The problems have absolutely nothing to do with lack of income tax in Texas. Texas is horribly mismanaged and has more than its share of corruption and theft of public funds. The governor is one of the more prominent criminals; which even includes using eminent domain to take private property to gift to his friends.
Texas is an extremely wealthy state (oil, gas, technology, manufacturing, exports/imports, transportation hub) and has had big budget problems before. They've always been addressed by simply clamping down on the extremely huge excesses which are extremely common in Texas politics. It may take a couple of years but its easily doable. Worst case, roads which were never needed will hopefully, simply not get built. Some public park facilities will be shut down. Some corporate shelters are tightened.
The day Texas requires income tax is the day Texas criminals and politicians have won, leaving the general population to simply suck it up. Most other states have income tax because they don't have the critical mass in corporate presence or the population to sustain on sales tax alone. No ifs, ands, or buts, if Texas needs income tax, the corruption is so bad, politicians literally need to be lynched in the streets.
Any parent that knows their child is a dimwit, as the comments were then obviously about their child. Then the child can sue the parents for admitting he/she is a dimwit in a public forum.
And when all the children's parents sue, the judge will be forced to dismiss the cases because of admission by the parents.
I don't disagree with anything you said. Java's strength is that programmers are plentiful, coders are typically more productive with Java than C++, and performance is frequently good enough. What's not to like.
But at the end of the day, when all you hear is that Java is the faster language available and in the real world is never is close, you start to wonder if those cheap programmers are even worth their discounted salaries. Meaning, they are doing a disservice to themselves and the language. Java has strong enough legs to walk on its own - its doesn't need the lies and hype - which otherwise only serves to cut its legs out from under it.
Have you ever once had the ability to properly compare these things?
Yes! And almost without fail, it typically boils down to an apples and oranges comparison except the Java coders doesn't understand what's going on under the covers so they don't understand its actually an apples (a) to oranges (o) comparison. Furthermore, when I've then changed the code to make it an a to o comparison, traditionally C++ then takes a massive lead, sometimes by as much as an order of magnitude.
And frankly, that's part of the problem. Most Java coders I've met don't have deep system knowledge and even less C++ knowledge. Likewise, finding strong C++ coders can be trying (which is one of Java's strength). As a result, you wind up with a lot of completely unqualified people creating benchmarks, who don't understand what's going on, and then proclaim to the world their result means X when in reality it means something entirely different; and typically that difference is of the apples and oranges variety.
It isn't lying or hype that Java is sometimes, under certain edge cases, faster than C.
And that's entirely the point and entirely why its a huge lie - and purposely so. Edge cases are so rarely representative of real world applications, its hardly noteworthy. But to then take a foot note and present it as a metric for the entire spectrum absolutely is dishonest with every intent to mislead. Again, that's the point. Even you see the bullshit, but you're being more polite and dancing around what it. We all know its a lie. Stop dancing, acknowledge it, and move it. And frankly, I already take your statement to be an acknowledgment.
Java's greatest strength is that programmers are plentiful and performance is generally good enough. The lies and hype are certainly not needed. And frankly, I'm tired of hearing a decade of lies and hype.
How is this post possibly overrated? Is citing Pickens a dirty word now? Holy shit that moderator is stupid. Its factually accurate and to the point. WTF is wrong with moderators these days that they can't even do such a simple job. Talk about both an idiot of a moderator and a waste of a moderation point.
I agree with you. I certainly don't wish to revise history, but your comment leaves me pondering. All previous presidential sins are bore by the standing president?
I asked because the way I interpret your post is that every president only ever suffers from a single fate in available decisions. Perhaps GW did have longer vision than people give him credit; to wit his has always asserted. Of course, having long vision doesn't validate him either, but isn't there room for possibilities that not all presidents are doomed to make the same decision regardless of circumstance?
One thing I've learned from watching politics is you can never make everyone happy. Even if Egypt hadn't been propped up with the US' annual 1.3 billion dollar bribe, someone would be whining about something or another. The region has been stable. The people paid for it. But to what deficit? Meaning, what would have been the alternative and its cost to humanity? Iraq-esq rapes and murders? A panacea of Sharia law just doesn't seem all that likely. Perhaps the lessor of evils still grows fangs when looking through the window of time?
I really not trolling. I hope it doesn't come across that way. I guess I'm saying, I don't know enough about the decisions which created the US' current bribe and policy toward Egypt. Nor do I know or understand the implications of what the world would look like without it. As such, its hard to say if stone throwing is appropriate.
Airframes, engines, etc all have liimited resource.
I thought I covered that with:
And those numbers completely ignore per troop cost, transport, refits on equipment, general maintenance, fuel consumption, food and general supplies.
But fair enough...
It is not the munitions shot or the equipment lost which is the major expense. It is just having it out there which is clocking the crazy money.
I thought I was illustrating that with the Apache example where I said,
An Apache, for example, costs roughly $5000/hr to operate and then requires 3.5 hours of maintenance for every hour flown. The maintenance, excluding parts, is several thousand per hour.
But again, fair enough. Modern war is extremely expensive. Just deploying a force as large as the US currently does is enough to bankrupt many smaller nations. The numbers get huge quickly. And massive increases in oil consumption always follows any wartime deployment - especially given the US is one of the largest consumers of oil even during peace time.
Sooooo, does it matter if oil comes from middle east or elsewhere? Total world consumption has to come from somewhere
Does it matter than 10% is funding a disproportionate amount of tyranny and terrorists alike? Last I heard, Canada isn't working overtime to brainwash their masses to murder US citizens.
The assumption is an easy one to make given the position you've established in your previous posts. If my assumptions are wrong, correct me. I'm not so proud.
But...your response is hardly surprising. When your conspiracy is blown to shit and proves you're an idiot, just like the panel I referenced, your only option is to retreat into delusion or to ignore the facts. You've picked both.
The Bozo bit has been flipped.
I absolutely agree - you have flipped out and eventually hit the Bozo bit. Again, your response completely validates everything I've said up to this point.
Seriously, if the conspiracy has any credibility, set me straight. How is it that all experts are wrong and you are correct?
I personally believe we invaded for long term regional stability and in altruistic hope of bringing democracy. Democracy in of itself brings stability, better human rights and economic expansion. All of which are good for the economy (consumers at some point), long term oil price stability, and best of all, it can keep terrorism and extremists suppressed - or at worst, contained. Furthermore, it gives countries like Iran and Syria pause.
Completely ignoring oil, there is a literal laundry list of reasons to be there which directly and/or indirectly benefit the US (and other countries) for decades and potentially centuries to come.
Ya I know - bad for to reply to yourself...but I wanted to add some more detail.
Guided artillery - $35,000 per shell JDAM - $10,000 each, plus the actual bomb.50 cal round - roughly $1.50 each 556 round - roughly $0.50 each 762 round - roughly $0.70 each hand grenade - roughly $30 each Apache helicopter - roughly $16-17 million each (lost several) M1A1 tank - roughly $4.5 million each (we've lost several) plus lots of other vehicles and aircraft cruise missile - $0.5 million each hellfire missile - roughly $72,000 each other various missile - $5,000 - $200,000 each artillery shell - roughly $1500 each
And those numbers completely ignore per troop cost, transport, refits on equipment, general maintenance, fuel consumption, food and general supplies.
An Apache, for example, costs roughly $5000/hr to operate and then requires 3.5 hours of maintenance for every hour flown. The maintenance, excluding parts, is several thousand per hour.
You can imagine the numbers get astronomical extremely quickly. Simply put, unless you plan on an imperialistic expansion, like what England used to do, whereby you completely oppress the people and rape the land for several decades, it is all but impossible for war to ever become cost effective.
Hence the "I have no clue how expensive warfare actually is."
People who say the US invaded Iraq for cheaper oil are completely out of touch with the most basic facts of the cost of war. Not to mention the volume of oil consumed and corresponding economic pressures, not to mention the price at the pump as a result of the increased demand. The US military, at peace time, is one of the world's largest consumers of oil. The gap grows tremendously when they are at war.
Even if the war has been over and all troops came on GW' carrier flag day, it would have taken decades to make back a return on the "war investment." And even at that time, bringing the troops home was literally impossible. Such statements have NEVER made sense. Not one bit. But I guess its fun to say if you just want meaningless ammunition to throw at politicians. After all, most other people don't know any better either.
Do you, hold all of these facts in your head or have you done extensive research into the subject where you've verified and authenticated all of your sources?
Both. The fact you're asking means YOU'VE not bothered to do any real, honest research into both sides of the story and have rather allowed yourself to be shoved bullshit by conspiracy buffoons.
There are endless amounts of information and even very detailed documentaries which exist specifically to dissect the propaganda put forward by the Truthers. Literally, the Truthers have no legs to stand once you bother to look at any of the real evidence.
The History Channel or Discovery (forget which) has a very nice series of documentaries where they attempt to gather evidence. The even hire subject matter experts and conduct tests. They even interviews with yet more subject matter experts. They could not find any credible evidence, not one bit, which supported the Truthers in the least. Likewise, without fail, when their panel of Truthers were shown the evidence which clearly proved they were full of shit, all of them refused to accept it. Their only excuse was that somehow, physics in the universe stopped working on those towers that day and therefore, their conspiracy explanation was the only explanation. Oddly enough, all in the panel make money from continuing the conspiracy.
Ignoring that, computer simulations, which generically exist to simulate real world physics, all completely validate the official story of building collapse. Even the penetration on the Pentagon was so accurately reproduced, it properly placed bodies and debris inside the build+debris field.
Ignoring the facts, just think about probabilities. What are the odds that some 10,000-50,000, from the general public, would be able to remain quiet in what would be one of the world's biggest and most Earth-shattering conspiracies in history? Think about that for a second. And yes, those number has been tabulated by experts, and that's the range they've determined, depending on who you talk to. You can be absolutely sure that if such a conspiracy existed, Wikileaks would be having a field day with it - and long ago.
Critically look at what's available. Nothing the Truther's say make the least bit sense. All too often they refuse to accept basic physics. Yes, basic physics is in denial here. The logistics are mind boggling if not flat out impossible. The conspiracy with so many people from the general population angle is also all but impossible. Literally, absolutely nothing makes sense and none of their "evidence" survives the least bit of scientific scrutiny. None of it.
So which is more likely? A massive conspiracy which is all but impossible whereby absolutely no other evidence exists to support; or, every bit of evidence which exists which is shown to completely invalidate the conspiracy? Its an easy choice for anyone who cares about facts and truth rather than a wish to satisfy their own internal narrative (evil government).
Long story short, there is absolutely zero credible evidence that the official story does not completely explain the attacks on 9/11.
People assume that most of Minecraft's issues are the result of using Java... without considering the programmer's failings.
Unfortunately, that's what is said every time someone sees a slow Java application. Which is yet even more unfortunate as that seems to be the norm for Java applications.
When Java jockeys go out of there way to make noise about how speedy java is (faster than C), people have an expectation of it being as speedy as constantly boasted. And then when it consistently fails to meet expectations set by those who should know, people complain loudly.
Frankly, Java is frequently "fast enough". And there is nothing wrong with that. It is, after all, pretty fast for a fair number of use cases. I've used several Java applications which were fast enough and provided a good experience. Just the same, I've never run a real world, long-running application, which was actually faster than C or C++. Never. Not once. Which leads me to believe, either I've been lied to by Java programmers or every Java programmer is a bad programmer. Either way, its not a good thing.
The Java world needs to simply accept that Java is frequently "fast enough" and move on. Stop with the lying. Stop with the hype. Most people truly don't care so long as its "fast enough". That is, up until people go out of their way to make a big point about how Java is the fastest language ever created. Its at this point, everyone gets upset and disillusioned and then posts like this get written.
The truth is, Java, in real applications, is rarely, if ever, faster than C or C++. Period. In fact, its frequently much, much slower. The facts are, when people need performance there are really, really, really good reasons why people still use C, C++, and asm. Likewise, there are really good reasons why Java is almost never considered for these applications. And when Java is used in stead of C, C++, or asm, its usually because of corporate culture, idealogical, religious, or plain old ignorance.
I'm not sure if you're trolling or not but I guess I'm biting.
Factually, the government is known to have done some really bad things. Factually, there is no evidence the government was involved in 9/11. Factually, there is tons of evidence it was done completely independently of government support. Factually, everything Truthers have brought up as a point of contention has been shot down by subject matter experts and all too frequently, physics.
My post did not say conspiracies don't exist. They absolutely do. The point being, despite Truthers being borderline certifiable, their "evidence" fits their narrative (evil government) and therefore must be true regardless of the fact that everything, and I mean everything, says they are bat-shit crazy...and yet the conspiracy lives.
Just FYI, both Japanese and Germans were interned during WWII. They were kept separate largely because most of the Japanese-Americans who were interned there considered the German's to be untrustworthy. Accordingly, their keeps feared problems. In some camps they were allowed to mix but it almost never happened. Each collective kept to themselves.
IIRC, the last of the Japanese were released from the camps almost two years after the end of WWII. The interned Germans were much more lucky.
So these Evil Consultants are running a propaganda campaign about Wikileaks, and Anonymous leaks their "secret plans", including the plan to try to sell a disinformation plan to BofA... But can we trust all the incriminating pages in the leaked secret plans? Could Anonymous have planted a bit of extra content in the leaked material? Could the Evil Consultants themselves planted bogus material in the leak, and leaked it to Anonymous themselves?
I would like to subscribe to your news letter, but only if it dramatically goes, "Dunt dunt DUUUUNNNT!", and tells me what happened in previous episodes when I open it.
Not a misconception at all. Running a "country" inside your own "castle" and surrounding peasantry within their "city" is certainly not free. And the trappings of the church are hardly free nor any less decadent.
Get back to us when the Vatican and the endless, decadent cathedrals don't exist at the expense of the poor who often remain poor specifically because they tithe to the church and follow the church's doctrine (which is, how to create and maintain your own ignorant, poor, loyal, peasantry).
Its much like the major production houses - on paper they are all poppers but reality is quite different. And isn't it especially ironic that their own book preaches they must pay taxes - and yet they don't.
I'm assuming he was ignorantly referred to the old SMB password mechanism where the hash, which was transmitted in the clear, in of itself is the password.
SAMBA supports it because they must for compatibility with Microsoft but even Microsoft long abandoned that approach specifically because it was so insecure and trivial to bypass. Accordingly, SAMBA has likewise moved on. Furthermore, SAMBA documentation makes it very clear that enabling backwards compatibility is very insecure and certainly not a good idea.
If that's not what he's referring to, then I can't imagine how he possible came to such a conclusion - as you rightly pointed out.
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accurately describes this as a tool for pre/post validation of method arguments and return values
Now that makes more sense.
As a side note, Python is able to do this by means of decorators and now with annotations in Python 3. Here's some example code.
The problems have absolutely nothing to do with lack of income tax in Texas. Texas is horribly mismanaged and has more than its share of corruption and theft of public funds. The governor is one of the more prominent criminals; which even includes using eminent domain to take private property to gift to his friends.
Texas is an extremely wealthy state (oil, gas, technology, manufacturing, exports/imports, transportation hub) and has had big budget problems before. They've always been addressed by simply clamping down on the extremely huge excesses which are extremely common in Texas politics. It may take a couple of years but its easily doable. Worst case, roads which were never needed will hopefully, simply not get built. Some public park facilities will be shut down. Some corporate shelters are tightened.
The day Texas requires income tax is the day Texas criminals and politicians have won, leaving the general population to simply suck it up. Most other states have income tax because they don't have the critical mass in corporate presence or the population to sustain on sales tax alone. No ifs, ands, or buts, if Texas needs income tax, the corruption is so bad, politicians literally need to be lynched in the streets.
That's my point.
Any parent that knows their child is a dimwit, as the comments were then obviously about their child. Then the child can sue the parents for admitting he/she is a dimwit in a public forum.
And when all the children's parents sue, the judge will be forced to dismiss the cases because of admission by the parents.
Anyone who says "viz-a-viz" is a smarmy pseudointellectual bastard who loves the smell of his own farts. No exceptions.
Ummm....did you just say it? Perhaps you're right after all!
I don't disagree with anything you said. Java's strength is that programmers are plentiful, coders are typically more productive with Java than C++, and performance is frequently good enough. What's not to like.
But at the end of the day, when all you hear is that Java is the faster language available and in the real world is never is close, you start to wonder if those cheap programmers are even worth their discounted salaries. Meaning, they are doing a disservice to themselves and the language. Java has strong enough legs to walk on its own - its doesn't need the lies and hype - which otherwise only serves to cut its legs out from under it.
Have you ever once had the ability to properly compare these things?
Yes! And almost without fail, it typically boils down to an apples and oranges comparison except the Java coders doesn't understand what's going on under the covers so they don't understand its actually an apples (a) to oranges (o) comparison. Furthermore, when I've then changed the code to make it an a to o comparison, traditionally C++ then takes a massive lead, sometimes by as much as an order of magnitude.
And frankly, that's part of the problem. Most Java coders I've met don't have deep system knowledge and even less C++ knowledge. Likewise, finding strong C++ coders can be trying (which is one of Java's strength). As a result, you wind up with a lot of completely unqualified people creating benchmarks, who don't understand what's going on, and then proclaim to the world their result means X when in reality it means something entirely different; and typically that difference is of the apples and oranges variety.
It isn't lying or hype that Java is sometimes, under certain edge cases, faster than C.
And that's entirely the point and entirely why its a huge lie - and purposely so. Edge cases are so rarely representative of real world applications, its hardly noteworthy. But to then take a foot note and present it as a metric for the entire spectrum absolutely is dishonest with every intent to mislead. Again, that's the point. Even you see the bullshit, but you're being more polite and dancing around what it. We all know its a lie. Stop dancing, acknowledge it, and move it. And frankly, I already take your statement to be an acknowledgment.
Java's greatest strength is that programmers are plentiful and performance is generally good enough. The lies and hype are certainly not needed. And frankly, I'm tired of hearing a decade of lies and hype.
How is this post possibly overrated? Is citing Pickens a dirty word now? Holy shit that moderator is stupid. Its factually accurate and to the point. WTF is wrong with moderators these days that they can't even do such a simple job. Talk about both an idiot of a moderator and a waste of a moderation point.
Something that automatically generates a code based on the time would be great.
"Google Authenticator" does that.
I agree with you. I certainly don't wish to revise history, but your comment leaves me pondering. All previous presidential sins are bore by the standing president?
I asked because the way I interpret your post is that every president only ever suffers from a single fate in available decisions. Perhaps GW did have longer vision than people give him credit; to wit his has always asserted. Of course, having long vision doesn't validate him either, but isn't there room for possibilities that not all presidents are doomed to make the same decision regardless of circumstance?
One thing I've learned from watching politics is you can never make everyone happy. Even if Egypt hadn't been propped up with the US' annual 1.3 billion dollar bribe, someone would be whining about something or another. The region has been stable. The people paid for it. But to what deficit? Meaning, what would have been the alternative and its cost to humanity? Iraq-esq rapes and murders? A panacea of Sharia law just doesn't seem all that likely. Perhaps the lessor of evils still grows fangs when looking through the window of time?
I really not trolling. I hope it doesn't come across that way. I guess I'm saying, I don't know enough about the decisions which created the US' current bribe and policy toward Egypt. Nor do I know or understand the implications of what the world would look like without it. As such, its hard to say if stone throwing is appropriate.
You are missing the major expense.
Airframes, engines, etc all have liimited resource.
I thought I covered that with:
And those numbers completely ignore per troop cost, transport, refits on equipment, general maintenance, fuel consumption, food and general supplies.
But fair enough...
It is not the munitions shot or the equipment lost which is the major expense. It is just having it out there which is clocking the crazy money.
I thought I was illustrating that with the Apache example where I said,
An Apache, for example, costs roughly $5000/hr to operate and then requires 3.5 hours of maintenance for every hour flown. The maintenance, excluding parts, is several thousand per hour.
But again, fair enough. Modern war is extremely expensive. Just deploying a force as large as the US currently does is enough to bankrupt many smaller nations. The numbers get huge quickly. And massive increases in oil consumption always follows any wartime deployment - especially given the US is one of the largest consumers of oil even during peace time.
Install, "Google Authenticator" to allow for two-factor authentication with your Android device.
Sooooo, does it matter if oil comes from middle east or elsewhere? Total world consumption has to come from somewhere
Does it matter than 10% is funding a disproportionate amount of tyranny and terrorists alike? Last I heard, Canada isn't working overtime to brainwash their masses to murder US citizens.
The assumption is an easy one to make given the position you've established in your previous posts. If my assumptions are wrong, correct me. I'm not so proud.
But...your response is hardly surprising. When your conspiracy is blown to shit and proves you're an idiot, just like the panel I referenced, your only option is to retreat into delusion or to ignore the facts. You've picked both.
The Bozo bit has been flipped.
I absolutely agree - you have flipped out and eventually hit the Bozo bit. Again, your response completely validates everything I've said up to this point.
Seriously, if the conspiracy has any credibility, set me straight. How is it that all experts are wrong and you are correct?
You have my pity.
I personally believe we invaded for long term regional stability and in altruistic hope of bringing democracy. Democracy in of itself brings stability, better human rights and economic expansion. All of which are good for the economy (consumers at some point), long term oil price stability, and best of all, it can keep terrorism and extremists suppressed - or at worst, contained. Furthermore, it gives countries like Iran and Syria pause.
Completely ignoring oil, there is a literal laundry list of reasons to be there which directly and/or indirectly benefit the US (and other countries) for decades and potentially centuries to come.
Ya I know - bad for to reply to yourself...but I wanted to add some more detail.
Guided artillery - $35,000 per shell .50 cal round - roughly $1.50 each
JDAM - $10,000 each, plus the actual bomb
556 round - roughly $0.50 each
762 round - roughly $0.70 each
hand grenade - roughly $30 each
Apache helicopter - roughly $16-17 million each (lost several)
M1A1 tank - roughly $4.5 million each (we've lost several)
plus lots of other vehicles and aircraft
cruise missile - $0.5 million each
hellfire missile - roughly $72,000 each
other various missile - $5,000 - $200,000 each
artillery shell - roughly $1500 each
And those numbers completely ignore per troop cost, transport, refits on equipment, general maintenance, fuel consumption, food and general supplies.
An Apache, for example, costs roughly $5000/hr to operate and then requires 3.5 hours of maintenance for every hour flown. The maintenance, excluding parts, is several thousand per hour.
You can imagine the numbers get astronomical extremely quickly. Simply put, unless you plan on an imperialistic expansion, like what England used to do, whereby you completely oppress the people and rape the land for several decades, it is all but impossible for war to ever become cost effective.
Hence the "I have no clue how expensive warfare actually is."
People who say the US invaded Iraq for cheaper oil are completely out of touch with the most basic facts of the cost of war. Not to mention the volume of oil consumed and corresponding economic pressures, not to mention the price at the pump as a result of the increased demand. The US military, at peace time, is one of the world's largest consumers of oil. The gap grows tremendously when they are at war.
Even if the war has been over and all troops came on GW' carrier flag day, it would have taken decades to make back a return on the "war investment." And even at that time, bringing the troops home was literally impossible. Such statements have NEVER made sense. Not one bit. But I guess its fun to say if you just want meaningless ammunition to throw at politicians. After all, most other people don't know any better either.
According to Pickens, the US only consumes 10% of the middle east's oil.
Do you, hold all of these facts in your head or have you done extensive research into the subject where you've verified and authenticated all of your sources?
Both. The fact you're asking means YOU'VE not bothered to do any real, honest research into both sides of the story and have rather allowed yourself to be shoved bullshit by conspiracy buffoons.
There are endless amounts of information and even very detailed documentaries which exist specifically to dissect the propaganda put forward by the Truthers. Literally, the Truthers have no legs to stand once you bother to look at any of the real evidence.
The History Channel or Discovery (forget which) has a very nice series of documentaries where they attempt to gather evidence. The even hire subject matter experts and conduct tests. They even interviews with yet more subject matter experts. They could not find any credible evidence, not one bit, which supported the Truthers in the least. Likewise, without fail, when their panel of Truthers were shown the evidence which clearly proved they were full of shit, all of them refused to accept it. Their only excuse was that somehow, physics in the universe stopped working on those towers that day and therefore, their conspiracy explanation was the only explanation. Oddly enough, all in the panel make money from continuing the conspiracy.
Ignoring that, computer simulations, which generically exist to simulate real world physics, all completely validate the official story of building collapse. Even the penetration on the Pentagon was so accurately reproduced, it properly placed bodies and debris inside the build+debris field.
Ignoring the facts, just think about probabilities. What are the odds that some 10,000-50,000, from the general public, would be able to remain quiet in what would be one of the world's biggest and most Earth-shattering conspiracies in history? Think about that for a second. And yes, those number has been tabulated by experts, and that's the range they've determined, depending on who you talk to. You can be absolutely sure that if such a conspiracy existed, Wikileaks would be having a field day with it - and long ago.
Critically look at what's available. Nothing the Truther's say make the least bit sense. All too often they refuse to accept basic physics. Yes, basic physics is in denial here. The logistics are mind boggling if not flat out impossible. The conspiracy with so many people from the general population angle is also all but impossible. Literally, absolutely nothing makes sense and none of their "evidence" survives the least bit of scientific scrutiny. None of it.
So which is more likely? A massive conspiracy which is all but impossible whereby absolutely no other evidence exists to support; or, every bit of evidence which exists which is shown to completely invalidate the conspiracy? Its an easy choice for anyone who cares about facts and truth rather than a wish to satisfy their own internal narrative (evil government).
Long story short, there is absolutely zero credible evidence that the official story does not completely explain the attacks on 9/11.
People assume that most of Minecraft's issues are the result of using Java... without considering the programmer's failings.
Unfortunately, that's what is said every time someone sees a slow Java application. Which is yet even more unfortunate as that seems to be the norm for Java applications.
When Java jockeys go out of there way to make noise about how speedy java is (faster than C), people have an expectation of it being as speedy as constantly boasted. And then when it consistently fails to meet expectations set by those who should know, people complain loudly.
Frankly, Java is frequently "fast enough". And there is nothing wrong with that. It is, after all, pretty fast for a fair number of use cases. I've used several Java applications which were fast enough and provided a good experience. Just the same, I've never run a real world, long-running application, which was actually faster than C or C++. Never. Not once. Which leads me to believe, either I've been lied to by Java programmers or every Java programmer is a bad programmer. Either way, its not a good thing.
The Java world needs to simply accept that Java is frequently "fast enough" and move on. Stop with the lying. Stop with the hype. Most people truly don't care so long as its "fast enough". That is, up until people go out of their way to make a big point about how Java is the fastest language ever created. Its at this point, everyone gets upset and disillusioned and then posts like this get written.
The truth is, Java, in real applications, is rarely, if ever, faster than C or C++. Period. In fact, its frequently much, much slower. The facts are, when people need performance there are really, really, really good reasons why people still use C, C++, and asm. Likewise, there are really good reasons why Java is almost never considered for these applications. And when Java is used in stead of C, C++, or asm, its usually because of corporate culture, idealogical, religious, or plain old ignorance.
I'm not sure if you're trolling or not but I guess I'm biting.
Factually, the government is known to have done some really bad things. Factually, there is no evidence the government was involved in 9/11. Factually, there is tons of evidence it was done completely independently of government support. Factually, everything Truthers have brought up as a point of contention has been shot down by subject matter experts and all too frequently, physics.
My post did not say conspiracies don't exist. They absolutely do. The point being, despite Truthers being borderline certifiable, their "evidence" fits their narrative (evil government) and therefore must be true regardless of the fact that everything, and I mean everything, says they are bat-shit crazy...and yet the conspiracy lives.
Just FYI, both Japanese and Germans were interned during WWII. They were kept separate largely because most of the Japanese-Americans who were interned there considered the German's to be untrustworthy. Accordingly, their keeps feared problems. In some camps they were allowed to mix but it almost never happened. Each collective kept to themselves.
IIRC, the last of the Japanese were released from the camps almost two years after the end of WWII. The interned Germans were much more lucky.
So these Evil Consultants are running a propaganda campaign about Wikileaks, and Anonymous leaks their "secret plans", including the plan to try to sell a disinformation plan to BofA... But can we trust all the incriminating pages in the leaked secret plans? Could Anonymous have planted a bit of extra content in the leaked material? Could the Evil Consultants themselves planted bogus material in the leak, and leaked it to Anonymous themselves?
I would like to subscribe to your news letter, but only if it dramatically goes, "Dunt dunt DUUUUNNNT!", and tells me what happened in previous episodes when I open it.
Yet another common misconception.
Not a misconception at all. Running a "country" inside your own "castle" and surrounding peasantry within their "city" is certainly not free. And the trappings of the church are hardly free nor any less decadent.
Get back to us when the Vatican and the endless, decadent cathedrals don't exist at the expense of the poor who often remain poor specifically because they tithe to the church and follow the church's doctrine (which is, how to create and maintain your own ignorant, poor, loyal, peasantry).
Its much like the major production houses - on paper they are all poppers but reality is quite different. And isn't it especially ironic that their own book preaches they must pay taxes - and yet they don't.
I'm assuming he was ignorantly referred to the old SMB password mechanism where the hash, which was transmitted in the clear, in of itself is the password.
SAMBA supports it because they must for compatibility with Microsoft but even Microsoft long abandoned that approach specifically because it was so insecure and trivial to bypass. Accordingly, SAMBA has likewise moved on. Furthermore, SAMBA documentation makes it very clear that enabling backwards compatibility is very insecure and certainly not a good idea.
If that's not what he's referring to, then I can't imagine how he possible came to such a conclusion - as you rightly pointed out.