Don't forget, the left wing has their "hate speech". The only reason there's any freedom of expression anywhere in the world is solely because they can't agree on what to censor.
Since minors are legally considered to be unable to make an informed decision about _____(noun), in no case should _____(noun) be considered acceptable.
See the problem? This "logic" can be cut-and-pasted to prove that pretty much anything should be illegal.
Not that lack of logic ever stopped lawmakers before...
Come on, don't be silly. If it wasn't, why does Playboy (simple nudity) have to keep accurate records on the birth dates of all of its models and state right on the cover "all models were over the age of 18"?
Another thing that C has going for it is that virtually all Linux apps are written in C. So, if you ever want to install anything from source, and something goes wrong, you'll be glad you know a thing or two about C so you can figure it out (and even submit a patch that ends up being applied to a big, established project like WINE - that's a pretty awesome feeling, let me tell you). All *other* languages interpreters are written in C - it's always worthwhile once you've gotten comfortable with a language like Java to sit down and write your own interpreter in C so you can really get a good feel for what it's actually doing.
I'm not going to argue with your tortured, whiny, refutations.
Yes you are. It's killing you. You're sitting there, right now, steam coming out of your ears, trying to resist the temptation to argue. You just... can't... resist...
What's your point? That Europeans are a bunch of beret-wearing, skinny-cigarette-smoking, bistro-sitting-all-day-in, hairy-leg-and-armpit-women-having (sort of like a bigger version of New York) wimpy snobs who need real men to fly over and liberate them a couple of times a century? We already knew that.
Doctors of philosophy react to new information in the same manor as those who have not completed high school.
I'm surprised this ever happens. When I hadn't completed high-school, I was still in an apartment. The manor came quite a while after I had been declared a Doctor of philosophy.
What makes it scary is how few people seem to be able to separate "a 13 year old girl died" from "somebody's about to go to jail for signing up for an internet service under a fake name".
I guess it would have been scarier if I hadn't expected it though.
So if I accidentally shoot someone while hunting, and that person gets hit in the arm and has to have surgery, I should get charged as heavily as if that person got hit in the head and died?
Um, yes... if it was an accident, anyway. If it was really an accident, you shouldn't be charged with anything (at least not in my view of the universe). If it was intentional, and you were aiming for his head but you hit his arm by mistake, then still yes.
Soon programmers might find themselves replaced by citizens writing their own software.
Not sure what side of the fence you're on there, but - so be it. I'm a programmer right now, making a pretty decent living, but if it really gets to the point where I'm forcing (via unionization or whatever) somebody to pay me for something that anybody can do with no education, I'll move on and figure out something else to do with myself.
That said, I don't actually think it will ever happen. The nature of what programmers do will change, but it takes a *long* time to really understand what's going on in those machines. I used to fear things like Visual Basic and Excel, that let non-programmers write programs - until I saw some of the unspeakable abominations against nature and humanity that those people produced. Once you've taken the time to learn how to write code that you can debug and make modifications to, you've become a programmer (and you've invested years of education to get to that point, although if you're smart, you'll short-circuit some of those years and get a real education from a real college for part of it). Since most people haven't invested the mental effort to learn to factor a quadratic equation, I don't see them all taking the time to learn to program a computer in droves.
It's getting to the point that if girls are particularly capable of doing math/science they get pushed to
And don't forget the flip side... all of the math and science recruiting efforts are focused on getting more women in there, for no particular reason other than that they think there aren't enough women in there. I fear that my son will grow up thinking that math and science is "girly" and avoid it on that basis - and that the girls will continue to avoid it as they have for the past 10 million years or so.
Because boys are already born with everything, didn't you know? It's our job as good progressives to take things away from them until everybody's "equal".
Stop training girls to be emotional and "prissy". They will be more likely to take on "hard nosed" jobs. Train boys that it's okay to cry and be less "gruff".
Where the hell have you been for the last 30 years? We've been there, tried that, it doesn't work. I grew up in the sissified 80's, and I thought it was OK for boys to cry, until I hit teenage and found out that *girls* don't think it's ok for boys to cry. I toughened the hell up in a hurry when I figured out I'd been lied to by every grown-up I'd ever come in contact with for the past 15 years. You can't seriously think we're not already a wimpy enough country.
Good God, man -- you mean you can get that detail just by knowing whether the fence at the end of my walkway has a wooden vs. a wrought iron gate? Perhaps you mean my sex? Gender is a grammatical attribute. Sex is a physical attribute.
I wish I had your faith, but they seem to be moving toward trying to turn the internet into TV or radio - a completely closed platform. As long as we have some way to communicate, we'll still be able to set up some form of a network (even if we have to fall back to connecting modems to phone line), but I wouldn't put it past them to start working on closing the telephone network as well. Of course, geeks could bypass the restrictions... if they were willing to risk getting arrested if they got caught.
No, I fear that the internet of tomorrow (and public communication networks in general) will not be like what they are today. I think you vastly underestimate what the general public is willing to give up for the sake of "protecting the children".
And why, exactly, does your desire not to be surrounded by sex and profanity deserve special treatment? What if I (I don't, but it makes the same amount of sense) had a similarly irrational desire not be "surrounded" by depictions of Islam? Or homosexuality? Or mixed-race couples? Or rock and roll? Or flag burning? Or communism? Why should everybody else be bending over backwards to accommodate your irrational prejudice? What about all the other potential irrational prejudices out there?
I as a parent do not want my children exposed to that kind of language
Why do your prejudices get special treatment? What if I, for example (I don't, but it makes about the same amount of sense) don't want my children exposed to islam? Or depictions of homosexuality? Or mixed-race couples? Or religion in general? Or white people? Or just about anything else? Why do the rest of us have to bend over backwards to accommodate your irrational prejudice?
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That'll be cold comfort from your prison cell, you sick, demented, twisted monster.
Don't forget, the left wing has their "hate speech". The only reason there's any freedom of expression anywhere in the world is solely because they can't agree on what to censor.
Not really. Let's make a mad-lib out of this:
Since minors are legally considered to be unable to make an informed decision about _____(noun), in no case should _____(noun) be considered acceptable.
See the problem? This "logic" can be cut-and-pasted to prove that pretty much anything should be illegal.
Not that lack of logic ever stopped lawmakers before...
Come on, don't be silly. If it wasn't, why does Playboy (simple nudity) have to keep accurate records on the birth dates of all of its models and state right on the cover "all models were over the age of 18"?
Another thing that C has going for it is that virtually all Linux apps are written in C. So, if you ever want to install anything from source, and something goes wrong, you'll be glad you know a thing or two about C so you can figure it out (and even submit a patch that ends up being applied to a big, established project like WINE - that's a pretty awesome feeling, let me tell you). All *other* languages interpreters are written in C - it's always worthwhile once you've gotten comfortable with a language like Java to sit down and write your own interpreter in C so you can really get a good feel for what it's actually doing.
So, yeah, I second the parent. Definitely C.
Hey! That says [localhost]. How the hell did you hack into my computer?!
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Yes you are. It's killing you. You're sitting there, right now, steam coming out of your ears, trying to resist the temptation to argue. You just... can't... resist...
That's why I believe everything I hear, just in case it turns out to be one of those things.
Well, obviously that commentator's never been to America. (If he had, he'd know that we don't know what moonbat and netroot mean).
What's your point? That Europeans are a bunch of beret-wearing, skinny-cigarette-smoking, bistro-sitting-all-day-in, hairy-leg-and-armpit-women-having (sort of like a bigger version of New York) wimpy snobs who need real men to fly over and liberate them a couple of times a century? We already knew that.
I'm surprised this ever happens. When I hadn't completed high-school, I was still in an apartment. The manor came quite a while after I had been declared a Doctor of philosophy.
What makes it scary is how few people seem to be able to separate "a 13 year old girl died" from "somebody's about to go to jail for signing up for an internet service under a fake name".
I guess it would have been scarier if I hadn't expected it though.
Um, yes... if it was an accident, anyway. If it was really an accident, you shouldn't be charged with anything (at least not in my view of the universe). If it was intentional, and you were aiming for his head but you hit his arm by mistake, then still yes.
Not sure what side of the fence you're on there, but - so be it. I'm a programmer right now, making a pretty decent living, but if it really gets to the point where I'm forcing (via unionization or whatever) somebody to pay me for something that anybody can do with no education, I'll move on and figure out something else to do with myself.
That said, I don't actually think it will ever happen. The nature of what programmers do will change, but it takes a *long* time to really understand what's going on in those machines. I used to fear things like Visual Basic and Excel, that let non-programmers write programs - until I saw some of the unspeakable abominations against nature and humanity that those people produced. Once you've taken the time to learn how to write code that you can debug and make modifications to, you've become a programmer (and you've invested years of education to get to that point, although if you're smart, you'll short-circuit some of those years and get a real education from a real college for part of it). Since most people haven't invested the mental effort to learn to factor a quadratic equation, I don't see them all taking the time to learn to program a computer in droves.
And don't forget the flip side... all of the math and science recruiting efforts are focused on getting more women in there, for no particular reason other than that they think there aren't enough women in there. I fear that my son will grow up thinking that math and science is "girly" and avoid it on that basis - and that the girls will continue to avoid it as they have for the past 10 million years or so.
Because boys are already born with everything, didn't you know? It's our job as good progressives to take things away from them until everybody's "equal".
Where the hell have you been for the last 30 years? We've been there, tried that, it doesn't work. I grew up in the sissified 80's, and I thought it was OK for boys to cry, until I hit teenage and found out that *girls* don't think it's ok for boys to cry. I toughened the hell up in a hurry when I figured out I'd been lied to by every grown-up I'd ever come in contact with for the past 15 years. You can't seriously think we're not already a wimpy enough country.
Don't worry, your post has given away your sex.
I wish I had your faith, but they seem to be moving toward trying to turn the internet into TV or radio - a completely closed platform. As long as we have some way to communicate, we'll still be able to set up some form of a network (even if we have to fall back to connecting modems to phone line), but I wouldn't put it past them to start working on closing the telephone network as well. Of course, geeks could bypass the restrictions... if they were willing to risk getting arrested if they got caught.
No, I fear that the internet of tomorrow (and public communication networks in general) will not be like what they are today. I think you vastly underestimate what the general public is willing to give up for the sake of "protecting the children".
Because this isn't, and never has been, actually about protecting the children.
No relevance at all - unless, of course, it was a republican (like George W. Bush). Then it's headline news.
And why, exactly, does your desire not to be surrounded by sex and profanity deserve special treatment? What if I (I don't, but it makes the same amount of sense) had a similarly irrational desire not be "surrounded" by depictions of Islam? Or homosexuality? Or mixed-race couples? Or rock and roll? Or flag burning? Or communism? Why should everybody else be bending over backwards to accommodate your irrational prejudice? What about all the other potential irrational prejudices out there?
Why do your prejudices get special treatment? What if I, for example (I don't, but it makes about the same amount of sense) don't want my children exposed to islam? Or depictions of homosexuality? Or mixed-race couples? Or religion in general? Or white people? Or just about anything else? Why do the rest of us have to bend over backwards to accommodate your irrational prejudice?
Not that I agree with them - but they'll point to a recent study that "links" teen pregnancy with sex on TV shows.