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  1. Re: Perl? on Goodbye, World? 5 Languages That Might Not Be Long For This World · · Score: 1

    The problem with "a traditional interpreter in C" is that Perl6 code can change how it's parsed.
    Which means that the easiest language to date with which to write a parser for Perl6, is Perl6.

    Which is why the Rakudo implementation is written mostly in Perl6 and NQP (Not Quite Perl).

    Speaking of C level stuff there is a new VM designed specifically for the Rakudo implementation of Perl6, MoarVM.
    You can also run Rakudo on the JVM.

  2. Thats why I left Chritianity on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    I have seen many of these things that Christian have vastly different views than other Christians. I also didn't really buy into the stories told to me in Sunday School, so I was a little protected from the belief system.

    Thats not to say that I don't view Jesus as a good historical figure, I do, but in the same way I view Budda, Muhammad, Confucius, Martin Luther King Jr., and Ghandi.

    That said, I am planning on becoming a Buddist, but just because he created a simple, good, moral framework, and Buddism supports education and the dispersment of knowledge.

  3. Headline: new DNF virus infects brains on The Future of Windows Graphic Technology · · Score: 1

    Pranksters have loaded viruses into the heads of major corporations and made them take a pay cut.
    The Interesting thing is that nobody cares.

  4. Communism forced on Europe was the problem... on Open Source Methods Useful Way Beyond Software · · Score: 1
    ... not communism itself. This is something most people don't understand. Mostly because its easier to say that communism is wrong, than to say the way it was implemented was wrong.

    I personally have the same problem with the Christian Right trying to force their system upon us. I mean have you actually read in the Bible the Ten Commandments. The tenth commandment says:
    do not covet thy neighbors house, wife, slaves, cattle, donkeys, other possesions.
    So does this mean that his house is more important than his wife, and his slaves?
    I generally think that we should to be open minded about all ideas, but some ideas we have found to be immoral even though they are in the Bible.

    Actually Communism might have actually worked if it was implemented with actual Domocracy as its backbone. With everyone able to be in a position of authority if they wanted it, not just those that are loyal believers in The Party. Isn't it interesting that the Republicans right now are trying to take complete control of the country, sort of the way Communists took control of other countries...

    I will just let you ponder on that for a while.
  5. Odd Floor plan on Space Elevator Update · · Score: 1

    I find it interesting that they have you take the elevater, just to make you walk down a flight of stairs. I would want to talk to the person that thought up that floor plan. I mean did the even think about handicapped people, I don't think so. Then again they rarely have any customers, I wonder if it has anything to do with that.

  6. Re:Flamebait, my ass! on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 1

    The Idea wasn't for all countries to have the same minimum wage, but for all countries to have a minimum wage. I was simply using the phrase he used to talk about his idea.

    But I guess that you didn't get to hear his Idea from his own mouth because you don't live in one of those early Caucus/Primary states.

    I should have been a little more clear on what he meant but that wasn't what the post was about

    I still think it would be a good thing to try and prop up the poorer people of other countries. Actually as far as that goes I think the minimum wage of this country should raise automatically every year, perhaps at the rate of inflation, just like Senator's and Congressmen's pay increase automatically.

    P.S
    Thank you for your Input

  7. Re:Flamebait, my ass! on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 1

    We're not all sheep, I for one at the Iowa Caucus wanted John Edwards to be the Dem Presidential Candidate. Sure it was because of a pretty girl, but he was at least on my list of possibles.

    my list:
    * Gephardt : international minimum wage
    * Edwards : well I just like him
    * Clark : he was interesting


    Kerry was lower on the list than either of them.

    There was a debate on the "News Hour" of what happened, they thought that Gephardt might have won. The problem was that he knew he had to get out of the Caucus in at least 3rd place to have a snowballs chance of winning. And Dean was even a far 3rd place, so he was a goner.

    If Wesley Clark had participated, starting in January, he might have been the Dem Candidate. And he was a general, so he might have won.

    There is also a posibility that Edwards may have won if he was the candidate.

    So the people you should be angry at it should be the people who went for Kerry during the Caucus. Here in Waverly IA Ward 5 there was 2 Kerry for every 1 Edwards

    P.S.
    Although I am a Dem, I also voted for Grassley, because he is not one of the bad Republicans. Sure he is a little misguided, but the Dem Small was a place holder more than anything, that the Dem's gave almost no money to.