Would you prefer that he had remained a quiet researcher for the last decade? Would the world be better off if he had?
We've all seen the Schneier-Norris jokes, and it is true that he is something of a celebrity in cryptography and computer science circles. But does becoming a celebrity through making the effort to educate the public about your field automatically cheapen your worth as a scientist or researcher? Does it reduce the worth of the message?
Celebrity has become a smear word, but smearing all celebrities reveals only our own inability to recognize true expertise and talent.
The problem is that Ubuntu's strengths don't carry over to Ubuntu Server, especially when you deal with SysAdmins that know what they're doing.
And that group does not include most Windows Admins running Windows servers.
Ubuntu's GUI tools other successes on the desktop make it a direct competitor to windows desktops, and these same features make it a direct competitor to windows servers. Windows servers have nothing else to offer apart from their GUI interfaces and integration with clients. But with the demise of the backwards compatibility camp at Microsoft, the latter feature is in question, leaving Ubuntu primed to usurp not a few Microsoft shop data rooms in the near future.
I consider Justice against those who prey on children to be the right thing to do. I'm not sure what exactly it is you have against that. Are you saying that child pornography should be legal? Is that what you are trying to imply? If so than I would vigorously disagree.
And now we see exactly what your protestations of outrage are really all about. You would force the rest of us to stand to attention behind you or risk having the vilest of accusations thrown directly against us. You are a pitbull of social reactionaries who will use any weapon, no matter how odious, to chip away at the foundations of our free society and who will without conscience pass within a hair's breath of libel so as to cut most deeply without risk to yourself.
You, and people like you, are destroying the western world, one pointing finger at a time.
Those who deal in child pornography and prey on children are, to my mind, some of the worst exxamples of humanity out there.
Well, to my mind, they are still fellow human beings and fellow citizens who deserve every moral and legal right as to the rest of us.
I wouldn't bat an eye if they increased the prison sentences for them to life or allowed capital punishment.
I would shed a tear for each such measure as yet another branch was torn from the tree of liberty. I would mourn the needless waste of human life.
But it still has to remain within the bounds of our laws, the core of which is the Constitution.
The law, and even constitutions, are ultimately subject to the will of the people. People like you and others in this thread who would rather join a rabid mob than go against one and stand up for what is right. If you're too afraid of unpopularity, or condemnation, or guilt by association, to defend the rights of others, then you don't deserve a single one of those right yourself.
You, and every poster in this thread panders to hysteria by sycophantically declaring your own inflated revulsion at these crimes. Every time you do so, you further strengthen the forces that are eating away at the foundations of law and freedom in the western world. No reasonable person need declare their revulsion for these crimes. Yet everyone insists on doing so, loudly and explicitly at the earliest opportunity.
Because they are afraid.
"Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them" - Frederick Douglass. The west has submitted to the howls, intimidation and demagoguery of the Outrage Brigade. We will suffer whatever injustice or wrong they now choose to impose upon us, and it seems, will do so indefinitely. Please read the rest of the Douglass quote, and think next time before you obediently proclaim your moral standing.
But you only took a peek, and just jotted down the jist of it! Come on! Don't let a goddamn piece of paper stand in the way of a good wholesome lynching!
Its constitution even guarantees freedom of religion (and Turkey has no official state religion), and since 1924 has maintained a secular government.
Since 1924, the educated and westernized upper classes in Turkey have maintained a secular government. But with the increasing education and prosperity of the middle classes, that is changing. Most people in Turkey want a religious government, not a secular one. There is always an assumption that education and prosperity will give rise to a decline in religion and an increase in secularism but this has been proven false time and again by many and varied counterexamples.
Formal education does not promote critical thinking or a rational mindset. Modern technology does not reduce the demand for religion. Democracy does not lead to the separation of church and state, or to the rule of law.
It is foolish to think that any amount of "modernisation" will "westernise" the rest of the world. Western countries should realise that no amount of education, democracy or industrialisation was enough to "westernise" the west itself either. It took an altogether greater force to shape our societies into the form we have today.
Where does the suffering of low paid migrant workers, or single parents, or disabled people, or people without health care, or old age pensioners fit into your grand idea of social democracy being sensitive to sufferers?
No. All we are seeing here is the use of certain topics as excuses to censor and oppress. The biggest problems here are apathy and the taboo of criticizing the cult of the child. People do not really care(a lot) about the suffering of any particular group-x. But they are too afraid to say that frankly.
Goto's are useful. Labels are useful. Yes they can lead to problems, but so do things like pointers, dynamic typing, operator overloading, namespaces and automatic memory management. But they can also solve problems that are otherwise intractable, which is what the GP was trying to tell you. Dismissing them just because E. Djisktra said so is not really good enough.
If you want an argument from authority, or just a good read, here's Donald Knuth on Structured Programming with GOTO Statements. You need to read that paper before you can have a proper opinion on the GOTO statement. Otherwise you're just adhering to dogma.
So sayeth the article. But I ask you, do the ethical challenges concern doctors fobbing patients off with placebos, or the existence of an environment where a doctor is afraid or unable to legitimately tell hypochondriacs that they are not sick and send them home?
I guess if you wanted to debate it, you have to first be born to become a US Citizen, so any unborn child is therefore not a citizen.
Fool, fool, fool, fool, fool! Never, never attempt to use logic of any kind in an argument about abortion. You only legitimize further the farce that is the modern abortion debate.
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Obama is a Professor of Law, in fact.
The distinction is akin to that between a prostitute and a Madam.
Perhaps, but be aware that rodent urine is probably more fit for consumption than the soda.
Just wait until you actually try to use it.
It's true. Mathematics is the refuge of Geeks who never got to play with hardware.
Would you prefer that he had remained a quiet researcher for the last decade? Would the world be better off if he had?
We've all seen the Schneier-Norris jokes, and it is true that he is something of a celebrity in cryptography and computer science circles. But does becoming a celebrity through making the effort to educate the public about your field automatically cheapen your worth as a scientist or researcher? Does it reduce the worth of the message?
Celebrity has become a smear word, but smearing all celebrities reveals only our own inability to recognize true expertise and talent.
Other people's outrage.
I wonder if the problem is really on the client side here.
And that group does not include most Windows Admins running Windows servers.
Ubuntu's GUI tools other successes on the desktop make it a direct competitor to windows desktops, and these same features make it a direct competitor to windows servers. Windows servers have nothing else to offer apart from their GUI interfaces and integration with clients. But with the demise of the backwards compatibility camp at Microsoft, the latter feature is in question, leaving Ubuntu primed to usurp not a few Microsoft shop data rooms in the near future.
Fuck. The word is fuck, not frak. This isn't broadcast television. Remember to stress that fricative for best effect!
And now we see exactly what your protestations of outrage are really all about. You would force the rest of us to stand to attention behind you or risk having the vilest of accusations thrown directly against us. You are a pitbull of social reactionaries who will use any weapon, no matter how odious, to chip away at the foundations of our free society and who will without conscience pass within a hair's breath of libel so as to cut most deeply without risk to yourself.
You, and people like you, are destroying the western world, one pointing finger at a time.
Well, to my mind, they are still fellow human beings and fellow citizens who deserve every moral and legal right as to the rest of us.
I would shed a tear for each such measure as yet another branch was torn from the tree of liberty. I would mourn the needless waste of human life.
The law, and even constitutions, are ultimately subject to the will of the people. People like you and others in this thread who would rather join a rabid mob than go against one and stand up for what is right. If you're too afraid of unpopularity, or condemnation, or guilt by association, to defend the rights of others, then you don't deserve a single one of those right yourself.
You, and every poster in this thread panders to hysteria by sycophantically declaring your own inflated revulsion at these crimes. Every time you do so, you further strengthen the forces that are eating away at the foundations of law and freedom in the western world. No reasonable person need declare their revulsion for these crimes. Yet everyone insists on doing so, loudly and explicitly at the earliest opportunity.
Because they are afraid.
"Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them" - Frederick Douglass. The west has submitted to the howls, intimidation and demagoguery of the Outrage Brigade. We will suffer whatever injustice or wrong they now choose to impose upon us, and it seems, will do so indefinitely. Please read the rest of the Douglass quote, and think next time before you obediently proclaim your moral standing.
Computers are magic. Stuff on them doesn't count as regular effects.
But you only took a peek, and just jotted down the jist of it! Come on! Don't let a goddamn piece of paper stand in the way of a good wholesome lynching!
Just tag the story "!science" and move on.
Since 1924, the educated and westernized upper classes in Turkey have maintained a secular government. But with the increasing education and prosperity of the middle classes, that is changing. Most people in Turkey want a religious government, not a secular one. There is always an assumption that education and prosperity will give rise to a decline in religion and an increase in secularism but this has been proven false time and again by many and varied counterexamples.
Formal education does not promote critical thinking or a rational mindset. Modern technology does not reduce the demand for religion. Democracy does not lead to the separation of church and state, or to the rule of law.
It is foolish to think that any amount of "modernisation" will "westernise" the rest of the world. Western countries should realise that no amount of education, democracy or industrialisation was enough to "westernise" the west itself either. It took an altogether greater force to shape our societies into the form we have today.
Where does the suffering of low paid migrant workers, or single parents, or disabled people, or people without health care, or old age pensioners fit into your grand idea of social democracy being sensitive to sufferers?
No. All we are seeing here is the use of certain topics as excuses to censor and oppress. The biggest problems here are apathy and the taboo of criticizing the cult of the child. People do not really care(a lot) about the suffering of any particular group-x. But they are too afraid to say that frankly.
What about Geometry?
Goto's are useful. Labels are useful. Yes they can lead to problems, but so do things like pointers, dynamic typing, operator overloading, namespaces and automatic memory management. But they can also solve problems that are otherwise intractable, which is what the GP was trying to tell you. Dismissing them just because E. Djisktra said so is not really good enough.
If you want an argument from authority, or just a good read, here's Donald Knuth on Structured Programming with GOTO Statements. You need to read that paper before you can have a proper opinion on the GOTO statement. Otherwise you're just adhering to dogma.
So sayeth the article. But I ask you, do the ethical challenges concern doctors fobbing patients off with placebos, or the existence of an environment where a doctor is afraid or unable to legitimately tell hypochondriacs that they are not sick and send them home?
Fool, fool, fool, fool, fool! Never, never attempt to use logic of any kind in an argument about abortion. You only legitimize further the farce that is the modern abortion debate.
Well, what is your definition of a car?