That's why, even with the strongest will in the world, a single small dose can hook you instantly.
That's simply not true. Go read what William S. Burroughs has to say about herion addiction. He reckons that it takes a good few weeks or months of daily use to get a habit.
Detoxing, making the object of your obsession unavailable, is just a way of providing a stop-gap for weak-willed people to break their habit while they're in counselling, and calling it a detox clinic is a way for those same people to legitimise their pathetic behaviour. I really don't have much sympathy, and I wouldn't expect any if I were in that situation.
People have addictions for all kinds of reasons, but usually there is some kind of psychological problem behind the addiction. If you can't empathise with other peoples' problems because you've never been there yourself, don't make yourself look like an asshole by calling them weak-willed. If you shut up and listened to others instead of being judgemental you might learn something.
To be honest, even if no free software project had ever been completed, ever, I would still be a free software advocate. People didn't found the free software movement because they'd discovered some kind of development-methodology magic bullet. They did it because they wanted to ensure that the users of software had more freedom, more choice, with the code that ran on their computers.
I agree with what you're saying but I just wanted to point out a contradiction...
Having a scripting language (like PHP) that people can run on the same VM as Java would be a great boon to both people who use the scripting language as well as to Java's popularity in general.
I agree. Java's great for learning to implement algortithms because it has a good standard library, less language clutter than C++ and none of the low level crap of C. And it doesn't segfault when you mess up.
Could it be that the content of each post had an influence on the moderation rather than just the title? Apparently it's not even worth considering;) Another flawed conclusion methinks.
Religion is about believing, science is about knowing. They are not mutually exclusive.
Science is based on consensus of opinion and may change over time. The two *are* mutually exclusive as religion implies faith over consensus of opinion. Religion requires total belief (faith) in the subject, which does not allow for debate. If science proves reigion to be wrong, there is no room for manoeuvre on behalf of the religious since religion purports to be truth.
nothing else could turn as many people away from the whole idea of religion so much as a generation of frothing-at-the-mouth zealots fighting each other and anyone disagreeing with their inflexible, warped view of the world.
Agreed, and well put. In the same way, people will be put off Islam by the fundamentalists burning embassies because someone dared mock their religion.
It's interesting how those secular humanists who sing the hue and cry of tolerance are always at the ready to mock Christians
People foolish enough to believe that a human-invented set of beliefs and values represent the truth and try to bestow their misguided beliefs on others deserve to be mocked. I for one choose to milk the sorry fuckers for all they're worth. Anything else would be sacrilege;)
Yes, of course I do. Truth does not cease to be truth merely because you wish it to be falsehood, and all the bloviating and animadverting you wish to publicly display will not change that.
Religion is not the truth, it's invented by mankind. You might consider religion the truth, and I hope you enjoy it, but people with sense and enough insight to think for themselves knows it's invented.
Well he's certainly making a mockery of religion so you have to give him credit for that. As for going to hell, we all know there's no such place as heaven or hell. You don't seriously believe that nonsense do you?
I would agree with that. I think good engineers are people who have good analitical skills and naturally pay close attention to detail. These qualities are often offset by what may be considered as underdeveloped social skills, as seen in the "nerd" architype. Engineers may be seen as picky or obsessed with detail in the way that they deliver criticism. A defining point of social skill may be the ability to offer criticism in a way that is seen as entirely positive. This probably comes more naturally to those who are by nature people-oriented since this is where their interest and motivation lies.
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Try javaranch.com for friendly help. I'm not sure where you were asking, but I've mostly found Java developers to be a friendly and helpful bunch.
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I think the badgers have got to me.
I agree. Java's great for learning to implement algortithms because it has a good standard library, less language clutter than C++ and none of the low level crap of C. And it doesn't segfault when you mess up.
Could it be that the content of each post had an influence on the moderation rather than just the title? Apparently it's not even worth considering ;) Another flawed conclusion methinks.
Agreed, and well put. In the same way, people will be put off Islam by the fundamentalists burning embassies because someone dared mock their religion.
If we're doing bad stereotypes, tie me kangaroo down and whack another shrimp on the barbie, Sheila! Strewth! ;)
Mod me down I have karma to burn.
I know you have a lot of crap on TV over there (actually pretty much exclusively crap), now you have our crap too. It may have escaped your attention that the terms "American" and "humour" are mutually exclusive. We're better than you, get over it
I would agree with that. I think good engineers are people who have good analitical skills and naturally pay close attention to detail. These qualities are often offset by what may be considered as underdeveloped social skills, as seen in the "nerd" architype. Engineers may be seen as picky or obsessed with detail in the way that they deliver criticism. A defining point of social skill may be the ability to offer criticism in a way that is seen as entirely positive. This probably comes more naturally to those who are by nature people-oriented since this is where their interest and motivation lies.
Pics of the public are also OK.
OK while you're there, can you grab me a copy of the windows source code?