How is taking people's tents and destroying them in any way legal?
It's legal because the government says so.
Who the hell is dumb enough to actually believe all that "free country/government by the people" horseshit they teach in school anyway? Every time something like this happens in a 1st world country, everyone starts shouting "But that can't happen HERE!" as if your government's shit don't stink or something.
If you have applied for a mortgage (at least with any bank I've ever done it with), they know a *lot* more than who your Facebook friends are. Most of my social stuff isn't secret anyway. Compare that to the fine-toothed comb they went through my credit history with, and I'm pretty sure I would take this deal.
I don't think you appreciate how much more profit Apple makes off their non-PC products these days compared to their Macbooks and desktops. You may still think of Apple as primarily a PC company, but THEY don't. I think they accepted the fact that they would never be dominant in the PC market years ago, but they CAN be dominant in the MP3-player/cellphone/tablet/etc. markets. So guess what they're going to focus on?
Not only would it not surprise me if Apple made their PC's app-store only, but it wouldn't even surprise me if they got out of the PC business altogether (or broke that part off into a new company). The open-garden PC market is old news as far as they're concerned.
The summary makes it sound like these kids are being encouraged to cheat off one another. The actual article just says that they're looking at each others' work to build on one another to make more complex programs. That pretty much describes what any good programmer does. Unless you live in a bubble building all small projects solo, you're always going to be working together on a project with other programmers and designers. And even if you live in a bubble, you had to learn coding from SOMEWHERE. You look at code in a book or on a website, you learn how it works, you start using it and adapting it in your own projects. That's just learning.
I, for one, say "Huzzah!" for these kids. If they keep at it and get their CS degrees, they'll have a great future working for $3-an-hour in India someday.
Wait, that sounds cynical. I meant $4-an-hour.
Oh, and I've found Alice to be a great teaching tool for kids too. It teaches programming principles in a way that's a little more exciting for beginners than having to learn Commodore 64 PEEK and POKE coding (the way some of us came up).
I would really love to be in the position of the environmental religious movement. If ocean levels go up one year, it's evidence of global warming. If they stay the same, it's not evidence against global warming. If they go down...well you have to take a *long-term* view, see. Basically global warming cultists have created the perfect cage, where not only is there no evidence to disprove their religion but where such contradictory evidence is NOT EVEN POSSIBLE. They've become a millennialist cult that keeps predicting the end of the world, only to shift their prediction every time Jesus fails to show up and rapture them.
I had the same epiphany in 1967. And it made no fucking sense to me at the time, since consumer video games didn't even exist yet. But looking back 45 years later, I realize now how right I was.
No, Pong was a mindless action game. If you try to play CoD mindlessly, you're going to sit at the bottom of the leaderboards with all the other clueless newbs.
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Don't worry. I'm sure he'll work out a compromise where the the Republicans get this bill and several other major concessions and he gets a lovely gift basket.
If you don't get that the point of this was to intimidate the reporter and discourage him from pursuing the story, you're either incredibly naive or you're being deliberately dense.
If you were in front of the US Supreme Court and they asked you how this is fundamentally different than tracking your car through traditional police surveillance, how would you answer?
In the same way that listening to a conversation by bugging a person is considered different from listening in on their conversation from a nearby table in a restaurant. One involves the compromise of someone's personal property and effects (protected by the 4th amendment) and the other doesn't.
When this reporter drove down to meet Greg and photograph the second tracker with photographer Snyder, three police cars appeared at the location that had been pre-arranged with Greg, at various points driving directly behind me without making any verbal contact before leaving.
After moving the photo shoot to a Rotten Robbie gas station a mile away from the first location, another police car showed up. In this case, the officer entered the station smiling at me and turned his car around to face the direction of Greg’s car, a couple hundred yards away. He remained there while the device was photographed. A passenger in the police car, dressed in civilian clothes, stepped out of the vehicle to fill a gas container, then the two left shortly before the photo shoot was completed.
I bet that reporter thought that sort of thing only happened in *other* countries before that day.
You know, the one from the early 90's with a bunch of guys sitting around talking. David Spade says "I knew I should wear a condom...but I figured, hey, when was I ever going to be in Guam again?" Phil Hartman says "I know the guy is coming out of prison, but he says he wants to turn his life around, so Sheila and I are going to give him a place to stay." Bob Odenkirk says "I know it's over, but I'm going to tell my wife about that affair", and so on...
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How is taking people's tents and destroying them in any way legal?
It's legal because the government says so.
Who the hell is dumb enough to actually believe all that "free country/government by the people" horseshit they teach in school anyway? Every time something like this happens in a 1st world country, everyone starts shouting "But that can't happen HERE!" as if your government's shit don't stink or something.
Hell, in what kind of country news coverage is forbidden?
If the government doesn't like it, pretty much all of them.
Hey, they called in the *tanks* on the Bonus Army. Count yourselves lucky. Besides, drums are pretty easy to carry.
cheaper mortgage
If you have applied for a mortgage (at least with any bank I've ever done it with), they know a *lot* more than who your Facebook friends are. Most of my social stuff isn't secret anyway. Compare that to the fine-toothed comb they went through my credit history with, and I'm pretty sure I would take this deal.
I don't think you appreciate how much more profit Apple makes off their non-PC products these days compared to their Macbooks and desktops. You may still think of Apple as primarily a PC company, but THEY don't. I think they accepted the fact that they would never be dominant in the PC market years ago, but they CAN be dominant in the MP3-player/cellphone/tablet/etc. markets. So guess what they're going to focus on?
Not only would it not surprise me if Apple made their PC's app-store only, but it wouldn't even surprise me if they got out of the PC business altogether (or broke that part off into a new company). The open-garden PC market is old news as far as they're concerned.
Michael, when you're in a hole, stop digging.
Lighten up, Francis.
Whats wrong with $4/hour if the living expenses are proportionately lower?
Well, nothing if you don't mind living in a city with an open sewer running down the street.
The summary makes it sound like these kids are being encouraged to cheat off one another. The actual article just says that they're looking at each others' work to build on one another to make more complex programs. That pretty much describes what any good programmer does. Unless you live in a bubble building all small projects solo, you're always going to be working together on a project with other programmers and designers. And even if you live in a bubble, you had to learn coding from SOMEWHERE. You look at code in a book or on a website, you learn how it works, you start using it and adapting it in your own projects. That's just learning.
I, for one, say "Huzzah!" for these kids. If they keep at it and get their CS degrees, they'll have a great future working for $3-an-hour in India someday.
Wait, that sounds cynical. I meant $4-an-hour.
Oh, and I've found Alice to be a great teaching tool for kids too. It teaches programming principles in a way that's a little more exciting for beginners than having to learn Commodore 64 PEEK and POKE coding (the way some of us came up).
With that in mind, what model is ever going to claim that it can make predictions down to the individual year. They deal in long term trends.
You mean like predicting that global warming will be irreversible in just 5 years?
I would really love to be in the position of the environmental religious movement. If ocean levels go up one year, it's evidence of global warming. If they stay the same, it's not evidence against global warming. If they go down...well you have to take a *long-term* view, see. Basically global warming cultists have created the perfect cage, where not only is there no evidence to disprove their religion but where such contradictory evidence is NOT EVEN POSSIBLE. They've become a millennialist cult that keeps predicting the end of the world, only to shift their prediction every time Jesus fails to show up and rapture them.
The birds are packed with clever behaviors that expand the user's mental model at just the point when game-level complexity is increased ...
Translation: The game gets harder as you go along.
But that's not to say it would end well for either of us.
I had the same epiphany in 1967. And it made no fucking sense to me at the time, since consumer video games didn't even exist yet. But looking back 45 years later, I realize now how right I was.
If the ye pirates and ye ninjas can establish a peaceful two-state solution, then anyone can, by gard!
No, Pong was a mindless action game. If you try to play CoD mindlessly, you're going to sit at the bottom of the leaderboards with all the other clueless newbs.
How does it compare to Madden Warfare 12?
Connecticut, isn't that where George W. Bush pretended he wasn't from?
Is it even remotely possible that white house policy would side with the interests of common people
No, it's just that with the election a year away, he's decided that it's time for him to pretend to give a shit about his base.
Don't worry. I'm sure he'll work out a compromise where the the Republicans get this bill and several other major concessions and he gets a lovely gift basket.
If he wants the cops to disappear, he should just dial 911 in a shitty neighborhood.
If you don't get that the point of this was to intimidate the reporter and discourage him from pursuing the story, you're either incredibly naive or you're being deliberately dense.
If you were in front of the US Supreme Court and they asked you how this is fundamentally different than tracking your car through traditional police surveillance, how would you answer?
In the same way that listening to a conversation by bugging a person is considered different from listening in on their conversation from a nearby table in a restaurant. One involves the compromise of someone's personal property and effects (protected by the 4th amendment) and the other doesn't.
When this reporter drove down to meet Greg and photograph the second tracker with photographer Snyder, three police cars appeared at the location that had been pre-arranged with Greg, at various points driving directly behind me without making any verbal contact before leaving.
After moving the photo shoot to a Rotten Robbie gas station a mile away from the first location, another police car showed up. In this case, the officer entered the station smiling at me and turned his car around to face the direction of Greg’s car, a couple hundred yards away. He remained there while the device was photographed. A passenger in the police car, dressed in civilian clothes, stepped out of the vehicle to fill a gas container, then the two left shortly before the photo shoot was completed.
I bet that reporter thought that sort of thing only happened in *other* countries before that day.
You know, the one from the early 90's with a bunch of guys sitting around talking. David Spade says "I knew I should wear a condom...but I figured, hey, when was I ever going to be in Guam again?" Phil Hartman says "I know the guy is coming out of prison, but he says he wants to turn his life around, so Sheila and I are going to give him a place to stay." Bob Odenkirk says "I know it's over, but I'm going to tell my wife about that affair", and so on...
Anyone remember that skit?