Being a good programmer is like being a good go player and concentrating both on the details and the big picture. Computers can't play go because current methods are either too detail-focused or too big-picture-focused.
If you have ice cream, I will give you ice cream. If you do not have ice cream, I will take your ice cream. All of this ice cream will be in ice cream koans.
The Half-Life games had a storyline that goes just as deep as Halo's but they did it with much less "cinematics". They did it by putting the storyline all around you.
I'm sorry, but civil disobedience against drinking laws would be 1) using that fake ID to buy a keg of beer, then pour it out outside the bar taking pictures and completely admitting your ID is fake or 2) some kind of sit-in, where you demand beers while admitting your real age.
Chances are, most of these people are doing it just to get drinks and not as some form of grand political protest, much in the same way as posting 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is civil disobedience but P2P sharing isn't.
As for fighting and dying for your country, you can drink at 18 on base.
Considering that Vint Cerf, the real inventor of the Internet, says that Al Gore's claims in the (admittedly not very good) way he worded them were correct, I have only one thing to say: "What's a groovy ex-vice-president?" "An algorithm!"
Of course, nobody works for Linus, and if people want to leave Linux kernel development, they don't have to find another job and another paycheck.
Also, Linus's statements are half-sarcastic.
MH42 has always been a bit incoherent. He's also always wanted a wall around the country. His posts indicate a very consistent support for making things as local as possible. That's entirely inconsistent with his steadfast support for the Catholic Church, but that's another matter. Personally, I think that state level is quite possibly the worst possible level by which to distribute power, because there's a continuum of power, you don't have to worry about the weak because they can't do anything, you don't have to worry about the strong because they're secure in their power, but you do have to worry about those that occupy the middle ground between those two--and the states are the perfect size to be unremovable from that middle ground without a lot of neutering of power.
Are you really trying to say that you'd rather answer to a nationalist system instead of a (relatively) localized government?
Well, I'm thinking of a number, it's somewhere between 8 and 10, and it involves schoolchildren in Arkansas. Eisenhower wasn't exactly a civil rights president but I'm pretty sure I'd rather not be forced to answer to someone like Orval Faubus.
Well, considering your entire argument hinged on the "fact" that "police all over the world hired successful clairvoyants" even though you have been able to provide zero examples of that, I don't need to worry about the rest of your argument. Non-existence of something is next to impossible to prove outside of pure mathematics, and considering that every single experiment done with respect to paranormal activities has failed to produce any evidence in favor of paranormal abilities, the ball is squarely in your field, and if you do not give me a single concrete example of paranormal activities you admit defeat.
I just checked that link, and guess what, I found not a single example of it! For example, the first link was a fictional scenario for a game, and the second link was a "Look at this total bullshit!" site, and the rest seem to be unrelated.
Actually, Neal Stephenson has mentioned that Microsoft essentially does have a bug reporting section, it's just that you have to say you're "advanced"(you have to say this word like it was said in Invader ZIM) to get in it.
A "free market in the field of government" rarely lasts, and only once that I can think of(maybe twice) has it lead to the second government not being a thousand times worse than the previous.
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Being a good programmer is like being a good go player and concentrating both on the details and the big picture. Computers can't play go because current methods are either too detail-focused or too big-picture-focused.
Interestingly, the best surgeons appear to be the ones who played a lot of video games as a child.
Nothing proves it, but you can get pretty close by running a controlled experiment and removing a lot of confounding variables.
If you have ice cream, I will give you ice cream. If you do not have ice cream, I will take your ice cream. All of this ice cream will be in ice cream koans.
Of course you're not from Stargate, you're from Wormhole X-Treme!
MacGyver has been dealing with aliens for the last ten years. He has bigger fish to fry than Murdoch.
Ron Paul is to freedom as those fad diets are to nutrition.
It was also all ripped off of Stargate, but that's a different story.
The Half-Life games had a storyline that goes just as deep as Halo's but they did it with much less "cinematics". They did it by putting the storyline all around you.
I'm sorry, but civil disobedience against drinking laws would be 1) using that fake ID to buy a keg of beer, then pour it out outside the bar taking pictures and completely admitting your ID is fake or 2) some kind of sit-in, where you demand beers while admitting your real age.
Chances are, most of these people are doing it just to get drinks and not as some form of grand political protest, much in the same way as posting 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is civil disobedience but P2P sharing isn't.
As for fighting and dying for your country, you can drink at 18 on base.
Considering that Vint Cerf, the real inventor of the Internet, says that Al Gore's claims in the (admittedly not very good) way he worded them were correct, I have only one thing to say: "What's a groovy ex-vice-president?" "An algorithm!"
Of course, nobody works for Linus, and if people want to leave Linux kernel development, they don't have to find another job and another paycheck.
Also, Linus's statements are half-sarcastic.
Neo: Are you saying I can dodge chairs?
Morpheus(Google): I'm saying that when the time comes, you won't need to.
Which is pretty odd considering that Kissinger wasn't secretary of state until Nixon.
Take your pick: Eisenhower or Orval Faubus. The "These" became "The" when people realized that states tended to be lead by people like Orval Faubus.
Four planes which barely hit their targets versus the largest military empire in the world at the time. Yeah...
MH42 has always been a bit incoherent. He's also always wanted a wall around the country. His posts indicate a very consistent support for making things as local as possible. That's entirely inconsistent with his steadfast support for the Catholic Church, but that's another matter. Personally, I think that state level is quite possibly the worst possible level by which to distribute power, because there's a continuum of power, you don't have to worry about the weak because they can't do anything, you don't have to worry about the strong because they're secure in their power, but you do have to worry about those that occupy the middle ground between those two--and the states are the perfect size to be unremovable from that middle ground without a lot of neutering of power.
Nope, if you can't "b.b.b.but CLINTON!" you're not allowed to become neoconservative.
Well, considering your entire argument hinged on the "fact" that "police all over the world hired successful clairvoyants" even though you have been able to provide zero examples of that, I don't need to worry about the rest of your argument. Non-existence of something is next to impossible to prove outside of pure mathematics, and considering that every single experiment done with respect to paranormal activities has failed to produce any evidence in favor of paranormal abilities, the ball is squarely in your field, and if you do not give me a single concrete example of paranormal activities you admit defeat.
I just checked that link, and guess what, I found not a single example of it! For example, the first link was a fictional scenario for a game, and the second link was a "Look at this total bullshit!" site, and the rest seem to be unrelated.
But at least he didn't throw the chair.
Actually, Neal Stephenson has mentioned that Microsoft essentially does have a bug reporting section, it's just that you have to say you're "advanced"(you have to say this word like it was said in Invader ZIM) to get in it.
A "free market in the field of government" rarely lasts, and only once that I can think of(maybe twice) has it lead to the second government not being a thousand times worse than the previous.
It's called a track record. Ignoring it is called insanity.