The gifted program I was in (Canada, Ontario, etc.) was very helpful and helped challenge me in ways I simply wasn't in a normal classroom until highschool.
We studied some law, photography, computers, logic, society, politics, art and a number of other subjects, often at something akin to at least highschool level starting in grade 4 over and above our normal school work.
I think the lessons we learned about social issues that gifted students have in a classroom were some of the most important though -- problems like perfectionism and not handing in work and ignoring 'boring' instruction and not getting the grades required as a result.
Up here the metric is top 2% (the same as for Mensa) and its a very widely accepted system for helping students with what amounts to a learning disability. Its not easy for a student who finds everything ridiculously obvious and boring to learn how to focus, study or learn designated material in the long haul.
When you get around to explaining how randomness like this works:
int c = 65; int *b = char *a = (char *)b; printf("a is %c\n", (char)*a);
You start realizing that the way pointers are done in C is really odd, and only seems to be normal to those who've used it so long that they've learned the semantics.
Actually, you missed a factor in your second assumption: would those felons have had equal access to the guns had citizens not had them in the first place?
In countries where guns are not easily accessible, felons have a much harder time getting their hands on one without getting caught. Its much easier in countries where there are guns "everywhere."
You could eliminate all those crimes committed by felons with weapons never legally sold in the USA. That would be fair.
The BSD license provides freedoms that can restrict others' freedoms (1).
The GPL allows only freedoms that keep everyone on an equal footing (2).
Pick your poison and stop spreading FUD.
1) If I take your BSD code and make a device that uses it, then stop supporting said device, you have no right to the changes I made to that code to fix bugs yourself in the future. You have less freedom than if it were GPL code.
2) If I want to use your GPL code, I have to also license the rest of my linked code GPL and thus lose my right to distribute my own code more restrictively.
Nothing is wrong with either of these things, but BSD people like to ignore the first, and GPL people like to ignore the second. Again, its all about perspective -- I prefer the GPL as a user. Every time.
Because in some cases those patches aren't immediately compatible with the phone hardware or the "special" changes that carrier or phone hardware OEM has made to Android.
How do you know? For all you know, updates were available weeks before you got them but they had to be tested by the carrier as well as Apple before you got them. The only reason Android people are aware of these issues is because of the variety of devices from a wide variety of carriers.
He doesn't. In fact, if you read the account of Moses and the burning bush you'll find that God does not like titles at all. He refers to himself only as "I am"
The book itself tells us that attempts at understanding God are folly and tries to steer humanity toward living free of vices and sin rather than in an understanding of who God is.
For a terrible analogy, using a TV repair manual to build a TV is not advised either.
When you're done reading the Bible you should come away with a sense of what God expects from his creation and what we tend to do wrong as a species. The same basic concepts are repeated over and over and over again throughout the text because as a race we tend to be obstinate.
"When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. The days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters."
Now if you were going to pick something to debate there, it might be the 930 year old dude, not the fact that the Bible clearly states he had more children.
Feel free to actually prove to judge that the creature in question never existed. Good luck with that. Note that part of the curse was for serpents to forever more crawl on their bellies rather than whatever it is they did before. Thus the creature in the story cannot any longer exist to make comparisons to.
I'm not sure what you think you're getting at, but early Catholics actively sought to disseminate the Bible (by translating it to Latin) and later sought to control its message (look up Jon Hus, then Martin Luther). Modern translations of the text rarely have anything to do with the terrible Latin and KJV translations that came before them and instead rely on original source materials.
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The gifted program I was in (Canada, Ontario, etc.) was very helpful and helped challenge me in ways I simply wasn't in a normal classroom until highschool.
We studied some law, photography, computers, logic, society, politics, art and a number of other subjects, often at something akin to at least highschool level starting in grade 4 over and above our normal school work.
I think the lessons we learned about social issues that gifted students have in a classroom were some of the most important though -- problems like perfectionism and not handing in work and ignoring 'boring' instruction and not getting the grades required as a result.
Up here the metric is top 2% (the same as for Mensa) and its a very widely accepted system for helping students with what amounts to a learning disability. Its not easy for a student who finds everything ridiculously obvious and boring to learn how to focus, study or learn designated material in the long haul.
When you get around to explaining how randomness like this works:
int c = 65;
int *b =
char *a = (char *)b;
printf("a is %c\n", (char)*a);
You start realizing that the way pointers are done in C is really odd, and only seems to be normal to those who've used it so long that they've learned the semantics.
Actually, you missed a factor in your second assumption: would those felons have had equal access to the guns had citizens not had them in the first place?
In countries where guns are not easily accessible, felons have a much harder time getting their hands on one without getting caught. Its much easier in countries where there are guns "everywhere."
You could eliminate all those crimes committed by felons with weapons never legally sold in the USA. That would be fair.
The lockdown didn't help at all. cf. what actually happened.
Your odds of being killed by a terrorist on any given day in Boston was still far below that of being killed by a traffic accident.
How many devices do you own with modified BSD licensed software on them that you can't fix because those changes are unreleased?
More importantly, how would you know?
Yawn, perspective issues.
The BSD license provides freedoms that can restrict others' freedoms (1).
The GPL allows only freedoms that keep everyone on an equal footing (2).
Pick your poison and stop spreading FUD.
1) If I take your BSD code and make a device that uses it, then stop supporting said device, you have no right to the changes I made to that code to fix bugs yourself in the future. You have less freedom than if it were GPL code.
2) If I want to use your GPL code, I have to also license the rest of my linked code GPL and thus lose my right to distribute my own code more restrictively.
Nothing is wrong with either of these things, but BSD people like to ignore the first, and GPL people like to ignore the second. Again, its all about perspective -- I prefer the GPL as a user. Every time.
Exactly -- understanding the purpose of the GPL requires nothing more than reading RMS' very old rant about printer drivers.
I've yet to see that 'fact' supported by anyone with proper understanding of the issues and no axe to grind.
If the chiropractor tells you about how your auras are shifting, just leave.
Evidently you're missing my point.
You only know about the update *after* Apple has worked all the details out with their select carriers.
On Android we know about the platform's updates *before* Google tries to work out the details with carriers.
Because in some cases those patches aren't immediately compatible with the phone hardware or the "special" changes that carrier or phone hardware OEM has made to Android.
You want to do a run-down of features from the latest iOS that aren't available on the special version for the 3GS?
How do you know? For all you know, updates were available weeks before you got them but they had to be tested by the carrier as well as Apple before you got them. The only reason Android people are aware of these issues is because of the variety of devices from a wide variety of carriers.
Personally, BSG is unwatchable garbage. Yes yes, throw rocks at me, but B5 outranks it from here to the next wormhole.
Regular people are boring, nobody watches TV shows for the regular people. Without caricatures, we'd be reading the news.
Because its not just entertainment, its culture.
Subsidizing the production of cultural content is important to a society as a whole. Its one of the few things I'd argue capitalism does very poorly.
You still didn't cite any stats that show young people being the problem.
Its not autonomous but its a robot. There's a difference.
And yet the bible never says Eve has the additional rib taken from Adam, only that Adam started with an additional rib of his own.
He doesn't. In fact, if you read the account of Moses and the burning bush you'll find that God does not like titles at all. He refers to himself only as "I am"
The book itself tells us that attempts at understanding God are folly and tries to steer humanity toward living free of vices and sin rather than in an understanding of who God is.
For a terrible analogy, using a TV repair manual to build a TV is not advised either.
When you're done reading the Bible you should come away with a sense of what God expects from his creation and what we tend to do wrong as a species. The same basic concepts are repeated over and over and over again throughout the text because as a race we tend to be obstinate.
Also, feel free to disagree ;-)
Yet another person who's illiterate.
"When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. The days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters."
Now if you were going to pick something to debate there, it might be the 930 year old dude, not the fact that the Bible clearly states he had more children.
Feel free to actually prove to judge that the creature in question never existed. Good luck with that. Note that part of the curse was for serpents to forever more crawl on their bellies rather than whatever it is they did before. Thus the creature in the story cannot any longer exist to make comparisons to.
I'm not sure what you think you're getting at, but early Catholics actively sought to disseminate the Bible (by translating it to Latin) and later sought to control its message (look up Jon Hus, then Martin Luther). Modern translations of the text rarely have anything to do with the terrible Latin and KJV translations that came before them and instead rely on original source materials.