Some one please tell me what possible reason we would have for even wanting to waste billions of dollars on another trip to the moon for. It's a big floating rock.
Because until we build offplanet self-sufficient colonies with sufficient breeding population, we're a sitting duck for the next asteroid impact or other global catastrophe. The survival of human species requires us to spread out from Earth, and is of higher priority than saving a billion dollars. The Moon happens to be nearby, so its a good place to practice, since you can reach it relatively easily and resupply it or evacuate all personnel back to Earth in a matter of days.
Furthermore, the Moon has lower gravity than Earth and doesn't have an atmosphere. This means that you can not only launch heavy loads (raw materials for orbital construction) cheaper from the Moon, but you can also reach orbital speeds at lunar surface level. You could build a maglev track and simply keep on accelerating until your speed exceeds the orbital speed at ground level, at which point you rise from the tracks and switch to ion drive or similar to increase the altitude of your orbit. A similar system could be used for landing; only this time you'd use the track to decrease the speed. If you get the neccessary energy from solar panels, the launchign costs would be neglible.
So a moonbase is both neccessary and economically sensible. The only "but" is the initial investment needed.
This is like the drug dealer calling the cops because someone stole his stash.
No, it's like someone who has told someone else that a third party has a certain file calling the cops and telling he has had his home vandalized by Mafia thugs and corrupted cops and government officials working for foreign financial interests.
It's not the Pirate Bay which is criminal, likely treasonous and has connections to organized crime (not to mention has emulated their business model) here.
Let's say I'm the best engineer in the world...except for one other who is an equal but not superior. I'm willing to stay up all night working in the lab AND I enjoy the hell out of it because I love my work. The other guy works 8-5, no variation.
Who would you hire? (hint: if you picked the second guy, the competitor that hires me will put you out of business)
An obsessive-compulsive who'll propably burn out and get a nervous breakdown soon, is likely suffering from severe sleep deprivation due to those sleepless nights (and might even use amphethamine or similar drugs to help him in extreme cases), and has a passion for his work, which means that he'll be unwilling to design what the marketing department wants if it happens to conflict with his personal vision ? Who, because he doesn't apparently have time for a social life and hasn't therefore developed any social skills and is suffering from sleep deprivation on top of that, is likely to be a nightmare to work with ? You can have him.
The guy who is smart and disciplined enough to not burn himself out ? Which propably also means that he's less likely to do something risky, like selling trade secrets to competitors, for short-term advantage ? And, since he has free time, is likely to develop a social life and social skills ? He's hired.
Aside from the fact, that I think someone wearing a bomb, wanting to get in as far as possible, would NOT be wearing the mechanism on the outside of their clothing, advertising it for a guard to see...
So, the masked guy loading a shotgun by the entrance to the bank can't be a bank robber, since a bank robber would want to get in without attracting attention ?
Much like the Boston stunt with the Aqua force whatever team signs....this is horrible overreaction.
You are working to provide security in a place where people have, in past, smuggled or tried to smuggle bombs into places they can kill lots of people. Some girl wearing some weird gizmo walks by. The gizmo has wires and something which looks like it could be plastic explosives on it. What will you do ? Let her be and risk getting hundreds killed, or detain her so that the matter can be investigated ?
Seriously, do you really believe that the US can just go in and "occupy" Alaska? Or Canada, for that matter? When they can't even get enough boots on the ground to control a country that's been bombed into the prehistoric age?
Yes. It might - and likely would - end badly, but the US - or, rather, the federal government - would have little choice than try anyway. As you said, if a state shows it can secede with impunity, what's stopping other states from following ? And if they follow, what does the federal government rule over ?
Besides, would Canada actually risk it ? I think that Alaska would be standing alone.
Nukes? Most of the Canadian population lives within 100 km of the border - too much danger of contaminating your own people.
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and you can be sure that the electricity stops flowing as well, so 50 to 150 million people sleep in the dark. Don't do it in the winter, or they'll also freeze to death.
If Alaska is allowed to leave the United States and join Canada, the USA is finished, because the federal government has shown that it can't control the territory it claimed. Which do you think the US government cares more about, keeping their power or 50 million dead ?
Maybe I'm being more cynical, but I firmly believe that if the US government has to choose between letting the union splinter and dropping a nuke into New York, then pop goes the apple.
Those are 2 distinct issues. I hope we do not turn into countries like the ones in Europe, where it is against the law to say and do things....I've heard that it is against the law to sell nazi era guns, knives or other artifacts over there, like say on eBay. WTF??
You may not realize this, but Europe still hasn't recovered from the Second World War. The former East Germany, for example, is still repairing the damage left by totalitarian communism, and the countries behind the Iron Curtain are even worse. Many people still remember the whole continent getting burned to bedrock in the war. Add to this a bunch of morons running around and calling themselves "Neo-Nazis" and therefore paying homage to the Nazis who are commonly considered the instigators of the whole mess, and it becomes quite understandable why Nazi memorabilia makes people nervous. Remember also that these laws were originally passed right after the war to suppress Nazi party, many supporters of which survived. Laws, once made, tend to keep on living long past their usefulness.
There is, of course, another, darker reason: revisionism. Nazis did horrible things. So did their collaborators in other countries. It is less-than-honorable period in Germany's and many other countries history, so they'd rather pretend it never happened. I've heard that Japan has a similar problem with its own atrocities, often committed against the civilians of its empire: they simply aren't mentioned in history books.
Of course one might point out that in Europe it is illegal to say or do things but the police won't taser you for it, while in the USA it is legal to say or do things but the police will taser you for doing or saying them anyway.
Moral of the story, freakin cooperate with the police or you'll get tasered. Doesn't matter if you're guilty or not. Not cooperating makes you look guilty.
Another moral of the story: insecure people wearing an uniform because it gives them a sense of power will fly off the handle if they feel their authority is in any way challenged. It isn't the question of being suspicious, it's the question of threatening the policeman's delusions of grandeur.
And once Alaska goes, other parts will jump ship too.
Sure, if every state and the army stop listening to the federal government, the government is fucked. But that's a collapse about equal to that of the Soviet Union, and unlikely to happen spontaneously.
And last I looked, Hawaii was an ocean away.
Hawaii has a bit over million people. I doubt very much it could put up effective resistance to occupation, and even less to blockade. Even if it could, it is, frankly, not important.
I personally reject the notion that I have to help my fellow man, and that being what seems to be a minority opinion on Slashdot (as are many of my opinions), I cop a lot of shit.
Well, of course you get shit. Humans are pack animals and packs work because the members help each other (as opposed to simply not ripping each other's throats out). Pack members who refuse to honor this obligation are a hindrance to the survival of the other members, a kind of social parasite, and must therefore be cast out. Flinging poo at the offending member, literally or figuratively, is an efficient way of doing this, and leaves open the possibility that the errant member might change his ways and be readmitted as a full member.
Basically, giving shit to "I have no obligation to anyone" types is the same as wolfpacks driving out diseased members, and for the same reason. But unlike the poor lone wolf, you got to choose for yourself. Don't complain if people you consider not worth helping in turn decide that you're not worth being nice to. You brought it on yourself, after all.
Look for the same political solution that happened in the 1700s, when the US declared independence from England... only this time, it will be various states declaring their independence from a funancially and politically bankrupt US government.
Assuming that such a project would get to the actual civil war phase - the federal government isn't going to just let the states leave - which seems unlikely, since the federal government is pushing so hard for more and more total surveillance and would likely just incarcerate anyone working for segregation, there is a simple problem with your proposal:
Washington is not separated from the rest of the country by an ocean and 1700s ships. There would be nothing stopping the federal government from simply retaking the segregated states by force.
Corporations can steal from free software all they want, but individuals that steal (read: pirate) from corporations shall burn in hell.
The solution, of course, is to find a shell company, employ yourself, and perform all your actions as a CEO of this corporation. If you get in debt, or get caught doing something illegal, blame it on Joe Average, Inc, fire yourself, and find a new corporation to begin the cycle anew.
Alternatively, you could incorporate everyone in the US into Real Living And Not Merely Legal Fiction Citizens Of The United States, Inc and use it to arrange medical care, legal presentation, etc. to everyone.
The problem with water is that people tend to think of water as a jello like object, when it really needs to be modeled like a think gas.
Nah. Low-pressure gas can be modeled as independently moving particles which don't interact with each other, just the environment. This gets realistic enough spread, and you can easily add scripted events (like poisoning, snuffing out fires, etc) triggered by proximity of such points to anything.
Water molecules, on the other hand, both repulse and attract each other. Basically, water needs to be made of particles which exert a force on other nearby water particles, and experience gravity. The force needs to be strongly repulsive when near each other, then turn to mild attraction when a bit farther, and zero when further than that. Apart from that, you need to take smaller simulation steps when two particles are near, since otherwise you risk one getting shot out like a cannonball.
You could even have a full three-phase simulator to switch particular particles from water to gas mode if they get hot enough (or even into solid mode if they get cold enough).
Of course, if you have the CPU power, you could simply model everything (including the solid matter) from particles and get things like realistic breaking, roof falling down when the walls get damaged, and so on. That's not realistic right now, thought, both because of CPU power and because of level design issues it would cause. Still, just imagine a FPS where the Anti-Matter Laser will set the enemy in fire, throw him into a wooden building through the wall, cause the building to catch (realistically spreading) fire form the flames, and make the roof fall on him because the wall was damaged and couldn't bear the load anymore. Then watch the flesh particles get burned out of blackening bone particles.
Now that is a murder simulator;).
Now imagine an adventure/RPG game where the entire play area is made from such virtual molecules, allowing you to solve the problems using common sense rather than just pre-scripted solutions. For example, suppose the object is to get to the bottom of a mine inside a mountain, but the tunnels are full of poison gas. Either get a magical poison immunity amulet, or be creative and use a disintegrate spell to blow open the side and let winds (moving air particles) to blow out the poison gas (which would require more realistic gas simulation than I described above).
The future belongs to simulators, not scripting. And I predict that eventually everything will be made from particles, not polygons, since particle systems enable cooler effects and more realistic/believable behavior of materials.
When you get right down to it, having everyone in the world know the greatness of your company is entirely due to one man who is not you has got to suck:)
Yeah. If I was profiting from Carmack's work I would be crying all the way to the bank;).
Just because you're a feminist doesn't mean... that you need consider sexual favors degrading.
Degrading? Perhaps not, but anyone who denies that the sexual dynamic between mammals is one in which the female submits to the male isn't living in the real world.
If your statement is assumed to be true, and such submission is assumed to be relevant, then logically a feminist can't ever engage in sex, for pay or for free. After all, she'd end up submitting in either case; in fact, a case could be made that getting paid to pretend submission would be better than submitting for free.
What is this obsession with piping between applications? Does that have any meaning at all in graphical user interfaces?
Yes. "Piping" is a form of interprocess communication. While the specific method of redirecting input/output/error streams may not be very useful in graphical environments, the basic idea of letting one program get input from another certainly is. Cut/Past, for example, can be considered a crude form of piping. Scripting usually works by letting the script control the target program. Etc.
However, he seemed to also be applying this to all users, i.e. that because GNOME doesn't work for him, that it won't for all users - which is what I was taking him to task about.
He is quite correct, actually. Gnome won't work for all users, because there is at least one known user - him - for whom it does not work.
Now, if he had said that it won't work for any users, then you'd had a case, since that statement would be incorrect if there was at least one user for whom it would work. But he didn't so you don't.
Any and all - the english language equivalents to "||" and "&&". Confusing them will cause bugs in your logic;).
Expecting the good guys to not do bad things is too high a standard. You get to be one of the good guys for just not doing it as much. It's a relative thing -- being the lesser evil makes you good and righteous.;)
This raises an interesting and disturbing question: is religion as popular as it is amongst the religious right because it mentions God - or because it mentions Satan ?
After all, from what I've seen of the whole Intelligent Desing fiasco (which admittedly isn't much), quite a few people engaged on the side of ID seem to be intentionally lying and deceiving. That is an evil - or at the very least morally questionable - act in Christianity, so either these people are pushing ID for some non-religious agenda, or they are committing an evil act as defined by their own religion in the name of said religion.
So, basically, I'm wondering if the religious right (or other fundamentalist cliques) is clinging to religion because they belive in God or because they want something nastier than themselves to point to whenever their conscience starts acting up.
Try living in one and get your jaw broken by the "police" for no reason! You apparently live in a shielded little disneyland dreamworld, as you complain about the police because of single incidents, when in other countries there is nothing separating the mafia from the government officials.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that a Mafia thug breaking people's jaws for no reason would get cement shoes fast, since he is detrimental for the organization; after all, if you'll get hurt anyway, why pay for "protection" or be fearful of fighting back ? And of course violence attracts attention and therefore causes risk.
Unrestrained violence "for fun" is simply not professional, even for mafiosos. And while an unprofessional cop on a power trip can keep on causing havok, an unprofessional mafioso is going to get killed by his fellows, since he endangers them.
The quote is only funny if you think that prostitution - trading sexual favors for other favors - is inherently incompatible with feminism. I see little reason why it would be, unless one considers every prostitute a victim of oppression, which hardly seems to be the case here.
Just because you're a feminist doesn't mean you need to be good at writing papers, or be willing to exert the time and energy to do so, nor does it mean that you need consider sexual favors degrading. It simply means that you want women to have an equally powerful (socially and legally) position as men. Whether that position includes "I suck your dick/cunt if you do something for me" is up to the individual.
Sorry about the offtopic rant, but this shit keeps on circulating here in Finland, where some people want to ban prostitution "for their own good", and that kind of oppression - forbidding adults from doing something just because you don't happen to like it - gets my hackles up.
Out with state machines and in with OO abstractions.
An object is a state machine. The whole idea of OO is to couple the state with the functions which manipulate it. So instead of having drawCircle(context, vertex[] VertexArray), you'd have context.drawPolygon(vertex[] vertexArray) or even context.draw(new Polygon(vertex[] vertexArray)). These all do the exact same thing (and the last does it inefficiently since it allocates memory), and manipulate the underlaying state machine (physical hardware) in the same way. They simply express it differently.
If he's really one of those 'Any publicity is good publicity people' then cracking jokes at his expense are really the best service we can do him and everyone else, by giving him publicity and making him out to be about as knowledgeable as Bozo the Clown.
It hardly seems fair to compare clowns, who are professional and generally well-liked entertainers, to Jack Thompson, who is apparently a professional but incompetent troublemaker and slanderer.
Speaking of taint, does some scientific reasoning being sloppy mean that Darwinian Evolution is suspect and therefore a literal interpretation of Genesis must be correct ? The summary omits this important fact: this article proves Intelligent Design beyond any reasonable doubt, the omittance of which in turn proves that mlimber is a leader of an atheist conspiracy who's members eat jewish babies as a symbolic show of submittance to the will of a Moon-based Nazi space colony ruled by tentacled monsters escaped from Japanese hentai movies who are going to come and steal all our women !
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Because until we build offplanet self-sufficient colonies with sufficient breeding population, we're a sitting duck for the next asteroid impact or other global catastrophe. The survival of human species requires us to spread out from Earth, and is of higher priority than saving a billion dollars. The Moon happens to be nearby, so its a good place to practice, since you can reach it relatively easily and resupply it or evacuate all personnel back to Earth in a matter of days.
Furthermore, the Moon has lower gravity than Earth and doesn't have an atmosphere. This means that you can not only launch heavy loads (raw materials for orbital construction) cheaper from the Moon, but you can also reach orbital speeds at lunar surface level. You could build a maglev track and simply keep on accelerating until your speed exceeds the orbital speed at ground level, at which point you rise from the tracks and switch to ion drive or similar to increase the altitude of your orbit. A similar system could be used for landing; only this time you'd use the track to decrease the speed. If you get the neccessary energy from solar panels, the launchign costs would be neglible.
So a moonbase is both neccessary and economically sensible. The only "but" is the initial investment needed.
+1 Funny. And I thought I was cynical...
No, it's like someone who has told someone else that a third party has a certain file calling the cops and telling he has had his home vandalized by Mafia thugs and corrupted cops and government officials working for foreign financial interests.
It's not the Pirate Bay which is criminal, likely treasonous and has connections to organized crime (not to mention has emulated their business model) here.
Because might makes right, or at least makes right irrelevant.
An obsessive-compulsive who'll propably burn out and get a nervous breakdown soon, is likely suffering from severe sleep deprivation due to those sleepless nights (and might even use amphethamine or similar drugs to help him in extreme cases), and has a passion for his work, which means that he'll be unwilling to design what the marketing department wants if it happens to conflict with his personal vision ? Who, because he doesn't apparently have time for a social life and hasn't therefore developed any social skills and is suffering from sleep deprivation on top of that, is likely to be a nightmare to work with ? You can have him.
The guy who is smart and disciplined enough to not burn himself out ? Which propably also means that he's less likely to do something risky, like selling trade secrets to competitors, for short-term advantage ? And, since he has free time, is likely to develop a social life and social skills ? He's hired.
So, the masked guy loading a shotgun by the entrance to the bank can't be a bank robber, since a bank robber would want to get in without attracting attention ?
You are working to provide security in a place where people have, in past, smuggled or tried to smuggle bombs into places they can kill lots of people. Some girl wearing some weird gizmo walks by. The gizmo has wires and something which looks like it could be plastic explosives on it. What will you do ? Let her be and risk getting hundreds killed, or detain her so that the matter can be investigated ?
Yes. It might - and likely would - end badly, but the US - or, rather, the federal government - would have little choice than try anyway. As you said, if a state shows it can secede with impunity, what's stopping other states from following ? And if they follow, what does the federal government rule over ?
Besides, would Canada actually risk it ? I think that Alaska would be standing alone.
If Alaska is allowed to leave the United States and join Canada, the USA is finished, because the federal government has shown that it can't control the territory it claimed. Which do you think the US government cares more about, keeping their power or 50 million dead ?
Maybe I'm being more cynical, but I firmly believe that if the US government has to choose between letting the union splinter and dropping a nuke into New York, then pop goes the apple.
You may not realize this, but Europe still hasn't recovered from the Second World War. The former East Germany, for example, is still repairing the damage left by totalitarian communism, and the countries behind the Iron Curtain are even worse. Many people still remember the whole continent getting burned to bedrock in the war. Add to this a bunch of morons running around and calling themselves "Neo-Nazis" and therefore paying homage to the Nazis who are commonly considered the instigators of the whole mess, and it becomes quite understandable why Nazi memorabilia makes people nervous. Remember also that these laws were originally passed right after the war to suppress Nazi party, many supporters of which survived. Laws, once made, tend to keep on living long past their usefulness.
There is, of course, another, darker reason: revisionism. Nazis did horrible things. So did their collaborators in other countries. It is less-than-honorable period in Germany's and many other countries history, so they'd rather pretend it never happened. I've heard that Japan has a similar problem with its own atrocities, often committed against the civilians of its empire: they simply aren't mentioned in history books.
Of course one might point out that in Europe it is illegal to say or do things but the police won't taser you for it, while in the USA it is legal to say or do things but the police will taser you for doing or saying them anyway.
Another moral of the story: insecure people wearing an uniform because it gives them a sense of power will fly off the handle if they feel their authority is in any way challenged. It isn't the question of being suspicious, it's the question of threatening the policeman's delusions of grandeur.
Why ?
Sure, if every state and the army stop listening to the federal government, the government is fucked. But that's a collapse about equal to that of the Soviet Union, and unlikely to happen spontaneously.
Hawaii has a bit over million people. I doubt very much it could put up effective resistance to occupation, and even less to blockade. Even if it could, it is, frankly, not important.
Well, of course you get shit. Humans are pack animals and packs work because the members help each other (as opposed to simply not ripping each other's throats out). Pack members who refuse to honor this obligation are a hindrance to the survival of the other members, a kind of social parasite, and must therefore be cast out. Flinging poo at the offending member, literally or figuratively, is an efficient way of doing this, and leaves open the possibility that the errant member might change his ways and be readmitted as a full member.
Basically, giving shit to "I have no obligation to anyone" types is the same as wolfpacks driving out diseased members, and for the same reason. But unlike the poor lone wolf, you got to choose for yourself. Don't complain if people you consider not worth helping in turn decide that you're not worth being nice to. You brought it on yourself, after all.
Assuming that such a project would get to the actual civil war phase - the federal government isn't going to just let the states leave - which seems unlikely, since the federal government is pushing so hard for more and more total surveillance and would likely just incarcerate anyone working for segregation, there is a simple problem with your proposal:
Washington is not separated from the rest of the country by an ocean and 1700s ships. There would be nothing stopping the federal government from simply retaking the segregated states by force.
The solution, of course, is to find a shell company, employ yourself, and perform all your actions as a CEO of this corporation. If you get in debt, or get caught doing something illegal, blame it on Joe Average, Inc, fire yourself, and find a new corporation to begin the cycle anew.
Alternatively, you could incorporate everyone in the US into Real Living And Not Merely Legal Fiction Citizens Of The United States, Inc and use it to arrange medical care, legal presentation, etc. to everyone.
Nah. Low-pressure gas can be modeled as independently moving particles which don't interact with each other, just the environment. This gets realistic enough spread, and you can easily add scripted events (like poisoning, snuffing out fires, etc) triggered by proximity of such points to anything.
Water molecules, on the other hand, both repulse and attract each other. Basically, water needs to be made of particles which exert a force on other nearby water particles, and experience gravity. The force needs to be strongly repulsive when near each other, then turn to mild attraction when a bit farther, and zero when further than that. Apart from that, you need to take smaller simulation steps when two particles are near, since otherwise you risk one getting shot out like a cannonball.
You could even have a full three-phase simulator to switch particular particles from water to gas mode if they get hot enough (or even into solid mode if they get cold enough).
Of course, if you have the CPU power, you could simply model everything (including the solid matter) from particles and get things like realistic breaking, roof falling down when the walls get damaged, and so on. That's not realistic right now, thought, both because of CPU power and because of level design issues it would cause. Still, just imagine a FPS where the Anti-Matter Laser will set the enemy in fire, throw him into a wooden building through the wall, cause the building to catch (realistically spreading) fire form the flames, and make the roof fall on him because the wall was damaged and couldn't bear the load anymore. Then watch the flesh particles get burned out of blackening bone particles.
Now that is a murder simulator ;).
Now imagine an adventure/RPG game where the entire play area is made from such virtual molecules, allowing you to solve the problems using common sense rather than just pre-scripted solutions. For example, suppose the object is to get to the bottom of a mine inside a mountain, but the tunnels are full of poison gas. Either get a magical poison immunity amulet, or be creative and use a disintegrate spell to blow open the side and let winds (moving air particles) to blow out the poison gas (which would require more realistic gas simulation than I described above).
The future belongs to simulators, not scripting. And I predict that eventually everything will be made from particles, not polygons, since particle systems enable cooler effects and more realistic/believable behavior of materials.
Yeah. If I was profiting from Carmack's work I would be crying all the way to the bank ;).
If your statement is assumed to be true, and such submission is assumed to be relevant, then logically a feminist can't ever engage in sex, for pay or for free. After all, she'd end up submitting in either case; in fact, a case could be made that getting paid to pretend submission would be better than submitting for free.
Yes. "Piping" is a form of interprocess communication. While the specific method of redirecting input/output/error streams may not be very useful in graphical environments, the basic idea of letting one program get input from another certainly is. Cut/Past, for example, can be considered a crude form of piping. Scripting usually works by letting the script control the target program. Etc.
He is quite correct, actually. Gnome won't work for all users, because there is at least one known user - him - for whom it does not work.
Now, if he had said that it won't work for any users, then you'd had a case, since that statement would be incorrect if there was at least one user for whom it would work. But he didn't so you don't.
Any and all - the english language equivalents to "||" and "&&". Confusing them will cause bugs in your logic ;).
This raises an interesting and disturbing question: is religion as popular as it is amongst the religious right because it mentions God - or because it mentions Satan ?
After all, from what I've seen of the whole Intelligent Desing fiasco (which admittedly isn't much), quite a few people engaged on the side of ID seem to be intentionally lying and deceiving. That is an evil - or at the very least morally questionable - act in Christianity, so either these people are pushing ID for some non-religious agenda, or they are committing an evil act as defined by their own religion in the name of said religion.
So, basically, I'm wondering if the religious right (or other fundamentalist cliques) is clinging to religion because they belive in God or because they want something nastier than themselves to point to whenever their conscience starts acting up.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that a Mafia thug breaking people's jaws for no reason would get cement shoes fast, since he is detrimental for the organization; after all, if you'll get hurt anyway, why pay for "protection" or be fearful of fighting back ? And of course violence attracts attention and therefore causes risk.
Unrestrained violence "for fun" is simply not professional, even for mafiosos. And while an unprofessional cop on a power trip can keep on causing havok, an unprofessional mafioso is going to get killed by his fellows, since he endangers them.
The quote is only funny if you think that prostitution - trading sexual favors for other favors - is inherently incompatible with feminism. I see little reason why it would be, unless one considers every prostitute a victim of oppression, which hardly seems to be the case here.
Just because you're a feminist doesn't mean you need to be good at writing papers, or be willing to exert the time and energy to do so, nor does it mean that you need consider sexual favors degrading. It simply means that you want women to have an equally powerful (socially and legally) position as men. Whether that position includes "I suck your dick/cunt if you do something for me" is up to the individual.
Sorry about the offtopic rant, but this shit keeps on circulating here in Finland, where some people want to ban prostitution "for their own good", and that kind of oppression - forbidding adults from doing something just because you don't happen to like it - gets my hackles up.
An object is a state machine. The whole idea of OO is to couple the state with the functions which manipulate it. So instead of having drawCircle(context, vertex[] VertexArray), you'd have context.drawPolygon(vertex[] vertexArray) or even context.draw(new Polygon(vertex[] vertexArray)). These all do the exact same thing (and the last does it inefficiently since it allocates memory), and manipulate the underlaying state machine (physical hardware) in the same way. They simply express it differently.
Actually, this sound more like it will vaporize our enemies on the spot. Because this laser... goes to eleven! Spartaaa!!!
It hardly seems fair to compare clowns, who are professional and generally well-liked entertainers, to Jack Thompson, who is apparently a professional but incompetent troublemaker and slanderer.
Speaking of taint, does some scientific reasoning being sloppy mean that Darwinian Evolution is suspect and therefore a literal interpretation of Genesis must be correct ? The summary omits this important fact: this article proves Intelligent Design beyond any reasonable doubt, the omittance of which in turn proves that mlimber is a leader of an atheist conspiracy who's members eat jewish babies as a symbolic show of submittance to the will of a Moon-based Nazi space colony ruled by tentacled monsters escaped from Japanese hentai movies who are going to come and steal all our women !
Now that is tainted !