The whole point of 2nd amendment is to let citizens be able to defend themselves against crime...
No. Crime, at least of the type we're talking about here, didn't exist in 18th century America. Also, the latest development in gun technology then was the Kentucky rifle, after the German Jäger, a necessary development for American settlers who relied on guns to put food on the table. But the flintlock musket was the standard tool of warfare, it took upwards of at least a minute to reload. So even the rifle was seen as more of a hunting weapon, war at that time was like a stupid chess game between stupid gentlemen. The founders could not have seen the advancement of arms as it has progressed to this day. This is precisely why Thomas Jefferson firmly believed that the constitution should be torn up and a new one created every generation; this VERY reason.
"...I wrote and diseminated subversive literature, I lay with prostitutes in order to spread disease, I blew up bridges and commited anarchistic acts, spread terror upon innocents, I now only ask that you accept my love of Big Brother."
And you know this how? What does that mean exactly? How does it do that non-intrusively? Fingerprints are by definitions "on the skin", not under it, aren't they?
...is not disclosed anywhere that I could see in the terms and conditions.
You are an idiot. Our governments are ostensibly under OUR employ, since when is it ok for people YOU pay to keep tabs on you without a court order? Unless you're ok with that sort of thing. Idiot.
Wait, look at what she's saying closely; I think she's saying that "we tried to take a stand against the Gov's bs, but in the end we crumbled." I think she's simply stating the nature of the situation; if you go against them, its treason. I don't think she's nessessarily a Patriot Act booster. But then I could simply be dazzled by a hot CEO.
I can't be the only one whose noticed occasioanlly, that people who know me and know my dark sense of humor/irony don't always catch my humor in a chat/posting/email. That stuff is simply hard to put accross without the usual facial queues/intonations.
...has anybody actually worked out the details of how existing X11 clients will migrate to this new protocol?
I find Unity completely unusable and so I don't use it. I just installed mint 15 on a powerbook pro the other day, and as always, at login I have several desktop mangement options, including xfce (which I use), and Unity, as well as several others. I doubt seriously that X will be yanked from most distrobutions without a fallback. In fact I suspect you'll be able to use X for years to come if you so choose.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of GCC.
I'd like to see how de Raadt came up with THAT number. Seems very low to me. Accross the world? Or is that a blanket, unqualified statement? 7K users of GCC? Come on...
They do all the time. The problem here is Texas politics, not "republicans". Get a list of Texas law makers, regardless of affliation, and put a check mark next to the ones with interests in car dealerships. That will illustrate the problem very nicely. And you'll see plenty of democrats in the list, my friend.
So? Does that make it functionally superior? systemd uses dbus, that gives is a good start on being moved from "toy" status to "let's look at this" status.
...while supporting and debugging old code is boring.
So, according to that philosophy, we really should all be submitting our/. input on punched cards into batch jobs and reading your driblets of wisdom on paper tape becuase 640K should be enough for everyone, right?
There's the thing. X was written when there were no other toolkits, at least not of note (Motif?) so X does everything. As newer toolkits were added (GTK, etc) it made sense for them to do certain things, and many of those have become redundant in X. X is many layers of old code, a refresh is in order. Sometimes you have to stop saying "why fix it if it ain't broken" and just fix it. You don't really want to drive a model A while everyone else is driving a Tesla, do you? Besides, rather than create a successor to Ruby on Rails, which is a solution in search of a problem, IMO, why not create a successor to X, which is actually useful?
The API is strictly procedural and out of date, a new API can add the benefit of design pattern architecture (no, that doesn't mean it needs to be C++, this is an architectural point, not a language one). X is also full of serious security problems.
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The whole point of 2nd amendment is to let citizens be able to defend themselves against crime...
No. Crime, at least of the type we're talking about here, didn't exist in 18th century America. Also, the latest development in gun technology then was the Kentucky rifle, after the German Jäger, a necessary development for American settlers who relied on guns to put food on the table. But the flintlock musket was the standard tool of warfare, it took upwards of at least a minute to reload. So even the rifle was seen as more of a hunting weapon, war at that time was like a stupid chess game between stupid gentlemen. The founders could not have seen the advancement of arms as it has progressed to this day. This is precisely why Thomas Jefferson firmly believed that the constitution should be torn up and a new one created every generation; this VERY reason.
A billion wrong moves is still a billion wrong moves too many.
The BSD license is not much better than toilet paper, so where's the flambait here?
...would have made the massacre of children at Sandy Hook impossible.
No.
This is what conservatives actually believe.
No, by all means, "conservsative expert", tell them what they believe, don't ask them.
"...I wrote and diseminated subversive literature, I lay with prostitutes in order to spread disease, I blew up bridges and commited anarchistic acts, spread terror upon innocents, I now only ask that you accept my love of Big Brother."
My wife keeps complaining about my plasmonic nanostructure.
I'll be here all week, ladies and germs.
...says another iConsumer.
...it reads the tissue under the skin.
And you know this how? What does that mean exactly? How does it do that non-intrusively? Fingerprints are by definitions "on the skin", not under it, aren't they?
...is not disclosed anywhere that I could see in the terms and conditions.
You are an idiot. Our governments are ostensibly under OUR employ, since when is it ok for people YOU pay to keep tabs on you without a court order? Unless you're ok with that sort of thing. Idiot.
Wait, look at what she's saying closely; I think she's saying that "we tried to take a stand against the Gov's bs, but in the end we crumbled." I think she's simply stating the nature of the situation; if you go against them, its treason. I don't think she's nessessarily a Patriot Act booster. But then I could simply be dazzled by a hot CEO.
I can't be the only one whose noticed occasioanlly, that people who know me and know my dark sense of humor/irony don't always catch my humor in a chat/posting/email. That stuff is simply hard to put accross without the usual facial queues/intonations.
...has anybody actually worked out the details of how existing X11 clients will migrate to this new protocol?
I find Unity completely unusable and so I don't use it. I just installed mint 15 on a powerbook pro the other day, and as always, at login I have several desktop mangement options, including xfce (which I use), and Unity, as well as several others. I doubt seriously that X will be yanked from most distrobutions without a fallback. In fact I suspect you'll be able to use X for years to come if you so choose.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of GCC.
I'd like to see how de Raadt came up with THAT number. Seems very low to me. Accross the world? Or is that a blanket, unqualified statement? 7K users of GCC? Come on...
Support for the RDRAND random number generator
Now you can go "WHY????"
They do all the time. The problem here is Texas politics, not "republicans". Get a list of Texas law makers, regardless of affliation, and put a check mark next to the ones with interests in car dealerships. That will illustrate the problem very nicely. And you'll see plenty of democrats in the list, my friend.
Upstart was written before systemd started.
So? Does that make it functionally superior? systemd uses dbus, that gives is a good start on being moved from "toy" status to "let's look at this" status.
...while supporting and debugging old code is boring.
So, according to that philosophy, we really should all be submitting our /. input on punched cards into batch jobs and reading your driblets of wisdom on paper tape becuase 640K should be enough for everyone, right?
There's the thing. X was written when there were no other toolkits, at least not of note (Motif?) so X does everything. As newer toolkits were added (GTK, etc) it made sense for them to do certain things, and many of those have become redundant in X. X is many layers of old code, a refresh is in order. Sometimes you have to stop saying "why fix it if it ain't broken" and just fix it. You don't really want to drive a model A while everyone else is driving a Tesla, do you? Besides, rather than create a successor to Ruby on Rails, which is a solution in search of a problem, IMO, why not create a successor to X, which is actually useful?
The API is strictly procedural and out of date, a new API can add the benefit of design pattern architecture (no, that doesn't mean it needs to be C++, this is an architectural point, not a language one). X is also full of serious security problems.
lol
The show terrified some viewers who apparently didn't realise that their TV screen was powered by the grid.
~sigh~
...let Linus do what he does best.
Act like a raving lunatic? He's doing quite well enough, no one's getting in his way.
...more time on the planet with Honey Boo Boo & family.
You mean fill you in. There's no other way to interpret plain english than as written. And that, as written, is incorrect, if not plain stupid.