From what I gather from the term itself, a "buy-in" government operates more like a mafia protection racket than a real government. Not really governing anything.
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Anarchism is no government. People will do as they please, meaning they'll share like a communist utopia or maybe they'll sell things in an anarcho-capitalism. It doesn't matter what they choose to do, anarchy is still anarchy. Anarchy will eventually lend itself to chaos.
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Adhering to the desires of any political party is always a bad idea. I don't completely support the Libertarian party agenda, but I do think it's a far better agenda and more sincere one than the R's and D's. I work from within the party to try to grow it and to shape it into a little bit more moderate organization. Only when the party finally gets set in reality can it begin to gain a foothold in the government.
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Your comment makes no sense. The current state of American government is that it gives loads of money to businesses. A Libertarian government gives no gifts to individuals and very few gifts to the whole.
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Quite true. The party platform needs some adjustment to get away from the "crazy nutcase" end of the spectrum. Anything taken to its logical extreme is a bad idea, and so is Libertarianism. Libertarianism at is logical end is just plain anarchy, and that never works for a civilized society. I see voluntary taxes and privately owned roads as a really bad idea, but I also see most of the other things the government has a hand in as being really bad ideas, too.
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If you're sick of the bullshit, look in to the Libertarian Party. There's no hidden agenda or anything, just the idea of advancing freedom and limiting authoritarianism in America.
Your approach makes alot of sense. I've developed such a strong opinion towards assembly because I'm currently learning it. Had I understood it in past classes, debugging my homework assignments and other programs would have been much simpler.
Nice interpretation. Could you please tell me what a RAD tool is? Personally, I think Eclipse is pretty rad, but I have the feeling you mean something else.
Well, I suppose it'll make you lazy. This particular article, however, is not about programmers. It's about people who are wanting to become programmers. Someone with little to no low-level experience has absolutely no idea what the IDE really creates.
I'll have to look into that. From what I've been told by my professors, though, assembler is still better because it's a human readable form of EXACTLY what the computer is doing. Looking at C, C++, and Java I don't know what the instructions REALLY do. I can go ask one of my absolutely brilliant CS professor what a specific line of code really does and he's basically forced to tell me that he'd need all day to explain it or that he's not sure. That kind of lack of control really irks me. Also, being exposed to assembler and one or two high level languages has made it very very easy for me to learn other languages without much difficulty.
If you're going to put him down, put him down for being a mongoloid CIS guy instead of a real computer scientist. These are comments on a forum, not dissertations. Minor grammatical errors are to be expected.
Clicking on a wizard isn't the same thing as programming. To really understand what's going on and get used to writing programs, it's essential to type every letter of the code yourself. My first CS class taught me Java, which I'd say is a better idea than VB. I go so far as to say that it's a better idea to learn assembler first so that you know what's REALLY going on inside that computer.
$1/song as iTunes charges (I think) is hardly a good price. $12 for 12 songs is the price of an average CD. The best deal I ever got was "The Essential Clash" with some 40 (good) songs for $13. iTunes can't deliver that.
It's really quite unfortunate that here in the USA, the land of the free, presumably decent and intelligent citizens such as your self have to say things like "probably not allowed to do that". It's a real shame when the laws are becoming so complex and burdensome that many normal citizens are unsure of what is legal and what is not.
Yeah, it works. Works pretty well for all of the pedophiliac polygamists in Utah, huh? You probably don't need to be told this, but Mormons are a bad example to follow on marriage and...well...everything.
My dad introduced me to computers when I was 4. He hooked up an old TI-99/4A and we played Pole Position and Parsec and a few other less noteworthy games. Though I could not yet read and was not good at video games, I was fascinated by what was going on and how to get better at it. I was also intrigued at what all of those buttons on the keyboard could possibly be used for.
I learned to read the next year and quickly picked up and analyzed all of the written words around me. I noticed that before I could get into the game on the TI-99, I had to tell it from a list of options that I wanted to play a game instead of going to the command prompt. When I asked my dad what the command prompt was all about, he showed me some basic math it could do.
I quickly wanted to know what else it could do. He knows a lot about fixing cars and electronics and such, but knows very little about how computers work and how to use them. Because of that, he gave me the big thick operating and programming manuals that he had for it. I looked them over, but did not make much sense of most of it. Although I didn't get much from the operation of it as a serious computer, playing video games and seeing what else it could do got me really interested in computers.
Go forward in my life past an Apple IIe and an NES and see me at 8 years old using an Apple Performa 460. I learned how to type with some typing software on the Apple and even learned a little about using DOS. Come the Macintosh, it was a whole new computer using experience for me. Of course, my primary interest in the device was to play games on it (maybe it still is), but I gained many other things from it. I have really bad handwriting and no matter how hard I try, it never looks good. I used my computer to type my homework for school because my handwriting was too illegible. Pass a little more time and I've got my hands on an Apple related magazine that has a CD with it. I get from the CD some software that can pick apart the resource trees of software. Pretty soon I had taken the sound files out of every program I had and used a theming application to make the box make all kinds of obnoxious sounds. Also, I found some video files on my computer and witnessed for the first time that full motion video could be played on a computer. What a wonder that they were still selling movies on clunky tapes instead of data CD's!
I hope I've revealed to you something about how a young mind can become interested and realize the usefulness of computers. Now I'm 20 and I still love computers and I'm halfway through getting a BS in computer science. I suppose the youngsters will find computers at some time or another, but it's good to expose them to as many different things as you can so that they can find what they love and you can help them to cultivate their thirst for knowledge.
Children are not the property of the public. When government money is used to pay for them, government power will be thrust into the realm of raising them. It already happens to plenty of kids in awful situations where their parents are unfit or unwilling to take care of them. I plan on getting married one day because I desire the security offered by a (properly selected) lifetime companion. I'll probably also have children with said companion. I won't want public money for or public intrusion into the raising of my kids. I will deal with them how I want to deal with them and I don't want Bill the socialist or Linda the whore or Ted the pedophile to have any say in it.
I don't take issue with your passing judgment; it's a critical thing to do in order to make decisions every day. However, your judgment was passed too quickly. I bring to this conversation real-world evidence, even if it is only one case. Man and woman are married, have daughter. Later, woman cheats on man. Man finds out. Woman continues to cheat. Weak-spined man continues to forgive, expecting something to change as he goes on and continues to be a good father. Woman divorces man and marries her latest boyfriend. Court grants custody of daughter and almost all possessions to woman. Man is stuck paying $20k/yr child support in addition to college for the next 12 years. There are more details that were not mentioned, but suffice to say every detail points to this: this woman is a bitch and this man is a good person. The man was treated wrongly by the court.
So one thing to take from this story is that sometimes good husbands and fathers are given a raw deal only because their wives are terrible people and they made a bad judgment to marry.
We have actually elected people to small-time offices across the country. They've acted like they said they would, too. As for what will happen in the case of success at much higher levels, you don't know. All anyone could know is that the people who get elected now never do what they promise to do. Electing people from an unproven party is the only way to try something different without doing away with the current government, which at this point is far too much of a pain in the ass for too little reward.
As far as I know, it's really hard to fire government employees. As in, they can't get fired for being stupid or for not doing their job right. Basically the only thing they could get fired for would be committing a serious crime on the job or coming in drunk.
I blame Bush as much as I blame everyone else in charge. The only difference between the two major parties is how they talk before the election. Once in control, they both expand government power at the cost of the liberty of the citizens. After such a mediocre Republican president, as long as the Democrats don't fuck it up and send in another Al Gore, they'll have the presidency. Just watch and you'll see that they do the same stuff once they're in control. On a related note, if you want to end all of this, help the Libertarians. I do and I enjoy it.
Change to Libertarian. Libertarians love guns, money, and porn! I'm a Libertarian and it's a good party to work with, although I must say that in my state (NC), there's no chance of us doing a damned thing in the next 20 years.
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From what I gather from the term itself, a "buy-in" government operates more like a mafia protection racket than a real government. Not really governing anything.
Anarchism is no government. People will do as they please, meaning they'll share like a communist utopia or maybe they'll sell things in an anarcho-capitalism. It doesn't matter what they choose to do, anarchy is still anarchy. Anarchy will eventually lend itself to chaos.
Adhering to the desires of any political party is always a bad idea. I don't completely support the Libertarian party agenda, but I do think it's a far better agenda and more sincere one than the R's and D's. I work from within the party to try to grow it and to shape it into a little bit more moderate organization. Only when the party finally gets set in reality can it begin to gain a foothold in the government.
Your comment makes no sense. The current state of American government is that it gives loads of money to businesses. A Libertarian government gives no gifts to individuals and very few gifts to the whole.
Quite true. The party platform needs some adjustment to get away from the "crazy nutcase" end of the spectrum. Anything taken to its logical extreme is a bad idea, and so is Libertarianism. Libertarianism at is logical end is just plain anarchy, and that never works for a civilized society. I see voluntary taxes and privately owned roads as a really bad idea, but I also see most of the other things the government has a hand in as being really bad ideas, too.
If you're sick of the bullshit, look in to the Libertarian Party. There's no hidden agenda or anything, just the idea of advancing freedom and limiting authoritarianism in America.
Cheaper games are always welcome. Try again later, thanks.
When will I get to see more autopr0n?
Your approach makes alot of sense. I've developed such a strong opinion towards assembly because I'm currently learning it. Had I understood it in past classes, debugging my homework assignments and other programs would have been much simpler.
Nice interpretation. Could you please tell me what a RAD tool is? Personally, I think Eclipse is pretty rad, but I have the feeling you mean something else.
Well, I suppose it'll make you lazy. This particular article, however, is not about programmers. It's about people who are wanting to become programmers. Someone with little to no low-level experience has absolutely no idea what the IDE really creates.
I'll have to look into that. From what I've been told by my professors, though, assembler is still better because it's a human readable form of EXACTLY what the computer is doing. Looking at C, C++, and Java I don't know what the instructions REALLY do. I can go ask one of my absolutely brilliant CS professor what a specific line of code really does and he's basically forced to tell me that he'd need all day to explain it or that he's not sure. That kind of lack of control really irks me. Also, being exposed to assembler and one or two high level languages has made it very very easy for me to learn other languages without much difficulty.
If you're going to put him down, put him down for being a mongoloid CIS guy instead of a real computer scientist. These are comments on a forum, not dissertations. Minor grammatical errors are to be expected.
Clicking on a wizard isn't the same thing as programming. To really understand what's going on and get used to writing programs, it's essential to type every letter of the code yourself. My first CS class taught me Java, which I'd say is a better idea than VB. I go so far as to say that it's a better idea to learn assembler first so that you know what's REALLY going on inside that computer.
$1/song as iTunes charges (I think) is hardly a good price. $12 for 12 songs is the price of an average CD. The best deal I ever got was "The Essential Clash" with some 40 (good) songs for $13. iTunes can't deliver that.
It's really quite unfortunate that here in the USA, the land of the free, presumably decent and intelligent citizens such as your self have to say things like "probably not allowed to do that". It's a real shame when the laws are becoming so complex and burdensome that many normal citizens are unsure of what is legal and what is not.
Yeah, it works. Works pretty well for all of the pedophiliac polygamists in Utah, huh? You probably don't need to be told this, but Mormons are a bad example to follow on marriage and...well...everything.
My dad introduced me to computers when I was 4. He hooked up an old TI-99/4A and we played Pole Position and Parsec and a few other less noteworthy games. Though I could not yet read and was not good at video games, I was fascinated by what was going on and how to get better at it. I was also intrigued at what all of those buttons on the keyboard could possibly be used for.
I learned to read the next year and quickly picked up and analyzed all of the written words around me. I noticed that before I could get into the game on the TI-99, I had to tell it from a list of options that I wanted to play a game instead of going to the command prompt. When I asked my dad what the command prompt was all about, he showed me some basic math it could do.
I quickly wanted to know what else it could do. He knows a lot about fixing cars and electronics and such, but knows very little about how computers work and how to use them. Because of that, he gave me the big thick operating and programming manuals that he had for it. I looked them over, but did not make much sense of most of it. Although I didn't get much from the operation of it as a serious computer, playing video games and seeing what else it could do got me really interested in computers.
Go forward in my life past an Apple IIe and an NES and see me at 8 years old using an Apple Performa 460. I learned how to type with some typing software on the Apple and even learned a little about using DOS. Come the Macintosh, it was a whole new computer using experience for me. Of course, my primary interest in the device was to play games on it (maybe it still is), but I gained many other things from it. I have really bad handwriting and no matter how hard I try, it never looks good. I used my computer to type my homework for school because my handwriting was too illegible. Pass a little more time and I've got my hands on an Apple related magazine that has a CD with it. I get from the CD some software that can pick apart the resource trees of software. Pretty soon I had taken the sound files out of every program I had and used a theming application to make the box make all kinds of obnoxious sounds. Also, I found some video files on my computer and witnessed for the first time that full motion video could be played on a computer. What a wonder that they were still selling movies on clunky tapes instead of data CD's!
I hope I've revealed to you something about how a young mind can become interested and realize the usefulness of computers. Now I'm 20 and I still love computers and I'm halfway through getting a BS in computer science. I suppose the youngsters will find computers at some time or another, but it's good to expose them to as many different things as you can so that they can find what they love and you can help them to cultivate their thirst for knowledge.
Children are not the property of the public. When government money is used to pay for them, government power will be thrust into the realm of raising them. It already happens to plenty of kids in awful situations where their parents are unfit or unwilling to take care of them. I plan on getting married one day because I desire the security offered by a (properly selected) lifetime companion. I'll probably also have children with said companion. I won't want public money for or public intrusion into the raising of my kids. I will deal with them how I want to deal with them and I don't want Bill the socialist or Linda the whore or Ted the pedophile to have any say in it.
I don't take issue with your passing judgment; it's a critical thing to do in order to make decisions every day. However, your judgment was passed too quickly. I bring to this conversation real-world evidence, even if it is only one case. Man and woman are married, have daughter. Later, woman cheats on man. Man finds out. Woman continues to cheat. Weak-spined man continues to forgive, expecting something to change as he goes on and continues to be a good father. Woman divorces man and marries her latest boyfriend. Court grants custody of daughter and almost all possessions to woman. Man is stuck paying $20k/yr child support in addition to college for the next 12 years. There are more details that were not mentioned, but suffice to say every detail points to this: this woman is a bitch and this man is a good person. The man was treated wrongly by the court.
So one thing to take from this story is that sometimes good husbands and fathers are given a raw deal only because their wives are terrible people and they made a bad judgment to marry.
I really can't believe they're getting rid of Atlantis when there's older ones still going. Just look at SG-1!
Yes, I know. Don't bother telling me.
We have actually elected people to small-time offices across the country. They've acted like they said they would, too. As for what will happen in the case of success at much higher levels, you don't know. All anyone could know is that the people who get elected now never do what they promise to do. Electing people from an unproven party is the only way to try something different without doing away with the current government, which at this point is far too much of a pain in the ass for too little reward.
As far as I know, it's really hard to fire government employees. As in, they can't get fired for being stupid or for not doing their job right. Basically the only thing they could get fired for would be committing a serious crime on the job or coming in drunk.
I blame Bush as much as I blame everyone else in charge. The only difference between the two major parties is how they talk before the election. Once in control, they both expand government power at the cost of the liberty of the citizens. After such a mediocre Republican president, as long as the Democrats don't fuck it up and send in another Al Gore, they'll have the presidency. Just watch and you'll see that they do the same stuff once they're in control. On a related note, if you want to end all of this, help the Libertarians. I do and I enjoy it.
Change to Libertarian. Libertarians love guns, money, and porn! I'm a Libertarian and it's a good party to work with, although I must say that in my state (NC), there's no chance of us doing a damned thing in the next 20 years.