Actually I think I have a better way to describe the political goals of both parties.
See for so much the Republicans complain about government intervention they are enthusiast proposers of extending and empowering law enforcement agencies to unreasonable ends or indeed, to no end.
Whereas it is population surveillance, suppression of free speech and public gathering etc
Republicans are basically for the status quo and Democrats for change in contrast, which is why the Conservative/Liberal labels make much sense.
WTF country timeframe are you living on? Never seen Ubuntu succeed? Not even once? On what sort of bizarre island is it impossible to find a single PC that Ubuntu can successfully run?
Language requirements and brands (and models) of computers tried would be also interesting to see. I find it simply unconceivable that you have never seen Ubuntu working right from the start.
And I'm going to guess you're for Republicans but the truth is that things are pretty much that way. Democrat *voters* are likely to choose "socialist" strategies. socialist means, for the betterment of society, specifically through government action since the context is governing policies.
Socialism is the *obviously good* option as being opposed to it implicates being antisocial or in other words, for the detriment of society. So it's not Democrats but Republicans who have a more nuanced and rationalized position.
No, they are not against society, they are against the government doing good for society, the rationale being that government can't be trusted to help society because it is corrupt and/or inefficient. The needs of society are entrusted to the private sector a.k.a. individuals.
Capitalism and voluntary charity are therefore supposed to solve everything.
There are two problems with this position, one is that it has been a long time since power was divided as government vs people without mention to corporations which are small dictatorships each commanding more resources than the USA government had at its inception, The other one being that what little power is left to the government is evidently invested in defending corporate interests as they are the ones who benefit the most out of every public institution, be it the Patent Office, Copyrights, Police Departments, Defense Department etc, while at the same time pushing for tax breaks or at least being taxed no more than an small individual.
Of course Democrats can be criticized as naive either because of their political strategies or because of the fact that most politicians they manage to elect ends up doing the exact opposite of what they were elected for, but at least I can't characterize them as inherently evil.
Nah I'm tired of these grand conspiracy theories that sound too much like creationist propaganda.
If paleontologists found big shiny plasma guns they'll bring them to museums for sure, exactly what religion are they covering up to?
But really, the problem is not that there aren't sings of the forerunners on the ground, but that there is *everything* but signs of the forerunners on the ground.
From Mammals to birds to frogs fish and plants, the ground is *made* of fragments of history telling us a big epic tale of aeons of development and evolution that simply don't have room for much reworking. It really isn't possible to say: "oh and by the way we developed FTL travel for a while but forgot how to pass that on".
About the only "realistic" way to achieve that would involve time travel of some sort.
This is heavily context sensitive but weakening a man's finance can easily destroy his life.
Example, He/his wife/son is sick, mess with that man's insurance and his dead or would drive him to commit something very stupid to acquire money fast.
He got in deep depth as part of a business investment. Mess with that and that guy's life is ruined, etc.
More over this has nothing to do with being "weak". If you are in a situation where killing yourself is an attractive solution then there's no reason not to discard it just to not seem weak.
I've never understood why suicide is always regarded as an invalid action path, as if people had some obligation to live.
Having said so I think you should say good bye the big way and take some with you specifically the ones to blame for your situation.
And Consider Phlebas isn't really much more than a Tresure Island/Pirates of the Caribean IN SPACE!
It is just an excuse to introduce The Culture, the most interesting details are in the addendums. Remarkably, in that the titular Culture is introduced as the antagonists.
Sorta, but you have to admit that "Highly Advanced Ancient Human Civilization" is a) Totally cliché at this point, b) In dire need of some serious explaining why there isn't any evidence on the fossil registry that any of this happened. Any story with this template is relegated to Sci-Fantasy genre.
Because alert is very reliable, I love Firebug and still recur to alert for some stuff including testing why Firebug fails or seems to fail.
I do agree that Firebug is none the less almost perfect and that it is a godsend for Javascript debugging. That doesn't change the fact that Javascript makes itself bothersome by "failing soft" on many situations, it also doesn't change the fact that dynamic languages will always be slower than compiled ones on principle.
And I say this as an ajax app developer.
So yeah Javascript is not as bad as most people think but it is also not that good.
Fair enough, but you have to admit that things start getting sticky when Google tries to pressure you into giving them your cellphone number by using SMS for authentication.
Sure they may already have a rough idea of where I live based on my IP address, heck they may know exactly where I live thanks to the Google maps van that also happened to sniff and store WiFi activity.
They still don't know whether I go to Pizza-Hut or not and they are irritatingly desperate to find out.
Two things we Americans and Mexicans have in common is that we both had an independence war and a civil war later after.
Both of these and the independence wars more clearly illustrate what happens when a group of people rise against the government. Progress.
So much discussion about whether protests are peaceful or violent completely sidesteps the fact that violent revolutions are becoming unattainable.
The possibility of violent revolutions is important. Even if they don't happen, the mere fact that they could happen keeps the government in check.
What motive do they have to obey the population when the worst thing they are allowed to do is complain?
In a way that's why terrorism exists. Right now the only way to threat a government is after the fact. You can't say that you'll beat the president if he doesn't behave, you have to blow up something and *then* say why you did it.
So while discussing about whether I have to request permission from the government before I gather a peaceful protest, let just not lose sight of the big picture, that power difference between the government and the people is more abysmal than ever.
It is my opinion that a government should always be a little afraid of it's people, and I'm extending that to the secret government, the robber baron bankers and the multi-billion dollar CEOs, they shouldn't be able to wreck a country's economy destroy the environment and have a good nights sleep.
How can you tell that dance isn't just a chemical reaction? Or rather who gave you the power to decide that it isn't the same?
Of course I can tell the difference between an activity an the subject tht performs it.
For the same reason I can tell that thought is not merely a bunch of proteins and neurochemicals, thought is the activity that those proteins and chemicals do, and like dance, there is nothing stopping an electronic brain from performing the same activity.
And no, you cannot just tell me that this time, the subject and the activity are the same, at least not without some sort of proof.
You are like an ancient Egyptian who insists my digital wristwatch is not a clock because a clock is sand dripping between two pieces of glass.
I don't need to reach for google or wikipedia to know that, in the human brain, thought is the result of a chemical reaction, I also don't need them to know that in my grandfather's clock time keeping was performed by a set of metal gears.
What you have just merely asserted so far without any proof is that thought is more than just the activity in the brain.
a) But in a far away secluded part of the Internet where I only so much as gathered you individual attention. b) As a foreigner, I have no influence in American politics anyway.
Yes, it is, you can't even gather people without begging for permission to the government. It only seems like it is not an issue when you are a passive consumer working for the system. Try to even speak your mind against the government outside of a free speech cage in a way that doesn't make you look like a raving lunatic and you'll get the police sent after you.
No idiot, thought isn't chemical, people are chemical, thought is something people do, a process.
You are confusing an activity with the object that performs it.
It's like saying a robot can't dance because --for humans-- the statement "Dance and movements are nothing more than complex chemical reactions." is true.
Slashdot must be soo freetarded for pointing out that that this Windows worm only infects Windows!
Because Windows is just as secure as Linux/Mac!
It must be so because I got modded flamebait last time I suggested Windows was more virus prone than alternatives./rant
Ok rant time over, it's because of shit like this that botnets will never case to exist. It's like the PDF madness with Adobe, they took the simple task of sending files over email and somehow convert it into a security nightmare. Couldn't they just mark it as non executable by default?
It uses "not new" technology to select words with 50% accuracy from a list such as "yes" and "no"...really. (Okay, it hits 90% accuracy with only two items and goes down to 48% with 10.)
In other news, you can use P300 responses picked up with a $300 off-the-shelf over-the-hair EEG receiver to select from a grid of visual stimuli at a pretty good rate and with something like 95%+ accuracy (presumably nearly 100% with the sort of training that goes into touchscreen or voice activated interfaces). Those items can be letters, words, pictures...whatever. Anything quickly recognizable. Congrats guys, you just invented a crappy version of something I can buy for $300 which requires cutting open the person's skull and implanting things on the surface of their brain.
FYI, to whoever funded this, please give the lab I work at the grant monies next time. We'll make much better use of it.
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Indeed, also considering you have to visit the site to read it, I think it is safe to assume that anybody who had visited the site already had something against Islam.
Personally I hate "hate speach"/"hate crime" laws, they sound too eerily similar to though crime.
It uses "not new" technology to select words with 50% accuracy from a list such as "yes" and "no"...really. (Okay, it hits 90% accuracy with only two items and goes down to 48% with 10.)
In other news, you can use P300 responses picked up with a $300 off-the-shelf over-the-hair EEG receiver to select from a grid of visual stimuli at a pretty good rate and with something like 95%+ accuracy (presumably nearly 100% with the sort of training that goes into touchscreen or voice activated interfaces). Those items can be letters, words, pictures...whatever. Anything quickly recognizable. Congrats guys, you just invented a crappy version of something I can buy for $300 which requires cutting open the person's skull and implanting things on the surface of their brain.
FYI, to whoever funded this, please give the lab I work at the grant monies next time. We'll make much better use of it.
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Actually why not? Let us see all the information about the case, I'm sure it doesn't hold water. As the parent said, that a politician is rushing an ongoing investigation to bully Assange somehow I think they would be the most affected by total disclosure.
For aggregation, Relational is king, an RDBMS is *made* to answer questions such as "Find me all people who own a 1996-2010 Year Toyota Prius.", it is a great tool for analysts, admins managers and marketroids.
What an RDBMS is not made for that a Non-RDBMS is, is answering a million simultaneous questions of the form, "Find me the list of cars of user $username as well as his/her name, gender, email, latest picture, favorite color, friends list and whether he said he prefers cats or dogs in our last survey if he did took such survey." as well as saving back any changes the user makes.
An ACID compliant RDBMS can't even get read access to the user, car, friend, picture and pet_survey_answer table set as long as any of the million users of the system is making a change to his data, even if the application only locks one table at a time for write access, let alone the problem of a million users trying to gain write access to the same table at the same time.
All of this because the application's persistence model is optimized for offline analysis rather than, well providing persistence for the application.
So it's not like Non-RDBMS only exist because of ignorance and incompetency.
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Actually I think I have a better way to describe the political goals of both parties.
See for so much the Republicans complain about government intervention they are enthusiast proposers of extending and empowering law enforcement agencies to unreasonable ends or indeed, to no end.
Whereas it is population surveillance, suppression of free speech and public gathering etc
Republicans are basically for the status quo and Democrats for change in contrast, which is why the Conservative/Liberal labels make much sense.
I for one am socked that people equate advertisement and tracking so readily.
Tracking is not necessary for advertisements dammit.
WTF country timeframe are you living on? Never seen Ubuntu succeed? Not even once? On what sort of bizarre island is it impossible to find a single PC that Ubuntu can successfully run?
Language requirements and brands (and models) of computers tried would be also interesting to see. I find it simply unconceivable that you have never seen Ubuntu working right from the start.
And I'm going to guess you're for Republicans but the truth is that things are pretty much that way. Democrat *voters* are likely to choose "socialist" strategies. socialist means, for the betterment of society, specifically through government action since the context is governing policies.
Socialism is the *obviously good* option as being opposed to it implicates being antisocial or in other words, for the detriment of society. So it's not Democrats but Republicans who have a more nuanced and rationalized position.
No, they are not against society, they are against the government doing good for society, the rationale being that government can't be trusted to help society because it is corrupt and/or inefficient. The needs of society are entrusted to the private sector a.k.a. individuals.
Capitalism and voluntary charity are therefore supposed to solve everything.
There are two problems with this position, one is that it has been a long time since power was divided as government vs people without mention to corporations which are small dictatorships each commanding more resources than the USA government had at its inception, The other one being that what little power is left to the government is evidently invested in defending corporate interests as they are the ones who benefit the most out of every public institution, be it the Patent Office, Copyrights, Police Departments, Defense Department etc, while at the same time pushing for tax breaks or at least being taxed no more than an small individual.
Of course Democrats can be criticized as naive either because of their political strategies or because of the fact that most politicians they manage to elect ends up doing the exact opposite of what they were elected for, but at least I can't characterize them as inherently evil.
Nah I'm tired of these grand conspiracy theories that sound too much like creationist propaganda.
If paleontologists found big shiny plasma guns they'll bring them to museums for sure, exactly what religion are they covering up to?
But really, the problem is not that there aren't sings of the forerunners on the ground, but that there is *everything* but signs of the forerunners on the ground.
From Mammals to birds to frogs fish and plants, the ground is *made* of fragments of history telling us a big epic tale of aeons of development and evolution that simply don't have room for much reworking. It really isn't possible to say: "oh and by the way we developed FTL travel for a while but forgot how to pass that on".
About the only "realistic" way to achieve that would involve time travel of some sort.
I know that you want to be very intellectually strict but you come across as conceptually handicapped.
Firstly Murder and Theft are not opposed concepts like Up and Down or Left and Right so those examples are invalid.
The opposite of Murder would be something like Non-Consensual Resurrection.
Black and White if strictly defined like #000 and #FFF are also bad examples because they don't have degrees of flexibility.
Murder and Theft have degrees of seriousness and degrees of punishments.
A better example would be like cake and cookies from a diabetic's point of view.
Eating a cake is worse than eating a cookie but too many cookies are as bad as a cake.
Of course strictly defined Theft will never be Murder but too large a theft can be as bad as a murder and punished accordingly.
This is heavily context sensitive but weakening a man's finance can easily destroy his life.
Example, He/his wife/son is sick, mess with that man's insurance and his dead or would drive him to commit something very stupid to acquire money fast.
He got in deep depth as part of a business investment. Mess with that and that guy's life is ruined, etc.
More over this has nothing to do with being "weak". If you are in a situation where killing yourself is an attractive solution then there's no reason not to discard it just to not seem weak.
I've never understood why suicide is always regarded as an invalid action path, as if people had some obligation to live.
Having said so I think you should say good bye the big way and take some with you specifically the ones to blame for your situation.
And Consider Phlebas isn't really much more than a Tresure Island/Pirates of the Caribean IN SPACE!
It is just an excuse to introduce The Culture, the most interesting details are in the addendums. Remarkably, in that the titular Culture is introduced as the antagonists.
Sorta, but you have to admit that "Highly Advanced Ancient Human Civilization" is a) Totally cliché at this point, b) In dire need of some serious explaining why there isn't any evidence on the fossil registry that any of this happened. Any story with this template is relegated to Sci-Fantasy genre.
Because alert is very reliable, I love Firebug and still recur to alert for some stuff including testing why Firebug fails or seems to fail.
I do agree that Firebug is none the less almost perfect and that it is a godsend for Javascript debugging. That doesn't change the fact that Javascript makes itself bothersome by "failing soft" on many situations, it also doesn't change the fact that dynamic languages will always be slower than compiled ones on principle.
And I say this as an ajax app developer.
So yeah Javascript is not as bad as most people think but it is also not that good.
Fair enough, but you have to admit that things start getting sticky when Google tries to pressure you into giving them your cellphone number by using SMS for authentication.
Sure they may already have a rough idea of where I live based on my IP address, heck they may know exactly where I live thanks to the Google maps van that also happened to sniff and store WiFi activity.
They still don't know whether I go to Pizza-Hut or not and they are irritatingly desperate to find out.
P!=NP
(P-1)! * P=NP
N=(P-1)!
Two things we Americans and Mexicans have in common is that we both had an independence war and a civil war later after.
Both of these and the independence wars more clearly illustrate what happens when a group of people rise against the government. Progress.
So much discussion about whether protests are peaceful or violent completely sidesteps the fact that violent revolutions are becoming unattainable.
The possibility of violent revolutions is important. Even if they don't happen, the mere fact that they could happen keeps the government in check.
What motive do they have to obey the population when the worst thing they are allowed to do is complain?
In a way that's why terrorism exists. Right now the only way to threat a government is after the fact. You can't say that you'll beat the president if he doesn't behave, you have to blow up something and *then* say why you did it.
So while discussing about whether I have to request permission from the government before I gather a peaceful protest, let just not lose sight of the big picture, that power difference between the government and the people is more abysmal than ever.
It is my opinion that a government should always be a little afraid of it's people, and I'm extending that to the secret government, the robber baron bankers and the multi-billion dollar CEOs, they shouldn't be able to wreck a country's economy destroy the environment and have a good nights sleep.
How can you tell that dance isn't just a chemical reaction? Or rather who gave you the power to decide that it isn't the same?
Of course I can tell the difference between an activity an the subject tht performs it.
For the same reason I can tell that thought is not merely a bunch of proteins and neurochemicals, thought is the activity that those proteins and chemicals do, and like dance, there is nothing stopping an electronic brain from performing the same activity.
And no, you cannot just tell me that this time, the subject and the activity are the same, at least not without some sort of proof.
You are like an ancient Egyptian who insists my digital wristwatch is not a clock because a clock is sand dripping between two pieces of glass.
I don't need to reach for google or wikipedia to know that, in the human brain, thought is the result of a chemical reaction, I also don't need them to know that in my grandfather's clock time keeping was performed by a set of metal gears.
What you have just merely asserted so far without any proof is that thought is more than just the activity in the brain.
Admittedly is not my best post but I get fed up from time to time.
a) But in a far away secluded part of the Internet where I only so much as gathered you individual attention.
b) As a foreigner, I have no influence in American politics anyway.
Yes, it is, you can't even gather people without begging for permission to the government. It only seems like it is not an issue when you are a passive consumer working for the system. Try to even speak your mind against the government outside of a free speech cage in a way that doesn't make you look like a raving lunatic and you'll get the police sent after you.
http://youtu.be/akwjAjcQnqM
No idiot, thought isn't chemical, people are chemical, thought is something people do, a process.
You are confusing an activity with the object that performs it.
It's like saying a robot can't dance because --for humans-- the statement "Dance and movements are nothing more than complex chemical reactions." is true.
Slashdot must be soo freetarded for pointing out that that this Windows worm only infects Windows!
Because Windows is just as secure as Linux/Mac!
It must be so because I got modded flamebait last time I suggested Windows was more virus prone than alternatives. /rant
Ok rant time over, it's because of shit like this that botnets will never case to exist. It's like the PDF madness with Adobe, they took the simple task of sending files over email and somehow convert it into a security nightmare. Couldn't they just mark it as non executable by default?
It uses "not new" technology to select words with 50% accuracy from a list such as "yes" and "no"...really. (Okay, it hits 90% accuracy with only two items and goes down to 48% with 10.)
In other news, you can use P300 responses picked up with a $300 off-the-shelf over-the-hair EEG receiver to select from a grid of visual stimuli at a pretty good rate and with something like 95%+ accuracy (presumably nearly 100% with the sort of training that goes into touchscreen or voice activated interfaces). Those items can be letters, words, pictures...whatever. Anything quickly recognizable. Congrats guys, you just invented a crappy version of something I can buy for $300 which requires cutting open the person's skull and implanting things on the surface of their brain.
FYI, to whoever funded this, please give the lab I work at the grant monies next time. We'll make much better use of it.
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Indeed, also considering you have to visit the site to read it, I think it is safe to assume that anybody who had visited the site already had something against Islam.
Personally I hate "hate speach"/"hate crime" laws, they sound too eerily similar to though crime.
It uses "not new" technology to select words with 50% accuracy from a list such as "yes" and "no"...really. (Okay, it hits 90% accuracy with only two items and goes down to 48% with 10.)
In other news, you can use P300 responses picked up with a $300 off-the-shelf over-the-hair EEG receiver to select from a grid of visual stimuli at a pretty good rate and with something like 95%+ accuracy (presumably nearly 100% with the sort of training that goes into touchscreen or voice activated interfaces). Those items can be letters, words, pictures...whatever. Anything quickly recognizable. Congrats guys, you just invented a crappy version of something I can buy for $300 which requires cutting open the person's skull and implanting things on the surface of their brain.
FYI, to whoever funded this, please give the lab I work at the grant monies next time. We'll make much better use of it.
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Actually why not? Let us see all the information about the case, I'm sure it doesn't hold water. As the parent said, that a politician is rushing an ongoing investigation to bully Assange somehow I think they would be the most affected by total disclosure.
Although I think that we need some people pushing hard for copyright abolition for balance.
You are missing the point.
For aggregation, Relational is king, an RDBMS is *made* to answer questions such as "Find me all people who own a 1996-2010 Year Toyota Prius.", it is a great tool for analysts, admins managers and marketroids.
What an RDBMS is not made for that a Non-RDBMS is, is answering a million simultaneous questions of the form, "Find me the list of cars of user $username as well as his/her name, gender, email, latest picture, favorite color, friends list and whether he said he prefers cats or dogs in our last survey if he did took such survey." as well as saving back any changes the user makes.
An ACID compliant RDBMS can't even get read access to the user, car, friend, picture and pet_survey_answer table set as long as any of the million users of the system is making a change to his data, even if the application only locks one table at a time for write access, let alone the problem of a million users trying to gain write access to the same table at the same time.
All of this because the application's persistence model is optimized for offline analysis rather than, well providing persistence for the application.
So it's not like Non-RDBMS only exist because of ignorance and incompetency.