What you call "extreme leftists" are exponents of an extremely mild centrism, who are to the right of most right parties in other countries, to essentially the whole rest of the world, me included.
In any case, what is wrong with socialism? And PLEASE do not repeat 50's propaganda. Have you been to a modern socialist country? Ah! the suffering poor Norwegians have to endure! As opposed to the privilege to die in bankruptcy for having had the nerve of breaking a leg.
Give me a break. Only an absolute moron could believe that Obama is trying to implement socialism.
The book is about totalitarism; it is quite unclear if it is a socialist totalitarist---and, in any case, it's not like the other kinds of totalitarisms (which are historically much more frequent...) are better. What do you need, to have that written on the cover to see it?
You write of socialism as if it were damnation itself. You should travel a bit in Europe, for example...
I have used ML. ML is nice when you want to create beautiful, elegant, compact, thoughtful code. Code that you are proud of writing, code that takes a mental effort to understand again later, and code that is almost always right the first time once it passes the damn compiler.
If it is taking you a great mental effort to understand the code later, you should probably be writing better code...
As such, it also takes about twenty times longer to write than the PHP equivalent.
Maybe your training in ML is not that good. Which is not that unusual, since most people are not trained in functional programming, let alone---say---in dealing with an expressive type system.
There's a reason I wrote quick and dirty. Jesus_666 in this thread seems to be of the same mind as I am, if you want more perspective. PHP is, due to its peculiar syntax and particular functions, better suited to (often inelegant) rapid prototyping than other languages I know.
I was responding to someone who uses PHP to
prototype algorithmically intrincate stuff. I honestly doubt you can do that in a "quick and dirty" way.
So you think that Obama's "socialist" programs are in some way related to IngSoc... One can conclude one of three things: you have no idea what Obama's plans are, you have not read 1984, or both.
Wealth is being spread all the time. One cannot but marvel at the way the little "spread the wealth" phrase has been repeated like the most damning line ever, while the whole US has seen in slow motion how hundred of billions of dollars have been "spread" to a small, specific part of society, without essentially any reaction whatsoever from the proponents of not-"spreading the wealth", whatever it is that that may possibly mean.
Again: wealth is being spread all the time. The key point is who are the beneficiaries of all that spreading which is happening all the time.
Have you ever tried to read Marx's "Paris Commune"?
I have not tried. I have read it.
Marx had a lot of problems with the next generation of Communists while he was alive--but don't think for a second that Marx was opposed to brutality, oppression, and murder. Far from it. Force, for Marx, was a tool to satisfy the proletarian revolution. No surprise that they turned out to be selfish and bad people. Marxism itself is selfish and bad.
You make it sound like he was an extraordinarily original person for not opposing force, and for thinking force to be a tool to implement his plans (which are not layed out in The Capital, which---as I have already said---is simply a political economics treatise).
I cannot but smile at the fact that you seem to believe being selfish and "bad people" is somehow characteristic of marxism! For one thing, neither personality trait is in the least correlated to a particular theory of the role of capital in the economic system. By those standards, the CEO of Lehman brothers should be elected Marxist Pope.
Furthermore, Marx's economics are about as silly to the economist as squaring the circle is to a mathematician.
I am a mathematician, and I do not find the attempts at squaring the circle that took place before it was proved it was impossible silly at all. Those that came afterwards, on the other hand, I find mostly silly.
I doubt a honest and knowledgeable economist finds Marx's economics silly. Of course, it is already quite a non trivial task to find one to check...
Have you ever tried to read the Unabomber manifesto?
Actually yes. That's why I can say with a lot of confidence that it does not make any sense to associate it with the Capital.
I'd say that both Marx and Kaczynski were spot on in their analyses of the problems in their respective societies, but misguided in their approaches to change them.
Das Kapital is an analysis on political economy. While Marx surely did write about his approach to political change elsewhere, it is not in Das Kapital that he did that. That's pretty apparent from the first few pages...
Have you even tried to read Marx's Capital? The simple fact that you put it in the same sentence as the Unabomber manifesto shows clearly that you have not...
That you are judging the guy's analysis of the role of capital in the economy based on the actions of people who used his name, quite a few decades after he was dead, and in ways that would have make him puke, is pretty minor in comparison to your being writing about a work you have no knowledge of.
Allowing unicode characters in identifiers is SICK and not to be encouraged by any programming language or any compiler for any reason, as the issues are even more widespread than with this PHP issue.
How anglocentric of you... One can easily see from your post that you never need anything outside of ASCII to properly spell any word you would sensibly use as a variable name; that puts you in a very small minority.
You make it sound like it used to in the past. The very teatrical progression of events which ended in the present situation was carried put to the rhythm of your periodical voting...
Hmm. The fact that you seem to think that getting informed about things that you do not know is "too much work to go through" to be entertained makes a rather painful image of you...:/
Actually, I know for a fact that it is you who has been brainwashed into that state of paranoia: I work for a government agency which does that to people, simply for the entertainment value. Nice to see our out work here too: I rarely get to interact with our subjects!...
Where do you think those 700 thousand million dollars are going to? The whole crash thing is just cover up: that money is coming directly to us. I'll look up your file on Monday first thing in the morning.
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Yes.
And I have traveled around Europe, extensively. I am somewhat unimpressed.
Did you happen to need medical attention?
Where did you get the 90% figure? top? ps? free?
So adding features does not have performace implications provided those new features are never used. Great.
Would you make us a list of software in the development of which you've been involved, so that we can avoid it?
What you call "extreme leftists" are exponents of an extremely mild centrism, who are to the right of most right parties in other countries, to essentially the whole rest of the world, me included.
In any case, what is wrong with socialism? And PLEASE do not repeat 50's propaganda. Have you been to a modern socialist country? Ah! the suffering poor Norwegians have to endure! As opposed to the privilege to die in bankruptcy for having had the nerve of breaking a leg.
Give me a break. Only an absolute moron could believe that Obama is trying to implement socialism.
The book is about totalitarism; it is quite unclear if it is a socialist totalitarist---and, in any case, it's not like the other kinds of totalitarisms (which are historically much more frequent...) are better. What do you need, to have that written on the cover to see it?
You write of socialism as if it were damnation itself. You should travel a bit in Europe, for example...
I have used ML. ML is nice when you want to create beautiful, elegant, compact, thoughtful code. Code that you are proud of writing, code that takes a mental effort to understand again later, and code that is almost always right the first time once it passes the damn compiler.
If it is taking you a great mental effort to understand the code later, you should probably be writing better code...
As such, it also takes about twenty times longer to write than the PHP equivalent.
Maybe your training in ML is not that good. Which is not that unusual, since most people are not trained in functional programming, let alone---say---in dealing with an expressive type system.
There's a reason I wrote quick and dirty. Jesus_666 in this thread seems to be of the same mind as I am, if you want more perspective. PHP is, due to its peculiar syntax and particular functions, better suited to (often inelegant) rapid prototyping than other languages I know.
I was responding to someone who uses PHP to prototype algorithmically intrincate stuff. I honestly doubt you can do that in a "quick and dirty" way.
So you think that Obama's "socialist" programs are in some way related to IngSoc... One can conclude one of three things: you have no idea what Obama's plans are, you have not read 1984, or both.
Wealth is being spread all the time. One cannot but marvel at the way the little "spread the wealth" phrase has been repeated like the most damning line ever, while the whole US has seen in slow motion how hundred of billions of dollars have been "spread" to a small, specific part of society, without essentially any reaction whatsoever from the proponents of not-"spreading the wealth", whatever it is that that may possibly mean.
Again: wealth is being spread all the time. The key point is who are the beneficiaries of all that spreading which is happening all the time.
So you watch actual Palin interviews?
Have you ever tried to read Marx's "Paris Commune"?
I have not tried. I have read it.
Marx had a lot of problems with the next generation of Communists while he was alive--but don't think for a second that Marx was opposed to brutality, oppression, and murder. Far from it. Force, for Marx, was a tool to satisfy the proletarian revolution. No surprise that they turned out to be selfish and bad people. Marxism itself is selfish and bad.
You make it sound like he was an extraordinarily original person for not opposing force, and for thinking force to be a tool to implement his plans (which are not layed out in The Capital, which---as I have already said---is simply a political economics treatise).
I cannot but smile at the fact that you seem to believe being selfish and "bad people" is somehow characteristic of marxism! For one thing, neither personality trait is in the least correlated to a particular theory of the role of capital in the economic system. By those standards, the CEO of Lehman brothers should be elected Marxist Pope.
Furthermore, Marx's economics are about as silly to the economist as squaring the circle is to a mathematician.
I am a mathematician, and I do not find the attempts at squaring the circle that took place before it was proved it was impossible silly at all. Those that came afterwards, on the other hand, I find mostly silly.
I doubt a honest and knowledgeable economist finds Marx's economics silly. Of course, it is already quite a non trivial task to find one to check...
Have you ever tried to read the Unabomber manifesto?
Actually yes. That's why I can say with a lot of confidence that it does not make any sense to associate it with the Capital.
I'd say that both Marx and Kaczynski were spot on in their analyses of the problems in their respective societies, but misguided in their approaches to change them.
Das Kapital is an analysis on political economy. While Marx surely did write about his approach to political change elsewhere, it is not in Das Kapital that he did that. That's pretty apparent from the first few pages...
Have you even tried to read Marx's Capital? The simple fact that you put it in the same sentence as the Unabomber manifesto shows clearly that you have not...
That you are judging the guy's analysis of the role of capital in the economy based on the actions of people who used his name, quite a few decades after he was dead, and in ways that would have make him puke, is pretty minor in comparison to your being writing about a work you have no knowledge of.
Give Haskell (or ML, Scheme, Lisp and friends) a try: using PHP to prototype algorithmically intrincate stuff is simply absurd.
Allowing unicode characters in identifiers is SICK and not to be encouraged by any programming language or any compiler for any reason, as the issues are even more widespread than with this PHP issue.
How anglocentric of you... One can easily see from your post that you never need anything outside of ASCII to properly spell any word you would sensibly use as a variable name; that puts you in a very small minority.
Seriously: what issues are you referring to?
Syntax is perfectly good grounds for hating a language.
Assumptions cannot be dubious.
They may be not of your liking, but that hardly makes them dubious.
And pretty much everyone who gets the fact that Russel was making what amounts to essentially a joke in this context would ignore you...
Darwin did not make any claims as to the ways ideologies get selected, and the theory of evolution has no place evaluating foreign policy.
The confusion your post evinces is amazing.
voting Republican doesn't stop this anymore
You make it sound like it used to in the past. The very teatrical progression of events which ended in the present situation was carried put to the rhythm of your periodical voting...
Hmm. The fact that you seem to think that getting informed about things that you do not know is "too much work to go through" to be entertained makes a rather painful image of you... :/
Wow. The way you skillfully explained the joke for the idiotic audience is simply awe inspiring!
I can only guess you have authored at least half the the last 10 years of Hollywood films, haven't you?
He did not insult "disabled veterans". He simply attempted at making a stupid joke.
McCain should probably read a bit on what's available on the accessibility front, by the way...
All rights can be reserved. They are, in fact, all reserved by default.
Actually, I know for a fact that it is you who has been brainwashed into that state of paranoia: I work for a government agency which does that to people, simply for the entertainment value. Nice to see our out work here too: I rarely get to interact with our subjects!...
Where do you think those 700 thousand million dollars are going to? The whole crash thing is just cover up: that money is coming directly to us. I'll look up your file on Monday first thing in the morning.