It's perfectly possible to imagine a utopia but it will not necessarily happen.
I interpret the GP's meaning as a kind of Goedel statement for lawful government. It is not possible to have both a consistent and perfectly just set of laws. Therefore, even happy people with the best of intention will inevitably break the law in one way or another during their lives, either because a law will cause them an injustice, or because they will be put in a situation where they cannot do otherwise but break a law.
Since the judiciary is a necessary component of democracy, it follows that democracy and the perfect observance of the law (i.e. public order) are mutually incompatible.
To give a realistic example, think of the huge problem of filesharing at the moment. Clearly copyright law at present says that one cannot distribute content without the consent of the content owner (in short). However enforcing this law is at present pretty much impossible : it bears a high cost, and RIAA and others are trying less-than-commmendable ways with suspected filesharers to get what they think is their dues: they bully, they threaten, they spy and they bill people. Clearly we have a situation of civil unrest, both from the filesharers and the content owners.
The situation will resolve itself one way or another, in a public forum, hopefully in a democratic manner via the modification of laws that will shift the current balance towards one or the other parties. Hopefully we will see democracy in action in this instance.
However, for the democratic process to exert itself, one requires some kind of civil unrest.
Other more striking examples were the fight for civil rights in the US, MLKJ, Malcom-X and so forth ; same things for when women wanted the right to vote, etc.
There is no such thing as ethnic French anyway. Napoleon was in the French revolutionary army, lived and spoke french, he was French enough alright. That's too bad for the French BTW because Napoleon was a lunatic and there is zero reason to be proud of this leader.
I'd like to know what a "pure French" victory or defeat at any rate. The French army employs legionnaires who are often foreigners.
ah, but others, maybe not you, are doing some wrong, we know this because crimes happen and we only catch on average 50% of perpetrators. Now we need to watch everybody in order to catch those. Do you prefer to be mugged or to be safe?
Where did you get your statistics ? The public sector employs a lot of people in France but not 50%. A comprehensive citizen watch organisation puts the figure at 26%, i.e. 7 million people. This includes ordinary civil servants working for one part or another of government, but also scientific researchers, teachers, and employees of public companies like Electricite de France, the Parisian Metro, and so on.
Fifteen years ago, in 1993 or so, C++ sucked big time. Now it doesn't. ISO-C++ is a tough language to master, but understanding its design will make you a much better programmer.
If your problem can be nearly completely solved in Python or Ruby you don't need C++, I agree. If you are doing compute or memory-intensive stuff neither Python or Ruby are likely to be suitable. Python must be one of the slowest language on earth with no production compiler available.
Modern C++ includes all sorts of goodies in the template metaprogramming area. The Alexandrescu book explain what is possible with these techniques, and some of them have been put into use in Boost. It is possible to produce very high-level programs that are extremely efficient.
People write in C++ now very differently now, especially since Microsoft has finally produced a standard-compliant compiler since 2003 or so, and dev shops are finally phasing out VC6.
However the 'export' keyword for templates is a bug in the spec. One compiler company (I think it was Comeau) has implemented it and found that it serves zero purpose.
Was it before ISO C++ or (significantly) after? I wouldn't have touched pre-ISO C++ with a 10-foot pole but now it's a good, consistent language, especially with boost.
Get real yourself, travel a bit, you'll be amazed. In most of Europe universal health care means that if you are sick and/or incapacitated you will be treated, regardless of your capacity to pay.
Tiny in proportion to their overall population, but still large in sheer numbers. There were 11 million college students in the PRC in 2003, probably more now. In the USA the figure is 16 millions.
The secondary is concave, it spreads the image, it does not focus it. The tertiary's job is to focus the image onto the camera.
Actually Meade and Celestron amateur telescopes also have a spreading secondary. It allows them to have a high F/D ratio with a short body.
Here the whole idea is to have a low F/D, I'm not sure why they need a secondary and tertiary. I'm sort of understanding that with a primary only, the resulting image would be distorted, and that the secondary/tertiary arrangement allows for a large flat focusing field. The camera's design is then simpler.
You've already paid your share, the government has taken its cut in the form of taxes and is now spending them. If you don't like the way they are spent, elect someone else in the next federal elections.
A socialist country is simply one that has understood that there are economies of scales involved instead of each fighting separately for one's individual survival.
You don't know why the people you are talking about are still in the trailers. You assume and condemn based on partial information and prejudice, from the comfort of your own remote situation.
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Humans eventually did figure it out, as evidenced by this very thread.
It's perfectly possible to imagine a utopia but it will not necessarily happen.
I interpret the GP's meaning as a kind of Goedel statement for lawful government. It is not possible to have both a consistent and perfectly just set of laws. Therefore, even happy people with the best of intention will inevitably break the law in one way or another during their lives, either because a law will cause them an injustice, or because they will be put in a situation where they cannot do otherwise but break a law.
Since the judiciary is a necessary component of democracy, it follows that democracy and the perfect observance of the law (i.e. public order) are mutually incompatible.
To give a realistic example, think of the huge problem of filesharing at the moment. Clearly copyright law at present says that one cannot distribute content without the consent of the content owner (in short). However enforcing this law is at present pretty much impossible : it bears a high cost, and RIAA and others are trying less-than-commmendable ways with suspected filesharers to get what they think is their dues: they bully, they threaten, they spy and they bill people. Clearly we have a situation of civil unrest, both from the filesharers and the content owners.
The situation will resolve itself one way or another, in a public forum, hopefully in a democratic manner via the modification of laws that will shift the current balance towards one or the other parties. Hopefully we will see democracy in action in this instance.
However, for the democratic process to exert itself, one requires some kind of civil unrest.
Other more striking examples were the fight for civil rights in the US, MLKJ, Malcom-X and so forth ; same things for when women wanted the right to vote, etc.
Why is this modded flamebait exactly ?
There is no such thing as ethnic French anyway. Napoleon was in the French revolutionary army, lived and spoke french, he was French enough alright. That's too bad for the French BTW because Napoleon was a lunatic and there is zero reason to be proud of this leader.
I'd like to know what a "pure French" victory or defeat at any rate. The French army employs legionnaires who are often foreigners.
For the english language it's way more than 1600 words. The very same page that you link to estimates 30% of all english words are of french origin.
The conundrum, however, is that things are even worse when there is no government. Civil war anyone?
Nobody went with the line :
I wasn't aware that the conservative wished to cut taxes. Remember Thatcher's poll tax ?
Where did you get your statistics ? The public sector employs a lot of people in France but not 50%. A comprehensive citizen watch organisation puts the figure at 26%, i.e. 7 million people. This includes ordinary civil servants working for one part or another of government, but also scientific researchers, teachers, and employees of public companies like Electricite de France, the Parisian Metro, and so on.
So, language list? we are awaiting with bated breath...
Fifteen years ago, in 1993 or so, C++ sucked big time. Now it doesn't. ISO-C++ is a tough language to master, but understanding its design will make you a much better programmer.
If your problem can be nearly completely solved in Python or Ruby you don't need C++, I agree. If you are doing compute or memory-intensive stuff neither Python or Ruby are likely to be suitable. Python must be one of the slowest language on earth with no production compiler available.
Modern C++ includes all sorts of goodies in the template metaprogramming area. The Alexandrescu book explain what is possible with these techniques, and some of them have been put into use in Boost. It is possible to produce very high-level programs that are extremely efficient.
People write in C++ now very differently now, especially since Microsoft has finally produced a standard-compliant compiler since 2003 or so, and dev shops are finally phasing out VC6.
However the 'export' keyword for templates is a bug in the spec. One compiler company (I think it was Comeau) has implemented it and found that it serves zero purpose.
Was it before ISO C++ or (significantly) after? I wouldn't have touched pre-ISO C++ with a 10-foot pole but now it's a good, consistent language, especially with boost.
Or rather, has been known in the past to beat that. In the past we also had 17% inflation, remember the 80s?
Recently the dowjones has been rather flat, don't you think? It was 11000 in 1999 and is still there, 9 years after.
Get real yourself, travel a bit, you'll be amazed. In most of Europe universal health care means that if you are sick and/or incapacitated you will be treated, regardless of your capacity to pay.
Dependent on your government for your income does not mean slavery.
Tiny in proportion to their overall population, but still large in sheer numbers. There were 11 million college students in the PRC in 2003, probably more now. In the USA the figure is 16 millions.
If you look at the photo on TFA, the mirror looks honeycombed and much thicker.
The secondary is concave, it spreads the image, it does not focus it. The tertiary's job is to focus the image onto the camera.
Actually Meade and Celestron amateur telescopes also have a spreading secondary. It allows them to have a high F/D ratio with a short body.
Here the whole idea is to have a low F/D, I'm not sure why they need a secondary and tertiary. I'm sort of understanding that with a primary only, the resulting image would be distorted, and that the secondary/tertiary arrangement allows for a large flat focusing field. The camera's design is then simpler.
The article says that for a wide range of parameters protoplanetar disks produce a solar system-like outcome relatively rarely.
The research says nothing about the distribution of parameters in real situations, i.e. is the range of considered parameters realistic?
This is nice research but only preliminary.
Why complaining ?
You've already paid your share, the government has taken its cut in the form of taxes and is now spending them. If you don't like the way they are spent, elect someone else in the next federal elections.
This is the most insightful comment of the whole discussion.
A socialist country is simply one that has understood that there are economies of scales involved instead of each fighting separately for one's individual survival.
You don't know why the people you are talking about are still in the trailers. You assume and condemn based on partial information and prejudice, from the comfort of your own remote situation.
Especially now, this is terrible publicity for JPM. They are on their way to lose a lot more than 300k.
Because of so-called Depleted Uranium (DU), littered everywhere on modern battlefields.