Next time you go the DMV, a police station, etc. take a look at what software is running.
There's no way in hell that you're going to see "Oracle" in the DMV, Police Station or any other end-user location that accesses an Oracle DB behind one or more layers of software.
The whole book could orbit around having sex with children and as long as it contains some plot coherency and whatnot it could be a controversial bestseller
I read a quote some time ago about a similar issue. Here's it's essence: It's ok to write a crime novel book about raping/murdering a 12yo; after all, that's a crime and it's a crime novel. It's not ok to write book after book after book about raping/murdering 12 year olds; that's when people start thinking you're worse than a pervert.
Yeah, because every single man on earth is a shallow pig who values that roll in the hay more than a meaningful, long lasting relationship with an intellectual equal.
Read my comment again. Focus on make you (the guy) want to be with her longer.
That must be why there are so few 'geek' women, as the boys apparently go strait for the gut when a lady seems smarter than they. Sadly there doesn't seem to be much discussion about this that isn't sophomoric banter.
Guys insult guys on a regular and persistent basis, but they don't break down, cut their hair and transfer to Womyn's Studies. (Or whatever young women do who can't hack male-dominated domains.)
In fact, the more popular the item is, the more cash you'd get if you raise the taxes on it.
Economists call it "price inelasticity" when people keep on buying something in the face of steady but more than slow price increases. The canonical example is coffee.
The problem is that most things which are popular are also considered essential, and so you can't raise the taxes too high. Otherwise, you'll crush the poor even more than they already are.
I was visiting a friend in NW Arkansas back in the mid-90s and we went to a family chain restaurant that's apparently popular in Oklahoma through NY. The food was so bland as to be inedible.
Fear of lawsuits costs this economy *trillions* of dollars. The whole asbestos abatement fiasco, for example.
A few thousand men live in a man-made asbestos dust storm for decades and get cancer and win a huge lawsuit. Now, every speck of every type of asbestos, no matter where it is, is treated like god damned ebola.
Free speech is limited by those willing to defend the speech.
True enough, except a total misapplication to the current issue.
Amazon is a private enterprise and thus within broad limits gets to chose what it wants to sell. They aren't lobbying for a ban the nationwide selling of yaoi, or lead boycotts or go on Fox News or any of that kind of stuff.
all it takes is a natural curiosity and a willingness to spend a few minutes here and there learning
I am in full agreement with your whole post.
The problem is that most people (well, the vast majority of Americans, and probably UKers, too, and Asians for that matter, what with the "rice bowl" and "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down") are not naturally curious.
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it means you probably shouldn't be writing software that uses floating point.
Since I'm not a scientist or graphics programmer Floats are as damned useless and destructive as needing pointers to do string manipulations in C.
BCD should be the default data type for decimal arithmetic.
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Next time you go the DMV, a police station, etc. take a look at what software is running.
There's no way in hell that you're going to see "Oracle" in the DMV, Police Station or any other end-user location that accesses an Oracle DB behind one or more layers of software.
The whole book could orbit around having sex with children and as long as it contains some plot coherency and whatnot it could be a controversial bestseller
I read a quote some time ago about a similar issue. Here's it's essence: It's ok to write a crime novel book about raping/murdering a 12yo; after all, that's a crime and it's a crime novel. It's not ok to write book after book after book about raping/murdering 12 year olds; that's when people start thinking you're worse than a pervert.
But if I write a book about a serial-child-murderer/rapist that's okay. Why?
Is the book about murdering and raping children, or is it about solving the mystery of who the rapist-murderer is and how to catch him/her?
Yeah, because every single man on earth is a shallow pig who values that roll in the hay more than a meaningful, long lasting relationship with an intellectual equal.
Read my comment again. Focus on make you (the guy) want to be with her longer.
Or the standards of beauty include knowledge that the person in question is intelligent
That's a crock of shit.
What a female's intelligence does is make you (the guy) want to be with her longer than the time it takes to go a few rolls in the hay.
That must be why there are so few 'geek' women, as the boys apparently go strait for the gut when a lady seems smarter than they. Sadly there doesn't seem to be much discussion about this that isn't sophomoric banter.
Guys insult guys on a regular and persistent basis, but they don't break down, cut their hair and transfer to Womyn's Studies. (Or whatever young women do who can't hack male-dominated domains.)
And make the written form be Linux XI.
For games, you can't beat a rock and a stick.
As if that would fly in 2011... CFS would swoop in and take your kids from you.
When did it become fashionable to display such a stunted view of politics by saying that "liberals/conservatives say X".
I'm sure that such associations of speech with attitudes happened in Ancient Greece.
Try doing actual research before spitting out far right talking points.
Focusing only on the Federal Income Tax and ignoring all the state, regional, county and city taxes indicates pretty strongly that you're a Liberal.
In fact, the more popular the item is, the more cash you'd get if you raise the taxes on it.
Economists call it "price inelasticity" when people keep on buying something in the face of steady but more than slow price increases. The canonical example is coffee.
The problem is that most things which are popular are also considered essential, and so you can't raise the taxes too high. Otherwise, you'll crush the poor even more than they already are.
The Chinese have been hear a long fucking time.
The point is that it doesn't take 7 fscking generations to assimilate.
Fifth generation? Seventh generation???
That's, respectively, ~120 and ~170 years ago. Not even my Northern European ancestors had arrived that long ago...
Or Arkansas.
I was visiting a friend in NW Arkansas back in the mid-90s and we went to a family chain restaurant that's apparently popular in Oklahoma through NY. The food was so bland as to be inedible.
Fear of lawsuits costs this economy *trillions* of dollars. The whole asbestos abatement fiasco, for example.
A few thousand men live in a man-made asbestos dust storm for decades and get cancer and win a huge lawsuit. Now, every speck of every type of asbestos, no matter where it is, is treated like god damned ebola.
Free speech is limited by those willing to defend the speech.
True enough, except a total misapplication to the current issue.
Amazon is a private enterprise and thus within broad limits gets to chose what it wants to sell. They aren't lobbying for a ban the nationwide selling of yaoi, or lead boycotts or go on Fox News or any of that kind of stuff.
ideology????
Since when do I not get to decide what I want to not sell in my store?
Little Lorna + Uncle Bob seems an awful lot like M/f (i.e. KP and statutory rape) incest to me...
Same thing happens to me when I MMB-paste test into the edit box.
Hates it, I do.
Yet you still did it, and you are still covering for them. You're AC- cough up the name.
One word: lawyers.
all it takes is a natural curiosity and a willingness to spend a few minutes here and there learning
I am in full agreement with your whole post.
The problem is that most people (well, the vast majority of Americans, and probably UKers, too, and Asians for that matter, what with the "rice bowl" and "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down") are not naturally curious.
it means you probably shouldn't be writing software that uses floating point.
Since I'm not a scientist or graphics programmer Floats are as damned useless and destructive as needing pointers to do string manipulations in C.
BCD should be the default data type for decimal arithmetic.
OK, so what are us girls supposed to do?
Obviously the city *fathers* of Victoria want you to stay home cooking, cleaning and raising the kids.
3) Get a FISA warrant and install the exploit on some alleged spy's PC.
it's running on an Athlon 900
Why?
It's not old enough to be Retro, yet not fast enough to run a GUI is 2011.