Why is Bill Gates dying "a crime"? If it happened right now, it would be about 30 years too late to do much good, but it's an inevitability, so I think you can relax, Mr A.C. When it happens, nobody's gonna come track you down.
...and the problem with your attitude is that many panhandlers (I'll go out on a limb and say most) are truly needy!
Your rationalisation for not giving (and boy I've heard it more than enough) is punishing those who really need your $1 for the laziness(?) of a tiny minority. Not only that - to get back on topic of this article - you're punishing them for the same kind of thinking that infects most of our society: "Wow it would be nice to get money without having to work for it."
Even if you personally don't think that way, you can bet it's a sentiment shared by many people who make your rationalisation. I've certainly heard it made hypocritically.
"The Arctic" as an ice sheet only exists for a few months a year, even without taking into account global warming. I guess the grandparent meant Antarctica. Not quite as balmy as Nigeria, for sure.
You don't mean an FPGA - it's a programmable part and too big and expensive. You can do your prototyping in FPGA before you design the production part, though.:)
This sounds analogous to the electronic voting disaster. Just because a technology 'exists' doesn't mean it should instantly and unreflectively supersede existing systems. Obviously the 'offline' method of accessing court records worked just fine and did not suffer from the serious privacy problems introduced by a world-wide communications network.
Edsger W. Dijkstra nailed it long ago with his assertion that a line of code is a liability, not an asset. (paraphrased from the original essay)
Gates has also been quoted as saying, "There's only really one metric to me for future software development, which is - do you write less code to get the same thing done?"
This is probably the only thing Gates and I will ever agree upon.
Grammar and spelling suffer as a result of a TV-centric culture. Reading better writers will always improve a writer's style and correctness. (Watching less TV is always healthier for the personality and brain anyway.)
The key feature of "Globalisation" as we know it is US corporations (and military) being able to break local and international law at will. Apparently in the US this isn't considered a problem.
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Why is Bill Gates dying "a crime"? If it happened right now, it would be about 30 years too late to do much good, but it's an inevitability, so I think you can relax, Mr A.C. When it happens, nobody's gonna come track you down.
Not while that "special relationship" with the USA exists (massive CIA bases on Australian soil, etc, etc).
In the USA it's called Lobbying, or "Government Relations".
I bet you're really pissed at having paid to have them translated.
...and the problem with your attitude is that many panhandlers (I'll go out on a limb and say most) are truly needy!
Your rationalisation for not giving (and boy I've heard it more than enough) is punishing those who really need your $1 for the laziness(?) of a tiny minority. Not only that - to get back on topic of this article - you're punishing them for the same kind of thinking that infects most of our society: "Wow it would be nice to get money without having to work for it."
Even if you personally don't think that way, you can bet it's a sentiment shared by many people who make your rationalisation. I've certainly heard it made hypocritically.
"The Arctic" as an ice sheet only exists for a few months a year, even without taking into account global warming. I guess the grandparent meant Antarctica. Not quite as balmy as Nigeria, for sure.
They're most likely already victims of Microsoft (the corporate criminal class).
Sounds like the perfect temperature for Guinness/stout.
But he was born in Spain, and actually knows how to cook.
VB is truly shit - I mean piss. You're better off with a Coopers for sure.
Greedy people with economic (and other) power...
Read more about the advanced operating system that Vista could have been
Make it a Field-programmable gate array,
You don't mean an FPGA - it's a programmable part and too big and expensive. You can do your prototyping in FPGA before you design the production part, though. :)
Just make them available the old fashioned way!
This sounds analogous to the electronic voting disaster. Just because a technology 'exists' doesn't mean it should instantly and unreflectively supersede existing systems. Obviously the 'offline' method of accessing court records worked just fine and did not suffer from the serious privacy problems introduced by a world-wide communications network.
Fact that there is to much f*cked up perl code, shows that it is an inferior language.
How did this garbage ever get modded up.
Edsger W. Dijkstra nailed it long ago with his assertion that a line of code is a liability, not an asset. (paraphrased from the original essay)
Gates has also been quoted as saying, "There's only really one metric to me for future software development, which is - do you write less code to get the same thing done?"
This is probably the only thing Gates and I will ever agree upon.
They just don't care about the rules and don't care what other people think about it.
Then you really need to peek outside your door. Maybe you haven't noticed, under Bush's tenure: extraordinary rendition, torture, a $3 trillion+ war of aggression, colossal hypocrisy, illegal wiretapping, disgusting cronyism and profiteering, a million dead civilians, galloping environmental destruction ... Need I go on. Bush (and his cabal) has earned the absolute hatred of every civilised individual on the planet. We wait for their Nuremberg.
Grammar and spelling suffer as a result of a TV-centric culture. Reading better writers will always improve a writer's style and correctness. (Watching less TV is always healthier for the personality and brain anyway.)
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Yeah, yeah, grammar pedantry is bad. Nevertheless, this stuff hurts to read.
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Is probably DNSSEC. Cue Antibozo to explain why (or why not:)
For an illustrative example, google Blackwater illegal prosecution and you'll see that they get away with murder. Literally.
Or for another example, google Chevron Chernobyl.
The key feature of "Globalisation" as we know it is US corporations (and military) being able to break local and international law at will. Apparently in the US this isn't considered a problem.
we only have one or two unexpected downtimes per year.
Just like Google. You're making the parent's point nicely.