Too true. If you write in normal speech, you quickly have problems. Many words are just plain ambiguous. Even in technical specifications, it's something that has to be dealt with: if you're comparing two things for equality, what happens if one string has a precomposed Unicode character and the other one has the combining characteristics? Should the "K" (Kelvin sign glyph) and the "K" (Latin upper-case K) be considered equal?
Plain language is almost always hopelessly ambiguous. Most legalese is actually very readable if you have a bit of practice.
Sort of. Thomas outputs all of it's bill data in XML and all URLs are in a nice predictable form(okay, not so nice). It's basically a big REST API in it's own right. Quite easy to parse.
An easier to use API would be an improvement, but congress already puts it out there and makes it quite simple to take and use. What I really want to see, is some sort of standardization of state legislatures. In the organization I work for, state legislation has to all be pulled by hand. Lots and lots of man-hours.
The problem with legalizing marijuana is that there's no reliable test for impairment, like taking a breathalyzer for alcohol. Even blood and urine tests are not effective at proving impairment for marijuana. Until that little issue is solved, you can forget about it being legalized. At least in the US.
Even though there's no reliable test for proof, they still lock people up for DWI. No matter what you may have put in your body, if you're obviously fucked up, you shouldn't be driving. I don't see much of a problem with an officer using his judgment. There's also something to say about most people being able to be drive just fine while high(myself excluded).
Prostitution has to be regulated to preserve the value of sex offered by amatuers in relationships. If sex is to be used as a reward when your partner does as you wish, then it makes sense to try and outlaw any other way your partner could have sex without your permission.
And you think the government should be involved in this... why?
And if you're in a relationship where sex is used as a reward, you're doing it wrong.
rm -- \* should get it for you. The -- will stop accepting arguments, and the \ should escape the '*' into a literal character. This should also prevent it from grabbing '.' and '..' as well.
Someone should grab a VMware live image and try it out for us:)
`rm \*` does just fine. Don't need a vm image, just create a temp folder and a few files. Neat trick though.
It makes people angry, I know, but trickle-down economics *works*. Giving money to the ultra-rich makes people angry (myself included), but what are those rich people good at? Turning 1 dollar into 20.
I'm very curious to know where you think those extra 19 dollars some from. You can't create resources from nothing, so that rich person is gaining those 19 dollars from someone else.
So, give the rich a big tax cut and they'll find a way to use that money to take money from the bottom of this model. I'm not knocking business, this is the model of capitalism. However, you have to worry about the gravity of money. Once you have a certain ammount of money, it's virtually impossible not to make more money from it(even if you just have a savings account). So, to keep society in somewhat of a balance, you have to do things like tax the rich to try and redistribute wealth to some extent.
Give major tax cuts to the people at the bottom of trickle down economics, and it will no doubt still be attracted to the top where people invest millions of dollars. The gravity of money has always been there, and always made the rich richer. They don't need help from the government.
You do realize that this will only effect hybrid or electric cars right?
First, as others have said, Hybrid HMMWV are on their way to the battlefield. They're quiet, more efficient and IIRC, they have a better 0-60 and top speed compared to the deisel HMMWV.
Second, it could benefit regular cars. Imagine not needing an alternator. I'm not sure of the efficiency of those, but they do put strain on the motor and require fuel to run.
Linux is awfull crap on desktop IF you need to be productive, for procrastination (but not gaming) it's OK, but as a professional web dev, i get spooked if i have to use Linux as my workstation, most of the software i need is not there.
I could say the exact thing about Windows; Also being a professional web dev. The tools are all there and in most cases, better in my opinion. It's all about the environment in which you like to work. I do know that without the Linux CLI, my work would be much slower.
Lets race to see who can check in a change and release it to three master servers the quickest.
Well the Supreme contract of the land, the U.S. Constitution, states the people should receive payment for their books, patents, or other useful arts. i.e. Microsoft is wrong to steal another's man patented ideas.
No it doesn't. What it does do is give the 'owner' the sole right to control of copy. If payment was required by constitution, the GPL would not work.
IIRC, we already know that answer. The cells do not reproduce perfectly. Think of it like a photocopier. You make a copy, then make a copy of that copy, and then a copy of that copy, and so on. Eventually, you'll have an unreadable copy. The same thing applies to cellular DNA, with unreadable resulting in a cancerous cell. Telomeres help prevent this by shortening with each division. When they run out, the cell stops dividing.
IANABiologist but I can concur with all I've read on the subject. There's also the whole free-radicals too that run around breaking apart DNA. Eventually, after all the bad copies, DNA starts to lose it's value in cell reproduction.
Also, IIRC, the average shelf life of a person's DNA is about 150 years(sorry, can't find a good source right now). So, until we can treat DNA breakdown, we won't have 'immortality.'
Um, I don't really count him as black though. Esp after a few of the percentages of how black he is got out. I count him as slightly tanned at most.
There's a really easy way to measure this. Ask any neo-nazi/racist and you will find that they still hate this dude. May as well be fully black when it comes to these folk(and there's more than you think).
Technically speaking, yes. However, any circuit court or district court (in another circuit) will either follow this decision or explain why this decision is wrong. This ruling does make a contrary result in another circuit somewhat less likely.
Please cite this. It's a U.S. Federal court. It's rulings should apply to the whole of the country. From what I know, they only separate into districts for managing caseload. Hence in the northwest, one court spans a whole crapload of states and the northeast is much smaller.
I think maybe you need to be modded 'ignorant' yourself. There are plenty of modern computer games with more cognitive depth and educational content than any of the games you listed.
Score for not listing any. Sitting here on my gentoo box just wishing for someone that knows so much to show me a decent game.
Didn't much bother me. If they'd said 'weighs four million times as much as the Sun' I'd complain - but 'heavy' to my mind doesn't specifically refer to weight as opposed to mass.
I would like to have access to their list to know exactly what is being kept from my view and why, to know whether they have overstepped their power and I have any legal or political recourse to object.
I believe this would be a bad idea. Since no blocking is fullproof, all this would do is give free advertising to people who are looking for these types of things or to people that are curious(like kids).
All you'd have to do is hit a US proxy or SSH tunnel to some country that does not block. All you need is this nice shopping list of sites. I say you may as well go through normal law enforcement means and leave the sites to their current level of obscurity.
But could I bill a client to not only make that database-affecting patch, but bill them to play open source politics to get that fix pushed into the mainline ZenCart codebase?. And trust me, I can fully expect a *lot* of politics involved to get them to accept a patch which changes makes a change to the DB schema and affects how orders are removed.
Can you bill your client for the price of the proprietary software? It's really the same thing. Time or money.
There is no overreaches. The information is already here. It just needs to be exploited.
Abuses and opression didn't wait DNA to take place. Just look at all the innocent (mostly black) people who spent 20 years in prison waiting for death before being cleared by DNA analysis. Before DNA, "similarities" in hair texture was enough to convict someone (especially young black males.)
But that's DNA comparison. That is not a "global DNA database" as you put it. A global database would(at least in my inference) contain everyone's DNA and that would lead to loads of potential abuses. See all the comments to this article for examples.
"wasted work" or wasted lives... French serial killer Guy Georges could have been
arrested sooner and two lives spared if a global DNA database had been in place.
And how many overreaches into privacy and how many abuses and oppression would have happened to spare those two lives?
The trouble with "saving students a ton of money" is that it would cost the publishers a ton of money. OK, half that money goes to the bookseller who, as a no-longer-needed intermediary would disappear. But the remainder is lost income for the publisher.
The problem with this is, most of the price of books is cost of printing and manufacture. The industry would due well in the new electronic era. They could cut the price in half and raise their profit megafolds over. Only the cost of a little electricity, or disk media is needed.
For you to have the people who are actually doing the work in charge of the work, you have to reverse millenia of king -> Serf cultural accumulation.
I'm curious. What would you replace it with?
If you look at pretty much all social structures in nature, you have a leader that organizes and directs the rest of their society or group. I suppose democracy would work, but it's far from efficient. And efficiency is what is needed for businesses.
However, I just heard Petraeus quote those numbers last week. For one, I think you underestimate how safe a good chunk of Iraq is these days. Angelina Jolie went over a few months back, toured the country, and as a vocal opponent of the war she said she was amazed the positive progress. She said millions of refugees have reentered cities, returned to their homes and resumed their lives. She spoke of the safety in cities, and how it must be preserved.
And do you really believe that the US forces would let a celebrity travel without armed escorts, people cleaning the trail ahead, and an itinerary planned by US forces? May have well been a congressional trip to Iraq(read: useless)
Conversely, Detroit often bounces back and forth as the murder capitol of the country.
From the linked article: "As I noted in previous posts, the AP reports that the number of violent deaths in the entire country of Iraq has recently hovered at about 500 per month."
Okay, that's 500/month compared to Detroit's 400/year. I think your math is off a little.
All anarchists, social and individualist, believe that government should be a simple system that only deals with harm.
You might want to read up on Anarchism. It is the total rejection of state. It's individualism in it's entirety with no group holding authority over any one person.
Actually no because I left the US before owning land and I'm not in the military so as I've been told I can't vote in this election. Otherwise I'd be voting for Ron Paul.
You don't need to be a landowner to vote in the US. All you have to be is a citizen and depending on the state, a resident of X length of time.
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Too true. If you write in normal speech, you quickly have problems. Many words are just plain ambiguous. Even in technical specifications, it's something that has to be dealt with: if you're comparing two things for equality, what happens if one string has a precomposed Unicode character and the other one has the combining characteristics? Should the "K" (Kelvin sign glyph) and the "K" (Latin upper-case K) be considered equal?
Plain language is almost always hopelessly ambiguous. Most legalese is actually very readable if you have a bit of practice.
Not totally true. They are doing something about it.
I assumed there was some sort of API anyway, I assumed thats what sites like opencongress.org were using:
http://www.opencongress.org/
Sort of. Thomas outputs all of it's bill data in XML and all URLs are in a nice predictable form(okay, not so nice). It's basically a big REST API in it's own right. Quite easy to parse.
An easier to use API would be an improvement, but congress already puts it out there and makes it quite simple to take and use. What I really want to see, is some sort of standardization of state legislatures. In the organization I work for, state legislation has to all be pulled by hand. Lots and lots of man-hours.
The problem with legalizing marijuana is that there's no reliable test for impairment, like taking a breathalyzer for alcohol. Even blood and urine tests are not effective at proving impairment for marijuana. Until that little issue is solved, you can forget about it being legalized. At least in the US.
Even though there's no reliable test for proof, they still lock people up for DWI. No matter what you may have put in your body, if you're obviously fucked up, you shouldn't be driving. I don't see much of a problem with an officer using his judgment. There's also something to say about most people being able to be drive just fine while high(myself excluded).
Prostitution has to be regulated to preserve the value of sex offered by amatuers in relationships. If sex is to be used as a reward when your partner does as you wish, then it makes sense to try and outlaw any other way your partner could have sex without your permission.
And you think the government should be involved in this... why?
And if you're in a relationship where sex is used as a reward, you're doing it wrong.
rm -- \* should get it for you. The -- will stop accepting arguments, and the \ should escape the '*' into a literal character. This should also prevent it from grabbing '.' and '..' as well.
Someone should grab a VMware live image and try it out for us :)
`rm \*` does just fine. Don't need a vm image, just create a temp folder and a few files. Neat trick though.
I'm very curious to know where you think those extra 19 dollars some from. You can't create resources from nothing, so that rich person is gaining those 19 dollars from someone else.
So, give the rich a big tax cut and they'll find a way to use that money to take money from the bottom of this model. I'm not knocking business, this is the model of capitalism. However, you have to worry about the gravity of money. Once you have a certain ammount of money, it's virtually impossible not to make more money from it(even if you just have a savings account). So, to keep society in somewhat of a balance, you have to do things like tax the rich to try and redistribute wealth to some extent.
Give major tax cuts to the people at the bottom of trickle down economics, and it will no doubt still be attracted to the top where people invest millions of dollars. The gravity of money has always been there, and always made the rich richer. They don't need help from the government.
You do realize that this will only effect hybrid or electric cars right?
First, as others have said, Hybrid HMMWV are on their way to the battlefield. They're quiet, more efficient and IIRC, they have a better 0-60 and top speed compared to the deisel HMMWV.
Second, it could benefit regular cars. Imagine not needing an alternator. I'm not sure of the efficiency of those, but they do put strain on the motor and require fuel to run.
Linux is awfull crap on desktop IF you need to be productive, for procrastination (but not gaming) it's OK, but as a professional web dev, i get spooked if i have to use Linux as my workstation, most of the software i need is not there.
I could say the exact thing about Windows; Also being a professional web dev. The tools are all there and in most cases, better in my opinion. It's all about the environment in which you like to work. I do know that without the Linux CLI, my work would be much slower.
Lets race to see who can check in a change and release it to three master servers the quickest.
Well the Supreme contract of the land, the U.S. Constitution, states the people should receive payment for their books, patents, or other useful arts. i.e. Microsoft is wrong to steal another's man patented ideas.
No it doesn't. What it does do is give the 'owner' the sole right to control of copy. If payment was required by constitution, the GPL would not work.
IIRC, we already know that answer. The cells do not reproduce perfectly. Think of it like a photocopier. You make a copy, then make a copy of that copy, and then a copy of that copy, and so on. Eventually, you'll have an unreadable copy. The same thing applies to cellular DNA, with unreadable resulting in a cancerous cell. Telomeres help prevent this by shortening with each division. When they run out, the cell stops dividing.
IANABiologist but I can concur with all I've read on the subject. There's also the whole free-radicals too that run around breaking apart DNA. Eventually, after all the bad copies, DNA starts to lose it's value in cell reproduction.
Also, IIRC, the average shelf life of a person's DNA is about 150 years(sorry, can't find a good source right now). So, until we can treat DNA breakdown, we won't have 'immortality.'
Um, I don't really count him as black though. Esp after a few of the percentages of how black he is got out. I count him as slightly tanned at most.
There's a really easy way to measure this. Ask any neo-nazi/racist and you will find that they still hate this dude. May as well be fully black when it comes to these folk(and there's more than you think).
Technically speaking, yes. However, any circuit court or district court (in another circuit) will either follow this decision or explain why this decision is wrong. This ruling does make a contrary result in another circuit somewhat less likely.
Please cite this. It's a U.S. Federal court. It's rulings should apply to the whole of the country. From what I know, they only separate into districts for managing caseload. Hence in the northwest, one court spans a whole crapload of states and the northeast is much smaller.
I think maybe you need to be modded 'ignorant' yourself. There are plenty of modern computer games with more cognitive depth and educational content than any of the games you listed.
Score for not listing any. Sitting here on my gentoo box just wishing for someone that knows so much to show me a decent game.
Didn't much bother me. If they'd said 'weighs four million times as much as the Sun' I'd complain - but 'heavy' to my mind doesn't specifically refer to weight as opposed to mass.
Weight is to heavy as mass is to massive.
I would like to have access to their list to know exactly what is being kept from my view and why, to know whether they have overstepped their power and I have any legal or political recourse to object.
I believe this would be a bad idea. Since no blocking is fullproof, all this would do is give free advertising to people who are looking for these types of things or to people that are curious(like kids).
All you'd have to do is hit a US proxy or SSH tunnel to some country that does not block. All you need is this nice shopping list of sites. I say you may as well go through normal law enforcement means and leave the sites to their current level of obscurity.
But could I bill a client to not only make that database-affecting patch, but bill them to play open source politics to get that fix pushed into the mainline ZenCart codebase?. And trust me, I can fully expect a *lot* of politics involved to get them to accept a patch which changes makes a change to the DB schema and affects how orders are removed.
Can you bill your client for the price of the proprietary software? It's really the same thing. Time or money.
There is no overreaches. The information is already here. It just needs to be exploited. Abuses and opression didn't wait DNA to take place. Just look at all the innocent (mostly black) people who spent 20 years in prison waiting for death before being cleared by DNA analysis. Before DNA, "similarities" in hair texture was enough to convict someone (especially young black males.)
But that's DNA comparison. That is not a "global DNA database" as you put it. A global database would(at least in my inference) contain everyone's DNA and that would lead to loads of potential abuses. See all the comments to this article for examples.
"wasted work" or wasted lives... French serial killer Guy Georges could have been arrested sooner and two lives spared if a global DNA database had been in place.
And how many overreaches into privacy and how many abuses and oppression would have happened to spare those two lives?
There, fixed that for you. The right of trial by jury also allows the defendant to go up against a judge if they would prefer.
The trouble with "saving students a ton of money" is that it would cost the publishers a ton of money. OK, half that money goes to the bookseller who, as a no-longer-needed intermediary would disappear. But the remainder is lost income for the publisher.
The problem with this is, most of the price of books is cost of printing and manufacture. The industry would due well in the new electronic era. They could cut the price in half and raise their profit megafolds over. Only the cost of a little electricity, or disk media is needed.
Why should I pay for someone else's mistakes? The rest of you idiots are the ones who created this problem.
FYI, you're in this social experiment called the USA with the rest of us.
For you to have the people who are actually doing the work in charge of the work, you have to reverse millenia of king -> Serf cultural accumulation.
I'm curious. What would you replace it with?
If you look at pretty much all social structures in nature, you have a leader that organizes and directs the rest of their society or group. I suppose democracy would work, but it's far from efficient. And efficiency is what is needed for businesses.
And do you really believe that the US forces would let a celebrity travel without armed escorts, people cleaning the trail ahead, and an itinerary planned by US forces? May have well been a congressional trip to Iraq(read: useless)
From the linked article: "As I noted in previous posts, the AP reports that the number of violent deaths in the entire country of Iraq has recently hovered at about 500 per month."
Okay, that's 500/month compared to Detroit's 400/year. I think your math is off a little.
You might want to read up on Anarchism. It is the total rejection of state. It's individualism in it's entirety with no group holding authority over any one person.
Actually no because I left the US before owning land and I'm not in the military so as I've been told I can't vote in this election. Otherwise I'd be voting for Ron Paul.
You don't need to be a landowner to vote in the US. All you have to be is a citizen and depending on the state, a resident of X length of time.
More info: https://www.overseasvotefoundation.org/overseas/home.htm