To actually find evidence of extraterrestrial life, even if it's simply microbes, would represent a pretty major revolution in our understanding of life in general, and a pretty good pointer that life is common in the Universe.
Indeed. Even in the pretty intense radiation around Jupiter, I imagine at least some trace of organic chemistry that might be going on below the ice ought to survive. Sampling plume residue seems like a logical first step.
The surface of Europa certainly is, but one would assume that a thick ice layer and a large body of liquid water would provide at least a reasonable amount of protection for any life that might exist below.
Let us imagine that, after being named CEO, it waa learned he had donated money to white supremacist causes and had made racist remarka.. Would you be standing here declaring that it was wring for employees to be demanding his resignation? You seem to be arguing exactly what I stated, that pronouncements in public forums (whether it be in the form of actual statements or in registering support via donations) should be consequence free, that no investor, member of a board, employee should demand or force his resignation or dismissal.
A part of any organization's value, in financial terms and in stature, is its goodwill, and having a publicly homophobic CEO can diminish that good will, and do an organization material harm.
You have free speech, you do not have freedom from the consequences of your speech.
But in most common law jurisdictions it already works that way, and has worked that way for centuries. A priest is given authority to perform the civil as well as the religious ceremony, and while the ceremonies get all jumbled up, at the end of the day they remain distinct. You still need to get a marriage license or certificate, and THAT is the foundation of the civil union,
There seems to be this general idea, expressed in one form or another by the libertarians around here, that free speech ought to mean consequences free speech; that someone can take various socially questionable if not outright bigoted positions, and that no business superior, investor or the like should have any right to mitigate the harm you may cause.
Judging by these kinds of posts, I'm guessing a fifth to quarter of the posters are borderline sociopaths. No wonder libertarianism is so popular here.
The small amount of your post that even makes sense is absurdly wrong. For fuck's sake, *nix kernels have been implementing complex process and cycle allocation algorithms for four decades now, almost all of it written in C. That's not even talking about various tools in userland that invoke fairly complex logic.
Christ almighty, what fucking planet do some posters live on?
That's rather a bizarre claim, considering i and p code has been around for decades, and virtual machines have been around as long. There's nothing particularly unique about Java (or.NET for that matter).
So what you're really asking for is a consequence-free life, where you can say anything you like on the tubes, and you're boss is forbidden by some new magical extension of the First Amendment from canning your ass.
Does this extend to NDAs and the like? I'm just curious as to how far you would push your magical new constitutional amendment giving absolute freedom from the consequences of speech.
Is C really that hard to develop in? After all, the chief advantages of C# isn't really C#, but the.NET libraries. C/C++ with good libraries strikes me as being a reasonably good option. If I'm just going to end up compiling it to down to machine code anyways, why bother with.NET at all? I get it if you have an existing code base you want to squeeze some more cycles out of, but if I were starting a new project tomorrow, give me one reason why a C# compiler is the way to go as opposed to C++?
I'm not clear. When did freedom of speech extend to the operations of a private business?
In a way, this is no different than being fired for making embarrassing statements on Twitter. You have your right to speak your mind, what you don't have the right to do is force the rest of the world to ignore what you've said.
The problem for enterprise environments is that these add-ins are likely not going to be manageable via AD and GPOs, and at least where I am, that makes adoption an iffy process. Much better to have this basic GUI functionality built into the operating system itself.
If the next version of Windows is close enough to Windows 7 for our staff to be comfortable, then we'll lift our organization-wide ban on Windows 8/8.1 workstations. For the moment, however, we continue to purchases Windows 7 Professional workstations and notebooks, and, amusingly enough, our suppliers basically say "And you will be wanting that with Windows 7, right?" They know that Windows 8 has been a bomb in the enterprise market.
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They're negative because he's likely a chronic underachiever who props up his ego with hyperskepticism.
To actually find evidence of extraterrestrial life, even if it's simply microbes, would represent a pretty major revolution in our understanding of life in general, and a pretty good pointer that life is common in the Universe.
Indeed. Even in the pretty intense radiation around Jupiter, I imagine at least some trace of organic chemistry that might be going on below the ice ought to survive. Sampling plume residue seems like a logical first step.
Have you ever actually read anything about Europa? There are fracture points all along its surface where the ocean might be very close to the surface.
The surface of Europa certainly is, but one would assume that a thick ice layer and a large body of liquid water would provide at least a reasonable amount of protection for any life that might exist below.
I see, so providing YOU think it isn't bigotry, it's okay.
"Not to be dismissive"... And now I'll be dismissive.
So you won't have a problem if I dump a few hundred gallons of crude in your living roon.
Let us imagine that, after being named CEO, it waa learned he had donated money to white supremacist causes and had made racist remarka.. Would you be standing here declaring that it was wring for employees to be demanding his resignation? You seem to be arguing exactly what I stated, that pronouncements in public forums (whether it be in the form of actual statements or in registering support via donations) should be consequence free, that no investor, member of a board, employee should demand or force his resignation or dismissal.
A part of any organization's value, in financial terms and in stature, is its goodwill, and having a publicly homophobic CEO can diminish that good will, and do an organization material harm.
You have free speech, you do not have freedom from the consequences of your speech.
But in most common law jurisdictions it already works that way, and has worked that way for centuries. A priest is given authority to perform the civil as well as the religious ceremony, and while the ceremonies get all jumbled up, at the end of the day they remain distinct. You still need to get a marriage license or certificate, and THAT is the foundation of the civil union,
I wasn't aware being a christian automatically requires you to hate homosexuals. I'll have to tell my Catholic wife her tolerance is wrong.
There seems to be this general idea, expressed in one form or another by the libertarians around here, that free speech ought to mean consequences free speech; that someone can take various socially questionable if not outright bigoted positions, and that no business superior, investor or the like should have any right to mitigate the harm you may cause.
Uphold != interpret
Judging by these kinds of posts, I'm guessing a fifth to quarter of the posters are borderline sociopaths. No wonder libertarianism is so popular here.
Translation: I'm moving the goalposts wayyyyy over there! Now tell me, who can make it to the goalposts?
Yeah, I can't wait for a half-gigabyte executables.
The small amount of your post that even makes sense is absurdly wrong. For fuck's sake, *nix kernels have been implementing complex process and cycle allocation algorithms for four decades now, almost all of it written in C. That's not even talking about various tools in userland that invoke fairly complex logic.
Christ almighty, what fucking planet do some posters live on?
That's rather a bizarre claim, considering i and p code has been around for decades, and virtual machines have been around as long. There's nothing particularly unique about Java (or .NET for that matter).
Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth...
So what you're really asking for is a consequence-free life, where you can say anything you like on the tubes, and you're boss is forbidden by some new magical extension of the First Amendment from canning your ass.
Does this extend to NDAs and the like? I'm just curious as to how far you would push your magical new constitutional amendment giving absolute freedom from the consequences of speech.
Is C really that hard to develop in? After all, the chief advantages of C# isn't really C#, but the .NET libraries. C/C++ with good libraries strikes me as being a reasonably good option. If I'm just going to end up compiling it to down to machine code anyways, why bother with .NET at all? I get it if you have an existing code base you want to squeeze some more cycles out of, but if I were starting a new project tomorrow, give me one reason why a C# compiler is the way to go as opposed to C++?
I'm not clear. When did freedom of speech extend to the operations of a private business?
In a way, this is no different than being fired for making embarrassing statements on Twitter. You have your right to speak your mind, what you don't have the right to do is force the rest of the world to ignore what you've said.
Translation: London Council trying to extort cheaper licenses out of Microsoft.
And look, more pro-MS shills get mod points. Well, I've got karma to burn mate, so do your worst.
The problem for enterprise environments is that these add-ins are likely not going to be manageable via AD and GPOs, and at least where I am, that makes adoption an iffy process. Much better to have this basic GUI functionality built into the operating system itself.
If the next version of Windows is close enough to Windows 7 for our staff to be comfortable, then we'll lift our organization-wide ban on Windows 8/8.1 workstations. For the moment, however, we continue to purchases Windows 7 Professional workstations and notebooks, and, amusingly enough, our suppliers basically say "And you will be wanting that with Windows 7, right?" They know that Windows 8 has been a bomb in the enterprise market.