After the initial introduction to computing via BASIC, I picked up Pascal (Turbo, of course) and fell in love with it. I prefer a language where you have to declare all your variables and won't let you assign one type to another type without type casting or properly converting. I also want it to be case insensitive because I've seen code where the idiot used "foo", "Foo", and "FOO" as different variables.
I haven't touched Pascal in years, but I miss it occasionally.
Compare ecigs to tobacco when looking at the health issue since the overwhelming majority of ecig users are former smokers.
The anti-smoking people are becoming irrelevant, which worries them. So they chose ecigs as their new target. There is a push to ban ecigs in all places that tobacco smoking is banned. That would include my own apartment where smoking is banned on the entire property. If this stupid law gets passed, I'll have to walk outside and off the property to the street to vape. I might as well light up a real cigarette if I'm going through that much trouble.
"It's the smell!" It's odorless, you moron, unless I get a flavored kind, then it will smell like vanilla or berries. That shit you cooked for dinner last night for dinner was far more offensive.
Yes. Make the fines fucking huge when incompetence results in leaked private information. The fine needs to so big that the shareholders will revolt if the company has to pay it. That's the only way you can get management to throw some money at the IT department and security. A business will either invest in their security or shut down.
Learn some history. The nazis in 1930s Germany were going to other political party gatherings and beating people up. Now we have antifa assholes perfectly emulating what they denounce.
Tasers should only be used as an alternative to using a gun. That means if the cop did not have justification to kill the person, he did not have justification to use a taser. Every time a cop uses a taser, the same review process for using a firearm should happen. Unfortunately, that isn't happening. Cops use tasers to torture people into compliance, often as a way to force people to follow unlawful orders. Reviews seldom happen unless someone dies. And even then, it's the standard rubber stamping "we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong," bullshit. Lots of police departments have dropped tasers because they were paying out so much money for lawsuits because of too many cops abusing their authority.
This isn't a taser problem. It's a blue line problem. Every cop who witnesses another cop breaking the law and does not report it is guilty of being an accessory. In every instance where a bad cop finally gets charged, the ten cops who witnessed the act and didn't report it should be charged as well.
The first damn step to a fix is to take away immunity. Why is a city (thus the taxpayers) paying out millions in lawsuits when the cop clearly violated the law and written procedures? If the city tries to cover it up, yes, they should pay part. But if the city does a proper investigation then disavows a bad cop, the taxpayers should not be on the hook. Take the criminal cop's pension.
The Hugo is not the most prestigious award for Sci Fi. I would put the Nebula Award way ahead of it. In fact, over the last few years the Hugo Award has become meaningless.
I just want to see this fucker spend a few nights in jail. This case has been going on for years. When he bought the property, he knew there was legally mandated public access to the beach since it already existed. He's thumbing his nose at California law and trying to create his own private beach. fuck him.
The bastard is ignoring the court ruling and is keeping the access way blocked. I'd like to see the judge issue an arrest warrant for contempt of court.
The fine should be no less than triple the estimated profits from the wrongdoing. So long as the fine can be written off as a cost of doing business and still leave a profit, the corruption will continue.
Jail time, too. Lots of jail time. The CEO is the captain of the ship and is ultimately responsible for all crimes committed. Throw a few rich bastards in jail for five years and watch what happens.
It's obvious that Wells Fargo has deeply ingrained corruption that is harmful to consumers to such an extreme that the bank should be broken up and sold off. Wells Fargo should cease to exist.
I don't consider that a reasonable fix. The process is still a pain and costly. As Craig suggested in his response to me, tie the visa to the worker, not the company. I would add to his suggestion, if you remain unemployed for too long, your visa is cancelled. How long is too long is open for discussion.
Don't tie the visa to a specific company. Make it easy for the workers to switch jobs. H1B workers are damn near indentured servants because it's so damn hard to switch jobs. The result is they have to put up with crap that a regular worker wouldn't tolerate, e.g. longer hours (at a fixed salary), no bonuses, shorter or no vacations, etc. It's not just about the salary. It's the ability to completely control the workers.
Anti gun organizations such as the Brady Bunch have made it quite clear that their intent is to slippery slope their way to a total ban on private ownership of firearms.
In an emergency, you may not be able to be in a "proper" stance. I assume you are referring to a Weaver or an Isosceles stance. A two handed stance is preferred, but not always practical.
The budget for the military is renewed every two years, so it isn't unconstitutional. As for the air force, while I tend to be a strict constitutionalist, I accept that referring to "the army and navy" is equal to saying "the military", which would include the air force and possibly, in the future, a space force.
You spend your entire school life studying your ass off. You aren't supposed to do much outside of school except study. Having a relationship is discouraged to the extreme.
Then you get a job where you work 12 to 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. You have no time to actually meet someone so the odds of having a relationship are slim. Added bonus. Your boss will treat you like shit. Everything you do will be criticized. I guess it's some mistaken belief that you'll work even harder.
On the unlikely event you find and marry someone at work, she has to quit her job and have babies. You get to keep working 12 to 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. So if, by some miracle, you have children, you'll never see them.
No wonder young people are rejecting the entire social system and hiding from the world or committing suicide.
If Obama can implement rules on a whim, Trump can suspend them just as easily. I'm not arguing if the EPA rules are correct or not. I'm arguing for consistency.
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Actually, hate speech is free speech. Of course, there is no requirement that people listen to the speech.
The violence one is a bit tricky since far too many people are now equating disagreement with violence (words hurt campaign).
Don't get caught being evil.
After the initial introduction to computing via BASIC, I picked up Pascal (Turbo, of course) and fell in love with it. I prefer a language where you have to declare all your variables and won't let you assign one type to another type without type casting or properly converting. I also want it to be case insensitive because I've seen code where the idiot used "foo", "Foo", and "FOO" as different variables.
I haven't touched Pascal in years, but I miss it occasionally.
You are in more danger from the exhaust from your own car than from second hand vaping.
Compare ecigs to tobacco when looking at the health issue since the overwhelming majority of ecig users are former smokers.
The anti-smoking people are becoming irrelevant, which worries them. So they chose ecigs as their new target. There is a push to ban ecigs in all places that tobacco smoking is banned. That would include my own apartment where smoking is banned on the entire property. If this stupid law gets passed, I'll have to walk outside and off the property to the street to vape. I might as well light up a real cigarette if I'm going through that much trouble.
"It's the smell!" It's odorless, you moron, unless I get a flavored kind, then it will smell like vanilla or berries. That shit you cooked for dinner last night for dinner was far more offensive.
Yes. Make the fines fucking huge when incompetence results in leaked private information. The fine needs to so big that the shareholders will revolt if the company has to pay it. That's the only way you can get management to throw some money at the IT department and security. A business will either invest in their security or shut down.
Learn some history. The nazis in 1930s Germany were going to other political party gatherings and beating people up. Now we have antifa assholes perfectly emulating what they denounce.
Since ISIS's purpose it to forcibly convert, enslave, or kill the entire farking word, I don't have an issue with committing genocide on them.
From the simple fact that they stopped manufacturing the product, sold off the existing stock, then dropped support. Connecting the dots is not hard.
Tasers should only be used as an alternative to using a gun. That means if the cop did not have justification to kill the person, he did not have justification to use a taser. Every time a cop uses a taser, the same review process for using a firearm should happen. Unfortunately, that isn't happening. Cops use tasers to torture people into compliance, often as a way to force people to follow unlawful orders. Reviews seldom happen unless someone dies. And even then, it's the standard rubber stamping "we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong," bullshit. Lots of police departments have dropped tasers because they were paying out so much money for lawsuits because of too many cops abusing their authority.
This isn't a taser problem. It's a blue line problem. Every cop who witnesses another cop breaking the law and does not report it is guilty of being an accessory. In every instance where a bad cop finally gets charged, the ten cops who witnessed the act and didn't report it should be charged as well.
The first damn step to a fix is to take away immunity. Why is a city (thus the taxpayers) paying out millions in lawsuits when the cop clearly violated the law and written procedures? If the city tries to cover it up, yes, they should pay part. But if the city does a proper investigation then disavows a bad cop, the taxpayers should not be on the hook. Take the criminal cop's pension.
The Hugo is not the most prestigious award for Sci Fi. I would put the Nebula Award way ahead of it. In fact, over the last few years the Hugo Award has become meaningless.
I just want to see this fucker spend a few nights in jail. This case has been going on for years. When he bought the property, he knew there was legally mandated public access to the beach since it already existed. He's thumbing his nose at California law and trying to create his own private beach. fuck him.
The bastard is ignoring the court ruling and is keeping the access way blocked. I'd like to see the judge issue an arrest warrant for contempt of court.
The fine should be no less than triple the estimated profits from the wrongdoing. So long as the fine can be written off as a cost of doing business and still leave a profit, the corruption will continue.
Jail time, too. Lots of jail time. The CEO is the captain of the ship and is ultimately responsible for all crimes committed. Throw a few rich bastards in jail for five years and watch what happens.
It's obvious that Wells Fargo has deeply ingrained corruption that is harmful to consumers to such an extreme that the bank should be broken up and sold off. Wells Fargo should cease to exist.
I don't consider that a reasonable fix. The process is still a pain and costly. As Craig suggested in his response to me, tie the visa to the worker, not the company. I would add to his suggestion, if you remain unemployed for too long, your visa is cancelled. How long is too long is open for discussion.
Don't tie the visa to a specific company. Make it easy for the workers to switch jobs. H1B workers are damn near indentured servants because it's so damn hard to switch jobs. The result is they have to put up with crap that a regular worker wouldn't tolerate, e.g. longer hours (at a fixed salary), no bonuses, shorter or no vacations, etc. It's not just about the salary. It's the ability to completely control the workers.
If would be a shame if someone hacked into her private emails and text messages and made them public.
A crying shame.
Anti gun organizations such as the Brady Bunch have made it quite clear that their intent is to slippery slope their way to a total ban on private ownership of firearms.
In an emergency, you may not be able to be in a "proper" stance. I assume you are referring to a Weaver or an Isosceles stance. A two handed stance is preferred, but not always practical.
The budget for the military is renewed every two years, so it isn't unconstitutional. As for the air force, while I tend to be a strict constitutionalist, I accept that referring to "the army and navy" is equal to saying "the military", which would include the air force and possibly, in the future, a space force.
You spend your entire school life studying your ass off. You aren't supposed to do much outside of school except study. Having a relationship is discouraged to the extreme.
Then you get a job where you work 12 to 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. You have no time to actually meet someone so the odds of having a relationship are slim. Added bonus. Your boss will treat you like shit. Everything you do will be criticized. I guess it's some mistaken belief that you'll work even harder.
On the unlikely event you find and marry someone at work, she has to quit her job and have babies. You get to keep working 12 to 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. So if, by some miracle, you have children, you'll never see them.
No wonder young people are rejecting the entire social system and hiding from the world or committing suicide.
If Obama can implement rules on a whim, Trump can suspend them just as easily. I'm not arguing if the EPA rules are correct or not. I'm arguing for consistency.
yet we make no special accommodations for, e.g., stupid people.
You should check out some of the warning labels on common products telling people not to do seriously stupid shit.
How do they target poor and minority?
By being very selective about which neighborhoods you put cameras.