Call me when they put together the particle consisting of 2 up quarks, 2 down quarks, a left quark, a right quark, a left quark, a right quark, a 'b' quark, an 'a' quark, a 'select' quark, and a 'start' quark.;)
if Biden hammers her too hard in the VP debates it could appear to some that he's picking on a woman and therefore create an image of someone who's cold and hard.
I dunno. I don't think someone as chatty as Biden can seem cold and hard. Those two traits go along with aloofness, which he doesn't seem to have.
Just when they think they've got it all figured out, the east side of West Town in the southern province of Lower Elbonia points out that there's an extra 2% sales tax for Items bought on Tuesday between 4:15 and 4:23 during mud season, but only if the buyer isn't wearing a purple hat. And, of course, that must be paid in person and in cash by a man wearing a flower pot on his head.
There are very good reasons for those restrictions!
During mud season, West Town has problems with roads maintenance. The extra 2% tax helps pay for that. The tax only applies on Tuesday because Tuesday is Extra Tax Day. Taxes on this day are used to pay transient or seasonal government expenses. The slot between 4:15 and 4:23 (in West Town) is reserved for the east side road maintenance division, and they've determined 2% is enough. That is, during Low Mud. High Mud comes every couple of years, though, then they up it to 3%.
BTW, the reason we divide up the days into slots like that is because we can't really pro-rate. The Lower Elbonia Central Governancy standardized on a crappy accounting package that only goes out to two decimal places, so we can do 2% (.02), but not 2.7% (.027). So, to keep everything in integers, we do slots. It's actually a very clever solution! Our best Elbonian savants came up with it.
You don't have to pay if you don't have a purple hat, but not just any purple hat. You don't have to pay if you are wearing a purple Exemption Hat. The purple Exemption Hat saves you from Extra Tax Day taxes. Purple Exemption Hats are given out in a sort of lottery, designed to aid lower income brackets. There are other Exemption Hats for other taxes; for example, the black Exemption Hat saves you from estate and death taxes, and is given to deserving widows.
You don't have to pay Extra Day Taxes in person, but because you usually have to work out specifics with the Tax Collector, because of all the slots and stuff, you'll usually want to pay in person.
The "flower pot" as you call it, is just recognized formal wear for seeing a government official. It's like a visitor's badge.
amazing how the corrupt congress and corrupt oligarch defense contractor/oil tycoon driven executive branch have done all these major projects recently without corruption (Iraq war, War on Terror....)
Is this some sort of sarcasm? Or have not you not actually heard the Halliburton stories?
Tabs mean I can view code with four space indenting, you can view the same code with two space and someone else can view it with eight space. Besides, a tab's whole purpose is indenting. And if you didn't use spaces, you wouldn't have problems.
Everyone uses spaces. But let's say you don't. Everyone else uses spaces, so other people's code still looks messed up. Tabs suck, that's all there is to it. Elastic tab-stops look like a solution, but not likely to see wide adoption.
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So, the significant whitespace conveys the information formerly within { and }.
There's more to it than that. It's like Python has personal space. Whenever another tool, or even another conceptual model impinges on its personal space, it gets cranky. Three examples:
First, in complex software environments, you sometimes need to edit, elide, or change source code on the fly to support special software distributions. This is error-prone when you have to care about tabs and spaces.
Second, XML and HTML. They don't acknowledge differences between spaces and tabs, or even the existence of consecutive white space. You put Python code in one of those formats, and you are guaranteed to receive errors of some kind or another. If you've ever used the STAX testing framework, you'll know this pain.
Alright, having just written a legal brief on the subject, I'll explain the legal rationale behind these rulings so that we can actually have an intelligent debate on this subject.
The Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures, only applies when a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy in the item or information searched or seized.
Here, the information about the person's location is what is being "seized." Thus, the way the debate is framed centers around the question: Does a person have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their location?
I was interested in why the Washington State Supreme Court decided the police need a warrant for GPS tracking. Their rationale might prove enlightening. Here's the decision. The key points are:
Advances in technology do not mean a person's expectation of privacy is diminished.
Police can look at private residences from a lawful vantage point, or by using flashlights and binoculars, but not using more intrusive devices such as thermal imagers. When the GPS device tracks a car onto private property, that isn't the same as a policeman using binocs. GPS is an intrusive technology because of the amount of data you can collect about a person.
How the police obtain information is relevant. While the police can't look into a private residence using advanced technology, that does not necessarily mean that, if you are on public property, the police can track you using advanced technology. That is, using this stuff to look at private property is sufficient but not necessary for privacy infringement.
If the police don't need a warrant, then that means you don't need to be a suspect for police to bug your car. That's a trespass on innocent peoples' privacy rights.
If we can't ameliorate the negative effects of climate change, then we're hosed. But, we should at least try instead of throwing our hands up and saying "oh, it's impossible, abandon the coasts and prepare for the famine years."
But my main point is the whole debate about global warming misses the point. Who cares why the Earth is warming up? The question is, how do we fix it? And that answer is going to be the same whether global warming is part of the natural cycle of the planet or whether it is a result of industrialization.
Even if any effort we make is doomed in the long run, we can at least buy time to leave the planet, or develop new types of crops, or engineer ourselves to handle new conditions.
Yeah, the midichlorians really threw the spirituality/mythology themes under the bus.
I kind of figured that midichlorians were an indicator of Force ability. Like how a magnetic field attracts iron particles, Force ability attracts midichlorians. But the Force can't be scanned, while midichlorians can.
It doesn't matter whether climate change is man-made or not. But there is climate change, and it is having effects we don't like, and must be ameliorated.
As somebody who has been looking to hire new candidates for my team I am struggling with this aspect because I am sick of people who let somebody else carve a career path for them. That's why I am not too worried about the numerous clones that are flocking into this country.
Did you miss the part where the GP said 100% of the C.S. students he talked to said their parents chose their field for them? Just because they've done all the work to get into the US in a techie field doesn't mean they have any real drive to be a techie.
You know any spearmen? Melee combatants in our armed forces? The only ones I can think of are special forces types. And they're actually more like ninja than spearmen.:)
"I got signals. I got readings, in front and behind." "Where, man? I don't see shit." "He's right. There's nothin' back here." "Look, I'm telling ya, there's somethin' movin' and it ain't us! Tracker's off scale, man. They're all around us, man. Jesus!"
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Does this mean it's actually turtles all the way IN?
They really need to come out of their shells.
*rimshot*
Call me when they put together the particle consisting of 2 up quarks, 2 down quarks, a left quark, a right quark, a left quark, a right quark, a 'b' quark, an 'a' quark, a 'select' quark, and a 'start' quark. ;)
It's the Cheat Code...of the Universe !
If only there were some sort of theory to string these things together sensibly!
My own thoughts on the subject keep looping back to gravity...
I dunno. I don't think someone as chatty as Biden can seem cold and hard. Those two traits go along with aloofness, which he doesn't seem to have.
There are very good reasons for those restrictions!
See? Perfectly sensible!
amazing how the corrupt congress and corrupt oligarch defense contractor/oil tycoon driven executive branch have done all these major projects recently without corruption (Iraq war, War on Terror....)
Is this some sort of sarcasm? Or have not you not actually heard the Halliburton stories?
A massive booby trap farm that releases at night.
"Hey, wanna go cow tipping over at Farmer Macready's?"
"Nah, man, you should come out with us to the spring farm! It's a blast!"
That's your prerogative, but I think you may have learned the wrong lesson here.
What's the right lesson?
unless there's a Bizarro Germany in the south that I'm not aware of.
They pilot Zeppelins and speak with a Turkish accent.
The proper solution is to smack the idiot developers, not hamstring the intelligent ones.
Intelligent developers can deal with not having operator overloading. Idiot developers can't deal with having it.
Tabs mean I can view code with four space indenting, you can view the same code with two space and someone else can view it with eight space. Besides, a tab's whole purpose is indenting. And if you didn't use spaces, you wouldn't have problems.
Everyone uses spaces. But let's say you don't. Everyone else uses spaces, so other people's code still looks messed up. Tabs suck, that's all there is to it. Elastic tab-stops look like a solution, but not likely to see wide adoption.
So, the significant whitespace conveys the information formerly within { and }.
There's more to it than that. It's like Python has personal space. Whenever another tool, or even another conceptual model impinges on its personal space, it gets cranky. Three examples:
First, in complex software environments, you sometimes need to edit, elide, or change source code on the fly to support special software distributions. This is error-prone when you have to care about tabs and spaces.
Second, XML and HTML. They don't acknowledge differences between spaces and tabs, or even the existence of consecutive white space. You put Python code in one of those formats, and you are guaranteed to receive errors of some kind or another. If you've ever used the STAX testing framework, you'll know this pain.
Third, copy & paste. You can't use it reliably.
Damn, wish I had mod points for that one!
This is all a set-up for the next Pixar movie
Does it have a happy ending?
"*sniff* Mommy, why did the satellite have to die?"
I was interested in why the Washington State Supreme Court decided the police need a warrant for GPS tracking. Their rationale might prove enlightening. Here's the decision. The key points are:
If we can't ameliorate the negative effects of climate change, then we're hosed. But, we should at least try instead of throwing our hands up and saying "oh, it's impossible, abandon the coasts and prepare for the famine years."
But my main point is the whole debate about global warming misses the point. Who cares why the Earth is warming up? The question is, how do we fix it? And that answer is going to be the same whether global warming is part of the natural cycle of the planet or whether it is a result of industrialization.
Even if any effort we make is doomed in the long run, we can at least buy time to leave the planet, or develop new types of crops, or engineer ourselves to handle new conditions.
Hey, I actually liked Howard the Duck, so screw you!
Yeah, the midichlorians really threw the spirituality/mythology themes under the bus.
I kind of figured that midichlorians were an indicator of Force ability. Like how a magnetic field attracts iron particles, Force ability attracts midichlorians. But the Force can't be scanned, while midichlorians can.
It doesn't matter whether climate change is man-made or not. But there is climate change, and it is having effects we don't like, and must be ameliorated.
When I was salaried, if I worked overtime, I took time off in lieu.
You can't just "take time off." You have to get manager approval. And sometimes they say "no."
Sure it can! It goes like this:
"Burn the witch! Burn her with fire!"
See? She's done. In fact, she's well-done.
As somebody who has been looking to hire new candidates for my team I am struggling with this aspect because I am sick of people who let somebody else carve a career path for them. That's why I am not too worried about the numerous clones that are flocking into this country.
Did you miss the part where the GP said 100% of the C.S. students he talked to said their parents chose their field for them? Just because they've done all the work to get into the US in a techie field doesn't mean they have any real drive to be a techie.
At least the spearmen will always be relevent.
You know any spearmen? Melee combatants in our armed forces? The only ones I can think of are special forces types. And they're actually more like ninja than spearmen. :)
Don't call her up. The guy was in violation of zoning laws but she's not pressing charges.
"I got signals. I got readings, in front and behind."
"Where, man? I don't see shit."
"He's right. There's nothin' back here."
"Look, I'm telling ya, there's somethin' movin' and it ain't us! Tracker's off scale, man. They're all around us, man. Jesus!"