Americans seem to be paranoid about ID cards (aka the old 'papers please' meme).
I'd say it was the Cold War. Maybe further back; trying to think whether the "Germans" asked for papers in WW2 movies.
Yet in most countries, ID cards are the accepted method of ID.
Speaking as a thru-and-thru American, I think it's because the US started as a place of freedom: live where you want to live, do what you want to do, move up in society if you can, as opposed to the Old World descended from serfdom, where you were tied to the land. Same with attitudes towards private gun ownership.
Yes, I know that serfdom was eliminated hundreds of years ago, but I'm thinking that "traditional" basic cultural and social attitudes don't change as quickly as people might think they do.
This card was made to fill a niche in the high end gamers market, pure and simple.
Or any other industry that needs huge uber-FPS, uber-high-def video. I'm thinking military, medical and "content creation" applications, but certainly there are others.
And CUDA apps would certainly scream on such a card...
So much worse than, say, dying painfully of cancer or...
Morphine, baby, is the Elixir of the Gods.
I've had a middle-aged Uncle and old Grandfather die of cancer, and an Grandmother die of old age, while suffering from severe arthritis and pulmonary shutdown.
Without morphine, their lives would have been intolerable.
Anyway, I never said I was desperate for sex.:)
Re-read what you wrote. (But I knew you were joking.)
Hair cuts, hair dyes, grow/remove beards, weight gain, colored contact lens, nose jobs, etc, etc.
I suppose we should all burn our passports and submit ourselves to chipping?
I was fingerprinted when applying for my passport.
Fingerprinting is not and never will be a valid form of identifying innocent civilians.
How incredibly shortsighted and naive are you????
Because my fingerprints are on file, if I am ever suspected of a "physical" crime in which the perpetrator left a fingerprint, I would be "unsuspected" (or at least dropped down the list) without even knowing that I were a suspect.
In this case, why do they insist on fingerprints to identify someone? Sure, they might want to know if the person they are holding already has a record. If not, though, then certainly they are creating a new record, right? So, gather retinal scans, voice prints, DNA samples, whatever. Those will suffice if captured after doing something in the future.
Every international airport would have to
install retinal scanners,
install voice print analyzers,
have hundreds of mouth swabs on hand,
install uber-speed DNA analyzers, (can they even do it in the minutes needed?)
train the users to do it properly,
upgrade all the computers to add the new data types, and
new programming to use the new data.
And the billions of dollars to implement it.
All for a tiny percentage of the population.
Not to mention the HOWLS OF RAGE from privacy groups, the ACLU, the EU, etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum.
Instead of knee-jerk reacting about how stupid the US government is, think about what you just wrote.
The original KKK was more or less a labor union that attempted to create a place for freed slaves so as they didn't disrupt the whites as they fit into society.
Being from the Deep South, I can tell you with certainty that the KKK was formed to bring Southern whites back into social power.
it seems easier to me to sell snake oil and useless consumer junk to spiritual people than to more secular individuals but that's just a hunch
Considering that most geeks think of themselves as secular, and have (or aspire to have) iPhones, iPods, Androids, Crackberries, multitools and just about the whole ThinkGeek inventory, I'd say that it's an invalid hunch.
That's why creationists asking for DIRECT evidence NOW are completely retarded
But science textbooks and "science media" and even many scientists make absolute claims of certainty NOW, which are equally retarded, since (depending on the branch, of course) much of what a 45yo scientist learned in college has been overturned by all the advances in the past 20 years.
Several animals, mostly humans have a natural repulsion to different looks.
But sex overrides that.
Which is why, in America at least, "back in the day", white men would have no compunction having sex with attractive black women, but got reeeeealy hostile at the thought of black men and white women.
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Yes, it does.
What part of "possible" don't you really understand?
Americans seem to be paranoid about ID cards (aka the old 'papers please' meme).
I'd say it was the Cold War. Maybe further back; trying to think whether the "Germans" asked for papers in WW2 movies.
Yet in most countries, ID cards are the accepted method of ID.
Speaking as a thru-and-thru American, I think it's because the US started as a place of freedom: live where you want to live, do what you want to do, move up in society if you can, as opposed to the Old World descended from serfdom, where you were tied to the land. Same with attitudes towards private gun ownership.
Yes, I know that serfdom was eliminated hundreds of years ago, but I'm thinking that "traditional" basic cultural and social attitudes don't change as quickly as people might think they do.
This card was made to fill a niche in the high end gamers market, pure and simple.
Or any other industry that needs huge uber-FPS, uber-high-def video. I'm thinking military, medical and "content creation" applications, but certainly there are others.
And CUDA apps would certainly scream on such a card...
Well, my response is "if I am innocent then why am I being treated like a criminal"?
But getting fingerprinted does not and never has treated you like a criminal. (I first got fingerprinted 30+ years ago for a passport.)
It in only about Authentication. Nothing more, nothing less.
So much worse than, say, dying painfully of cancer or...
Morphine, baby, is the Elixir of the Gods.
I've had a middle-aged Uncle and old Grandfather die of cancer, and an Grandmother die of old age, while suffering from severe arthritis and pulmonary shutdown.
Without morphine, their lives would have been intolerable.
Anyway, I never said I was desperate for sex. :)
Re-read what you wrote. (But I knew you were joking.)
So photographs are no longer valid?
Hair cuts, hair dyes, grow/remove beards, weight gain, colored contact lens, nose jobs, etc, etc.
I suppose we should all burn our passports and submit ourselves to chipping?
I was fingerprinted when applying for my passport.
Fingerprinting is not and never will be a valid form of identifying innocent civilians.
How incredibly shortsighted and naive are you????
Because my fingerprints are on file, if I am ever suspected of a "physical" crime in which the perpetrator left a fingerprint, I would be "unsuspected" (or at least dropped down the list) without even knowing that I were a suspect.
Obama's only been in office for 4 months and W for 8 years.
Who else could have come up with this plan?
Fingerprinting everyone who enters your country is ... turning your country into a police state
What kind of brainlessness is this which asserts that "making sure you are who you say you are" == "police state"?????
It is news because there was a single idiot working at that location and he couldn't be bothered to actually do any critical reasoning.
You mean the drones who said, "no fingerprints, no entry" and turned him away?
Or the responsible employees who checked out his story and then let him thru?
In this case, why do they insist on fingerprints to identify someone?
Sure, they might want to know if the person they are holding already has a record.
If not, though, then certainly they are creating a new record, right?
So, gather retinal scans, voice prints, DNA samples, whatever.
Those will suffice if captured after doing something in the future.
Every international airport would have to
And the billions of dollars to implement it.
All for a tiny percentage of the population.
Not to mention the HOWLS OF RAGE from privacy groups, the ACLU, the EU, etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum.
Instead of knee-jerk reacting about how stupid the US government is, think about what you just wrote.
I'm married, but not rich in any monetary sense.
[snip]
See? Geek.
So you are a married geek desperate for sex.
That's... sad.
The original KKK was more or less a labor union that attempted to create a place for freed slaves so as they didn't disrupt the whites as they fit into society.
Being from the Deep South, I can tell you with certainty that the KKK was formed to bring Southern whites back into social power.
I'd rather use the CLI in Windows, but IDEs seem a more natural fit on that platform.
Vi, gdb/dbx and strace should be all any unix/linux coder needs.
Which means that you don't use vim, make, a sccs, a profiler, ctags, or one of a dozen other tools.
never even bothered to mention that he's looking for an IDE for C++
Read more thoroughly.
I could be snide and say that's a symptom common to most Java programmers, but it would be too easy.
The efficiency that is gained by not having to move your project through 20 different tools manually?
What's the difference between activating "make" thru some keystrokes in the IDE, and Alt-tabbing to another window and typing "make"?
Its a lot more light weight than you give it credit for
Or do PCs have a lot more RAM?
what do others use for coding (and for Python coding in particular)
vim on Linux, and Idle on Windows.
it seems easier to me to sell snake oil and useless consumer junk to spiritual people than to more secular individuals but that's just a hunch
Considering that most geeks think of themselves as secular, and have (or aspire to have) iPhones, iPods, Androids, Crackberries, multitools and just about the whole ThinkGeek inventory, I'd say that it's an invalid hunch.
well, the person with access to the safe would know whether someone tried to tamper with it...
Unless he's playing golf or having a 3-martini lunch...
That's why creationists asking for DIRECT evidence NOW are completely retarded
But science textbooks and "science media" and even many scientists make absolute claims of certainty NOW, which are equally retarded, since (depending on the branch, of course) much of what a 45yo scientist learned in college has been overturned by all the advances in the past 20 years.
Several animals, mostly humans have a natural repulsion to different looks.
But sex overrides that.
Which is why, in America at least, "back in the day", white men would have no compunction having sex with attractive black women, but got reeeeealy hostile at the thought of black men and white women.
That's not really racism as much as ... and tribalism.
There's not a large mental jump from "he's not in our group; kill him" to "he's not in our group; he's inferior!".
Especially if the ones claiming superiority have some (flawed but) objective rationality: clothes, guns, steel, ships, books, etc.
Isn't that the short definition of Geek?
Unless you're married. Or rich...
Oh dude, you're not using Novell are you?
OpenVMS. Others in the DC use z/OS and that-which-was-AS/400.