My guess would be that it's mostly caused by Microsofts relative hardware inexperience.
Demonstrably false. Microsoft have a quality console under their belts. Despite it's ponderous bulk, the original Xbox was a reliable console. I've rarely heard of system failures or disc scratches, and the device stands up well to custom modding. In addition to this, it was the first mainstream console to have hard drive and an ethernet link. And that was all from a company which, to my knowledge, had never produced a single hardware product.
Now that same company comes out and produces the 360 with its notoriously high failure rate. And it's wasn't down to the complexity of the design. The red ring of death was due to parts and material failures. Scratched discs were again down to a substandard component. Now we have a loose video chip problem.
This is NOT down to design. These issues are trivial to fix if only Microsoft was willing to pay the money. The fact is, they're not. These errors all exist because Microsoft is cutting costs across the board on 360 manufacturing. For every error that is found, you can be sure that three more lurk beneath the surface as a result of substandard parts, components and assembly line procedures.
The reason is clear. Despite their deep pockets, Microsoft are not willing to make the kind of losses everyone assumes they can make with the 360. But they still want a lower price point. It's not just manufacturing. Look at Live. Microsoft are the only game service provider in the world who are charging people to play titles online. When everyone else; Nintendo, Sony and Valve, make playing online completely free, the Live gold membership fee required to play every single Xbox 360 title online stands out like a sore thumb. It's particularly egregious standing next to Microsoft's own Games for Windows: Live, which is also free.
Bad hardware and unnecessary online fees. Why would a company in Microsoft's position continue to hinder itself in these ways? The answer is that they want the 360 to succeed, but are not willing to shell out funds indefinitely to achieve this. The console needs to sell massively, but they are not willing to charge people for this, so production costs are cut instead. The console needs to make money off people during its lifetime, but they are not willing to do this through selling games, so they charge for services that should be free.
Everyone has assumed that Microsoft's funds are essentially unlimited when it comes to their goal of getting a Microsoft console into the living room. I don't think this is true anymore. Over time, it has become clear that a console in the living room is not going to serve as the hub of a digital household. I think Microsoft has realized this and is now simply treating the Xbox as another part of its home computer strategy, but not as an essentially one that must be maintained at any cost.
Olmos seems to be making a big deal about a little thing. He claims that race does not equal culture and that the word race has been misapplied to culture
I haven't watched the video but if that is the point he is making then it is not a little one. It's a very big one, particularly in todays world.
Today's modern world resembles Europe in the 1100's or before. In those times, the different nations of Europe referred to other cultures as being different "Races". Saxons were a different "race" to Normans, who were a different "race" to Franks, who were a different "race" to Poles who were a different "race" to Fins, etc, etc. Nowadays, almost every one of these groups is regarded as being in the same "Caucasian" "race".
So in today's world, when people talk about the "Western race", or "Arab race" or "Chinese race", are they really talking about some concrete objective genetic differences, or is the real distinction here only in the culture. In another 1000 years, will we still be putting people in "racial" categories, or will we instead talking about cultures and nations.
The last episode I ever watched was the Season 3 finale. I was simply too disgusted to go on. Bod Dylan was bad enough, but Col. Tigh being a Cylon simply confirmed that the writers are awful, awful hacks who would slowly but surely destroy the show with ever poorer plot twists.
I could go on a massive rant about this but........ fuck it. Shut up and listen.
Of all the characters in the entire show who are least likely to be cyclons, Tigh tops the list. In Season 1, the show was quite fun. Cylon suspicion was like a little game. You'd move people up and down the suspects list based on their actions or on certain events. It enhanced the paranoia.
But through it all, you had certain fixed points of reference. For example, Boomer was obviously a Cylon from day one. That was one end of the scale.
The other was Tigh.
Of ALL the characters ALL of them, Tigh was least likely to be a Cylon. Practically from the first episode, he became the clear fixed point at the opposite end of the scale. The "NOT A CYLON" fixed point against which all other suspects must be cleared.
Tigh is:
a) Too old. His being a Cylon makes no sense, and never will. He was alive and kicking before the Cylons even rebelled. He's known Adama for years. He can't be a replacement, and he can't have been created prior to the first war. The prospect of the hideous narrative contortions required to justify this decision were the primary reason I stopped watching the show. Since then, I have heard disturbing rumors, which makes me very glad I did.
b) He's a stone cold anti-Cylon racist. His stolid mistrust and hatred for the cylons makes absolutely no sense whatsoever in the context of Cylon agents plotting and committing acts of subterfuge. At least the others had ambiguous morals or moments of reflection. Tigh has only contempt for all things cylon, another reason for his being the shows first "NOT CYLON" fixed point.
c) No leadup. There is something in drama called "Deus Ex Machina". Basically it means the writer pulls something completely out of their ass with no hints, inlkings, forewarning or premonitions. There's a very simple rule here which Tigh's "revelation" breaks. Any plot critical devices must be introduced at least twice before being used. It a fundamental fact of literature which even a 10 year old writing a two page story will grasp. The BSG writers it seems, did not.
This raises the question( or begs if you want), why the hell did the writers make Tigh a Cylon. The answer is obvious.
The writers are hacks.
Hacks, hacks, hacks, with delusions of grandeur. "Yes, people will never suspect Tigh so I will make him the Cylon just to show how much of a genius I am." How much of a fool more like. Pretension and desperation, not literary skills brough the show to that dreadful train wreck in the last 15 minutes of Season 3. A plot wreck from which there is no escape, no respite and no going back.
In that moment, the show was irreparably broken, shattered into a thousand splinters, never to be mended or remade again. You may as well have made Boomer really a human as made Tigh a Cylon. Either would have had the same effect. The utter ruination of a once proud storyline and its inevitable degeneration into ever more bizarre plot holes, twists, turns, mazes and dead ends.
And Tigh is merely the worst, and most grievous offense. The Chief is a lesser, but by no means small contradiction all of his own. Foster will fit, but again no buildup. Of the four, only Anders makes any real sense. The rest are poor choices, whose selection reveals the essential problem. They didn't select the Cylons in advance!!!!
If it was me, I would have written it like Straczynski wrote Babylon 5. Firm series outline, and emergency trap doors. The Cylons would be known in advance and clues, minor and major would be scattered throughout the show pointing subtly towards them. The series would be a grand game of cat and mouse between the audience a
Please be patient with parents that are attempting to enjoy a good time with their families.
...and the horse you rode in on sir. And the horse you rode in on.
Children should never, ever, be taken anywhere where they are expected to act like an adult. They're not going to learn social skills in the cinema, or in a church service, or on an airplane with a captive audience. They'll learn them in a playground, or in a school, or somewhere where they are not expected to act like they're 30+ years of age.
Does this mean that parents can't go out and have good time at the cinema, or on holidays, or in a pub without leaving their children at home? YOU BET YOUR INCONSIDERATE REAR END IT DOES!!! I'm sorry, but once you have children, your salad days are over. No more late night drinking sessions, or movie trips or just about any other adult activity without calling a babysitter. Period.
Do not ever subject other people who are trying to enjoy themselves to your wailing offspring. People work hard for their time off, and deserve not to have it ruined because you were too cheap to pay for childminders and/or because you are a 30 year old with two kids who will not accept that they can't live like they're 20 anymore!
If I write to a file and then rename the file, I expect that the rename will not complete significantly before the write. Certainly not 60 seconds before the write. It seems dead obvious, at least to me....
It seems dead obvious to me that 'hyperbole' should be pronounced 'hi-per-bowl'. But the powers that be have deigned that it be pronounced 'hi-per-bowl-ee'. It's clear in both cases here, that the powers that be are talking out of their asses.
The problem here is not application developers, and it's not (primarily) ext4. The problem here is the POSIX standard. Following the POSIX standard, to the letter, has lead to permanent data loss. I imagine that a write followed by a rename is a reasonably common operation. However, the POSIX standard all but ensures that this scenario will inherently lead to data loss in the event of power failure or crashes, the very situations the standards should have in mind to avoid.
The POSIX standards have a bug. It's time to revise them.
The single best use of this device would be to constrict and asphyxiate anyone in the cinema who insists on talking or fidgeting or generally disrupting others during the film. I would be especially in favour of its use on disruptive children, of all ages.
That post is more akin to Linus announcing he was pregnant. I would regard the 1.0 release as the birth, with initial coding of the 0.x releases akin to baby showers and painting nurseries.
The conception, like most, was the result of a drunken night in front of a computer terminal, filled with unwise and hasty decisions. When Linus woke the next morning, with the most schocking hangover, he saw before him the beginnings of an x86 OS kernel, with drunken documentation and to do lists, and no memory of how any of it came to be on his hard drive. He took it from there.
I mean, no one honestly decides to write a kernel when they're sober, do they?
On a forum like Wikipedia I would propose that it would be (next to) impossible not to have admins that are not anti-censorship
On a forum like Wikipedia, I think it is inconceivable that there are no admins who are pro-censorship.
A lot of people do not appreciate just how fragile the status quo of Wikipedia really is. If mass public opinion had been a little different, or if a few major scandal broke recently, the position of the Wikipedia admins could be a lot different. More crucially, if Jimbo Wales should suddenly be persuaded to take a pro-censorship stance, Wikipedia, as a whole, will quickly follow.
...realize that the idiots behind the wheels were sometimes innocent victims.
Cars are inherently extremely dangerous things and modern society is unable to come to terms with this fact. You cannot have millions of people all driving one ton lumps of metal around at 30+ kilometers an hour without fatal injuries. It is not a question of "avoidable accidents". It is a matter of "inevitable fatalities".
People driving dangerously or foolishly only compound this problem. They do not cause it. Drivers, passengers and pedestrians take their lives into their hands every single day. More people need to be aware of this basic fact.
But defaultly assuming that an extraordinary claim is false, is part of the scientific method. The onus of proof is on the proponent of an extraordinary claim.
People who are exacting about grammar are doing it because it makes them feel superior. There is no other reason. Programming has nothing to do with it. Nor does logic.
I'm not talking about correcting things like; "I has cheeseburger" or "How you do driving?". I mean people who insist that "hyperbole" be pronounced "hyper-bowly", and that "begs the question" does not mean what 99% of English speakers understand it to mean. I mean people who insist on using the archaic "whom" in places, but who do not accept the use of "ye" as a second person plural, despite the fact that "you" is painfully overloaded in this context.
Grammar Nazis have only one purpose. Finding obscure and outdated conventions in the English language and bringing them up in a painfully transparent effort to appear intellectually superior. A true intellectual would be fascinated with something like Lolcatz. Grammar Nazis are merely thrilled at how much more superior it makes them feel.
I don't know if anyone else has noticed yet, but buzzspeak is on average, substantially down in the last few months. The recession has begun to bite and the surfing the financial high tide with radical new buzzwords is no longer a winning strategy. This is the first piece of buzz speak I've heard in quite a while to be honest.
The game has changed, and the language along with it.
How dare anyone attempt to enable users to do as they please with Amazon's personal property! Kindles and all their associated contents are the intellectual property of Amazon in perpetuity and just because you paid money for one and are in personal possession of it, that does not entitle you to do with it as you please.
I mean, where would we be if people could do as they liked with the things they buy?
In fact, solitaire really is great training for using a mouse. Time and again I have seen novice computer users of all ages, who would otherwise struggle with the mouse, become quite proficient after only an hour or so playing solitaire.
Now if they could just be gotten to stop playing solitaire afterwards, they could move on to other lessons.
What is a person supposed to do now against someone who has a knife? Ask politely for them to stop?
In fact, the victim has a Duty to Retreat, sometimes even within their own homes. It is laws like these that have made the public scared and powerless. For the convenience of the government, it is better for ordinary people to simply lay down and die when face with criminal activity.
People have the right to stand their ground and yes, use violence when they are in danger. While I don't agree with "shoot first" laws that some American states have implemented, it is not always the case that the first person to use violence is in the wrong.
It's not just guns and knives. People have been seriously injured, permanently disabled and even killed by bare hands and boots. It may be more legally clear who is in the wrong if your attacker strikes first, but that will not help you much if you have to walk with a limp for the rest of your days. Unfortunately, modern legal systems do not recognise this, and will judge the honest man who strikes first far more harshly than the career criminal who does so.
It's not a question of being armed. Arming people won't help. You have to give people the right to defend themselves. The real right. Not a clause that only comes into effect when they've already been rendered unconscious.
It's really a very common design convention, but not following the convention isn't necessarily a bug.
But without it you'll end up with situations where a function will not accept a pointer to a triangle, because it will only take pointers to data type "polygon" from which triangle is derived.
If the rule is correctly applied, the relationships between base and derived classes should also be a lot clearer. If it doesn't make sense for a derived type to be passed as a base type, you've probably made a wrong decision in your code design.
And then tell me what you mean by "right-wing". Do you mean economic rightism, social authoritarianism, or nationalism?
In my opinion, it's a general mindset, hard to define. But if I had to come up with a single definition, I would say that a right winger is someone who only believes in rights for the right people. Right wingers only believe in rights when it suits them, and only in freedom to behave as they deem appropriate. They are generally in favor of, if not a caste society, certainly a stratified one, where the rules and order they approve of are enforced. They see that the world should be a certain way and it is very difficult to dissuade them from that view.
This kind of thinking leads to a very monochrome, us/them, mentality when dealing in economics, culture, social issues and foreign affairs. Economic conservatism (including protectionism!), authoritarianism, and nationalism all appeal to this mindset, and are accordingly found in conjunction. Parties like Yisrael Beiteinu do I think typify how such thinking ultimately manifests itself in the modern political spectrum. However such thinking is not restricted to these parties alone, and there is a great deal of right wing, uncompromising and authoritarian thinking in many mainstream parties across the world.
However, I think politics in Israel is certainly well above the average right wing quota. And indeed now, probably well above it's own historical quota.
De Gaulle, and gaullists in general, was very much against the UK joining the EU. His major objection was its overseas empire and is connection to it. A connection that would preclude any stronger connection with the continent.
These days, I think it must be said that De Gaulle was certainly correct, except that he mistook the connection. The UK is not so much linked to its former empire, as it is inextricably linked to its former colony, and now arguably its master, the United States. There is also the concept of the Anglosphere in general.
The Anglosphere is a very real cultural and economic force, if not a political one. This is what De Gaulle saw, and is why he did not want the UK forcing that worldview onto the EU. With English now being used as the dominant language in the EU, and with the UK promoting measures such as this, and all but standing in for the US in the commission, I think his objections were valid.
A little. But I will still point out that Israel, as a nation, has become extremely right wing over the years, and this explains a lot of the country's actions. In fact, I think the greatest tragedy of Israel is just how right wing it has become, being a nation of Jewish immigrants. If you look at the history of socialist movements throughout the western world, you will almost invariably find a prominent Jewish name; So it is sad to see a country so far to the right as Israel presented as the premiere Jewish state.
So I will refer to as a right wing state, as that is what it has become. And moreover I will say that the irrational and unreasonable national mindset resulting from becoming so right wing is the single greatest threat to the continued existence of Israel, so people are probably doing the country a favor by pointing it out.
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Demonstrably false. Microsoft have a quality console under their belts. Despite it's ponderous bulk, the original Xbox was a reliable console. I've rarely heard of system failures or disc scratches, and the device stands up well to custom modding. In addition to this, it was the first mainstream console to have hard drive and an ethernet link. And that was all from a company which, to my knowledge, had never produced a single hardware product.
Now that same company comes out and produces the 360 with its notoriously high failure rate. And it's wasn't down to the complexity of the design. The red ring of death was due to parts and material failures. Scratched discs were again down to a substandard component. Now we have a loose video chip problem.
This is NOT down to design. These issues are trivial to fix if only Microsoft was willing to pay the money. The fact is, they're not. These errors all exist because Microsoft is cutting costs across the board on 360 manufacturing. For every error that is found, you can be sure that three more lurk beneath the surface as a result of substandard parts, components and assembly line procedures.
The reason is clear. Despite their deep pockets, Microsoft are not willing to make the kind of losses everyone assumes they can make with the 360. But they still want a lower price point. It's not just manufacturing. Look at Live. Microsoft are the only game service provider in the world who are charging people to play titles online. When everyone else; Nintendo, Sony and Valve, make playing online completely free, the Live gold membership fee required to play every single Xbox 360 title online stands out like a sore thumb. It's particularly egregious standing next to Microsoft's own Games for Windows: Live, which is also free.
Bad hardware and unnecessary online fees. Why would a company in Microsoft's position continue to hinder itself in these ways? The answer is that they want the 360 to succeed, but are not willing to shell out funds indefinitely to achieve this. The console needs to sell massively, but they are not willing to charge people for this, so production costs are cut instead. The console needs to make money off people during its lifetime, but they are not willing to do this through selling games, so they charge for services that should be free.
Everyone has assumed that Microsoft's funds are essentially unlimited when it comes to their goal of getting a Microsoft console into the living room. I don't think this is true anymore. Over time, it has become clear that a console in the living room is not going to serve as the hub of a digital household. I think Microsoft has realized this and is now simply treating the Xbox as another part of its home computer strategy, but not as an essentially one that must be maintained at any cost.
Well the competition wasn't very stiff.
I haven't watched the video but if that is the point he is making then it is not a little one. It's a very big one, particularly in todays world.
Today's modern world resembles Europe in the 1100's or before. In those times, the different nations of Europe referred to other cultures as being different "Races". Saxons were a different "race" to Normans, who were a different "race" to Franks, who were a different "race" to Poles who were a different "race" to Fins, etc, etc. Nowadays, almost every one of these groups is regarded as being in the same "Caucasian" "race".
So in today's world, when people talk about the "Western race", or "Arab race" or "Chinese race", are they really talking about some concrete objective genetic differences, or is the real distinction here only in the culture. In another 1000 years, will we still be putting people in "racial" categories, or will we instead talking about cultures and nations.
I certainly hope it's the latter scenario.
The last episode I ever watched was the Season 3 finale. I was simply too disgusted to go on. Bod Dylan was bad enough, but Col. Tigh being a Cylon simply confirmed that the writers are awful, awful hacks who would slowly but surely destroy the show with ever poorer plot twists.
I could go on a massive rant about this but... ..... fuck it. Shut up and listen.
Of all the characters in the entire show who are least likely to be cyclons, Tigh tops the list. In Season 1, the show was quite fun. Cylon suspicion was like a little game. You'd move people up and down the suspects list based on their actions or on certain events. It enhanced the paranoia.
But through it all, you had certain fixed points of reference. For example, Boomer was obviously a Cylon from day one. That was one end of the scale.
The other was Tigh.
Of ALL the characters ALL of them, Tigh was least likely to be a Cylon. Practically from the first episode, he became the clear fixed point at the opposite end of the scale. The "NOT A CYLON" fixed point against which all other suspects must be cleared.
Tigh is:
a) Too old. His being a Cylon makes no sense, and never will. He was alive and kicking before the Cylons even rebelled. He's known Adama for years. He can't be a replacement, and he can't have been created prior to the first war. The prospect of the hideous narrative contortions required to justify this decision were the primary reason I stopped watching the show. Since then, I have heard disturbing rumors, which makes me very glad I did.
b) He's a stone cold anti-Cylon racist. His stolid mistrust and hatred for the cylons makes absolutely no sense whatsoever in the context of Cylon agents plotting and committing acts of subterfuge. At least the others had ambiguous morals or moments of reflection. Tigh has only contempt for all things cylon, another reason for his being the shows first "NOT CYLON" fixed point.
c) No leadup. There is something in drama called "Deus Ex Machina". Basically it means the writer pulls something completely out of their ass with no hints, inlkings, forewarning or premonitions. There's a very simple rule here which Tigh's "revelation" breaks. Any plot critical devices must be introduced at least twice before being used. It a fundamental fact of literature which even a 10 year old writing a two page story will grasp. The BSG writers it seems, did not.
This raises the question( or begs if you want), why the hell did the writers make Tigh a Cylon. The answer is obvious.
The writers are hacks.
Hacks, hacks, hacks, with delusions of grandeur. "Yes, people will never suspect Tigh so I will make him the Cylon just to show how much of a genius I am." How much of a fool more like. Pretension and desperation, not literary skills brough the show to that dreadful train wreck in the last 15 minutes of Season 3. A plot wreck from which there is no escape, no respite and no going back.
In that moment, the show was irreparably broken, shattered into a thousand splinters, never to be mended or remade again. You may as well have made Boomer really a human as made Tigh a Cylon. Either would have had the same effect. The utter ruination of a once proud storyline and its inevitable degeneration into ever more bizarre plot holes, twists, turns, mazes and dead ends.
And Tigh is merely the worst, and most grievous offense. The Chief is a lesser, but by no means small contradiction all of his own. Foster will fit, but again no buildup. Of the four, only Anders makes any real sense. The rest are poor choices, whose selection reveals the essential problem. They didn't select the Cylons in advance!!!!
If it was me, I would have written it like Straczynski wrote Babylon 5. Firm series outline, and emergency trap doors. The Cylons would be known in advance and clues, minor and major would be scattered throughout the show pointing subtly towards them. The series would be a grand game of cat and mouse between the audience a
Children should never, ever, be taken anywhere where they are expected to act like an adult. They're not going to learn social skills in the cinema, or in a church service, or on an airplane with a captive audience. They'll learn them in a playground, or in a school, or somewhere where they are not expected to act like they're 30+ years of age.
Does this mean that parents can't go out and have good time at the cinema, or on holidays, or in a pub without leaving their children at home? YOU BET YOUR INCONSIDERATE REAR END IT DOES!!! I'm sorry, but once you have children, your salad days are over. No more late night drinking sessions, or movie trips or just about any other adult activity without calling a babysitter. Period.
Do not ever subject other people who are trying to enjoy themselves to your wailing offspring. People work hard for their time off, and deserve not to have it ruined because you were too cheap to pay for childminders and/or because you are a 30 year old with two kids who will not accept that they can't live like they're 20 anymore!
Shut those kids up!!!
It seems dead obvious to me that 'hyperbole' should be pronounced 'hi-per-bowl'. But the powers that be have deigned that it be pronounced 'hi-per-bowl-ee'. It's clear in both cases here, that the powers that be are talking out of their asses.
The problem here is not application developers, and it's not (primarily) ext4. The problem here is the POSIX standard. Following the POSIX standard, to the letter, has lead to permanent data loss. I imagine that a write followed by a rename is a reasonably common operation. However, the POSIX standard all but ensures that this scenario will inherently lead to data loss in the event of power failure or crashes, the very situations the standards should have in mind to avoid.
The POSIX standards have a bug. It's time to revise them.
The single best use of this device would be to constrict and asphyxiate anyone in the cinema who insists on talking or fidgeting or generally disrupting others during the film. I would be especially in favour of its use on disruptive children, of all ages.
That post is more akin to Linus announcing he was pregnant. I would regard the 1.0 release as the birth, with initial coding of the 0.x releases akin to baby showers and painting nurseries.
The conception, like most, was the result of a drunken night in front of a computer terminal, filled with unwise and hasty decisions. When Linus woke the next morning, with the most schocking hangover, he saw before him the beginnings of an x86 OS kernel, with drunken documentation and to do lists, and no memory of how any of it came to be on his hard drive. He took it from there.
I mean, no one honestly decides to write a kernel when they're sober, do they?
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
On a forum like Wikipedia, I think it is inconceivable that there are no admins who are pro-censorship.
A lot of people do not appreciate just how fragile the status quo of Wikipedia really is. If mass public opinion had been a little different, or if a few major scandal broke recently, the position of the Wikipedia admins could be a lot different. More crucially, if Jimbo Wales should suddenly be persuaded to take a pro-censorship stance, Wikipedia, as a whole, will quickly follow.
But if needed, you can certainly replace kindling. Never underestimate the power of a truly destructible medium.
He's not an astro-bat! He's a very naughty boy!
Cars are inherently extremely dangerous things and modern society is unable to come to terms with this fact. You cannot have millions of people all driving one ton lumps of metal around at 30+ kilometers an hour without fatal injuries. It is not a question of "avoidable accidents". It is a matter of "inevitable fatalities".
People driving dangerously or foolishly only compound this problem. They do not cause it. Drivers, passengers and pedestrians take their lives into their hands every single day. More people need to be aware of this basic fact.
But defaultly assuming that an extraordinary claim is false, is part of the scientific method. The onus of proof is on the proponent of an extraordinary claim.
People who are exacting about grammar are doing it because it makes them feel superior. There is no other reason. Programming has nothing to do with it. Nor does logic.
I'm not talking about correcting things like; "I has cheeseburger" or "How you do driving?". I mean people who insist that "hyperbole" be pronounced "hyper-bowly", and that "begs the question" does not mean what 99% of English speakers understand it to mean. I mean people who insist on using the archaic "whom" in places, but who do not accept the use of "ye" as a second person plural, despite the fact that "you" is painfully overloaded in this context.
Grammar Nazis have only one purpose. Finding obscure and outdated conventions in the English language and bringing them up in a painfully transparent effort to appear intellectually superior. A true intellectual would be fascinated with something like Lolcatz. Grammar Nazis are merely thrilled at how much more superior it makes them feel.
I don't know if anyone else has noticed yet, but buzzspeak is on average, substantially down in the last few months. The recession has begun to bite and the surfing the financial high tide with radical new buzzwords is no longer a winning strategy. This is the first piece of buzz speak I've heard in quite a while to be honest.
The game has changed, and the language along with it.
..Sofa King We Tod Did.
How dare anyone attempt to enable users to do as they please with Amazon's personal property! Kindles and all their associated contents are the intellectual property of Amazon in perpetuity and just because you paid money for one and are in personal possession of it, that does not entitle you to do with it as you please.
I mean, where would we be if people could do as they liked with the things they buy?
In fact, solitaire really is great training for using a mouse. Time and again I have seen novice computer users of all ages, who would otherwise struggle with the mouse, become quite proficient after only an hour or so playing solitaire.
Now if they could just be gotten to stop playing solitaire afterwards, they could move on to other lessons.
In fact, the victim has a Duty to Retreat, sometimes even within their own homes. It is laws like these that have made the public scared and powerless. For the convenience of the government, it is better for ordinary people to simply lay down and die when face with criminal activity.
People have the right to stand their ground and yes, use violence when they are in danger. While I don't agree with "shoot first" laws that some American states have implemented, it is not always the case that the first person to use violence is in the wrong.
It's not just guns and knives. People have been seriously injured, permanently disabled and even killed by bare hands and boots. It may be more legally clear who is in the wrong if your attacker strikes first, but that will not help you much if you have to walk with a limp for the rest of your days. Unfortunately, modern legal systems do not recognise this, and will judge the honest man who strikes first far more harshly than the career criminal who does so.
It's not a question of being armed. Arming people won't help. You have to give people the right to defend themselves. The real right. Not a clause that only comes into effect when they've already been rendered unconscious.
And will Amazon pass on that request to the company they sold your data to?
But without it you'll end up with situations where a function will not accept a pointer to a triangle, because it will only take pointers to data type "polygon" from which triangle is derived.
If the rule is correctly applied, the relationships between base and derived classes should also be a lot clearer. If it doesn't make sense for a derived type to be passed as a base type, you've probably made a wrong decision in your code design.
In my opinion, it's a general mindset, hard to define. But if I had to come up with a single definition, I would say that a right winger is someone who only believes in rights for the right people. Right wingers only believe in rights when it suits them, and only in freedom to behave as they deem appropriate. They are generally in favor of, if not a caste society, certainly a stratified one, where the rules and order they approve of are enforced. They see that the world should be a certain way and it is very difficult to dissuade them from that view.
This kind of thinking leads to a very monochrome, us/them, mentality when dealing in economics, culture, social issues and foreign affairs. Economic conservatism (including protectionism!), authoritarianism, and nationalism all appeal to this mindset, and are accordingly found in conjunction. Parties like Yisrael Beiteinu do I think typify how such thinking ultimately manifests itself in the modern political spectrum. However such thinking is not restricted to these parties alone, and there is a great deal of right wing, uncompromising and authoritarian thinking in many mainstream parties across the world.
However, I think politics in Israel is certainly well above the average right wing quota. And indeed now, probably well above it's own historical quota.
De Gaulle, and gaullists in general, was very much against the UK joining the EU. His major objection was its overseas empire and is connection to it. A connection that would preclude any stronger connection with the continent.
These days, I think it must be said that De Gaulle was certainly correct, except that he mistook the connection. The UK is not so much linked to its former empire, as it is inextricably linked to its former colony, and now arguably its master, the United States. There is also the concept of the Anglosphere in general.
The Anglosphere is a very real cultural and economic force, if not a political one. This is what De Gaulle saw, and is why he did not want the UK forcing that worldview onto the EU. With English now being used as the dominant language in the EU, and with the UK promoting measures such as this, and all but standing in for the US in the commission, I think his objections were valid.
The UK should not have been let in.
A little. But I will still point out that Israel, as a nation, has become extremely right wing over the years, and this explains a lot of the country's actions. In fact, I think the greatest tragedy of Israel is just how right wing it has become, being a nation of Jewish immigrants. If you look at the history of socialist movements throughout the western world, you will almost invariably find a prominent Jewish name; So it is sad to see a country so far to the right as Israel presented as the premiere Jewish state.
So I will refer to as a right wing state, as that is what it has become. And moreover I will say that the irrational and unreasonable national mindset resulting from becoming so right wing is the single greatest threat to the continued existence of Israel, so people are probably doing the country a favor by pointing it out.