Germany is exemplary for having ancient and friendly city centers, where the living is good and the going is friendly. As such, it is an exception. "City Center" in the US, where most slashtards are resident, means either "skyscrapers crammed with offices" or "poverty & derelict real estate" ( e.g. Detroit ).
....there may be a serious problem caused by permafrost thaw, the coming years, due to climate change. In other words: what are you going to build upon ?
...how a one-time superpower, now broke and beaten repeatedly on military, technological and other levels, still tries to bully its so-called allies. This is reminiscent of Athens' last days, before it lost all political, intellectual and military significance due to similar, gross misjudgings on its capabilities.
ZooKeeper is a subproject of Hadoop ( and BookKeeper a sub-subproject, so to say ). I have been using both for a while now, and must say I am astonished about their resilience. Great products. Moreover, ZooKeeper is a valiant attempt at solving one of computer science's oldest standing problems: leader election in a ring. Hooray Hadoop, keep the good work going !
I am sorry, but by "our debt" you probably mean "US federal debt" or "californian debt". By which, as a European, a can hardly be bothered, already paying taxes to finance my government's debt.
Either that, or "those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it." Which is advice that I wish that half of our first-world countries' leaders would listen to. Fall of the Roman Empire, anyone?
The bad news is they've done so, and it's all good for them, so they're not changing course.
Which is the basic tenet of Barbara Tuchman's excellent "The March of Folly" which so much influenced my view of history, as a young man...
... a good reason to tell those kids in high school there IS good reason to occupy their minds with ( Latin and ) Greek antiquity. Which is not to be confounded, as the OP demonstrates, with antiquities at the fair.
All of the interviewed persons as well as the author of the NY Times Article leave a major issue unmentioned, and that is historical word use. As a very enthusiastic user of the Oxford English Dictionary ( yes, it has the place of honour in my living room ), each time I look up a word in the venerable OED I am amazed at the thick and variegated strata of historical meaning, and the gradual shifting in it, even for words we think of as "simple".
To wit, neither the Wordnik nor the CCAE person mentioned these important aspects of a dictionary's use. For good reasons: such corpuses as Wordnik and the CCAE are "mere" aggregations of internet use. Which, also and not accessorily, is not necessarily idempotent with everyday use.
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And wear a mask.
Illegal in several EU countries , in public space at least, whether it be a burqa or otherwise face-covering.
Germany is exemplary for having ancient and friendly city centers, where the living is good and the going is friendly. As such, it is an exception. "City Center" in the US, where most slashtards are resident, means either "skyscrapers crammed with offices" or "poverty & derelict real estate" ( e.g. Detroit ).
Mod parent up for the expression "...the hell-hole you manage..."
...to get pointed out that I am a citizen and a human being, not a "consumer" ? I wish NOT to be reduced to what, where and when I buy.
....there may be a serious problem caused by permafrost thaw, the coming years, due to climate change. In other words: what are you going to build upon ?
...how a one-time superpower, now broke and beaten repeatedly on military, technological and other levels, still tries to bully its so-called allies. This is reminiscent of Athens' last days, before it lost all political, intellectual and military significance due to similar, gross misjudgings on its capabilities.
Oh for fucks sake why did I even reply?
I thought the same thing, after seeing that the 1-level-up post came from an AC. SIGH
Has NOTHING AT ALL to do with the US government. Pah !
Yes, indeed: at school, through our math teacher, gawd have his soul
...to a computer, EVER, was through the Commodore 64 for me. I suppose this is true for many thousands of us ?
ZooKeeper is a subproject of Hadoop ( and BookKeeper a sub-subproject, so to say ). I have been using both for a while now, and must say I am astonished about their resilience. Great products. Moreover, ZooKeeper is a valiant attempt at solving one of computer science's oldest standing problems: leader election in a ring. Hooray Hadoop, keep the good work going !
...to remember the unbridled software-building activity and creativity of 10 to 12 years ago. Now, patent-fighting dominates it all. 'tis sad....
...by Chile having a successful history of doing away with dictators....
...at what the deeper roots of the current and ongoing security craze are ?
information-deprived shit-overloaded US-centric morons who read this website and go ZOMG the sky, it is fellings
Aye !
I am sorry, but by "our debt" you probably mean "US federal debt" or "californian debt". By which, as a European, a can hardly be bothered, already paying taxes to finance my government's debt.
...not among politicians, but among all the kiddies who can not communicate anymore but via Facebook. Under-18 Doomsday guaranteed.
.... fragile and precarious victory of common sense over big money. Fragile and precarious, yet a victory.
Either that, or "those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it." Which is advice that I wish that half of our first-world countries' leaders would listen to. Fall of the Roman Empire, anyone?
The bad news is they've done so, and it's all good for them, so they're not changing course.
Which is the basic tenet of Barbara Tuchman's excellent "The March of Folly" which so much influenced my view of history, as a young man...
... a good reason to tell those kids in high school there IS good reason to occupy their minds with ( Latin and ) Greek antiquity. Which is not to be confounded, as the OP demonstrates, with antiquities at the fair.
Language use, and interpretations thereof, is not politically bias-free. Even more so opinions, scientific or not, on language use.
All of the interviewed persons as well as the author of the NY Times Article leave a major issue unmentioned, and that is historical word use. As a very enthusiastic user of the Oxford English Dictionary ( yes, it has the place of honour in my living room ), each time I look up a word in the venerable OED I am amazed at the thick and variegated strata of historical meaning, and the gradual shifting in it, even for words we think of as "simple".
To wit, neither the Wordnik nor the CCAE person mentioned these important aspects of a dictionary's use. For good reasons: such corpuses as Wordnik and the CCAE are "mere" aggregations of internet use. Which, also and not accessorily, is not necessarily idempotent with everyday use.
So. You suggest to complain about neither China, nor CEOs, nor about IBM. You're taking the fun away from my daily engineer's life !
( Freely after Bill Shudderlance )