I didn't understand you. Can't you simply run Emacs in text-UI mode or, better yet, run it on the client using TRAMP to access the files on the server?
Just another race to the bottom. Corporations are going to end up tax-exempt and we're all going to end up living in a Neo-Feudalistic society where instead of an aristocracy we've got C-levels and their retinues while national governments sputter out with less and less tax revenue coming in and become more and more irrelevant.
The saddest thing in all of this is, though, that there will be a sizable number of middle- and lower-class people out there cheering the shit, even as their own well-being is threatened directly by it. When you've got people in trailer parks arguing that taxes do nothing but punish success and cheering on the dismantling of the social programs they're actively using (such as Medicaid, welfare, public schools), you know that we're fucking doomed...
Oh please, that only happens in your imagination. The tax burden is very high. Medicaid and public schools are not being dismantled. Where do you get your info from?
That's bad? I believe authority should always be questioned to begin with.
My point is simple. If he gets punished for making finger guns, then he will probably develop a adults-are-morons attitude, including when an adult says "don't use drugs" or "don't drive while drunk".
It's not ending, it's just prepping itself for the 1/2 way point.
No. It's OK. As I said above, the problem is already starting to solve itself. By the rate that solar/wind power is expanding, cars becoming more economic, biofuels becoming more productive and cheaper, crop productivity increasing, greenhouse gases emissions will be much reduced in a couple of decades, before any global tipping point.
Overpopulation alarmism is just that - alarmism. Some countries - such as Japan - are already facing population aging and decline, which is bad for their economy. Other countries - such as most of Europe - already have sub-replacement fertility rates, and only keep marginal population growth because of demographic lag and immigration.
Even in the countries that still have over-replacement fertility rates, such rates are declining fast. Mankind is predicted to increase only 2B until 2045, and then start declining.
Meanwhile, saying that nothing good is being done to the environment is insane. Ecological problems are already being addressed, with heavy investment in solar/wind energy, biofuels, next-generation nuclear, emission regulations, and more. Photovoltaic power is getting cheaper at an exponential rate, and it is predicted that it will start to become economically viable _without subsidies_ by 2015. Meanwhile, Photovoltaic production growth has averaged 40% (thus doubling every two years) per year since 2000.
Agricultural yields continue to grow fast, thus being easily able to feed a growing population without need for additional deforestation. For example, Brazilian ethanol productivity (per hectare)has grown at a rate of 3.77% per year between 1975 and 2004, thus doubling every 19 years. And there is revolutionary technology in the queue - cellulosic ethanol, algae-based ethanol.
Overpopulation alarmism is just that - alarmism. Some countries - such as Japan - are already facing population aging and decline, which is bad for their economy. Other countries - such as most of Europe - already have sub-replacement fertility rates, and only keep marginal population growth because of demographic lag and immigration.
Even in the countries that still have over-replacement fertility rates, such rates are declining fast. Mankind is predicted to increase only 2B until 2045, and then start declining.
Meanwhile, saying "Humans will continue plodding along exactly the same as they always have" is insane. Ecological problems are already being addressed, with heavy investment in solar/wind energy, biofuels, next-generation nuclear, emission regulations, and more. It is predicted that photovoltaic energy will start to become economic viable _without subsidies_ by 2015. Meanwhile, Photovoltaic production growth has averaged 40% (thus doubling every two years) per year since 2000.
Agricultural yields continue to grow fast, thus being easily able to feed a growing population without need for additional deforestation. For example, Brazilian ethanol productivity (per hectare)has grown at a rate of 3.77% per year between 1975 and 2004, thus doubling every 19 years. And there is revolutionary technology in the queue - cellulosic ethanol, algae-based ethanol.
Overpopulation alarmism is just that - alarmism. Some countries - such as Japan - are already facing population aging and decline, which is bad for their economy. Other countries already have sub-replacement fertility rates, and only keep marginal population growth because of demographic lag and immigration.
Even in the countries that still have over-replacement fertility rates, such rates are declining fast. Mankind is predicted to increase only 2B until 2045, and then start declining.
Meanwhile, saying "Humans will continue plodding along exactly the same as they always have" is insane. Ecological problems are already being addressed, with heavy investment in solar/wind energy, biofuels, next-generation nuclear, emission regulations, and more. It is predicted that photovoltaic energy will start to become economic viable _without subsidies_ by 2015. Meanwhile, Photovoltaic production growth has averaged 40% (thus doubling every two years) per year since 2000.
Agricultural yields continue to grow fast, thus being easily able to feed a growing population without need for additional deforestation. For example, Brazilian ethanol productivity (per hectare)has grown at a rate of 3.77% per year between 1975 and 2004, thus doubling every 19 years.
Parents can teach their kids without special training, given the excellent homeschooling material available.
If you are worried about the scientific training of the next generations, you can simply advocate for mandatory periodic exams, with low-scoring kids being sent to the regular school system.
Wow, that was the first time I heard of such incredible ********. I think that this could actually cause psychological damage to your boy.
If his natural, harmless boy behaviours are repressed, he could become too introverted and face other problems.
More likely, he will learn to disobey authority, which is bad. Since his teachers punish him for doing things he knows are good, then when someone punishes him for doing _actual evil_ he will say "Nah, just the old bossy idiots again".
That means it could easily be for religious reasons
People misrepresent homeschoolers as being angry with the school system because it teaches evolution and not creationism. While this may be a reason for some parents, the biggest reasons are poor quality in the school system, bullying, and Marxist ideology.
Marxism infests public schools, both in its old form (violent Marxism-Leninism) and in its current form (cultural Marxism, created by Gramsci and Marcuse, based on feminism, homosexual militancy, racial militancy such as affirmative action, multiculturalism, etc.). I have read that public schools all over the world are infested with these two kinds of Marxism. And my school (in South America) surely was. I was never taught that Stalin had a close alliance with Hitler in the beginning of WWII. I was never taught that, when some people in the UK were demanding Hitler to be stopped, Moscow ordered communist parties all over Europe to militate for the appeasement of Hitler, so that Hitler - Stalin's ally - could fight unimpeded. I was never taught that Stalin invaded Finland in the Winter War. I was never taught that the Cuban Revolution killed an astonishing high percentage of the Island's population. I was never taught that Marxism killed 100,000,000 people in the XX century. But I was "taught" that the political left is wonderful, that "neoliberals" and "globalisation" are evil, that the USA is evil, that the September 11 attacks were an attack "against American arrogance", that the USA deliberately allowed Japan to attack Pearl Harbour, that divorce and promiscuity is OK, and that the Church is evil.
Some parents do not agree with that. I sure don't.
The PRC killed some 60,000,000 people. The USA does not come nearly close to that.
The USA committed atrocities, yes. They must be protested, yes. But saying the USA is almost as bad as the PRC misrepresents reality and provides cover for genocidal regimes.
How would you feel if someone killed your your daughter and the media defended him by saying "well the killer may be bad, but we are all like him. Didn't we pick fights in school?"
The USA has committed grave errors (such as the two atom bombings), yes, but saying it is as evil as the PRC, North Korea or the Soviet Union is a huge stretch. The PRC alone killed some 60,000,000 people; the USA does not come nearly close to that.
Protest America's errors, yes, but don't misrepresent the situation - doing that provides cover for genocidal regimes claiming to be not that bad.
People who compare the PRC to the USA also forget the scale of the respective crimes. the PRC killed some 60,000,000 people. The USA does not come nearly close to that.
Those who say "the USA is just as bad" are merely diverting attention from and covering up egregious crimes against humanity.
Yeah, both the FTC guidelines and the current W3C DNT draft both state that users should opt-out of tracking, not opt-in. Furthermore, the advertizing industry groups like that have had the most successful with self-regulation efforts have flat-out said that while they will respect the user's chose to opt-out, they will ignore any system that opts users out automatically.
Microsoft's decision here is completely counter productive. At best, it means that sites will add code to ignore theDNT header if the UA is IE. At worst it will derail the entire process.
I think Microsoft's action here is simply intended to reduce Google's ad profits.
And you forgot one more argument: ad companies would not mind to respect an opt-in DNT program because users who cared to opt-in would be those few paranoid NoScript types who don't click on ads anyway. So following the DNT program would cost them nearly nothing, and would be good PR. But thanks to Microsoft, any ad company who follows DNT will be losing serious money. Hopefully they will ignore DNT only when the UA is MSIE so the rest of people can still get DNT.
I don't like the *BSD. They are very low on features, and, since cross-platform software need to be built for the lowest common denominator, it holds back progress.
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7s ?!
My computer is modest, and it doesn't take all that time.
I have no complaint about Emacs speed.
I didn't understand you.
Can't you simply run Emacs in text-UI mode or, better yet, run it on the client using TRAMP
to access the files on the server?
Just another race to the bottom. Corporations are going to end up tax-exempt and we're all going to end up living in a Neo-Feudalistic society where instead of an aristocracy we've got C-levels and their retinues while national governments sputter out with less and less tax revenue coming in and become more and more irrelevant.
The saddest thing in all of this is, though, that there will be a sizable number of middle- and lower-class people out there cheering the shit, even as their own well-being is threatened directly by it. When you've got people in trailer parks arguing that taxes do nothing but punish success and cheering on the dismantling of the social programs they're actively using (such as Medicaid, welfare, public schools), you know that we're fucking doomed...
Oh please, that only happens in your imagination. The tax burden is very high. Medicaid and public schools are not being dismantled.
Where do you get your info from?
Authority can be just.
That's bad? I believe authority should always be questioned to begin with.
My point is simple. If he gets punished for making finger guns, then he will probably develop a adults-are-morons attitude, including when an adult says
"don't use drugs" or "don't drive while drunk".
It's not ending, it's just prepping itself for the 1/2 way point.
No. It's OK. As I said above, the problem is already starting to solve
itself. By the rate that solar/wind power is expanding, cars becoming
more economic, biofuels becoming more productive and cheaper,
crop productivity increasing, greenhouse gases emissions will be
much reduced in a couple of decades, before any global tipping point.
Overpopulation alarmism is just that - alarmism.
Some countries - such as Japan - are already facing population aging and decline, which
is bad for their economy. Other countries - such as most of Europe - already have
sub-replacement fertility rates, and only keep marginal population growth because of
demographic lag and immigration.
Even in the countries that still have over-replacement fertility rates, such rates are declining
fast. Mankind is predicted to increase only 2B until 2045, and then start declining.
Meanwhile, saying that nothing good is being done to the environment is insane.
Ecological problems are already being addressed, with heavy investment in solar/wind
energy, biofuels, next-generation nuclear, emission regulations, and more. Photovoltaic power
is getting cheaper at an exponential rate, and it is predicted that it will start to become economically
viable _without subsidies_ by 2015. Meanwhile, Photovoltaic production growth has averaged 40%
(thus doubling every two years) per year since 2000.
Agricultural yields continue to grow fast, thus being easily able to feed a growing population without need
for additional deforestation. For example, Brazilian ethanol productivity (per hectare)has grown at a rate
of 3.77% per year between 1975 and 2004, thus doubling every 19 years. And there is revolutionary
technology in the queue - cellulosic ethanol, algae-based ethanol.
Similar prospects hold for other crops.
In short, the world is not ending, move along.
Overpopulation alarmism is just that - alarmism.
Some countries - such as Japan - are already facing population aging and decline, which
is bad for their economy. Other countries - such as most of Europe - already have
sub-replacement fertility rates, and only keep marginal population growth because of
demographic lag and immigration.
Even in the countries that still have over-replacement fertility rates, such rates are declining
fast. Mankind is predicted to increase only 2B until 2045, and then start declining.
Meanwhile, saying "Humans will continue plodding along exactly the same as they always have"
is insane. Ecological problems are already being addressed, with heavy investment in solar/wind
energy, biofuels, next-generation nuclear, emission regulations, and more. It is predicted that
photovoltaic energy will start to become economic viable _without subsidies_ by 2015. Meanwhile,
Photovoltaic production growth has averaged 40% (thus doubling every two years) per year since 2000.
Agricultural yields continue to grow fast, thus being easily able to feed a growing population without need
for additional deforestation. For example, Brazilian ethanol productivity (per hectare)has grown at a rate
of 3.77% per year between 1975 and 2004, thus doubling every 19 years. And there is revolutionary
technology in the queue - cellulosic ethanol, algae-based ethanol.
Overpopulation alarmism is just that - alarmism.
Some countries - such as Japan - are already facing population aging and decline, which
is bad for their economy. Other countries already have sub-replacement fertility rates,
and only keep marginal population growth because of demographic lag and immigration.
Even in the countries that still have over-replacement fertility rates, such rates are declining
fast. Mankind is predicted to increase only 2B until 2045, and then start declining.
Meanwhile, saying "Humans will continue plodding along exactly the same as they always have"
is insane. Ecological problems are already being addressed, with heavy investment in solar/wind
energy, biofuels, next-generation nuclear, emission regulations, and more. It is predicted that
photovoltaic energy will start to become economic viable _without subsidies_ by 2015. Meanwhile,
Photovoltaic production growth has averaged 40% (thus doubling every two years) per year since 2000.
Agricultural yields continue to grow fast, thus being easily able to feed a growing population without need
for additional deforestation. For example, Brazilian ethanol productivity (per hectare)has grown at a rate
of 3.77% per year between 1975 and 2004, thus doubling every 19 years.
Parents can teach their kids without special training, given the excellent
homeschooling material available.
If you are worried about the scientific training of the next generations, you can
simply advocate for mandatory periodic exams, with low-scoring kids being
sent to the regular school system.
There are valid reasons for homeschool, such as horrible quality of public schools,
an anti-elitism ideology that stifles excellence, and ideological bias (see http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2901425&cid=40251471)
Getting involved in the local school is good, but not always fixes the problem. You may find that common-sense
is a small minority in your school.
Wow, that was the first time I heard of such incredible ********.
I think that this could actually cause psychological damage to your boy.
If his natural, harmless boy behaviours are repressed, he could become
too introverted and face other problems.
More likely, he will learn to disobey authority, which is bad. Since his teachers
punish him for doing things he knows are good, then when someone punishes
him for doing _actual evil_ he will say "Nah, just the old bossy idiots again".
I would consider homeschooling him.
That means it could easily be for religious reasons
People misrepresent homeschoolers as being angry with the school system because it teaches evolution and not creationism.
While this may be a reason for some parents, the biggest reasons are poor quality in the school system, bullying, and Marxist ideology.
Marxism infests public schools, both in its old form (violent Marxism-Leninism) and in its current form (cultural Marxism, created by Gramsci and Marcuse, based on feminism, homosexual militancy, racial militancy such as affirmative action, multiculturalism, etc.). I have read that public schools all over the world are infested with these two kinds of Marxism. And my school (in South America) surely was. I was never taught that Stalin had a close alliance with Hitler in the beginning of WWII. I was never taught that, when some people in the UK were demanding Hitler to be stopped, Moscow ordered communist parties all over Europe to militate for the appeasement of Hitler, so that Hitler - Stalin's ally - could fight unimpeded.
I was never taught that Stalin invaded Finland in the Winter War. I was never taught that the Cuban Revolution killed an astonishing high percentage of the Island's population. I was never taught that Marxism killed 100,000,000 people in the XX century.
But I was "taught" that the political left is wonderful, that "neoliberals" and "globalisation" are evil, that the USA is evil, that the September 11 attacks were an attack "against American arrogance", that the USA deliberately allowed Japan to attack Pearl Harbour, that divorce and promiscuity is OK, and that the Church is evil.
Some parents do not agree with that. I sure don't.
Programming is about picking the right tool for the job (which is never Python, but I digress).
What faults do you find in Python? I would like to know.
I didn't say that _every single_ person would start a murderous rampage. I say
that a very large minority would commit serious crimes.
See http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100828213651AAbXzLU
People are flawed. Left to their own passions, they will murder, rape, kidnap and steal.
People need laws to stop them from descending into savagery.
Why waste time on this, instead of contributing to Gnash/Lightspark.
The PRC killed some 60,000,000 people.
The USA does not come nearly close to that.
The USA committed atrocities, yes. They must be protested, yes.
But saying the USA is almost as bad as the PRC misrepresents reality
and provides cover for genocidal regimes.
How would you feel if someone killed your your daughter and the media
defended him by saying "well the killer may be bad, but we are all like
him. Didn't we pick fights in school?"
Thank you for a dose of common sense.
The ends do not justify the means.
War is awful, yes, but it becomes much worse if people start murdering babies and old ladies.
And yes, committing atrocities results in more evil, such as inspiring the enemy.
every bit as 'evil' as our percieved enemies
The USA has committed grave errors (such as the two atom bombings), yes,
but saying it is as evil as the PRC, North Korea or the Soviet Union is
a huge stretch. The PRC alone killed some 60,000,000 people; the USA
does not come nearly close to that.
Protest America's errors, yes, but don't misrepresent the situation - doing
that provides cover for genocidal regimes claiming to be not that bad.
People who compare the PRC to the USA also forget the scale of the respective crimes.
the PRC killed some 60,000,000 people. The USA does not come nearly close to that.
Those who say "the USA is just as bad" are merely diverting attention from
and covering up egregious crimes against humanity.
Hopefully, Google will respond by enhancing and advertising Chrome even more aggressively.
Yeah, both the FTC guidelines and the current W3C DNT draft both state that users should opt-out of tracking, not opt-in. Furthermore, the advertizing industry groups like that have had the most successful with self-regulation efforts have flat-out said that while they will respect the user's chose to opt-out, they will ignore any system that opts users out automatically.
Microsoft's decision here is completely counter productive. At best, it means that sites will add code to ignore theDNT header if the UA is IE. At worst it will derail the entire process.
I think Microsoft's action here is simply intended to reduce Google's ad profits.
And you forgot one more argument: ad companies would not mind to respect an opt-in DNT program because users who cared to opt-in would be those few paranoid NoScript types who don't click on ads anyway. So following the DNT program would cost them nearly nothing, and would be good PR.
But thanks to Microsoft, any ad company who follows DNT will be losing serious money. Hopefully they will ignore DNT only when the UA is MSIE so the rest of people can still get DNT.
Don't they know that they are standing in the way of the last escape from this polluted trap?
You may be kidding, but this kind of language helps the enviro-extremists.
In no way can Earth as a whole be described as "Polluted trap", unless you
consider Pequim to be the Earth.
I don't like the *BSD. They are very low on features, and, since
cross-platform software need to be built for the lowest common
denominator, it holds back progress.
Have you tried one of the following replacements?
http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/SystemtapDtraceComparison
It also neglects to acknowledge that a substantial % of the population supports him (populism sells for the simple, destitute masses.)
Of course he is popular. His critics are demonised by the state-owned media,
and censored, so they can't defend themselves.
Stalin was popular too.