Actually, the privatization of the military has already started. The military already doesn't cook their own meals: Haliburton does that. And let's not even bring up Blackwater...
I still don't understand that argument. The post office is amazing!
I can take a physical piece of paper, put it in a mailbox and someone will pick it up and send it to my desired location in a matter of a day to a few days. All for a few measly cents. How is that inefficient?
That's partially true. I also lived and worked in Manhattan during 9/11.
There was a cellphone tower on top of one of the two towers which killed cellphones for the lower region of the island, but cellphones were working just fine as low as 35th st. I called my parents back home from my apartment on 91st street and spoke with a co-worker who was already at work and watching the events unfold from the corner of 35th and 7th.
You are definitely correct about cellphones not working down in the financial district however.
I personally donate software I write because I've built a career off of open source and can't think of a better way to "give back" to the community then to give away what I write.
We're seeing drastic reductions in the number of smokers in the last few years, and nobody had to be tossed in jail to make that happen.
Yep, instead we're just banning it from public places, taking away the rights of bar and club owners, and creating a stigma that all people who smoke are "dirty".
What makes using multiple processes in an app better than threading? I've used both in programming and a nutshell breakdown that I understand and that I've experienced is thus:
* Threading is quick and can "share" memory and resources but requires the programmer to synchronize access to shared resources through mutexes and such * Processes have no such synchronization problem and *can* share memory but it's much more difficult to do so, instead making use of inter-process communication via pipes and unix sockets, which in my experience is much more time consuming and difficult than sharing memory via threads but still easier than sharing memory between processes.
Again, this is a nutshell and oversimplified comparison, but from where I stand, I've always thought threading was easier and quicker to use and works just as well, if not better, than multi-process apps. Of course there are times when it's more appropriate to use processes rather than threads.
Actually, I think that would be allowable. If you make a statement and use an obvious hyperbole it's not considered misleading. Using your example, a typical 5-seater car would never be able to outrun a speed rocket and that fact is obvious, laughable even, so no one would take it to mean "it really can do this!".
That's similar to showing a 5-year-old lifting a WWF wrestler over his head and twirling him around after eating a bowl of wheaties while saying "Wheaties makes you strong!". It's obvious hyperbole.
On the other hand, the apple commercial really can be viewed as "it really works this fast!" by people not in the know, and therefore and be construed as misleading.
All the things you mentioned could be done with a simple touch screen interface that we have now. All you need is an intuitive interface. In fact, adding gestures and gloves and what-not would be a hindrance mainly because all the guests would have to figure out what gestures did what. On the other hand, everybody knows how to point and click, even if it's just with their fingers.
I can definitely agree with this. I too am an open source author. When I first wrote and released software to the community, I had slashdot visions of people coming together to help me out in any way they can; maybe some patches, maybe some documentation, whatever.
I was rather surprised when my download numbers kept going up, but the emails offering support never really came.
On the support side of things, sure, I'll help out individuals that email me with questions, but I'm not going to bend over backwards to help, not because I don't want to, but because I simply don't have the time. Rent is expensive.
Jesus Christ it's not that simple. The United States does a lot of evil evil things (ESPECIALLY in the last 8 years). We just don't like to think about them or acknowledge them because it's US we're talking about. We aren't just bossy to middle eastern countries, we're fucking rude and really screwed up to them. We topple regimes, we meddle with their governments and try to mold their societies to act and think more like us or at least more to our favor. We, as most superpowers have, treat them like pawns, like pieces of crap to do with as we please.
That's not being annoying, that's being imperialist. Not that I condone killing civilians (obviously), but I can certainly sympathize with their issues and understand their hatred of the U.S.
Also, what lesson might nations like Iran and Syria take away from the present wars if the US suffers a humiliating defeat at the hands of guerillas funded and equiped by them?
That's already happened. Twice. 1) Viet Nam 2) Iraq And that's just with US. The world has already seen massive, powerful armies being defeated by small guerrilla forces all throughout history, including the Greeks at the Battle of Thermopylae, the American Revolution and the Russian Occupation of Afghanistan. We're not losing the war. The war is lost. If you want to get technical about it, we kicked ass in the war, of which is over. The occupation of Iraq is a total fucking disaster from which there is no "winning". We need to get out. Now.
A US defeat in either Afghanistan or Iraq, perhaps preceded by a precipitous and ill-advised early withdrawal, would embolden all of the insurgents in those regions and have disastrous consequences and implications for Israel, Europe, and the United States for decades to come.
That's just ridiculous. It was ill-advised to go in in the first place. Getting out asap will only help us. Insurgents will be "emboldened"? They're already emboldened. Staying == a perpetually losing situation. Getting out asap at least lets us take a breather and try to recover a bit. Stop listening to your right winger friends for five seconds and come back down to reality.
I believed and still believe that the entire affair was a strategic mistake
Wrong there too. It wasn't a mistake, it was intentional and achieved it's goal: to destabilize the region for two main goals; incredibly lucrative defense contracts and to raise oil prices. Remember the whole thing was based on a fucking lie. There was no "Oops, we didn't really mean to do that". There was also the "Expand American Imperialism" concept floating around too, but ultimately our friends, kids, and countrymen died and are dying for fucking money, pure and simple.
now that we are there we cannot substantially reduce troop numbers until a friendly Iraqi government, which can control and contain the insurgent groups, has been fully established
This will simply never happen. For one, any friendly Iraqi government will be seen as a puppet government of the U.S. with NO support from the people of Iraq. Secondly, there aren't really insurgents anymore, that was only the first couple of years after the war. What's goin on now in Iraq is (repeat after me) a civil war. There's no suppressing that. We're just targets in a crossfire of chaos and staying only hurts ourselves.
[...] probably with semi-permanent US bases
Sure. Let's establish more of what caused all this in the first place.
Seriously, stop listening to political talking points regurgitated by the mass media and try doing your own research and (SCARY!) thinking for yourself for once.
People like you are the reason why most of the world hates us. People like you are the reason why I'm usually embarrassed to call myself an American.
Get. Some. Fucking. Perspective.
We're not the only country in the world and how we rate to, compare to, and effect other countries does matter.
This "I'm an American and America KICKS ASS so all you 'other people' can just FUCK OFF BIATCHES!" attitude simply must stop.
To everyone from a country other than the U.S. that's been annoyed, scared, hurt or offended by the actions and attitudes of the United States Government and or it's people, I as an American sincerely apologize and join in your collective hopes that my country, and it's people will change for the better soon.
If your wife and you don't make a 6 figure income then guess what? You're getting a tax break from Obama.
Try spouting out facts and not regurgitating bullshit. People making over $250k get tax increases. Under $250k get tax breaks. So, Obama is HELPING YOU. There's the "lift" you were just asking about.
Unless of course you goofed and meant to say "7 figure income", in which case you're doing just fine and can take a bit of a tax hike.
That doesn't mean it shouldn't be. Just because they're generally ignorant of it doesn't mean it isn't important. Most people were ignorant of the deregulation of the media industry, and look what we have now! 3 or 4 major players own EVERYTHING and we have completely lost any seblance of real news or journalism. People within the media (music artists, actors, journalists, etc.) can't even speak out due to fear of losing media support or their jobs.
FPS = Reaction Time Training RPG = Decision Making, Memorization, Multi-Tasking Training RTS = Decision Making, Management Training
etc. etc.
To think that the only thing that would help with any particular scenario is something that closely simulates that particular scenario is really short sighted and close minded.
Taking money through taxes is not stealing....it isn't illegal.
theft -noun 1. the act of stealing; the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods or property of another
Legality has nothing to do with it technically. So, when Bush takes 700 BILLION in taxes to bail out banks that made idiotic business decisions, he's stealing from the American people. That's theft.
Here's another, slightly more controversial example; The United States Supreme Court ruled that a person's paycheck is property received as a barter payment for services rendered and NOT "income" [which they defined as profit generated by a corporation], therefore is not taxable by the federal government via federal income tax. Therefore, applying a federal income tax to a person's paycheck is literally the federal government stealing from you.
Oh, and for the most part, roads, emergency services, etc, are actually paid for by LOCAL and STATE governments, not the feds. Why do I pay federal income taxes again?
You make fair points but I do have to call you on one:
The lawyer "argument" is likewise fallacious - fine, lawyers do nothing without getting paid for it; neither does anyone else.
That's bull. In IT a lot of us are salary. I know that in the north east the majority of mid to high level IT workers are paid on salary, which means no matter what happens, we get paid for 40 hours, no more, no less, yet we still get ridiculous deadlines and are on call 24/7. I personally fall into this bracket, and I don't remember the last time I worked less than or exactly 40 hours.
By contrast, a lawyer will charge you for a PHONE CALL.
Can we all please stop using the term "African American" for pete's sake? That literally means you have citizenship in both Africa and America, it is NOT synonymous with "black" and if you actually [GHASP] talk to black people, most will tell you the term "black" doesn't bother them and is actually the preferred term./rant
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Actually, the privatization of the military has already started. The military already doesn't cook their own meals: Haliburton does that. And let's not even bring up Blackwater...
Tosh.0 reviewed the Ipad. Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRR2A3bJwEM
Enjoy!
I still don't understand that argument.
The post office is amazing!
I can take a physical piece of paper, put it in a mailbox and someone will pick it up and send it to my desired location in a matter of a day to a few days. All for a few measly cents. How is that inefficient?
That's partially true.
I also lived and worked in Manhattan during 9/11.
There was a cellphone tower on top of one of the two towers which killed cellphones for the lower region of the island, but cellphones were working just fine as low as 35th st. I called my parents back home from my apartment on 91st street and spoke with a co-worker who was already at work and watching the events unfold from the corner of 35th and 7th.
You are definitely correct about cellphones not working down in the financial district however.
I personally donate software I write because I've built a career off of open source and can't think of a better way to "give back" to the community then to give away what I write.
We're seeing drastic reductions in the number of smokers in the last few years, and nobody had to be tossed in jail to make that happen.
Yep, instead we're just banning it from public places, taking away the rights of bar and club owners, and creating a stigma that all people who smoke are "dirty".
Great fucking methods...
- One Of The Oppressed
Can your wife defend herself with defensive arts like Karate, or with pepper spray or a taser?
Why must she protect herself with lethal means?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against gun ownership per se, but your argument falls a little short.
I'm not trolling here, I'm genuinely curious...
What makes using multiple processes in an app better than threading?
I've used both in programming and a nutshell breakdown that I understand and that I've experienced is thus:
* Threading is quick and can "share" memory and resources but requires the programmer to synchronize access to shared resources through mutexes and such
* Processes have no such synchronization problem and *can* share memory but it's much more difficult to do so, instead making use of inter-process communication via pipes and unix sockets, which in my experience is much more time consuming and difficult than sharing memory via threads but still easier than sharing memory between processes.
Again, this is a nutshell and oversimplified comparison, but from where I stand, I've always thought threading was easier and quicker to use and works just as well, if not better, than multi-process apps. Of course there are times when it's more appropriate to use processes rather than threads.
Again, what's your take on the matter?
Actually, I think that would be allowable. If you make a statement and use an obvious hyperbole it's not considered misleading. Using your example, a typical 5-seater car would never be able to outrun a speed rocket and that fact is obvious, laughable even, so no one would take it to mean "it really can do this!".
That's similar to showing a 5-year-old lifting a WWF wrestler over his head and twirling him around after eating a bowl of wheaties while saying "Wheaties makes you strong!". It's obvious hyperbole.
On the other hand, the apple commercial really can be viewed as "it really works this fast!" by people not in the know, and therefore and be construed as misleading.
All the things you mentioned could be done with a simple touch screen interface that we have now. All you need is an intuitive interface.
In fact, adding gestures and gloves and what-not would be a hindrance mainly because all the guests would have to figure out what gestures did what. On the other hand, everybody knows how to point and click, even if it's just with their fingers.
I can definitely agree with this.
I too am an open source author. When I first wrote and released software to the community, I had slashdot visions of people coming together to help me out in any way they can; maybe some patches, maybe some documentation, whatever.
I was rather surprised when my download numbers kept going up, but the emails offering support never really came.
On the support side of things, sure, I'll help out individuals that email me with questions, but I'm not going to bend over backwards to help, not because I don't want to, but because I simply don't have the time. Rent is expensive.
Reality has a well known liberal bias.
What has lost for the Republicans is Palin
There. Fixed that for you.
(Oh I kid the republicans)
Here Here!
I was living in NYC on 9/11. I was about a 1/2 mile north of the towers at the time of the attack. I watched the towers fall in person.
When I see red necks and soccer moms talk about their fear of terrorists I just laugh and laugh.
Jesus Christ it's not that simple.
The United States does a lot of evil evil things (ESPECIALLY in the last 8 years). We just don't like to think about them or acknowledge them because it's US we're talking about. We aren't just bossy to middle eastern countries, we're fucking rude and really screwed up to them. We topple regimes, we meddle with their governments and try to mold their societies to act and think more like us or at least more to our favor. We, as most superpowers have, treat them like pawns, like pieces of crap to do with as we please.
That's not being annoying, that's being imperialist. Not that I condone killing civilians (obviously), but I can certainly sympathize with their issues and understand their hatred of the U.S.
Also, what lesson might nations like Iran and Syria take away from the present wars if the US suffers a humiliating defeat at the hands of guerillas funded and equiped by them?
That's already happened. Twice.
1) Viet Nam
2) Iraq
And that's just with US. The world has already seen massive, powerful armies being defeated by small guerrilla forces all throughout history, including the Greeks at the Battle of Thermopylae, the American Revolution and the Russian Occupation of Afghanistan.
We're not losing the war. The war is lost.
If you want to get technical about it, we kicked ass in the war, of which is over. The occupation of Iraq is a total fucking disaster from which there is no "winning". We need to get out. Now.
A US defeat in either Afghanistan or Iraq, perhaps preceded by a precipitous and ill-advised early withdrawal, would embolden all of the insurgents in those regions and have disastrous consequences and implications for Israel, Europe, and the United States for decades to come.
That's just ridiculous. It was ill-advised to go in in the first place. Getting out asap will only help us. Insurgents will be "emboldened"? They're already emboldened. Staying == a perpetually losing situation. Getting out asap at least lets us take a breather and try to recover a bit. Stop listening to your right winger friends for five seconds and come back down to reality.
I believed and still believe that the entire affair was a strategic mistake
Wrong there too. It wasn't a mistake, it was intentional and achieved it's goal: to destabilize the region for two main goals; incredibly lucrative defense contracts and to raise oil prices. Remember the whole thing was based on a fucking lie. There was no "Oops, we didn't really mean to do that". There was also the "Expand American Imperialism" concept floating around too, but ultimately our friends, kids, and countrymen died and are dying for fucking money, pure and simple.
now that we are there we cannot substantially reduce troop numbers until a friendly Iraqi government, which can control and contain the insurgent groups, has been fully established
This will simply never happen. For one, any friendly Iraqi government will be seen as a puppet government of the U.S. with NO support from the people of Iraq. Secondly, there aren't really insurgents anymore, that was only the first couple of years after the war. What's goin on now in Iraq is (repeat after me) a civil war. There's no suppressing that. We're just targets in a crossfire of chaos and staying only hurts ourselves.
[...] probably with semi-permanent US bases
Sure. Let's establish more of what caused all this in the first place.
Seriously, stop listening to political talking points regurgitated by the mass media and try doing your own research and (SCARY!) thinking for yourself for once.
(and don't EVER run for office... please!)
People like you are the reason why most of the world hates us.
People like you are the reason why I'm usually embarrassed to call myself an American.
Get. Some. Fucking. Perspective.
We're not the only country in the world and how we rate to, compare to, and effect other countries does matter.
This "I'm an American and America KICKS ASS so all you 'other people' can just FUCK OFF BIATCHES!" attitude simply must stop.
To everyone from a country other than the U.S. that's been annoyed, scared, hurt or offended by the actions and attitudes of the United States Government and or it's people, I as an American sincerely apologize and join in your collective hopes that my country, and it's people will change for the better soon.
If your wife and you don't make a 6 figure income then guess what? You're getting a tax break from Obama.
Try spouting out facts and not regurgitating bullshit. People making over $250k get tax increases. Under $250k get tax breaks.
So, Obama is HELPING YOU. There's the "lift" you were just asking about.
Unless of course you goofed and meant to say "7 figure income", in which case you're doing just fine and can take a bit of a tax hike.
Net neutrality? Huh. Not even on their radar.
That doesn't mean it shouldn't be.
Just because they're generally ignorant of it doesn't mean it isn't important. Most people were ignorant of the deregulation of the media industry, and look what we have now! 3 or 4 major players own EVERYTHING and we have completely lost any seblance of real news or journalism. People within the media (music artists, actors, journalists, etc.) can't even speak out due to fear of losing media support or their jobs.
Hmm.
Maybe try thinking *outside* the box?
FPS = Reaction Time Training
RPG = Decision Making, Memorization, Multi-Tasking Training
RTS = Decision Making, Management Training
etc. etc.
To think that the only thing that would help with any particular scenario is something that closely simulates that particular scenario is really short sighted and close minded.
Taking money through taxes is not stealing. ...it isn't illegal.
theft
-noun
1. the act of stealing; the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods or property of another
Legality has nothing to do with it technically. So, when Bush takes 700 BILLION in taxes to bail out banks that made idiotic business decisions, he's stealing from the American people. That's theft.
Here's another, slightly more controversial example; The United States Supreme Court ruled that a person's paycheck is property received as a barter payment for services rendered and NOT "income" [which they defined as profit generated by a corporation], therefore is not taxable by the federal government via federal income tax. Therefore, applying a federal income tax to a person's paycheck is literally the federal government stealing from you.
Oh, and for the most part, roads, emergency services, etc, are actually paid for by LOCAL and STATE governments, not the feds. Why do I pay federal income taxes again?
You make fair points but I do have to call you on one:
The lawyer "argument" is likewise fallacious - fine, lawyers do nothing without getting paid for it; neither does anyone else.
That's bull. In IT a lot of us are salary. I know that in the north east the majority of mid to high level IT workers are paid on salary, which means no matter what happens, we get paid for 40 hours, no more, no less, yet we still get ridiculous deadlines and are on call 24/7. I personally fall into this bracket, and I don't remember the last time I worked less than or exactly 40 hours.
By contrast, a lawyer will charge you for a PHONE CALL.
No he wasn't. He was called the first black president.
Can we all please stop using the term "African American" for pete's sake? That literally means you have citizenship in both Africa and America, it is NOT synonymous with "black" and if you actually [GHASP] talk to black people, most will tell you the term "black" doesn't bother them and is actually the preferred term. /rant
If your X is completely locked up where you can't move the mouse or get a terminal, you can always just
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
which will kill the entire X server and everything running on it.
It's a last resort of course, but if you're locked up that will get you back to your login/display manager or at the very least, a command prompt.
Just what in the hell is a "Family Standard"?