"Many people consider driving almost like a sport. It's a very intimate, hands-on affair, and these people would rather accept the risks that come with it than have the experience "dumbed down" for safety."
Great, fine. Let them intimately control their cars somewhere where they can't hit me.
Once you're on the road, your personal preferences DON'T MATTER. If something makes driving safer (without significantly limiting speed) then it MUST be done. You don't like it? Well, tough.
I had a molar extraction without anesthesia when I was a kid. The doctor injected several doses of novocaine but without any effect.
So the doctor had to extract tooth with me fully conscious and two nurses holding my hands:) It was not that bad, just about 10 seconds of blinding pain.
"I was awake for the "tooth extraction" which translates to the most horrific medieval hammer and fscking chisel, and horrible horrible sounds and pressures you do not want to remember."
Try tooth extraction without anesthesia someday. Now that's an experience (yes, I know it firsthand).
Don't forget numerical algorithms for calculus problems (integration, solving of differential equations, etc.). Their implementation them can give you a lot of practical skills.
You might notice, that China right now doesn't do any innovation-heavy jobs. They basically specialize on manufacturing and assembly.
Of course, China tries to fix this. By providing free higher education and sponsoring (welfare!) bright students (including study at foreign universities).
Also, corporate taxes in Europe are way higher than in the USA.
The flaws described by the grandparent are, basically, nonexisting right now.
First of all, you can write GUI frontends for text applications to use bi-directional input/output, pipes fully support it. And you can pass complex structures using this IO.
The classic example here is gdb - frontends for it use a rich protocol over pipes/sockets.
Moreover, right now a lot of services use D-BUS which is built around complex structured messages. For example, NetworkManager applet (which is used in most Linuxes) has a D-BUS backend and a GUI front-end.
And I have a different opinion about themes, but I'm too lazy to write about it.
"The other classic vice of the Unix/Linux world is the one-way GUI. Input is graphical, but output is in a text window, because the GUI is wallpaper over some text-oriented application. This comes from a design flaw of UNIX - when you run a subprocess, you can pass in a list of arguments, but all you get back is an exit status and maybe a text stream. "exit" should have had "argc" and "argv" parameters via which the subprogram could return structured results to the caller. "
From what century are you writing this? 18-th or maybe 19-th, I wager?
"Which Afghanistan are we talking about? The current one or the one in which the USSR invaded a country to try to add it to their atheistic empire?"
The one which was always under the brain-dead variant of Islam.
"How about the Khmer Rouge who slaughtered a sizeable portion of their own population to follow a green atheist philosophy?"
They were not atheists. In fact, they probably believed nothing, thinking that men are worse than animals.
"It's not good to lump all religions together - all of the religious conflicts in the world right now involve Islam against some other religion (Hindus, Christians, whatever)."
And Christian vs. Christian (Ireland, anyone?), Christian vs. gays (see Uganda), etc.
What I don't see is atheist fundamentals destroying churches and/or killing people in the name of non-God.
"A brand of communism drenched in atheism that believed there would be no end to turmoil until religion was extinct..."/me looks at Israel and Palestine, Iran and USA, Afghanistan, India and Pakistan.
"Most sad thing about it was that they had camps where they trained 5-6 year old boys to exercise physically and to mentally think without fear of enemy, while learning military tactics and strategies."
[citation needed]
USSR was not nice. But creating zombies? It's just a fantasy. This video might have been taken in Afghanistan or Chechnya, if it's real at all.
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"Many people consider driving almost like a sport. It's a very intimate, hands-on affair, and these people would rather accept the risks that come with it than have the experience "dumbed down" for safety."
Great, fine. Let them intimately control their cars somewhere where they can't hit me.
Once you're on the road, your personal preferences DON'T MATTER. If something makes driving safer (without significantly limiting speed) then it MUST be done. You don't like it? Well, tough.
I had a molar extraction without anesthesia when I was a kid. The doctor injected several doses of novocaine but without any effect.
So the doctor had to extract tooth with me fully conscious and two nurses holding my hands :) It was not that bad, just about 10 seconds of blinding pain.
"I was awake for the "tooth extraction" which translates to the most horrific medieval hammer and fscking chisel, and horrible horrible sounds and pressures you do not want to remember."
Try tooth extraction without anesthesia someday. Now that's an experience (yes, I know it firsthand).
Yes, I meant the first-hand knowledge of quirks of floating point math and importance of numeric stability.
No.
Model which is used to predict the time when IPv4 addresses run out is actually quite good. See here: http://www.inetcore.com/project/ipv4ec/index_en.html
Don't forget numerical algorithms for calculus problems (integration, solving of differential equations, etc.). Their implementation them can give you a lot of practical skills.
It sounds threateningly close to 'nazis'.
Yours truly,
Captain Obvious.
It's fairly easy to emigrate to UK if you have at least a masters degree (you'll automatically get a Tier 1 visa).
It's a bit more complex with Germany, but it doable.
Thailand has very lax immigration laws, so it's even more easier.
You might notice, that China right now doesn't do any innovation-heavy jobs. They basically specialize on manufacturing and assembly.
Of course, China tries to fix this. By providing free higher education and sponsoring (welfare!) bright students (including study at foreign universities).
Also, corporate taxes in Europe are way higher than in the USA.
Or even better, move to another country with friendlier laws and culture. For example: Germany, UK, Finland, or even Thailand.
"At the most basic, it is a difference between voluntarily sharing the information versus involuntarily having it collected."
Do you voluntary provide information about you to LexisNexis ?
Thought so.
"Wow. That sounds like the Soviet Union never really ended. Is there so much snow that they can't use a plow and shove it up on the sidewalk?"
No, not possible. The snow will quickly accumulate.
The flaws described by the grandparent are, basically, nonexisting right now.
First of all, you can write GUI frontends for text applications to use bi-directional input/output, pipes fully support it. And you can pass complex structures using this IO.
The classic example here is gdb - frontends for it use a rich protocol over pipes/sockets.
Moreover, right now a lot of services use D-BUS which is built around complex structured messages. For example, NetworkManager applet (which is used in most Linuxes) has a D-BUS backend and a GUI front-end.
And I have a different opinion about themes, but I'm too lazy to write about it.
"The other classic vice of the Unix/Linux world is the one-way GUI. Input is graphical, but output is in a text window, because the GUI is wallpaper over some text-oriented application. This comes from a design flaw of UNIX - when you run a subprocess, you can pass in a list of arguments, but all you get back is an exit status and maybe a text stream. "exit" should have had "argc" and "argv" parameters via which the subprogram could return structured results to the caller. "
From what century are you writing this? 18-th or maybe 19-th, I wager?
"Which Afghanistan are we talking about? The current one or the one in which the USSR invaded a country to try to add it to their atheistic empire?"
The one which was always under the brain-dead variant of Islam.
"How about the Khmer Rouge who slaughtered a sizeable portion of their own population to follow a green atheist philosophy?"
They were not atheists. In fact, they probably believed nothing, thinking that men are worse than animals.
"It's not good to lump all religions together - all of the religious conflicts in the world right now involve Islam against some other religion (Hindus, Christians, whatever)."
And Christian vs. Christian (Ireland, anyone?), Christian vs. gays (see Uganda), etc.
What I don't see is atheist fundamentals destroying churches and/or killing people in the name of non-God.
How many people get regularly drunk on homebrew?
Yep.
Yep. I routinely see tech news before they reach the Slashdot.
However, the strength of Slashdot is not the fast news reporting. It's the community, I enjoy reading discussions far more than reading TFAs.
I'm glad I'd dodged that one :)
"the problem is not religion, it is extremism"
Nope. It's religion. Every religion breeds extremism. So the blame's well placed.
"A brand of communism drenched in atheism that believed there would be no end to turmoil until religion was extinct..." /me looks at Israel and Palestine, Iran and USA, Afghanistan, India and Pakistan.
Yep. Seems that communists were right.
Hm.
I can't remember the last time I've seen a door-to-door atheist preacher. However, Jehovah Witnesses bother me about every other week.
So, again, wrong.
"Most sad thing about it was that they had camps where they trained 5-6 year old boys to exercise physically and to mentally think without fear of enemy, while learning military tactics and strategies."
[citation needed]
USSR was not nice. But creating zombies? It's just a fantasy. This video might have been taken in Afghanistan or Chechnya, if it's real at all.
As usual - beam data to a satellite and then send to Earth,
Yes, that's why I like it :)