I'm always puzzled by people who believes that they can learn all about politic from Micheal Moore movird.
I said nothing about Moore and there was nothing in his movie that was new to people who get their news from sources other than Fox News. I'm always puzzled that people are learning all this stuff for the first time from Moore's movie. The internationalmediahavebeen covering it for ages.
I'm always puzzled by the nature of American "democracy".
First, apart from Bush and Cheney, none of the administration needed to be elected. Heck, John Ashcroft lost to a dead man. It doesn't seem to matter.
Second, Bush and Cheney didn't win the popular vote either. They didn't need to.
Third, as the Supreme Court made clear last time, you don't even need to win a popular vote in the state to win its electoral college votes. It is up to each state to decide how to form its electoral college: most hold a popular vote and give the winner all their electoral college votes, some split the electoral college votes proportionally, but in principle, if a state decided to throw all popular votes into the sea and give all electoral college votes to the state government majority party, that's constitutional too.
Why does this qualify as a democracy?
And let's not forget that the US historically disenfranchised minorities, and even today disenfranchises entire categories (such as ex-convicts) who tend to be disproportionately minorities. Not because minorities are more criminal. Drug-possession is as common among whites as blacks but far more blacks are jailed for it.
So forgive me if I don't think these further perversions of democracy are going to matter hugely.
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You're telling me you think that lower class people strive every day to make enough to live on--often at the sacrifice of their own health--and that is important because it motivates the middle class to work harder at their dumb ass job they hate.
No, he's saying the middle class shouldn't get too smug in their middle-class comfort, because in today's equal-opportunity world, the lower classes will not stay down there forever. And similarly, even if Linux is ahead in a lot of things, the BSDs will catch up (in fact, it wasn't long ago that the BSDs were ahead in most aspects of stability and performance and Linux was the "lower class" playing catch-up, and in many respects the BSDs are still ahead.) And I didn't understand very much else in your rant.
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Better still, bring back the old BOOTP protocol? Which if I'm not mistaken just simply keeps a database of MAC addresses to IP Addresses (manually entered),
You mean last time you were out of the US? "Restroom" is the standard bowdlerisation in the US, it's the rest of the world that calls it by its proper name.
So would you be willing to drive 66 miles? 6 miles? 0.6 miles?
I gave up on my search for these articles due to this barrier.
And was this barrier ($3, you later say) more than fuel and parking, not to mention time spent driving to a nearby library? Heck, it's less than return subway fare in NYC. By your reasoning, unless you can walk to the nearest public library and find it, it's not worth having.
But while doing research about NEPA I find that The Scranton Times has a much better free searchable archive of information than does the The Times Leader which requires you to pay to visit their archive. Wonder who gets my visits?
Well, in your case, the answer seems obvious, but I'd pay for quality and reputation when I have to. I don't subscribe to the New York Times online (I don't think they're worth it) but I do subscribe to the Independent, and if the Guardian charged for archived material, I'd pay them too (I do pay for their crossword, in fact). And rest assured I'm not alone.
Actually that troll is a cut-and-paste of this post. The original wasn't anonymous (and it's also very outdated by now), but this troll periodically rehashes it on the FreeBSD lists under fake sender names, and now on slashdot it seems.
For those who wont RTFA, it was mostly about doctors in India helping children from Pakistan. And for thost who won't read anything but/. you might be interested to know that India and Pakistan aren't the most friendly of neighbors.
Actually there's never been a people-to-people problem between India and Pakistan: visitors from one country generally feel overwhelmed by the hospitality shown in the other. Indian films are hugely popular in Pakistan, Pakistani singers are hugely popular in India.
Last year, having spent a year (my first) in the US, I visited India for a few weeks. I had just left a country where the press was heaping the vilest and most unspeakably vulgar abuse on a historical ally, France, for daring to suggest that the Iraq war may not be necessary. The NYT had just run a story on how French high-school students, visiting the US on long-established exchange programmes, were not able to find American families willing to accommodate them (the same story also remarked, by the way, how Americans continued to be welcome in France -- something I can believe, I had lived two years in France before that.)
And I was now in my home country, India, where the papers were full of goodwill stories on the heart operation on a girl from the "enemy country", Pakistan, and the Pakistani parents were feeling overwhelmed by the good wishes they had received. (A few months ago, when the Indian cricket team toured Pakistan for the first time since the 1980s, Indian fans visiting Pakistan experienced similar hospitality.) This wasn't a surprise but it was hugely pleasant to see after a year watching Americans puke all over their oldest ally.
I had already decided that the US was not the country for me, but last year was when it crystallised: the US may be the most developed nation in the world but it's also the most immature in many ways: no other country uses the words "enemy" and "evil" so routinely and unthinkingly. I'm leaving for home in a few weeks.
Maybe this is of note beacuse it is a poorer country with less medical support
FYI, India's medical support (especially in the private sector) is among the best in the world, for those who can afford it; and it is much cheaper than equivalent medical care in the west. "Medical tourism" is a significant and growing industry. (That was a lazy google-generated link, you can find more the same way.) Moreover, even the private sector routinely waives fees for patients who can't afford them, and private doctors put in unpaid time at voluntary establishments; the problem for the poor is not so much cost as that they may have to commute to unfamiliar cities for good treatment.
Don't I seem to recall that in the last election in India, heads rolled because rural residents(who were by far the majority) were pissed off at getting left behind?
That was the theory of cocktail-party columnists who were groping for the most catchy headlines. It's simply not borne out by the numbers. The ruling party (the BJP and allies) lost heavily in the big metros -- Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, and I think even Bangalore and southern Karnataka, though admittedly they never had much presence in the latter region. They performed somewhat poorly in most developed areas. They won, on the other hand, in predominantly rural, undeveloped areas such as Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh (where they had recently won state-level elections) and northern Karnataka (where they made big inroads for the first time). Pissed-off rural poor has nothing to do with the results, except probably in Andhra Pradesh, where the anger was against the state government which was allied to the BJP.
On the other hand, the BJP's less than stellar record on communal relations -- notably the Gujarat riots, which were the biggest blot on their record -- probably did influence a lot of voters.
Anyway, I didn't see any programming language versions for functional languages (the ones I recognize are Haskell, ML and Miranda) after some time in -99.
Look for Caml and OCaml. Ocaml is going strong and is a remarkable language: concise, safe, and about as fast as C. And, of course, there's always Lisp.
Lisp was ahead of its time. It did things in the 1970s that C-family languages still can't do, like exception handling: in fact, it did some things that I believe no other language can do even today (at least, without very dirty hacks), such as the macro stuff and the ability of a lisp program to rewrite itself on the fly. But it required powerful hardware. By the time general-purpose hardware caught up with lisp, Unix and C had taken over everywhere.
From the classic essay by Richard Gabriel, Worse is better: "Unix and C are the ultimate computer viruses." (Follow the link to see why he's saying this.)
Wouldn't anyone who uses a unix-like system have shell access? I have shell access to my machine at work and I'm not the admin. Everyone I know who uses unix/linux does too. Can't live without it.
Where Linux does badly is in "out of memory" situations. I doubt a load average of 7 will, by itself, kill any system, but I've seen Linux boxes become unusable because of memory leaks -- hard reboot required, or equally bad, eventually some random processes get killed that bring the machine back up but all those processes have to be restarted by hand. Ditto if all those processes contributing to the load average of 7 required a huge chunk of memory. FreeBSD shines in this situation. If you configure enough swap space, it will usually get through somehow, if not, it will kill the offending process but not butcher the system.
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I said nothing about Moore and there was nothing in his movie that was new to people who get their news from sources other than Fox News. I'm always puzzled that people are learning all this stuff for the first time from Moore's movie. The international media have been covering it for ages.
First, apart from Bush and Cheney, none of the administration needed to be elected. Heck, John Ashcroft lost to a dead man. It doesn't seem to matter.
Second, Bush and Cheney didn't win the popular vote either. They didn't need to.
Third, as the Supreme Court made clear last time, you don't even need to win a popular vote in the state to win its electoral college votes. It is up to each state to decide how to form its electoral college: most hold a popular vote and give the winner all their electoral college votes, some split the electoral college votes proportionally, but in principle, if a state decided to throw all popular votes into the sea and give all electoral college votes to the state government majority party, that's constitutional too.
Why does this qualify as a democracy?
And let's not forget that the US historically disenfranchised minorities, and even today disenfranchises entire categories (such as ex-convicts) who tend to be disproportionately minorities. Not because minorities are more criminal. Drug-possession is as common among whites as blacks but far more blacks are jailed for it.
So forgive me if I don't think these further perversions of democracy are going to matter hugely.
No, he's saying the middle class shouldn't get too smug in their middle-class comfort, because in today's equal-opportunity world, the lower classes will not stay down there forever. And similarly, even if Linux is ahead in a lot of things, the BSDs will catch up (in fact, it wasn't long ago that the BSDs were ahead in most aspects of stability and performance and Linux was the "lower class" playing catch-up, and in many respects the BSDs are still ahead.) And I didn't understand very much else in your rant.
Uh, this is the proper link
But he could run over the other guy's feet.
(The victim in the photo is Jim Carrey, btw)
An IPv6 address includes the 64 bit MAC address.
You mean last time you were out of the US? "Restroom" is the standard bowdlerisation in the US, it's the rest of the world that calls it by its proper name.
So would you be willing to drive 66 miles? 6 miles? 0.6 miles?
I gave up on my search for these articles due to this barrier.
And was this barrier ($3, you later say) more than fuel and parking, not to mention time spent driving to a nearby library? Heck, it's less than return subway fare in NYC. By your reasoning, unless you can walk to the nearest public library and find it, it's not worth having.
But while doing research about NEPA I find that The Scranton Times has a much better free searchable archive of information than does the The Times Leader which requires you to pay to visit their archive. Wonder who gets my visits?
Well, in your case, the answer seems obvious, but I'd pay for quality and reputation when I have to. I don't subscribe to the New York Times online (I don't think they're worth it) but I do subscribe to the Independent, and if the Guardian charged for archived material, I'd pay them too (I do pay for their crossword, in fact). And rest assured I'm not alone.
It's an even older non-troll. Or at least, the original (Feb 2003) was not anonymous (and is very outdated by now).
Actually that troll is a cut-and-paste of this post. The original wasn't anonymous (and it's also very outdated by now), but this troll periodically rehashes it on the FreeBSD lists under fake sender names, and now on slashdot it seems.
Others disagree: you're presently at +4 funny.
Actually there's never been a people-to-people problem between India and Pakistan: visitors from one country generally feel overwhelmed by the hospitality shown in the other. Indian films are hugely popular in Pakistan, Pakistani singers are hugely popular in India.
Last year, having spent a year (my first) in the US, I visited India for a few weeks. I had just left a country where the press was heaping the vilest and most unspeakably vulgar abuse on a historical ally, France, for daring to suggest that the Iraq war may not be necessary. The NYT had just run a story on how French high-school students, visiting the US on long-established exchange programmes, were not able to find American families willing to accommodate them (the same story also remarked, by the way, how Americans continued to be welcome in France -- something I can believe, I had lived two years in France before that.)
And I was now in my home country, India, where the papers were full of goodwill stories on the heart operation on a girl from the "enemy country", Pakistan, and the Pakistani parents were feeling overwhelmed by the good wishes they had received. (A few months ago, when the Indian cricket team toured Pakistan for the first time since the 1980s, Indian fans visiting Pakistan experienced similar hospitality.) This wasn't a surprise but it was hugely pleasant to see after a year watching Americans puke all over their oldest ally.
I had already decided that the US was not the country for me, but last year was when it crystallised: the US may be the most developed nation in the world but it's also the most immature in many ways: no other country uses the words "enemy" and "evil" so routinely and unthinkingly. I'm leaving for home in a few weeks.
FYI, India's medical support (especially in the private sector) is among the best in the world, for those who can afford it; and it is much cheaper than equivalent medical care in the west. "Medical tourism" is a significant and growing industry. (That was a lazy google-generated link, you can find more the same way.) Moreover, even the private sector routinely waives fees for patients who can't afford them, and private doctors put in unpaid time at voluntary establishments; the problem for the poor is not so much cost as that they may have to commute to unfamiliar cities for good treatment.
Could be: they have had trouble understanding American jokes in the past.
That's the president's photo you're linking to, not the prime minister's.
That was the theory of cocktail-party columnists who were groping for the most catchy headlines. It's simply not borne out by the numbers. The ruling party (the BJP and allies) lost heavily in the big metros -- Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, and I think even Bangalore and southern Karnataka, though admittedly they never had much presence in the latter region. They performed somewhat poorly in most developed areas. They won, on the other hand, in predominantly rural, undeveloped areas such as Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh (where they had recently won state-level elections) and northern Karnataka (where they made big inroads for the first time). Pissed-off rural poor has nothing to do with the results, except probably in Andhra Pradesh, where the anger was against the state government which was allied to the BJP.
On the other hand, the BJP's less than stellar record on communal relations -- notably the Gujarat riots, which were the biggest blot on their record -- probably did influence a lot of voters.
I wasn't trying to be +5 informative, at most +3 funny, get a clue moderators...
it looks like cars are supposed to park perpendicular to the edge there, not parallel. But both existing cars were also marked parallel.
Speak for yourself. To people with high-school math, lisp (and other functional languages) provide the most natural way of thinking.
I think this is what you meant by F#, right?
Certainly not. It's a Caml for .NET thing. Here's a link.
Look for Caml and OCaml. Ocaml is going strong and is a remarkable language: concise, safe, and about as fast as C. And, of course, there's always Lisp.
ECMAScript is the standardised name for JavaScript.
From the classic essay by Richard Gabriel, Worse is better: "Unix and C are the ultimate computer viruses." (Follow the link to see why he's saying this.)
Wouldn't anyone who uses a unix-like system have shell access? I have shell access to my machine at work and I'm not the admin. Everyone I know who uses unix/linux does too. Can't live without it.
Where Linux does badly is in "out of memory" situations. I doubt a load average of 7 will, by itself, kill any system, but I've seen Linux boxes become unusable because of memory leaks -- hard reboot required, or equally bad, eventually some random processes get killed that bring the machine back up but all those processes have to be restarted by hand. Ditto if all those processes contributing to the load average of 7 required a huge chunk of memory. FreeBSD shines in this situation. If you configure enough swap space, it will usually get through somehow, if not, it will kill the offending process but not butcher the system.