I got my head bit off. He made sure he set me straight about his feelings of illegal immigrants and the amount of crime and negative stereotype they cause his community.
That's the way it always is, they went through all the shit and hoop-jumping to get here legally so everybody else had damn well better suffer as much as they did. At least not all 1st gen legal immigrants feel that way, although the feeling is really seductive.
As much as people like to avoid talking about this, a huge chunk of crime (especially violent crime) is caused by Spanish-speakers, many of whom are here illegally.
Eliminate self-defining crimes like working without a visa and the percentage of the population that commits crimes is much less than that of citizens.
In my state, there are random sobriety checkpoints
Its funny how you've used one massive invasion of rights to justify yet another step down the slippery slope.
Random sobriety checkpoints are by definition, no probable cause, no reasonable suspicion. Just like this law is a result of anti-foreigner hysteria, they are the result of anti-alcohol hysteria - and I say that as someone who categorically will not drink and drive, not even a single drop.
How is this a problem? By Law they are required to carry documentation with them, like a drivers license.
Apparently you don't realize this, but very few, if any, states requires that you carry your driver's license with you, even if you are driving. Most major municipalities will just pull you up on their in-car computer. At worst, they will issue you a ticket to show up at court and prove you are licensed. Nobody gets arrested for not carrying a driver's license.
I love the fact you've decided that a Wikipedia article that talks about whether or not we knew about the attack in advance is proof we knew about the attack in advance.
Add up the value of the man-hours spent on the issue so far, plus the costs associated with your downtime and performance issues, and the transition may look a lot more attractive. You probably cost your company at least US$100/hr including overhead and benefits.
Gee, I never thought of that! That's really insightful of you.
Can we PLEASE STOP with letting RMS try to completelt subvert the meaning of a word simply because we are talking about software? Everything else on the planet if you say free it means it don't cost you money.
All web search is based on a set of heuristics trying to guess what you want. Personalized search simply means that the heuristics are more adaptive.
What you call 'adaptive' I call insular and misdirected. The presumption that what someone searched for yesterday, or even half an hour ago should narrow their search results for a new search is just about universally false for anyone more inquisitive than an airhead. And if what I searched for 1 minute ago ought to affect the results of the next search I type - I'll add the necessary keywords to the new search myself.
Even unencrypted it took weeks to emulate/"crack" the protection. So this was rather successful by the standards of DRM.
I have to kind of grudgingly agree with you there. Look at the latest version of BD+ - used for the first time on the Avatar BLU-RAY. Avatar was released on Thursday it was cracked by the end of Friday by at least two different groups (Slysoft and Fengtao aka DVDFab). So, by that measure, Ubisoft's DRM was a massive success. Meanwhile, Fox just blew another $100K+ for a day's worth of copy prevention.
They point to 'evidence' this happened, they point to all sorts of conspiratorial nonsense as reasons why this was done, but not a single one of them can explain why the hell 'murdering people to lie us into war' would, particularly, need the towers to collapse, and hence why it would be a reasonable idea to rigs things so they would. The best concept, like I said, is some sort of idiotic insurance scam or a way to cover up the theft of a billion dollars.
And neither Iran-Contra or Watergate were stupid. One of them was 'drug dealing to make money' (Which, duh, happens all the time, just usually not by the government.) and the other was 'wiring tapping your political opponent'. Both those things actually make sense.
Sure they do, in 20/20 hindsight when you know all the details. See my point again about not knowing all the details.
You, and your bizzaro bolding are really no different from the truthers. You only see what you want to see and you frame your arguments to deliberately ignore the inconvenient parts.
No thank you. All I need is for my searches to be even more limited by what somebody else thinks. Keep the spam to a minimum and leave this 'personalization' waste-of-time out of it.
At 1.5 inches in diameter, that's not ash, that's a freaking rock. The eruption might put it into the air, but it ain't going to stay there long enough for an airplane to run into it.
It's really easy to cherry pick the dumb ideas and ignore the plausible scenarios. It isn't like "truthers" are all of exactly the same mind about these issues, just as slashdot isn't a hive-mind either. The one unifying theme though is that the official story has got more than a few holes in it. You can't blame people for trying to fill in the details and sometimes coming up a little crazy in the process. Look at how crazy some of the stuff we do know to be true was - Watergate and Iran-Contra being two cases where most people would have said, "that's too full of stupidity to be true."
If Americans are screaming to have accused terrorists shot on sight for killing a few thousand people, what sort of punishment could possibly be in league for a person destroying the entire legal force of a country?
I thought being a dyke was not a choice. I don't think the dykes are likely to go along with being re-purposed. Just in case I'm wrong though, you can send me a couple of the lipstick ones and I promise to generate a lot energy with them.
and you never want to write law based on the edge cases.
I think you have that backwards - politicians salivate at the idea of writing laws based on the edge cases - PATRIOT Act, Megan's Law, Amber Alerts (and all the international derivates), drinking age of 21, drug possession "with intent to distribute" for drug quantities equivalent to that of a six-pack of beer - the list of these sorts of cockamamie laws that are aimed at exceptionally rare edge cases just goes on and on.
Or, in other words, radical Muslims are fearful that a large faction of the faithful will splinter off and form a new denomination based on the worship of an episode of South Park. They're so anxious over this possibility, these groups have threatened to suborn the murder of Matt Stone & Trey Parker by dispatching roving death squads.
While quite humorous, your interpretation of the motivation of these radicals is completely off-base. It doesn't take much to figure that out either - for the same reason what you wrote is funny, it doesn't pass the laugh test. These guys aren't worried about the idolatry prohibitions, they are worried that South Park and those other cartoons insult their prophet. Its a straightforward blasphemy issue.
There are plenty of depictions of Mohamed in Arabic literature, although there are also plenty of examples where the anti-idolatry stuff has been taken too far, such as a general reluctance to use illustrations of any sort in some periods of arabic history, leading to the development of highly stylized calligraphy as an outlet for artistic expression.
But here and now, these guys are worked up over perceived insults, not false gods.
I can't believe you got modded up for that steaming pile of bullshit.
Lets take a look at just one of your accusations:
-After that get a few people to claim that people are prejudice about the religion and that the religion has been corrupted by a few people and that their views do not reflect all followers of the religion even though the actions of the few radicals are never denounced.
This scheme can only work in muslim countries with strict requirements for women to cover themselves. Anywhere else and all the pretty women will soon be run over and killed.
As much as I agree with your sentiment, you are not going to find any better quality on average in the FOSS world. Which I have never understood because there is no excuse for it in the FOSS world where there are no deadlines and no PHBs.
That's a real bad assumption. A lot of FOSS is scratching-an-itch. People put together just enough code to fix their problem. They may not care about corner cases because they never run into those cases in their environment. Once the code is good enough to solve their problems, there is usually some other task that takes priority over honing the code to perfection - its the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach.
I am in hearty agreement. It's the software that's just awful awful awful. Notice every complaint in the article is actually a software complaint.
I think you give way too much credit to hardware designers. When the hardware design is botched or just monumentally stupid its the driver writer that has to come up with some kind of hackneyed work-around to at least make the hardware somewhat workable. For example, a card that generates spurious interrupts - it just may not be possible to accurately determine which interrupts to discard and which ones to process without totally blowing performance. So what gets blamed when the card runs too slow? The driver. What gets blamed when the driver is changed to run fast but now it isn't 100% stable? The driver.
Sure there are a lot of poorly written apps out there, but there is bad hardware too, it just isn't as obvious to regular users that the root cause is crappy hardware.
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I got my head bit off. He made sure he set me straight about his feelings of illegal immigrants and the amount of crime and negative stereotype they cause his community.
That's the way it always is, they went through all the shit and hoop-jumping to get here legally so everybody else had damn well better suffer as much as they did.
At least not all 1st gen legal immigrants feel that way, although the feeling is really seductive.
As much as people like to avoid talking about this, a huge chunk of crime (especially violent crime) is caused by Spanish-speakers, many of whom are here illegally.
Eliminate self-defining crimes like working without a visa and the percentage of the population that commits crimes is much less than that of citizens.
In my state, there are random sobriety checkpoints
Its funny how you've used one massive invasion of rights to justify yet another step down the slippery slope.
Random sobriety checkpoints are by definition, no probable cause, no reasonable suspicion. Just like this law is a result of anti-foreigner hysteria, they are the result of anti-alcohol hysteria - and I say that as someone who categorically will not drink and drive, not even a single drop.
Really, people who think this is some horrible extreme law should take a hard look sometime at Mexico's immigration laws,
Not buying the "Mexico has jumped off a bridge so we will too argument."
This is the land of the free, not the fearful.
How is this a problem? By Law they are required to carry documentation with them, like a drivers license.
Apparently you don't realize this, but very few, if any, states requires that you carry your driver's license with you, even if you are driving.
Most major municipalities will just pull you up on their in-car computer.
At worst, they will issue you a ticket to show up at court and prove you are licensed.
Nobody gets arrested for not carrying a driver's license.
Actually, you're missing experiencing the whole trial from the jury box.
Which is one of many good reasons for all trials to be recorded and then made publicly available.
I love the fact you've decided that a Wikipedia article that talks about whether or not we knew about the attack in advance is proof we knew about the attack in advance.
Wooooooooooosh!
Add up the value of the man-hours spent on the issue so far, plus the costs associated with your downtime and performance issues, and the transition may look a lot more attractive. You probably cost your company at least US$100/hr including overhead and benefits.
Gee, I never thought of that! That's really insightful of you.
Can we PLEASE STOP with letting RMS try to completelt subvert the meaning of a word simply because we are talking about software? Everything else on the planet if you say free it means it don't cost you money.
You are free to use the word anyway you want.
All web search is based on a set of heuristics trying to guess what you want. Personalized search simply means that the heuristics are more adaptive.
What you call 'adaptive' I call insular and misdirected. The presumption that what someone searched for yesterday, or even half an hour ago should narrow their search results for a new search is just about universally false for anyone more inquisitive than an airhead. And if what I searched for 1 minute ago ought to affect the results of the next search I type - I'll add the necessary keywords to the new search myself.
But personalized means better results for YOU - not worse.
No it doesn't. It means results that better conform to what someone else thinks I want and has overly simplified into a set of basic heuristics.
If it really meant better results for me, that would require an actual ME to make the evaluation of each potential result.
Even unencrypted it took weeks to emulate/"crack" the protection. So this was rather successful by the standards of DRM.
I have to kind of grudgingly agree with you there.
Look at the latest version of BD+ - used for the first time on the Avatar BLU-RAY.
Avatar was released on Thursday it was cracked by the end of Friday by at least two different groups (Slysoft and Fengtao aka DVDFab).
So, by that measure, Ubisoft's DRM was a massive success.
Meanwhile, Fox just blew another $100K+ for a day's worth of copy prevention.
>>A team of European researchers, working with a researcher from the University of California, Irvine,
Europe isn't a country. The Inria isn't a European research institution, it's only a French institution.
I can't tell if you are trolling or if you really did fail basic set theory.
They point to 'evidence' this happened, they point to all sorts of conspiratorial nonsense as reasons why this was done, but not a single one of them can explain why the hell 'murdering people to lie us into war' would, particularly, need the towers to collapse, and hence why it would be a reasonable idea to rigs things so they would. The best concept, like I said, is some sort of idiotic insurance scam or a way to cover up the theft of a billion dollars.
Why would we need to let pearl harbor happen in order to get the US into the war?
And neither Iran-Contra or Watergate were stupid. One of them was 'drug dealing to make money' (Which, duh, happens all the time, just usually not by the government.) and the other was 'wiring tapping your political opponent'. Both those things actually make sense.
Sure they do, in 20/20 hindsight when you know all the details. See my point again about not knowing all the details.
You, and your bizzaro bolding are really no different from the truthers. You only see what you want to see and you frame your arguments to deliberately ignore the inconvenient parts.
"Personalization is a key part of Internet search
No thank you. All I need is for my searches to be even more limited by what somebody else thinks.
Keep the spam to a minimum and leave this 'personalization' waste-of-time out of it.
Volcanic ash in the air can be as course as 1.5",
At 1.5 inches in diameter, that's not ash, that's a freaking rock.
The eruption might put it into the air, but it ain't going to stay there long enough for an airplane to run into it.
All this are actual truther beliefs.
It's really easy to cherry pick the dumb ideas and ignore the plausible scenarios. It isn't like "truthers" are all of exactly the same mind about these issues, just as slashdot isn't a hive-mind either. The one unifying theme though is that the official story has got more than a few holes in it. You can't blame people for trying to fill in the details and sometimes coming up a little crazy in the process. Look at how crazy some of the stuff we do know to be true was - Watergate and Iran-Contra being two cases where most people would have said, "that's too full of stupidity to be true."
If Americans are screaming to have accused terrorists shot on sight for killing a few thousand people, what sort of punishment could possibly be in league for a person destroying the entire legal force of a country?
Re-election.
I thought being a dyke was not a choice. I don't think the dykes are likely to go along with being re-purposed.
Just in case I'm wrong though, you can send me a couple of the lipstick ones and I promise to generate a lot energy with them.
and you never want to write law based on the edge cases.
I think you have that backwards - politicians salivate at the idea of writing laws based on the edge cases - PATRIOT Act, Megan's Law, Amber Alerts (and all the international derivates), drinking age of 21, drug possession "with intent to distribute" for drug quantities equivalent to that of a six-pack of beer - the list of these sorts of cockamamie laws that are aimed at exceptionally rare edge cases just goes on and on.
Or, in other words, radical Muslims are fearful that a large faction of the faithful will splinter off and form a new denomination based on the worship of an episode of South Park. They're so anxious over this possibility, these groups have threatened to suborn the murder of Matt Stone & Trey Parker by dispatching roving death squads.
While quite humorous, your interpretation of the motivation of these radicals is completely off-base. It doesn't take much to figure that out either - for the same reason what you wrote is funny, it doesn't pass the laugh test. These guys aren't worried about the idolatry prohibitions, they are worried that South Park and those other cartoons insult their prophet. Its a straightforward blasphemy issue.
There are plenty of depictions of Mohamed in Arabic literature, although there are also plenty of examples where the anti-idolatry stuff has been taken too far, such as a general reluctance to use illustrations of any sort in some periods of arabic history, leading to the development of highly stylized calligraphy as an outlet for artistic expression.
But here and now, these guys are worked up over perceived insults, not false gods.
I can't believe you got modded up for that steaming pile of bullshit.
Lets take a look at just one of your accusations:
-After that get a few people to claim that people are prejudice about the religion and that the religion has been corrupted by a few people and that their views do not reflect all followers of the religion even though the actions of the few radicals are never denounced.
Here are links to literally hundreds, if not thousands, of examples of public muslim figures denouncing the "actions of the few radicals."
The abyss has stared back at you and you have succumbed to it.
This scheme can only work in muslim countries with strict requirements for women to cover themselves.
Anywhere else and all the pretty women will soon be run over and killed.
As much as I agree with your sentiment, you are not going to find any better quality on average in the FOSS world. Which I have never understood because there is no excuse for it in the FOSS world where there are no deadlines and no PHBs.
That's a real bad assumption. A lot of FOSS is scratching-an-itch. People put together just enough code to fix their problem. They may not care about corner cases because they never run into those cases in their environment. Once the code is good enough to solve their problems, there is usually some other task that takes priority over honing the code to perfection - its the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach.
I am in hearty agreement. It's the software that's just awful awful awful. Notice every complaint in the article is actually a software complaint.
I think you give way too much credit to hardware designers. When the hardware design is botched or just monumentally stupid its the driver writer that has to come up with some kind of hackneyed work-around to at least make the hardware somewhat workable. For example, a card that generates spurious interrupts - it just may not be possible to accurately determine which interrupts to discard and which ones to process without totally blowing performance. So what gets blamed when the card runs too slow? The driver. What gets blamed when the driver is changed to run fast but now it isn't 100% stable? The driver.
Sure there are a lot of poorly written apps out there, but there is bad hardware too, it just isn't as obvious to regular users that the root cause is crappy hardware.