"That's just one poll. Most polls show that Kerry clearly "won" the first debate and the second two were either a tie or Kerry edged him out."
That's a flat out lie. The polls show Kerry decisively won all of them. The first one Bush was on drugs or something so he lost that one by a landslide. The second and third ones he was sobered up.
"Do you watch TV? CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC etc run story after story blasting Bush and his administration for every thing that they can remotely tag on him."
Yes I do and none of them ridiculed Cheney for lying during the debates. None of them ridiculed for Bush saying that the world is safer because saddam in jail when on the week leading up to the debate there were bombings in israel, egypt, france, palestine, afghanistan, and in the green zone in bagdad. Finally none of them ridiculed Bush for saying that he killed 75% of Al Quada as if there were a set number of al quada in the world.
Bush continually lies, he continually speaks like third grader, he is clearly under some sort of drug during most of his appearances, he mistook abu nidal and abu abbas 10 times during televised events. Who held his feet to the fire on any of that? Certainly not CNN, CBS, NBC, or ABC.
"The ONLY place where you get a balanced view of what is going on is Fox."
Aaah so you are one of those uneducated and misinformed fox viewers. That explains everything.
"The idea that K-E won the debates is just your opinion"
It's not his opinion, it's the opinion of the majority of the people who were polled. Kerry won by something like 30%.
"The idea that the media prefers Bush is just laughable."
This election cycle has once and for all shattered the delusion of the liberal press. Bush and cheney have repeatedly lied but nobody in the press has held them to it. Bush is going around acting like a grade school dropout for god's sake.
Hell a media company is forcing all it's affiliates to show anti kerry propaganda without commercials. Where is the outrage in the press?
Kerry is a robot? Really? Do you mean he is not made out of flesh and blood? Or do you mean you hate his guts so you'll grab whatever insult comes in handy and slam him with it? If the latter why do you hate him so much? Did you ever meet him?
"- I'm talking about both bills, and statements that i have seen him vote on, and his contradictory statements that relate to the bills contents. ( such as "I support A", but he votes to kill "A" )"
That's because you think two bills with the same name are actually the same bill. Bills come up on the senate floor many times, each time with a different set of riders or in different wording. It's very common to vote against a bill and then vote for it when the riders or the wording change (or vice versa).
"2a- I've also listened/read many of his statements/speeches, and even in the same statement his opinion will shift to different points of view.. same sort of problem as in #2 above."
The world is not black and white. Issues before us are extrememly complex. Despite what the president is saying the terrorists did not attack us because we are free.
Simple people see the world in simple terms. To them everything is black and white and lack the ability to discern colors or shades. Kerry speaks intelligently about the issues and is able to understand the complexity of the world. No simple answer is suitable for all circumstances. Being able to see and articulate all sides and nuances of an issue is not a defect it's an asset.
Let me put it this way. If somebody came up to you and said which is better freebsd or linux what would you answer? Would you say for example "freebsd is better for servers but linux is a mor suitable desktop". If you did Bush would call you a flip flopper. That's because he is unable to make that dinction. He can not understand how freebsd could be better at one thing while linux is better at something else.
"Reember they have lives, and that they dont live anywhere near the records, "
They should be able to parse sentences and detect logical fallacies. Is that too much to ask for? They should know how people try to influence them by using fallacious arguments is that too much to ask for?
"Start reading his public voting records and then compare them to what he says."
What does his public voting record have to do with his metals? Or are you talking about the flip flopping? Are you one of those people who thinks that two different bills with the same name are actually the same bill.
If the ruby folks can make something like jboss but without the insanity that's J2EE that would be amazing. The python people have zope at least which is nice but I would say equally as insane as J2EE.
A nice clean container for publishing objects and frameworks for logging, testing, cron, and remote objects.
"Good range of libraries (but nowhere near as many as Perl) which all stick closely to a well established "pythonic" way of doing things."
Unlike perl they are scattered all over the web and you'll have to google for the module you think you need. There is no equivalent of perl -MCPAN so installation of the modules can be a pain if there there are dependencies.
"You don't have to choose from a dozen different libraries that all claim to do the same job."
This is flat out false. There are lots of SOAP libraries and I still havent found one that handles complex objects. There are multiple database libraries, there are multiple network libraries. This all goes back to point 1. Because there is not a master repository people keep rewriting new modules to do the same things.
We really need to teach kids how to tell the difference between a lie and the truth. Every high school student should take at least two years of logic and rhetoric so they can intelligently parse what people are saying.
How long does an empire last when it's citizens are so far in the dark?
The problem lies directly with the American people.
First of all they are utterly clueless and can't even discern between the truth and a lie. They are pretty much programmed to accept whatever somebody on the tee vee tells them.
Look at this (or any other election) for example. Is Kerry a flip flopper? Is he a coward? Did he get his metals from self inflicted wounds? Ask your typical american and they will say yes. Press them for details and you'll realiize they don't know shit, they are simply repeating what they saw on television commercials.
Same with Gates and Company. Ask yourself. Have you ever heard or read an interview with Ballmer or Gates in which they didn't tell at least one lie? Not a minor one either but a blatant out and out lie. They people are habitual and pathalogical liars. They will continue to tell lies until the press calls them on it. Since they buy lots of advertising don't hold your breath though.
Regardless of the merits of the languages I think you'll severely miss CPAN if you switch to python. CPAN is the best thing about perl and python has nothing really like it. There are a couple of so called repositories but they don't hold a candle to CPAN.
OS-X will have spotlight in a few months. It will be able to extract metadata from all kinds of files including PDFs and images. I think you can be assured it will kick this thing pretty hard.
Maybe technically. In reality capitalism is an ISM like any other ISM. It's a worship of the allmighty dollar. It's an ethical system of thought whose primary motivation lies in accumulation of wealth. Actually it's a lot like Satanism when you think of it.
Like all other ISMs capitalism has it's prophets, preachers, saints and gods. Forbes is Porn for the people who worship capitalism. You probably don't read Forbes because you don't worship capitalism.
I don't get it. The guy is an undercover cop right? So he is on the street, in street clothes and somebody took pictures of him right? So why is this a crime?
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Why does the small coder feel entitled to somebody elses code in the first place? That seems silly on the face of it.
"That's just one poll. Most polls show that Kerry clearly "won" the first debate and the second two were either a tie or Kerry edged him out."
That's a flat out lie. The polls show Kerry decisively won all of them. The first one Bush was on drugs or something so he lost that one by a landslide. The second and third ones he was sobered up.
"Do you watch TV? CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC etc run story after story blasting Bush and his administration for every thing that they can remotely tag on him."
Yes I do and none of them ridiculed Cheney for lying during the debates. None of them ridiculed for Bush saying that the world is safer because saddam in jail when on the week leading up to the debate there were bombings in israel, egypt, france, palestine, afghanistan, and in the green zone in bagdad. Finally none of them ridiculed Bush for saying that he killed 75% of Al Quada as if there were a set number of al quada in the world.
Bush continually lies, he continually speaks like third grader, he is clearly under some sort of drug during most of his appearances, he mistook abu nidal and abu abbas 10 times during televised events. Who held his feet to the fire on any of that? Certainly not CNN, CBS, NBC, or ABC.
"The ONLY place where you get a balanced view of what is going on is Fox."
Aaah so you are one of those uneducated and misinformed fox viewers. That explains everything.
"The idea that K-E won the debates is just your opinion"
It's not his opinion, it's the opinion of the majority of the people who were polled. Kerry won by something like 30%.
"The idea that the media prefers Bush is just laughable."
This election cycle has once and for all shattered the delusion of the liberal press. Bush and cheney have repeatedly lied but nobody in the press has held them to it. Bush is going around acting like a grade school dropout for god's sake.
Hell a media company is forcing all it's affiliates to show anti kerry propaganda without commercials. Where is the outrage in the press?
Why yes Mr. Stalker.
Kerry is a robot? Really? Do you mean he is not made out of flesh and blood? Or do you mean you hate his guts so you'll grab whatever insult comes in handy and slam him with it? If the latter why do you hate him so much? Did you ever meet him?
Are you saying that Rush Limbaugh is not a right wing zealot?
Is there a clip of the guiliani interview on the net? I missed it.
John and Bill Mahr should get together and do something. That would be great.
Alas it would also go over the head of 90% of the public and bomb.
"- I'm talking about both bills, and statements that i have seen him vote on, and his contradictory statements that relate to the bills contents. ( such as "I support A", but he votes to kill "A" )"
That's because you think two bills with the same name are actually the same bill. Bills come up on the senate floor many times, each time with a different set of riders or in different wording. It's very common to vote against a bill and then vote for it when the riders or the wording change (or vice versa).
"2a- I've also listened/read many of his statements/speeches, and even in the same statement his opinion will shift to different points of view.. same sort of problem as in #2 above."
The world is not black and white. Issues before us are extrememly complex. Despite what the president is saying the terrorists did not attack us because we are free.
Simple people see the world in simple terms. To them everything is black and white and lack the ability to discern colors or shades. Kerry speaks intelligently about the issues and is able to understand the complexity of the world. No simple answer is suitable for all circumstances. Being able to see and articulate all sides and nuances of an issue is not a defect it's an asset.
Let me put it this way. If somebody came up to you and said which is better freebsd or linux what would you answer? Would you say for example "freebsd is better for servers but linux is a mor suitable desktop". If you did Bush would call you a flip flopper. That's because he is unable to make that dinction. He can not understand how freebsd could be better at one thing while linux is better at something else.
"Reember they have lives, and that they dont live anywhere near the records, "
They should be able to parse sentences and detect logical fallacies. Is that too much to ask for? They should know how people try to influence them by using fallacious arguments is that too much to ask for?
"Start reading his public voting records and then compare them to what he says."
What does his public voting record have to do with his metals? Or are you talking about the flip flopping? Are you one of those people who thinks that two different bills with the same name are actually the same bill.
If the ruby folks can make something like jboss but without the insanity that's J2EE that would be amazing. The python people have zope at least which is nice but I would say equally as insane as J2EE.
A nice clean container for publishing objects and frameworks for logging, testing, cron, and remote objects.
"Good range of libraries (but nowhere near as many as Perl) which all stick closely to a well established "pythonic" way of doing things."
Unlike perl they are scattered all over the web and you'll have to google for the module you think you need. There is no equivalent of perl -MCPAN so installation of the modules can be a pain if there there are dependencies.
"You don't have to choose from a dozen different libraries that all claim to do the same job."
This is flat out false. There are lots of SOAP libraries and I still havent found one that handles complex objects. There are multiple database libraries, there are multiple network libraries. This all goes back to point 1. Because there is not a master repository people keep rewriting new modules to do the same things.
Lisp and Smalltalk are and have been the language pyton, java, C#, ruby, and perl are trying to be.
We really need to teach kids how to tell the difference between a lie and the truth. Every high school student should take at least two years of logic and rhetoric so they can intelligently parse what people are saying.
How long does an empire last when it's citizens are so far in the dark?
" The purpose of Internet Explorer is to download third party files (by viewing Web pages)."
No, the purpose IE is to deliver advertising to the viewer.
The problem lies directly with the American people.
First of all they are utterly clueless and can't even discern between the truth and a lie. They are pretty much programmed to accept whatever somebody on the tee vee tells them.
Look at this (or any other election) for example. Is Kerry a flip flopper? Is he a coward? Did he get his metals from self inflicted wounds? Ask your typical american and they will say yes. Press them for details and you'll realiize they don't know shit, they are simply repeating what they saw on television commercials.
Same with Gates and Company. Ask yourself. Have you ever heard or read an interview with Ballmer or Gates in which they didn't tell at least one lie? Not a minor one either but a blatant out and out lie. They people are habitual and pathalogical liars. They will continue to tell lies until the press calls them on it. Since they buy lots of advertising don't hold your breath though.
Regardless of the merits of the languages I think you'll severely miss CPAN if you switch to python. CPAN is the best thing about perl and python has nothing really like it. There are a couple of so called repositories but they don't hold a candle to CPAN.
One word for ya. RUBY.
""Copyright infringement is not a crime."
We were talking in the context of pirating software for your own use and/or downloading a song.
Neither one of those is a crime, they are both civil offenses.
It's sad when you try to parody the president and people are not sure.
OS-X will have spotlight in a few months. It will be able to extract metadata from all kinds of files including PDFs and images. I think you can be assured it will kick this thing pretty hard.
Maybe technically. In reality capitalism is an ISM like any other ISM. It's a worship of the allmighty dollar. It's an ethical system of thought whose primary motivation lies in accumulation of wealth. Actually it's a lot like Satanism when you think of it.
Like all other ISMs capitalism has it's prophets, preachers, saints and gods. Forbes is Porn for the people who worship capitalism. You probably don't read Forbes because you don't worship capitalism.
So casually pirating items that cost under $1000.00 is a civil offence and not a criminal one.
So If I pirate windows and run it on my machine and don't
1) gain commercial advantage and
2) does not cost over a thousand dollars
then it's not a crime. At that point it all boils down to violating the EULA.
I don't get it. The guy is an undercover cop right? So he is on the street, in street clothes and somebody took pictures of him right? So why is this a crime?