There is a very fundamental logistical difference between 2 and 3, particularly when you consider who gets to make medical decisions for a spouse that is unable to speak for themselves, or custody issues, or dividing assets in a divorce. 3 makes things much harder than 2. This is solvable with very detailed marriage contracts (something that would not be a bad idea even for 2 person marriages). That being said, I think polygamy should be allowed, but gay marriage is clearly a much bigger and more important civil rights issue right now and does not introduce the logistical problems that polygamy would.
Yes. In the end it really comes down to what compromises we are willing to make as a society, and our innate sense of justice and compassion. The veneer of logic achieved by comparing gay marriage to pedophilia by one side and interracial marriage by the other is just a veneer.
I use a 3 screen Mac for work. The one menu bar thing is horrid (and I'm generally a fan). "SecondBar" gives you a second menu bar, which helps, but it's a little flaky and won't give you a 3rd bar.
We do? The world's fastest supercomputer (K computer) is RISC based, and ARM is RISC, so it seems very much alive. Also CISC now has pipelining which was the thing that originally made RISC awesome, and RISC has gotten more complex, so they have evolved to be closer to each other. I am sure there are other factors that are more important for energy efficiency (mainly transistor size) and I don't have an opinion on that, but I don't understand where you are coming from.
A posthumous pardon isn't whitewashing history. It's an official admission from the government that they were wrong and a great injustice was done. If anything it draws attention to the injustice, which I would say is a good thing. Especially since we still live in an era where too many people think that gay people should still be prosecuted/persecuted.
Clearly the correct (and most feasible) approach to us putting too much CO2 into the atmosphere is to put less CO2 into the atmosphere, not embark on some other massive experiment with mother nature whose outcome we can't really predict. Between solar, wind, and nuclear it's not hard to do, it's just not very popular with the big oil interests that control our politics.
Salted and hashed. Without salt you can use rainbow tables to reverse the hash. But you're right, they shouldn't be storing it anywhere or using reversible encryption.
Spinning structures (for artificial gravity) would need some heavy structure to avoid flying apart, and thick radiation shielding is vital if humans are going to spend an extended time in space.
There is a wide range of guesses on the numbers and no general consensus. Diseases may have wiped out up to 90% of the population long before Europeans started deliberately killing them, in fact long before Europeans had even visited most parts of the Americas, so Europeans found a mostly empty continent. But that doesn't mean it was always that way.
No, because Apple makes great computers for a great price* with a great operating system that combines Unix with an easy to use interface, and they rock for doing software development. I know many software developers who use Macs, including most of my current company. The rest use Linux if they have a choice. I rarely meet anyone who wants to develop software under Windows, although lots of people are stuck on it due to corporate policy.
* yes, a great price - you can't buy a $500 Mac, but if you bought a Windows PC with similar hardware it would only cost slightly less, last half as long and run at a quarter of the speed. If you ran Linux on it you might solve the speed problem but it still wouldn't be as well built.
No, the US can't nuke any country (no matter how obnoxious) because Russia and China would object and it would result in a full scale nuclear war. None of the big nuclear powers want to allow that precedent to be set, and I'm sure that has been clearly communicated by secret channels even if it is not public. Those countries would have to piss off all the nuclear powers in order to get nuked, and even the craziest ones are careful to maintain friendship with at least one of them.
Yeah, and the U.S. could have nuked Afghanistan and Iraq into oblivion, as well as any upstarts like Iran or North Korea who would have chirped about it. Maybe, just maybe, there were political implications back home that prevented waging all-out war on obviously sentient beings that are absolutely no threat to us, and whose only crime is sitting on something valuable.
Except HIV is contagious, cancer and diabetes are not. In other words, it's not just about you anymore, unless you are committing to never have sex again in your life (condoms break, even if you are careful).
Not to mention how much it would suck for the rest of the economy to not have electricity for a few years; and not to mention how hard it is to rebuild all that stuff when you don't have electricity.
True. I would also like to see polyamorous groups have legal rights, but it's complicated. A good analogy is the 3-body problem in physics - it's not solvable except by successive approximations, while the 2-body problem is solvable. Just think about all the different possible scenarios for contested divorce and custody of the children with a poly marriage. A 2-way gay marriage does not introduce any of these problems, so there is a fundamental logistical difference.
I think that is already a solved problem for colonoscopies - 24 hours of nothing but clear liquids and jello plus aggressive laxatives, clears you right out.
There are enough unemployed programmers out there that management just doesn't care about "loyalty".
There are? I just got a new job, had multiple offers, and it took me 4 weeks from the day I started looking to the day I got the offer (during the holidays). And I am one of those old expensive programmers. All the recruiters told me it's really hard to find good talent now. The market is certainly hotter than it was 2.5 years ago, which is the last time I looked (still got 2 offers), and there are times it has been bad (2001, post dot-com crash, took me 6 months to find a job).
Management may not care about loyalty (if they did they'd give me raises, but that never happens) but it's not because of a glut.
Programmers from 3rd world counties are fine, i.e. the ones currently living in the US. I've worked with many of them (I hardly even have any Caucasian co-workers anymore). Programmers in 3rd world countries are crap. I've seen a couple projects outsourced and when they came back is was completely unusable, we just had to throw it away and do it ourselves.
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There is a very fundamental logistical difference between 2 and 3, particularly when you consider who gets to make medical decisions for a spouse that is unable to speak for themselves, or custody issues, or dividing assets in a divorce. 3 makes things much harder than 2. This is solvable with very detailed marriage contracts (something that would not be a bad idea even for 2 person marriages). That being said, I think polygamy should be allowed, but gay marriage is clearly a much bigger and more important civil rights issue right now and does not introduce the logistical problems that polygamy would.
Yes. In the end it really comes down to what compromises we are willing to make as a society, and our innate sense of justice and compassion. The veneer of logic achieved by comparing gay marriage to pedophilia by one side and interracial marriage by the other is just a veneer.
I use a 3 screen Mac for work. The one menu bar thing is horrid (and I'm generally a fan). "SecondBar" gives you a second menu bar, which helps, but it's a little flaky and won't give you a 3rd bar.
And we know who lost that one. Badly.
We do? The world's fastest supercomputer (K computer) is RISC based, and ARM is RISC, so it seems very much alive. Also CISC now has pipelining which was the thing that originally made RISC awesome, and RISC has gotten more complex, so they have evolved to be closer to each other. I am sure there are other factors that are more important for energy efficiency (mainly transistor size) and I don't have an opinion on that, but I don't understand where you are coming from.
A posthumous pardon isn't whitewashing history. It's an official admission from the government that they were wrong and a great injustice was done. If anything it draws attention to the injustice, which I would say is a good thing. Especially since we still live in an era where too many people think that gay people should still be prosecuted/persecuted.
That's drinkingCamelCase (head down) versus StandingCamelCase (head up). Both are camelCase.
This idea should be considered idiotic :)
Clearly the correct (and most feasible) approach to us putting too much CO2 into the atmosphere is to put less CO2 into the atmosphere, not embark on some other massive experiment with mother nature whose outcome we can't really predict. Between solar, wind, and nuclear it's not hard to do, it's just not very popular with the big oil interests that control our politics.
Salted and hashed. Without salt you can use rainbow tables to reverse the hash. But you're right, they shouldn't be storing it anywhere or using reversible encryption.
Spinning structures (for artificial gravity) would need some heavy structure to avoid flying apart, and thick radiation shielding is vital if humans are going to spend an extended time in space.
There is a wide range of guesses on the numbers and no general consensus. Diseases may have wiped out up to 90% of the population long before Europeans started deliberately killing them, in fact long before Europeans had even visited most parts of the Americas, so Europeans found a mostly empty continent. But that doesn't mean it was always that way.
No, because Apple makes great computers for a great price* with a great operating system that combines Unix with an easy to use interface, and they rock for doing software development. I know many software developers who use Macs, including most of my current company. The rest use Linux if they have a choice. I rarely meet anyone who wants to develop software under Windows, although lots of people are stuck on it due to corporate policy.
* yes, a great price - you can't buy a $500 Mac, but if you bought a Windows PC with similar hardware it would only cost slightly less, last half as long and run at a quarter of the speed. If you ran Linux on it you might solve the speed problem but it still wouldn't be as well built.
You do to fit it in this phone
No, the US can't nuke any country (no matter how obnoxious) because Russia and China would object and it would result in a full scale nuclear war. None of the big nuclear powers want to allow that precedent to be set, and I'm sure that has been clearly communicated by secret channels even if it is not public. Those countries would have to piss off all the nuclear powers in order to get nuked, and even the craziest ones are careful to maintain friendship with at least one of them.
Yeah, and the U.S. could have nuked Afghanistan and Iraq into oblivion, as well as any upstarts like Iran or North Korea who would have chirped about it. Maybe, just maybe, there were political implications back home that prevented waging all-out war on obviously sentient beings that are absolutely no threat to us, and whose only crime is sitting on something valuable.
Except HIV is contagious, cancer and diabetes are not. In other words, it's not just about you anymore, unless you are committing to never have sex again in your life (condoms break, even if you are careful).
Bombs also always have a big digital countdown display and color coded wires :)
Which means you'll be able to exceed your monthly cap in 24 seconds.
Not to mention how much it would suck for the rest of the economy to not have electricity for a few years; and not to mention how hard it is to rebuild all that stuff when you don't have electricity.
actually it sounded like sarcasm to me :)
I don't think hospital visitation should be called a "minor" perk. Imagine your loved one dying in a hospital and you can't see them.
True. I would also like to see polyamorous groups have legal rights, but it's complicated. A good analogy is the 3-body problem in physics - it's not solvable except by successive approximations, while the 2-body problem is solvable. Just think about all the different possible scenarios for contested divorce and custody of the children with a poly marriage. A 2-way gay marriage does not introduce any of these problems, so there is a fundamental logistical difference.
I think that is already a solved problem for colonoscopies - 24 hours of nothing but clear liquids and jello plus aggressive laxatives, clears you right out.
Plus the difficulty of developing technology if you don't have hands
The Apple IIe definitely had BASIC in ROM. I thought they all dd.
There are enough unemployed programmers out there that management just doesn't care about "loyalty".
There are? I just got a new job, had multiple offers, and it took me 4 weeks from the day I started looking to the day I got the offer (during the holidays). And I am one of those old expensive programmers. All the recruiters told me it's really hard to find good talent now. The market is certainly hotter than it was 2.5 years ago, which is the last time I looked (still got 2 offers), and there are times it has been bad (2001, post dot-com crash, took me 6 months to find a job).
Management may not care about loyalty (if they did they'd give me raises, but that never happens) but it's not because of a glut.
Programmers from 3rd world counties are fine, i.e. the ones currently living in the US. I've worked with many of them (I hardly even have any Caucasian co-workers anymore). Programmers in 3rd world countries are crap. I've seen a couple projects outsourced and when they came back is was completely unusable, we just had to throw it away and do it ourselves.