Unionism has an excellent reputation among thinking people in the USA
IOW, people who think like you? Socialist "intellectuals" who give University education a bad name?
Also, as anyone knowledgeable about world economics realizes, those countries with the highest union participation also rank the highest in standard of living
The Scandinavian countries are small, ethnically and culturally uniform countries that have a strong tradition (probably enforced by the high latitudes and short growing season where you've got to work your ass off, or you die in the winter) for hard work and necessitated cooperation. It's *easy* to have a high standard of living in a place like that.
unionism is highly welcomed by the many in the US.
Says who?
(In case you think I'm blindly anti-Union, not true. My mother, staunch Republican and evangelical Christian, was shop steward at her Post Office for 20 years, and my sister (also Republican Christian) and cousins are also teachers, and therefore Union. But that also gives them, and therefore me, the ability to see the problems with American unionism.)
It's been a long time since I've been in the club scene.
Or is the 'dirty schoolgirl' scenario not 'fantasy paedophilia'?
No, it's not. "As a medical diagnosis, it is defined as a psychological disorder in which an adult experiences a sexual preference for prepubescent children".
The problem with CP or zoo is that they generally depict something that has happened in reality: that real children or animals have been abused in the making. If they're as fictional as a Hollywood movie or a fantasy in IRC somewhere, what's the problem?
You need to have it explained to you why fantasy pedophilia is a Bad Thing?
Unless we do the same, unless one thousand Jimmy Hoffa's take to the streets and act against the corporate overlords, everything is just so much B.S.
Besides the AC's excellent points regarding how easy it is to move programming job off-shore, labor unions have a bad reputation in the US, from mob infiltration, to the creation of the Union Mentality (I can't change that light bulb, it's the electrician's job.), stifling work rules that make it impossible to fire incompetent workers, and (before Right To Work) the political power to say to people, "you must join a Union in order to get a job".
What you need to do is find some Indian Jimmy Hoffas. Don't waste your time on Chinese Jimmy Hoffas...
I give out my passwords... and to other sites that require membership.
And if they're some-competent, they don't save the password, they save the hash key.
Honestly, checking someones email is about as morally wrong as reading their diary. Sure it's incredibly rude if you get caught but hardly in the realm of some evil raping of personal space.
How the hell did this get modded "+5, Insightful"? Sneaking into someones house and rifling thru their stuff is s a bit more than "incredibly rude". Are you in college, or something? Maybe work at McDonalds?
After I broke up with my ex he let it slip that he'd been checking up on me (I passed) but that piece of information destroyed a possible reconciliation. I viewed him as a liar, immature and untrusting - not a good basis for a relationship. I didn't care that he'd been burned in the past, it's NOT a reason, it's an excuse.
I know people who go watch movies about people getting killed. So not only have you violated somebodies privacy for absolutely no reason, you also do not understand the word 'fantasy'.
Following that same logic, looking a pedophilic and bestiality videos is "ok", because it's just fantasy.
Well i can understand their concerns over privacy - but having an open, readily accessibly law system is important in any democracy. Also, what about historians 100 years from now trying to reconstruct these records - it would be much more useful if people's role's in society were not just a bunch of initials.
It'll still be in the physical court records, and probably in the "internal" computerized documents.
But to soothe your mind, alter the standard to a 9 bit octet (yes I know what octet means, but I don't know the word for a grouping of 9) and choose to max at 0-511 instead.
If we still used 18- or 36-bit computers, then a 9-bit address would be reasonable.
But it just doesn't "fit" in 8-bit machines. You'd need a 16-bit word, and thus waste 7 bits.
by placing it on a base-10 boundary instead, it would require an arithmetic comparison vs a binary comparison.
As an embedded developer, such expense and waste should horrify you. That it doesn't, is disturbing.
I'd imagine that after making a direct reference to 2^10, it would have been obvious that I clearly do understand the importance of the value 255.
I did notice that. But it was mentioned off-hand after spending much time on a 3-decimal-digit address. Thus I inferred that you didn't really understand what you were writing.
So why not, expand the address space to support 0-999 values instead of just 0-255. Sure, 999 isn't a byte, but it's close enough to 2^10.
You seem to be of the belief that 0-255 is an arbitrary value, and that moving to 999 is simple because both 255 and 999 only take up 3 columns. That couldn't be further from the truth.
You mean like, maybe, let's not start drilling for oil off the Florida coast?
If drilling off the FL coast is bad, then drilling of the LA & TX coasts must also be bad. Let's save the oceans and shut down those oil/gas wells, too.
Of course, since a significant amount of hydrocarbons come from LA & TX, this means that:
the price of fuel will skyrocket, with the concomitant negative ripple effects thru the economy, and
we'll have to import more from authoritarian regimes where environmental laws are a joke.
But it's ok to pollute Venezuela, Russia and Saudi Arabia, because they aren't in our back yard...
But, it also encourages more logic in the database. If the logic were in the middle tier instead of in stored procedures, there wouldn't be a need to rewrite anything when switching database platforms.
No doubt. But, middleware tends to also be proprietary, leading to the same vendor lock-in that SPs do,
public humiliation, prison for life, torture, and mutilation seems far superior ways to make braking the law scarier.
Prison for life? The number of people who regularly commit crimes that are thusly punished is proof that life sentences aren't very scary.
You are, though, correct that public humiliation, torture and mutilation would scare off many young offenders. Drive drunk and get pilloried, having people throw rotten fruit at you in the town square.. Possession With Intent? Pilloried, naked and caned, naked, in the town square, etc... Rape someone, cut off the penis. Petty theft? Cut off some or all of a finger. Grand theft? Cut off a hand. The death penalty shouldn't be excluded. The more gruesome the method of killing, the more painful should be your execution.
And executions should be televised, split-screen with bloody pictures from the crime scene, and family pics of the murdered.
DB specific functions can cause a similar amount of grief. Like porting SQL Server code to Oracle, then getting errors when trying to use a GETDATE() function.
This is where SPs can make your code more portable by creating a compatibility layer that does A on Oracle, and B on MSSQL.
My linux (ubuntu 8.04) on a Thinkpad will fail to resume out of a suspend about 10% of the time, forcing a reboot. With 7.10, it failed about 50% of the time.... Hopefully 8.10 will fix things
It's gone from a 50% failure rate to a 10% failure rate in six months. That's nothing to sneeze at.
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as the devil is in the details, and generally not in power point presentations.
That's the most salient point ever made on Slashdot...
Unionism has an excellent reputation among thinking people in the USA
IOW, people who think like you? Socialist "intellectuals" who give University education a bad name?
Also, as anyone knowledgeable about world economics realizes, those countries with the highest union participation also rank the highest in standard of living
The Scandinavian countries are small, ethnically and culturally uniform countries that have a strong tradition (probably enforced by the high latitudes and short growing season where you've got to work your ass off, or you die in the winter) for hard work and necessitated cooperation. It's *easy* to have a high standard of living in a place like that.
unionism is highly welcomed by the many in the US.
Says who?
(In case you think I'm blindly anti-Union, not true. My mother, staunch Republican and evangelical Christian, was shop steward at her Post Office for 20 years, and my sister (also Republican Christian) and cousins are also teachers, and therefore Union. But that also gives them, and therefore me, the ability to see the problems with American unionism.)
If you are dumb enough to fall for one of the oldest fraud methods in existence, you deserve to lose you money, but not your freedom.
The "mark" knows that what he's doing is illegal, because usually the fraudster plainly states that it's not his money.
So, the the "mark" is guilty of attempted fraud.
popular 'School Disco' club nights.
It's been a long time since I've been in the club scene.
Or is the 'dirty schoolgirl' scenario not 'fantasy paedophilia'?
No, it's not. "As a medical diagnosis, it is defined as a psychological disorder in which an adult experiences a sexual preference for prepubescent children".
Speaking as someone who regularly commits fantasy genocide for fun: yes.
No one on this list is that big an idiot. You must be a troll.
The problem with CP or zoo is that they generally depict something that has happened in reality: that real children or animals have been abused in the making. If they're as fictional as a Hollywood movie or a fantasy in IRC somewhere, what's the problem?
You need to have it explained to you why fantasy pedophilia is a Bad Thing?
As long as there were no kids or animals harmed
But that wasn't your original argument. It was the ability to separate fantasy from reality.
Unless we do the same, unless one thousand Jimmy Hoffa's take to the streets and act against the corporate overlords, everything is just so much B.S.
Besides the AC's excellent points regarding how easy it is to move programming job off-shore, labor unions have a bad reputation in the US, from mob infiltration, to the creation of the Union Mentality (I can't change that light bulb, it's the electrician's job.), stifling work rules that make it impossible to fire incompetent workers, and (before Right To Work) the political power to say to people, "you must join a Union in order to get a job".
What you need to do is find some Indian Jimmy Hoffas. Don't waste your time on Chinese Jimmy Hoffas...
I give out my passwords ... and to other sites that require membership.
And if they're some-competent, they don't save the password, they save the hash key.
Honestly, checking someones email is about as morally wrong as reading their diary. Sure it's incredibly rude if you get caught but hardly in the realm of some evil raping of personal space.
How the hell did this get modded "+5, Insightful"? Sneaking into someones house and rifling thru their stuff is s a bit more than "incredibly rude". Are you in college, or something? Maybe work at McDonalds?
After I broke up with my ex he let it slip that he'd been checking up on me (I passed) but that piece of information destroyed a possible reconciliation. I viewed him as a liar, immature and untrusting - not a good basis for a relationship. I didn't care that he'd been burned in the past, it's NOT a reason, it's an excuse.
Sure it is. Trust, but verify.
Amazingly, she stayed with him two more years.
I know people who go watch movies about people getting killed. So not only have you violated somebodies privacy for absolutely no reason, you also do not understand the word 'fantasy'.
Following that same logic, looking a pedophilic and bestiality videos is "ok", because it's just fantasy.
Oh no, too much information.
Yes, absolutely. Too much of a good thing is always injurious.
Well i can understand their concerns over privacy - but having an open, readily accessibly law system is important in any democracy. Also, what about historians 100 years from now trying to reconstruct these records - it would be much more useful if people's role's in society were not just a bunch of initials.
It'll still be in the physical court records, and probably in the "internal" computerized documents.
But to soothe your mind, alter the standard to a 9 bit octet (yes I know what octet means, but I don't know the word for a grouping of 9) and choose to max at 0-511 instead.
If we still used 18- or 36-bit computers, then a 9-bit address would be reasonable.
But it just doesn't "fit" in 8-bit machines. You'd need a 16-bit word, and thus waste 7 bits.
by placing it on a base-10 boundary instead, it would require an arithmetic comparison vs a binary comparison.
As an embedded developer, such expense and waste should horrify you. That it doesn't, is disturbing.
I'd imagine that after making a direct reference to 2^10, it would have been obvious that I clearly do understand the importance of the value 255.
I did notice that. But it was mentioned off-hand after spending much time on a 3-decimal-digit address. Thus I inferred that you didn't really understand what you were writing.
So why not, expand the address space to support 0-999 values instead of just 0-255. Sure, 999 isn't a byte, but it's close enough to 2^10.
You seem to be of the belief that 0-255 is an arbitrary value, and that moving to 999 is simple because both 255 and 999 only take up 3 columns. That couldn't be further from the truth.
the puritanical mindset of Americans
Since when has left-wing do-gooder Seattle been associated with Puritanism?
You mean like, maybe, let's not start drilling for oil off the Florida coast?
If drilling off the FL coast is bad, then drilling of the LA & TX coasts must also be bad. Let's save the oceans and shut down those oil/gas wells, too.
Of course, since a significant amount of hydrocarbons come from LA & TX, this means that:
But it's ok to pollute Venezuela, Russia and Saudi Arabia, because they aren't in our back yard...
But, it also encourages more logic in the database. If the logic were in the middle tier instead of in stored procedures, there wouldn't be a need to rewrite anything when switching database platforms.
No doubt. But, middleware tends to also be proprietary, leading to the same vendor lock-in that SPs do,
public humiliation, prison for life, torture, and mutilation seems far superior ways to make braking the law scarier.
Prison for life? The number of people who regularly commit crimes that are thusly punished is proof that life sentences aren't very scary.
You are, though, correct that public humiliation, torture and mutilation would scare off many young offenders. Drive drunk and get pilloried, having people throw rotten fruit at you in the town square.. Possession With Intent? Pilloried, naked and caned, naked, in the town square, etc... Rape someone, cut off the penis. Petty theft? Cut off some or all of a finger. Grand theft? Cut off a hand. The death penalty shouldn't be excluded. The more gruesome the method of killing, the more painful should be your execution.
And executions should be televised, split-screen with bloody pictures from the crime scene, and family pics of the murdered.
you'll never see people eat as much large quantities of food as they. It's insane how much vegans eat.
Not really, when you remember that any herbivore has to eat a lot of plant matter. And they crap at lot, too. And generate lots of methane.
Vegetarianism is bad for the environment!!!!!!
Mushrooms are yuk..
Button mushrooms are just about tasteless. It's impossible for them to be yuck.
DB specific functions can cause a similar amount of grief. Like porting SQL Server code to Oracle, then getting errors when trying to use a GETDATE() function.
This is where SPs can make your code more portable by creating a compatibility layer that does A on Oracle, and B on MSSQL.
countering the GP's point about crashes in Linux being predictable and reproducible.
I know. Linux is just better at having reproducible errors.
Given the ROCs forgiven and humanetarian
Geography lesson: The ROC is on that tiny island which the ChiComs have aimed lots of missiles at.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Republic_of_China
My linux (ubuntu 8.04) on a Thinkpad will fail to resume out of a suspend about 10% of the time, forcing a reboot. With 7.10, it failed about 50% of the time. ... Hopefully 8.10 will fix things
It's gone from a 50% failure rate to a 10% failure rate in six months. That's nothing to sneeze at.
Maybe 8.10 will only have a 1% failure rate...