has no chance of getting elected, thus wasting your vote.
2) Vote for the lesser of the two evils, whichever way your political inclinations lean.
Nobody has ever given me a good explanation as to why this is "wasting" your vote. Is a vote like a racing bet and if my candidate wins, places or shows, I can take my ballot somewhere and get some money for it?
If I vote for someone I don't like, and they win, I've done more than just waste my vote. I've contributed to that person's "mandate" to do the stuff I don't like. I'd sooner stay home on election day than vote for a candidate I don't support.
I think the relations between academia and industry you are talking about have never been as close as you think. Your experiences could be mine if you set it 20 years ago, replace RPG IV with RPG III, and iSeries with System/38 (CL apparently will always be with us).
Oh yeah, of the modern things you mentioned, only C++ existed at the time, and it was much different (and not taught at my school) then.:-)
Get a large sealable container (Rubbermaid, or even a gallon freezer bag), put a single ice cube in it. Put the container in the freezer. The container will not allow any moisture in or out, and over time, frost-free or not, I predict that the ice cube will get smaller. If I'm wrong, or if I'm right, we've learned something. That's science.
Game company takes assets from several of its games, founds new studio seemingly unconnected to them, makes crappy FBN game with said assets. Gamers notice and try to buy up game before it gets quashed.
That could be more trouble than it's worth, because I wouldn't be surprised if that infringes on an EA business process patent.
The comment is very funny (I laughed, I cried), but except for hard-core (pronounced "zealot") IP people, both for and against, most people believe there's a world of difference between someone downloading a game/movie/song for their own use, and someone who would take that copy, make thousands more copies, slap their name on it, and try to make money off of it.
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Wow, that's a pretty contrived example, don't you think? Honestly, someone doing something that galactically stupid should have their account info left there... anyone else who would find that information and used it would almost certainly use those resources better than a person that blatantly idiotic. And what if your CVS repository is on a file system that supports snapshots? What if it's been backed up in the meantime? What if someone else has already checked that code out before it gets deleted? Suddenly, it doesn't matter what code control system you're using... that data has been propagated and scrubbing it from everywhere is well-nigh impossible.
Yes, the world is run by supreme asshats, so let's by no means punish the garden variety asshats when they hurt people and continue to be asshats. Brilliant solution there, sparky.
Sure, motive counts, but why do we need to add hate crime laws to punish people when motive can already be taken into account? Why is it worse to beat and kill someone because they are gay/jewish/white/black or whatever, or to beat and kill them for their wallet? All these motives are reprehensible and evil but with hate crime laws killing for personal gain is now somehow better?
Oh, hey, smug sanctimony is the best!
Who exactly appointed you to speak for the entirety of the blind community? I'm just curious, because my mom, who is blind, has made that joke too. Perhaps I should call her and tell her to get in line before the sightless Gestapo busts down her door?
Oh, lordy, get over yourself and your sanctimony.
It's always more fun to persecute apostates and heretics than infidels. :-)
People who masturbate for research can go double blind.
spun hates libertarians. It verges on an obsession/phobia. He's really quite an interesting guy and I like him, but please don't get him started on it... it's every dreadfully boring anti-Objectionist/Ayn Rand caricature I've ever heard... the only thing more boring is Ayn Rand and Objectivism itself.
You don't get positive karma for Funny mods. I sometimes mod particularly funny things with insightful instead, because good humor is a kind of insight, and I'd like to issue a little extra reward for the joke.
I didn't, but I barely use WASD, for that matter. :-) Super cool.
Tyranny of the majority. :-) I would guess that the set of people who know h-j-k-l but not WASD is very small. I too, am an old-school vi guy, but I've also played enough games that I'm comfortable with WASD, too.
I'd bet it wouldn't be TOO difficult to hack together a greasemonkey script to give you h-j-k-l as well, or even in place of, WASD.
Don't let the FIN packet hit your ass on the way out.
You'd watch? Hell, with a name like "Emperor Zombie" you could probably get a leading role!
NASA releases all kinds of code. As an example, many people in the space science community rely on SPICE from JPL's Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility, and you can play from home. I think the newest version of Celestia has a CSPICE interface to get extremely accurate planetary positions and spacecraft pointings into it.
I normally don't respond to ACs, but if you're truly any sort of professional in the field of mental health, your writing oozes non-professionalism and a profound lack of empathy and caring. If you're a professional who thinks that goading people like that is okay, whatever professional certifications you have should be revoked.
The toughest song is John Cage's 4'33" on expert mode.
Yeah, but it does nothing but bicker with dwarves.
True. I had a brain fart. Displacement is by weight, not density. Still, the point stands, melting ice in water doesn't have an effect on the level.
BTW, in the future, if you ever do have mod points, the conversation is better served by posting a correction, as you did, rather than just modding down.
Ice already in water is displacing a little over 90% of the volume it would displace once it melted, so that ice melting doesn't have much impact on sea levels. It's the ice bound up sitting on top of landmasses melting that will be the real problem for sea level changes.
Nobody has ever given me a good explanation as to why this is "wasting" your vote. Is a vote like a racing bet and if my candidate wins, places or shows, I can take my ballot somewhere and get some money for it?
If I vote for someone I don't like, and they win, I've done more than just waste my vote. I've contributed to that person's "mandate" to do the stuff I don't like. I'd sooner stay home on election day than vote for a candidate I don't support.
I think the relations between academia and industry you are talking about have never been as close as you think. Your experiences could be mine if you set it 20 years ago, replace RPG IV with RPG III, and iSeries with System/38 (CL apparently will always be with us).
Oh yeah, of the modern things you mentioned, only C++ existed at the time, and it was much different (and not taught at my school) then. :-)
This one seems quite relevant now.
Get a large sealable container (Rubbermaid, or even a gallon freezer bag), put a single ice cube in it. Put the container in the freezer. The container will not allow any moisture in or out, and over time, frost-free or not, I predict that the ice cube will get smaller. If I'm wrong, or if I'm right, we've learned something. That's science.
God, it's a brilliant Idea:
Game company takes assets from several of its games, founds new studio seemingly unconnected to them, makes crappy FBN game with said assets. Gamers notice and try to buy up game before it gets quashed.
That could be more trouble than it's worth, because I wouldn't be surprised if that infringes on an EA business process patent.
The comment is very funny (I laughed, I cried), but except for hard-core (pronounced "zealot") IP people, both for and against, most people believe there's a world of difference between someone downloading a game/movie/song for their own use, and someone who would take that copy, make thousands more copies, slap their name on it, and try to make money off of it.
It's the internet pizza chute.