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Except java is being used in the mission critical Real Time software thats actually running the rovers.
The OP was talking about Java on the actualy rover... Not as some utility app for plotting courses that can be programmed in any language since well you can just reboot the pc on earth.
"If the idiots in the theatre trample each other in a mad rush from a fire that doesn't even exist, it was their own stupidity and lack of clearheadedness that killed them, not the person shouting fire. If your reaction to the mere threat of danger is to hurt others, you are the culprit. "
We live in a society, we do not expect someone to lie to us and tell us there is a fire when there is not. If people could go around lying willy nilly our civilization would break down, hence the reason we have ethics.
If you truly believe in these true freedom of SPEECH, then you wouldn't mind someone releasing snake oil saying that it will cure AIDS when it really gives you a bacterial infection. Obviously its the stupid gullible peoples fault for buying that stuff right? NO, when people have their lives endangered they resort to irrational behavior. In the early 1900's radiation was considered a miracle cure for everything, lots of things were released such as irradiated water, radiation pills, xray devices that overexposed you to radiation. Of course in hindsight you obviously realize this was extremely silly, however you should realise people at the time did not know these things. However many people died from these. One extreme case being radium libido pills, people used them until one guy took around 1500 and his jaw dropped off.
You can not go and say "Ohh too bad its their own fault for not looking for smoke" because in a situation like that the fire could very well be in the outside, wtf are you going to do say "Ahh no smoke in here, ill just stay, heh heh stupid douchebag people not looking for smoke" And then get burned.
Society is built upon the conditions that we should be able to trust each other, thats also why Libel and Slander are not legally protected under free speech. Or why medical companies have to report to the FDA.
You being sick and tired means nothing, again as I said freedom of speech does not mean you are literally allowed to say whatever you want. Instead it implies that you have a freedom to ideas and the expression of those ideas without the interference of the government. Certain things however are NOT allowed to be spoken such as FIRE in a theater or Slander.
Somehow i highly doubt we wouldn't also survive even if we stopped trading with every other country in this world. We produce more then enough food for ourselves.
I mean thats all that matters in life right? surviving?
Largely untouched? Don't make me laugh here. Where do you think the 300million of chinas "middle class" would go? They are supported by western money for the most part, who would they sell their spiffy stuff to? Farmers? HAH! Nono China would have an even bigger chrisis then the US or any other nation for that matter.
"Your electoral system ensures that it stays that way -- only two major parties, and those two competing for the same core of voters, which mean the two parties won't be all that much different."
So care to explain how the hell that happens?
Mind you the electoral college was put in their for a reason, to prevent complete imbeciles being voted in by the public. Mind you also Bush is not a complete imbecil.
How about Chinese Language Website + Anti US Statements + Article about US and China relationship = Support for China?
It's not like this article was about brazil and devnull was just being a complete bigot, nooooo.
"You need to read more history too. Germany was no longer a democracy by the time war broke out."
Ahh well then, the US is no longer a democracy after 9/11 either judging by many posts... So of course we aren't responsible for the actions of our government anymore!
Just like how the Chinese people shouldn't be responsible for their government, or maybe how the Japanese people shouldn't be responsible for crimes comitted during WW2... OHH WAIT DAMN AFAIK They were protesting just that in China recently against the Japanese.
Or maybe German generals shouldn't have been held responsible for the crimes comitted during WW2 either? Because you know, it wasn't a democracy anymore... Ohh wait they were, the Nuremberg trials. Heck if they didn't feel responsible they wouldn't have tried to assasinate Hitler from 1938-1944.
"Being a proud American, thus, means either being ignorant of history, or swallowing some of the simpler ideas about fairness, humanity, and democratic freedom."
That's a bit black and white don't you think?
Maybe Im crazy, but maybe someone can understand what has happened in our history and still be proud of what our nation has accomplished despite the circumstances that we have had to go through as a nation... Maybe...
Nationalism was born in the late 1700s, now it looks like its dying because people can only see whats wrong with something, and not whats good.
HOWEVER the reporters who published the information should not be, once information is put into the public domain the government has no right to stop it, even under the disguise of national security.
Go for the IDE, its all a tool used to get work done. You don't want to spend time learning little technicalities of compiling something when you could actually be programming usefull code.
"Don't just make patents lighter (like 2-3 years validity) or reduce the effect of patent trolls or make areform to reduce bad patents which are obvious and have lots of prior art. No. Don't even think about it."
IM SURE THEY NEVER THOUGHT IT OF Mr guy who drives a 4x4 SUV...
No obviously they never thought about these things becuase you said so!
Your light hearted attempts at sarcastic elitist humor are what is wrong with the world... God damn post modernists...
Who cares about what happens to the American economy. The important question is what do you think would happen to the Chinese economy? Who would they sell all those goods to? BTW you can't sell stuff to people who don't have money.
demanding that the US paid its debt to China. Demands require force, The US is the most powerful nation on this planet for now and the foreesable future.
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Except java is being used in the mission critical Real Time software thats actually running the rovers.
The OP was talking about Java on the actualy rover... Not as some utility app for plotting courses that can be programmed in any language since well you can just reboot the pc on earth.
So yes it did make me Laugh Out Loud.
No not embarassing at all, those poor people are lazy bastards. Pretty simple eh?
lol java on the mars rovers...
lol!
O RLY?
Thank you captain obvious!
Ethics and MicroEconomics.
Those are the two musts imo.
That's called a rocket.
"If the idiots in the theatre trample each other in a mad rush from a fire that doesn't even exist, it was their own stupidity and lack of clearheadedness that killed them, not the person shouting fire. If your reaction to the mere threat of danger is to hurt others, you are the culprit. "
We live in a society, we do not expect someone to lie to us and tell us there is a fire when there is not. If people could go around lying willy nilly our civilization would break down, hence the reason we have ethics.
If you truly believe in these true freedom of SPEECH, then you wouldn't mind someone releasing snake oil saying that it will cure AIDS when it really gives you a bacterial infection. Obviously its the stupid gullible peoples fault for buying that stuff right? NO, when people have their lives endangered they resort to irrational behavior. In the early 1900's radiation was considered a miracle cure for everything, lots of things were released such as irradiated water, radiation pills, xray devices that overexposed you to radiation. Of course in hindsight you obviously realize this was extremely silly, however you should realise people at the time did not know these things. However many people died from these. One extreme case being radium libido pills, people used them until one guy took around 1500 and his jaw dropped off.
You can not go and say "Ohh too bad its their own fault for not looking for smoke" because in a situation like that the fire could very well be in the outside, wtf are you going to do say "Ahh no smoke in here, ill just stay, heh heh stupid douchebag people not looking for smoke" And then get burned.
Society is built upon the conditions that we should be able to trust each other, thats also why Libel and Slander are not legally protected under free speech. Or why medical companies have to report to the FDA.
You being sick and tired means nothing, again as I said freedom of speech does not mean you are literally allowed to say whatever you want. Instead it implies that you have a freedom to ideas and the expression of those ideas without the interference of the government. Certain things however are NOT allowed to be spoken such as FIRE in a theater or Slander.
Somehow i highly doubt we wouldn't also survive even if we stopped trading with every other country in this world. We produce more then enough food for ourselves.
I mean thats all that matters in life right? surviving?
Largely untouched? Don't make me laugh here. Where do you think the 300million of chinas "middle class" would go? They are supported by western money for the most part, who would they sell their spiffy stuff to? Farmers? HAH! Nono China would have an even bigger chrisis then the US or any other nation for that matter.
"Your electoral system ensures that it stays that way -- only two major parties, and those two competing for the same core of voters, which mean the two parties won't be all that much different."
So care to explain how the hell that happens?
Mind you the electoral college was put in their for a reason, to prevent complete imbeciles being voted in by the public. Mind you also Bush is not a complete imbecil.
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Freedom of speech never ment freedom to say whatever the hell you want.
Freedom of speech means you are free to believe in ideas and that those ideas can freely flow through society unimpeded by the government.
It does NOT mean you can yell fire in a crowded room. IT DOES mean you can believe the government is a piece of shit and express that idea.
How about
Chinese Language Website + Anti US Statements + Article about US and China relationship = Support for China?
It's not like this article was about brazil and devnull was just being a complete bigot, nooooo.
"You need to read more history too. Germany was no longer a democracy by the time war broke out."
Ahh well then, the US is no longer a democracy after 9/11 either judging by many posts... So of course we aren't responsible for the actions of our government anymore!
Just like how the Chinese people shouldn't be responsible for their government, or maybe how the Japanese people shouldn't be responsible for crimes comitted during WW2... OHH WAIT DAMN AFAIK They were protesting just that in China recently against the Japanese.
Or maybe German generals shouldn't have been held responsible for the crimes comitted during WW2 either? Because you know, it wasn't a democracy anymore... Ohh wait they were, the Nuremberg trials. Heck if they didn't feel responsible they wouldn't have tried to assasinate Hitler from 1938-1944.
"Being a proud American, thus, means either being ignorant of history, or swallowing some of the simpler ideas about fairness, humanity, and democratic freedom."
That's a bit black and white don't you think?
Maybe Im crazy, but maybe someone can understand what has happened in our history and still be proud of what our nation has accomplished despite the circumstances that we have had to go through as a nation... Maybe...
Nationalism was born in the late 1700s, now it looks like its dying because people can only see whats wrong with something, and not whats good.
damn, might as well throw all those German citizens in the jail house then eh? After all you DO hold THEM responsible for WW2?
"But the O.P. did not make any statement of support for the Chinese government. Did he?"
Again it's called READING BETWEEN THE LINES, learn about it sometime
YOU THE LEAKER would be jailed sure.
HOWEVER the reporters who published the information should not be, once information is put into the public domain the government has no right to stop it, even under the disguise of national security.
Freedom of speech never ment freedom to say whatever the hell you want.
Freedom of speech means you are free to believe in ideas and that those ideas can freely flow through society unimpeded by the government.
It does NOT mean you can yell fire in a crowded room. IT DOES mean you can believe the government is a piece of shit and express that idea.
Aaaah, yes, if you're not with us, you're against us.
Where have I heard that before?
If I had a cookie ever time I heard that quote! I would be FAT!
It's called reading between the lines...
I'll enlighten you here: having a nick called suv4x4 doesn't mean I actually drive a 4x4 SUV
O RLY?
Go for the IDE, its all a tool used to get work done. You don't want to spend time learning little technicalities of compiling something when you could actually be programming usefull code.
You are replacable.
The really useful guys are hard to replace.
"Don't just make patents lighter (like 2-3 years validity) or reduce the effect of patent trolls or make areform to reduce bad patents which are obvious and have lots of prior art. No. Don't even think about it."
IM SURE THEY NEVER THOUGHT IT OF Mr guy who drives a 4x4 SUV...
No obviously they never thought about these things becuase you said so!
Your light hearted attempts at sarcastic elitist humor are what is wrong with the world... God damn post modernists...
Who cares about what happens to the American economy. The important question is what do you think would happen to the Chinese economy? Who would they sell all those goods to? BTW you can't sell stuff to people who don't have money.
demanding that the US paid its debt to China. Demands require force, The US is the most powerful nation on this planet for now and the foreesable future.
Good Idea! Im sure the Chinese can just stop trading with America and ruin their whole economy!
Heres and idea for you, go back to ECONOMICS 101
brilliant post.
16 terflops! Don't make me laugh!