Anonymous Coward Posted: >>Ok, so this ruling upheld that the existing laws >>that have been on the books for YEARS now in over >>20 states are constitutional. How exactly is this >>the result of the "neocons" shoving their agenda >>down your throat? >>Retard. The court upheld what should have been a law that shouldn't have been enforceable because of its unconstitutionality. The Conservative (neocon) Supreme Court Justice-Activist Thomas wrote the opinion that defies all common sense. This law was to be ignored by all educated citizens, until this ridiculous decision made by the Republican appointees. I am not sure if I understand your objection. But after all, I am "retarded."
>>The argument of the Supreme Court is that your >>name doesn't incriminate you unless there are >>extenuating circumstances so asking you to >>identify yourself doesn't violate your 5th >>ammendment rights.
A programmer would look at it this way: being unwilling to identify yourself immediately produces the needed extenuating circumstance, because it is now the law that you have to provide your identity. This indeed grants you the right to withold your identity, because failing to do so would incriminate you for the crime of failing to identify yourself.
This is wholly and completely inaccurate. States cannot ignore federal law (or even practices) by instituting (through legislation) more liberal rights to citizens.
In fact, there was a decision today about the right for citizens to sue HMO's based on rights given to them by state laws. The decision was that a Federal statute pertaining to a loosely related situation trumps the state mandated rights that were considerably more specific.
It's almost inconceivable how much the neocons have shoved their agenda down our throats in such a short amount of time. It really is best not to think about.
I think coders are more efficient in assembly because they don't want to have to write 54 lines of code to do something when if they consider the problem they are solving, they could write it in 10 lines.
Isn't that because assembly doesn't have new lines?
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Anonymous Coward Posted:
>>Ok, so this ruling upheld that the existing laws
>>that have been on the books for YEARS now in over
>>20 states are constitutional. How exactly is this
>>the result of the "neocons" shoving their agenda
>>down your throat?
>>Retard.
The court upheld what should have been a law that shouldn't have been enforceable because of its unconstitutionality. The Conservative (neocon) Supreme Court Justice-Activist Thomas wrote the opinion that defies all common sense. This law was to be ignored by all educated citizens, until this ridiculous decision made by the Republican appointees. I am not sure if I understand your objection. But after all, I am "retarded."
>>The argument of the Supreme Court is that your
>>name doesn't incriminate you unless there are
>>extenuating circumstances so asking you to
>>identify yourself doesn't violate your 5th
>>ammendment rights.
A programmer would look at it this way: being unwilling to identify yourself immediately produces the needed extenuating circumstance, because it is now the law that you have to provide your identity. This indeed grants you the right to withold your identity, because failing to do so would incriminate you for the crime of failing to identify yourself.
IANAL (I am not a lawyer.)
This is wholly and completely inaccurate. States cannot ignore federal law (or even practices) by instituting (through legislation) more liberal rights to citizens.
In fact, there was a decision today about the right for citizens to sue HMO's based on rights given to them by state laws. The decision was that a Federal statute pertaining to a loosely related situation trumps the state mandated rights that were considerably more specific.
It's almost inconceivable how much the neocons have shoved their agenda down our throats in such a short amount of time. It really is best not to think about.
If anybody is interested in what the first article says, you could sumarize it as follows:
Fortran smokes Java and is still faster than C.
Fortran is the mother of all computer languages.
Matrix: G++ - 2.467s
Java - 2.462s
Ocaml - 1.062s
Can you do these benchmarks with g77? Its a very strong GNU compiler.
Compilers choke on really complex code all of the time.
This links says that fortran is a forgotten language.
I don't think thats right.
I use fortran and I like it alot. I also like potato salad and cold soda.
I think coders are more efficient in assembly because they don't want to have to write 54 lines of code to do something when if they consider the problem they are solving, they could write it in 10 lines.
Isn't that because assembly doesn't have new lines?