in particular, there's no soap radio [wikipedia.org] anymore.
That might be the best allusion I've ever seen in an Internet comment. "Surely", I thought, "that's a reference to actual soap opera radio programs and not the anti joke." How long did you wait to do that?
Bruce said "we've got to reward the companies that do this" not "we've got to punish the companies that don't." The former is pragmatism -- seeking to achieve and support a positive result (vendor provided open source video drivers) through reasonable means. The latter is zealotry -- seeking to punish a group through not following the "one true way".
Working vendor supported FOSS drivers are useful as the abilities to repair, improve, share and modify the drivers are all of considerable utility to the graphics card using community (even if not to one particular person in it). I do agree that the drivers should be at least servicable before anyone should buy a product. But servicable is all they need to be to be useful now.
I believe that once asylum is granted in the US, it's permanent. And, yeah, getting rid of the black market for drugs would go a long way to fixing a lot of problems.
A country is not a property like a home. No person or collective owns the United States. Furthermore, a lot of the illegal immigrants do ask permission from the federal government, they simply get rejected. Moreover, there are plenty of American residents and citizens who welcome the Mexican immigrants, so there are already plenty of people who have just as legitimate a claim to the US as "home" as you or I welcoming these immigrants, both legal and illegal.
There's plenty of room for debate and discussion as to what extent the federal government can be considered a steward, an owner or merely a servant regarding the nation as a whole and furthermore public property. Consider it this way, the government being able to dictate what guests I have in my home because they are illegal immigrants is a violation of my property rights.
Potential, even active, competition for resources is not harmful. Refusing to share an abundance of resources with the needy is causing harm. How needy Mexicans and immigrants are, I can't say. Nor do I know if the US as a whole is facing a resource shortage. I strongly doubt immigration is a major contributor to any water shortages. And even so, better that we open the border and use the influx of labour to improve our ailing infrastructure. Because, frankly, one of the biggest reasons why illegal immigration is large is because cheap labour is one resource that seems quite scarce in the native population.
If there's a war in Mexico, then we should be giving shelter and asylum to refugees trying to escape it.
I don't think you did a good job of self-censoring. Furthermore, I don't really know how you'd "close the border" without harming a lot of people who aren't a threat to your home, self or country. Mexico -- or at least parts of it -- looks like a hell hole to me at the moment, so it seems pretty reasonable and rational to flee to the United States. I think only the most unreasonable of people would object to a individual or nation acting in genuine self-defense, but to the ethical risking the lives of non-threatening people is still reckless endangerment and killing them is, minimally, manslaughter
Could you back up your murder and kidnapping statement? Just looking at the FBI murder figures for 2009 for cities over 100,000 population, Phoenix has a murder rate of about 8 murders per 100,000 capita per year. DC's murder rate is 3 times that.
Wikipedia has a page for the 2008 data. New Orleans tops the list (as it does in the 2009 data at 52 -- there seems to have been a significant drop in murder rate in 2009). Phoenix looks to about 28th on that list with a about 11 murders per 100,000 in 2008 -- less than a sixth of New Orleans's rate and about a third DC's.
Kidnapping seems like it's a lot harder to quantify because cases of missing persons are not necessarily kidnapping. This is the best discussion on kidnapping I could find in about 15 minutes of searching. It gives further support to the idea that Mexico is a hell hole at the moment, as well
Speaking of AC Propulsion, I always thought the tZero was a great idea, particularly the towed engine for long range travel. Any idea why Tesla hasn't replicated this?
I feel I'm pretty well educated about the US legal system, at least. I'm aware that the courts (once again, a group of people) consider themselves to be the finders of law and the juries to be the finders of fact, at least in the US. I'm aware that juries can be tainted with prejudice and misinformation. Hell, that's half the art of courtroom lawyering. And yes, the judge's job is to moderate the effect of a jury's potential biases. That doesn't make my statement any less true, though. Judges can be just as tainted.
Sorry, it's not worth my time to keep chasing through this rabbit hole that is your lack of understanding of the judicial system.
Then why respond at all, particularly with such a insubstantial, insulting statement? You don't have the time to educate, only to belittle? I suspect instead you don't actually have a constructive argument.
Jurors are human. Therefore they are emotional and subject to bias. Part of the court's job is to decide what information they are allowed to have when they make their decision, end of story.
The shuttles are working space craft will full life support systems, lots of living and experiment area, windows, equipment bays and robotic arms. Why not simple add them to the space station and quadruple it's life support capacity. Sure, you need to add maybe another node and some solar panels, but they're already built and can launch themselves. And they provide another reentry method in case of an emergency. Hell, they're working space craft that can be used as actually space shuttles going to and from the station to other orbits to service satellites and such.
Interesting position, but that's not always so clear. For one, state universities are a branch of democratic governments. For another, most universities I'm familiar with have some sort of police/justice system and claim governmental powers. If these aren't democracies of some sort, they're tyrannies, and that's not acceptable.
It's considerably different. For one thing, merely crossing the border doesn't deny you of or remove any of your property or resources. There are definitely immigrants who steal and/or defraud the government, but those are crimes the justice system can handle. For another, concept of a domicile doesn't scale up to a state level because it's rooted in private ownership. Places accessible to the public are public and in a free country, that means anyone can travel there.
Governments are neither private individuals, with living rooms to protect, nor corporations. They don't have owners or stockholders to whom they have an obligation to provide profit or gain to. Governments, specifically the US Government, are put in place to ensure the liberty and welfare of all they have jurisdiction over to the best of their ability.
I've got to return your previous comments. Frankly, governments and nations are pains in the ass. They draw arbitrary lines, they tell people what to do and how to live for no good reason and they ban all kinds of behavior, to the extent that pretty much everyone in the United States has committed a vast array of criminal acts. As such, there's only one good reason to have a government -- they manage to limit the behavior of people with the attitude you espoused. Murderers and slavers who can't respect the human dignity of their fellow man. People who insist their property is worth more than the freedom or very life of another human being.
Who the hell are you to demand the blood and liberty of another? What are you so scared of that you'd enslave and kill to keep some arbitrary group of people from standing inside some arbitrary circle?
Alternatively, we simply wipe out the human race. No more problems.
Why should someone fear the consequences of coming to the US for work or just to live? Rumor has it that it's a country with "liberty and justice for all" and "the land of the free" and things like that.
Of course, I figure you're trolling, as no serious person would suggest battering, defacing, enslaving and then murdering a person simply for crossing a line on a map.
As, um, vectors of complex numbers (2-tuples)? I like the pun, though. It is closed under addition, it's not closed under multiplication (obviously), but I gather if you assume the axiom of choice, it's also algebraically closed.
How long has Fortran had dynamic multidimensional arrays and how are they implemented without some sort of indirection? You can statically allocate multidimensional arrays in C just fine and it doesn't use indirection (I believe). I'm not so sure the pointers actually hurt you that much on performance, anyway. Continuously allocating an n-dimensional array is a pain, though, in C. And I'm facing a head scratcher right now as to why my C code on matrices is underperforming, but theoretically it works pretty well and other people seem to have had success with it.
The issue as I've understood it is that C pointers aren't restricted by default, so the compiler can't assume that these are the only pointers to the array. C99 fixes that with "restrict" keyword. Your compiler may vary.
Oh, and I believe it's foo[i * COLS + j]. C is row major.
Seriously, native complex number vector operations would be awesome, particularly with automagic compilation to vector units or maybe to OpenCL.
Strictly speaking "national defense" isn't mentioned in the Constitution, either. "Common defense" is, though. But providing for the "general welfare" is also in the constitution and I think it's clear Medicare and Social Security are meant to be implementations of this government obligation, just as the Air Force, not explicitly discussed, is a implementation of providing for the common defense.
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I hope that's a really clever pun. Says Wolfram Mathworld on Gosper's algorithm
The algorithm treats sums whose successive terms have ratios which are rational functions.
in particular, there's no soap radio [wikipedia.org] anymore.
That might be the best allusion I've ever seen in an Internet comment. "Surely", I thought, "that's a reference to actual soap opera radio programs and not the anti joke." How long did you wait to do that?
--sabre86
You would say that, wouldn't you, Mike?
Bruce said "we've got to reward the companies that do this" not "we've got to punish the companies that don't." The former is pragmatism -- seeking to achieve and support a positive result (vendor provided open source video drivers) through reasonable means. The latter is zealotry -- seeking to punish a group through not following the "one true way".
Working vendor supported FOSS drivers are useful as the abilities to repair, improve, share and modify the drivers are all of considerable utility to the graphics card using community (even if not to one particular person in it). I do agree that the drivers should be at least servicable before anyone should buy a product. But servicable is all they need to be to be useful now.
--sabre86
I believe that once asylum is granted in the US, it's permanent. And, yeah, getting rid of the black market for drugs would go a long way to fixing a lot of problems.
A country is not a property like a home. No person or collective owns the United States. Furthermore, a lot of the illegal immigrants do ask permission from the federal government, they simply get rejected. Moreover, there are plenty of American residents and citizens who welcome the Mexican immigrants, so there are already plenty of people who have just as legitimate a claim to the US as "home" as you or I welcoming these immigrants, both legal and illegal.
There's plenty of room for debate and discussion as to what extent the federal government can be considered a steward, an owner or merely a servant regarding the nation as a whole and furthermore public property. Consider it this way, the government being able to dictate what guests I have in my home because they are illegal immigrants is a violation of my property rights.
Potential, even active, competition for resources is not harmful. Refusing to share an abundance of resources with the needy is causing harm. How needy Mexicans and immigrants are, I can't say. Nor do I know if the US as a whole is facing a resource shortage. I strongly doubt immigration is a major contributor to any water shortages. And even so, better that we open the border and use the influx of labour to improve our ailing infrastructure. Because, frankly, one of the biggest reasons why illegal immigration is large is because cheap labour is one resource that seems quite scarce in the native population.
Thanks for the discussion.
--sabre86
If there's a war in Mexico, then we should be giving shelter and asylum to refugees trying to escape it.
I don't think you did a good job of self-censoring. Furthermore, I don't really know how you'd "close the border" without harming a lot of people who aren't a threat to your home, self or country. Mexico -- or at least parts of it -- looks like a hell hole to me at the moment, so it seems pretty reasonable and rational to flee to the United States. I think only the most unreasonable of people would object to a individual or nation acting in genuine self-defense, but to the ethical risking the lives of non-threatening people is still reckless endangerment and killing them is, minimally, manslaughter
Could you back up your murder and kidnapping statement? Just looking at the FBI murder figures for 2009 for cities over 100,000 population, Phoenix has a murder rate of about 8 murders per 100,000 capita per year. DC's murder rate is 3 times that.
Wikipedia has a page for the 2008 data. New Orleans tops the list (as it does in the 2009 data at 52 -- there seems to have been a significant drop in murder rate in 2009). Phoenix looks to about 28th on that list with a about 11 murders per 100,000 in 2008 -- less than a sixth of New Orleans's rate and about a third DC's.
Kidnapping seems like it's a lot harder to quantify because cases of missing persons are not necessarily kidnapping. This is the best discussion on kidnapping I could find in about 15 minutes of searching. It gives further support to the idea that Mexico is a hell hole at the moment, as well
.--sabre86
You've got good points, but there's no need for the name calling.
Thanks for the explanation!
Speaking of AC Propulsion, I always thought the tZero was a great idea, particularly the towed engine for long range travel. Any idea why Tesla hasn't replicated this?
--sabre86
It's GNU Go, I believe FSF holds to the copyright to it.
--sabre86
Beloved Muppet Beaker has provided a well stated response to the school board.
You tell 'em Beaker!
--sabre86
When Marx & Mao both imprisoned and killed people for reading/possessing "pro-capitalist" literature, books, movies, etc and/or speaking out.
Who did Marx imprison or kill?
--sabre86
Sorry, it's not worth my time to keep chasing through this rabbit hole that is your lack of understanding of the judicial system.
Then why respond at all, particularly with such a insubstantial, insulting statement? You don't have the time to educate, only to belittle? I suspect instead you don't actually have a constructive argument.
--sabre86
Jurors are human. Therefore they are emotional and subject to bias. Part of the court's job is to decide what information they are allowed to have when they make their decision, end of story.
The court is just as human as the jurors and thus emotional and subject to bias. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
--sabre86
The shuttles are working space craft will full life support systems, lots of living and experiment area, windows, equipment bays and robotic arms. Why not simple add them to the space station and quadruple it's life support capacity. Sure, you need to add maybe another node and some solar panels, but they're already built and can launch themselves. And they provide another reentry method in case of an emergency. Hell, they're working space craft that can be used as actually space shuttles going to and from the station to other orbits to service satellites and such.
--sabre86
Furthermore, the laws in Alabama and Colorado are clearly unconstitutional. That "explanation of his actions" is testimony against oneself.
--sabre86
Interesting position, but that's not always so clear. For one, state universities are a branch of democratic governments. For another, most universities I'm familiar with have some sort of police/justice system and claim governmental powers. If these aren't democracies of some sort, they're tyrannies, and that's not acceptable.
--sabre86
Thanks for the excellent link.
This guy agrees with you.
--sabre86
I appreciate the civil reply.
It's considerably different. For one thing, merely crossing the border doesn't deny you of or remove any of your property or resources. There are definitely immigrants who steal and/or defraud the government, but those are crimes the justice system can handle. For another, concept of a domicile doesn't scale up to a state level because it's rooted in private ownership. Places accessible to the public are public and in a free country, that means anyone can travel there.
Governments are neither private individuals, with living rooms to protect, nor corporations. They don't have owners or stockholders to whom they have an obligation to provide profit or gain to. Governments, specifically the US Government, are put in place to ensure the liberty and welfare of all they have jurisdiction over to the best of their ability.
I've got to return your previous comments. Frankly, governments and nations are pains in the ass. They draw arbitrary lines, they tell people what to do and how to live for no good reason and they ban all kinds of behavior, to the extent that pretty much everyone in the United States has committed a vast array of criminal acts. As such, there's only one good reason to have a government -- they manage to limit the behavior of people with the attitude you espoused. Murderers and slavers who can't respect the human dignity of their fellow man. People who insist their property is worth more than the freedom or very life of another human being.
Who the hell are you to demand the blood and liberty of another? What are you so scared of that you'd enslave and kill to keep some arbitrary group of people from standing inside some arbitrary circle?
Alternatively, we simply wipe out the human race. No more problems.
Why should someone fear the consequences of coming to the US for work or just to live? Rumor has it that it's a country with "liberty and justice for all" and "the land of the free" and things like that.
Of course, I figure you're trolling, as no serious person would suggest battering, defacing, enslaving and then murdering a person simply for crossing a line on a map.
--sabre86
As, um, vectors of complex numbers (2-tuples)? I like the pun, though. It is closed under addition, it's not closed under multiplication (obviously), but I gather if you assume the axiom of choice, it's also algebraically closed.
--sabre86
How long has Fortran had dynamic multidimensional arrays and how are they implemented without some sort of indirection? You can statically allocate multidimensional arrays in C just fine and it doesn't use indirection (I believe). I'm not so sure the pointers actually hurt you that much on performance, anyway. Continuously allocating an n-dimensional array is a pain, though, in C. And I'm facing a head scratcher right now as to why my C code on matrices is underperforming, but theoretically it works pretty well and other people seem to have had success with it.
The issue as I've understood it is that C pointers aren't restricted by default, so the compiler can't assume that these are the only pointers to the array. C99 fixes that with "restrict" keyword. Your compiler may vary.
Oh, and I believe it's foo[i * COLS + j]. C is row major.
Seriously, native complex number vector operations would be awesome, particularly with automagic compilation to vector units or maybe to OpenCL.
--sabre86
Strictly speaking "national defense" isn't mentioned in the Constitution, either. "Common defense" is, though. But providing for the "general welfare" is also in the constitution and I think it's clear Medicare and Social Security are meant to be implementations of this government obligation, just as the Air Force, not explicitly discussed, is a implementation of providing for the common defense.
--sabre86
What game has Ubisoft lost money on due to lack of DRM? It remains a poor solution looking for a problem.
And what good is an MBA?