And this is why you should not have arbitrary limits in your programs, ladies and gentlemen. Not even limits on the values your numbers can represent - unless you have _proven_ that no values outside the representable range will ever occur.
If you don't have limits, performance suffers. I suppose you could have keys be arbitrary-length with some databases, but it is a huge performance hit.
Let me explain it for you. The full name is "United States of America." In many foreign languages the term is "United States" in whatever language they use. So, it is natural for them to gravitate towards the "United States" part more than the "of America" part. There's no other "United States" of anything, so confusion is minimal.
Your life will be more pleasant if you accept that people in other countries have different vocabularies.
Your example is completely idiotic. Germans don't call Germans Germans. They call Germans Deutchlanders, and they don't get all pissy when we say "Germany."
It's been happening for a while now. Retiring in Mexico makes a lot of sense for some people. Your $600 social security check goes a very long way, health care is good and cheap, and you get treated like royalty.
That sounds pretty good to someone who can't pay their bills, can't afford healthcare, and gets treated like shit.
You're right that things could be worse in Iraq. Things could be worse regarding freedom and liberty in the US.
Your point is invalid, though. Just because things could be worse doesn't mean they're not horrible. Things could always be worse. The whole world could blow up, but hey at least we didn't lose the sun.
Anyone who thinks things are going well in Iraq is retarded. Anyone who thinks the home of the free has never been freer is retarded. And you're not helping by mocking those who are pointing out blindingly obvious problems.
I thought about running for office, just to give the press a field day with my drug use, sexual habits, and freakish manner. Most normal people don't want this kind of mean-spirited scrutiny. They might have family or churches they go to that would be hurt by dirt dug up.
If I had a family or went to a church, no fucking way would I run for office. Nobody has a squeaky-clean past. Even if some weirdo does have a clean bill of moral health, the bastards will make something up. Something believable, with dozens of witnesses, just as soon as the candidacy becomes viable.
Same way you test anything. Give vaccine to one group, placebo to another, double-blind. 2 years later, analyze infection rates statistically. If 2% of the control group got infected and 2% of the test group got infected you have a bogus vaccine.
As long as drug ads go away, count me in. They're annoying to watch, make patients whine for pills they may not need or may not be best for them, drive up demand unnecessarilly, and bleed massive amounts of cash that could be spent researching new drugs.
I bet if pharma would stop advertising and spend those billions on R&D they'd wind up making more money in the long run. No amount of advertising second-rate hardon pills or whatnot can compete with a doubled or tripled pipeline of new drugs.
The only problem is R&D pays for itself later. Advertising pays for itself now. Guess which one gets bonuses.
You're a sanctimonious and narrow-minded person. Just because you can't conceive of an ethical framework without the crutch of a made-up deity doesn't mean nobody else can.
If there were a god, people who unthinkingly follow church dogma would make him want to vomit. If there were a god, and he created us, he gave us brains. It'd be insulting to not use them. It'd be willful sacrilige to blindly follow an inherently bogus book written by men, and an unspeakable horror to kill anyone over it.
Oh, and many people don't have a religion, don't have a god. I'm willing to re-evaluate my ethical framework when new data becomes available. I'm willing to question my beliefs and change my position. I'm a lot more compassionate towards other people than most religious people.
Best of all, I get rewarded for the way I live right now, in reality. I don't have to make up an afterlife to make this life bearable. The beauty I find is more precious without a fairy-tale framework to put the difficult things in.
I'm sorry if this seems harsh. I went back and tried to make it nice. I normally don't judge people, unless they judge me first.
Blind people can read braille. Amazon sells thousands of braille books. Amazon is quite useful to blind people (assuming it is accessable) since braille books are a hard-to-find item.
I like the ballot. I got to vote on a lot of interesting issues, such as marijuana decriminalization, domestic partner benefits, and so forth. I think politicians often have different priorities than voters, and lobbyists have a lot of influence.
I also like being able to vote for city, state, and federal representatives. Sometimes I vote for different parties for these, depending on the individual running and what I think priorities are for that level of government.
The big problem is uneducated or bull-headed voters. Oh well, nothing I can do about that.
All news reports, witnesses, and involved police agencies indicated it was peaceful. The justification for the raid was drug use. Here is some further information.
This is why I voted absentee again this election. For one thing, here in Colorado we had about 80 items on the ballot. There is no way I'm going blind and crazy checking that all 80 were recorded properly.
Best of all, the 2 double-sided legal sized pieces of paper are a permanent, human-readable record. They count them with a machine and do limited hand-counts to sanity-check the results. If the election is close, they'll be entirely hand-counted.
If everyone voted absentee, we'd have no problems with machines. I just wish they could use the same system in the polling places instead of stick-crazy machines.
I think jackbooted paramilitary thugs persecuting a peaceful festival smells like fascism. I'd sure hesitate to express any nonmajority political views in Utah.
It's funny because the US gov't has been consolidating power and has become more controlling over the years.
I'd say it isn't too late to avoid becoming a fascist police state, but we're far enough down that road that jokes about it are half funny and half scary.
I don't think many in the US can seriously say that the government doesn't have enough power and doesn't meddle in people's lives enough.
We sure had similar childhoods. My high school chemistry teacher would help us build explosives and go "supervise" on weekends and after school. He loved it as much as we did. The lab ceiling was cratered from countless explosions. Once he detonated a kilo of thermite on his desk and it set off the fire alarms in several other buildings. He rarely wore safety equipment and was not uptight about us using it either. Those days are sadly gone forever.
I wish you luck raising a child. It'd be depressing for me with the safety-obsessed fascism we're moving towards, not to mention the brand-fixated and horrid popular culture. At least your daughter has a good chance of having an independent mind.
My grocer has a self-checkout with a touchscreen. Not only do they get heavy constant use, but they get wet and filthy and keep on working. I've seen a couple malfunction, but it is always the coin/bill handling. I've never seen the screen malfunction, in several years of shopping. I even enter produce codes in tiny 1/2" square boxes and it has never registered the wrong number.
Why are grocer's self-checkouts so much more advanced than voting machines? It must be because voting doesn't matter and grocering does.
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There are frequencies towards the edge of the human hearing range that can cause damage. I'll bet ANC headphones don't cancel these out.
That link is broken.
Seriously, ATHF is sometimes great and that is one of my favorite episodes.
You're right. Deutschland is the country, and Deutsch is who lives in the land.
but but but, index funds have non-random selections of stocks! I'm ready to follow your investment advice, but I can't!
I could always throw darts at a stock-ticker but how will I know if that's random enough?
Let me explain it for you. The full name is "United States of America." In many foreign languages the term is "United States" in whatever language they use. So, it is natural for them to gravitate towards the "United States" part more than the "of America" part. There's no other "United States" of anything, so confusion is minimal.
Your life will be more pleasant if you accept that people in other countries have different vocabularies.
Your example is completely idiotic. Germans don't call Germans Germans. They call Germans Deutchlanders, and they don't get all pissy when we say "Germany."
It's been happening for a while now. Retiring in Mexico makes a lot of sense for some people. Your $600 social security check goes a very long way, health care is good and cheap, and you get treated like royalty.
That sounds pretty good to someone who can't pay their bills, can't afford healthcare, and gets treated like shit.
You're right that things could be worse in Iraq. Things could be worse regarding freedom and liberty in the US.
Your point is invalid, though. Just because things could be worse doesn't mean they're not horrible. Things could always be worse. The whole world could blow up, but hey at least we didn't lose the sun.
Anyone who thinks things are going well in Iraq is retarded. Anyone who thinks the home of the free has never been freer is retarded. And you're not helping by mocking those who are pointing out blindingly obvious problems.
I thought about running for office, just to give the press a field day with my drug use, sexual habits, and freakish manner. Most normal people don't want this kind of mean-spirited scrutiny. They might have family or churches they go to that would be hurt by dirt dug up.
If I had a family or went to a church, no fucking way would I run for office. Nobody has a squeaky-clean past. Even if some weirdo does have a clean bill of moral health, the bastards will make something up. Something believable, with dozens of witnesses, just as soon as the candidacy becomes viable.
If you don't vote, you're voting "I don't care who runs things."
If you don't care, why would you want to complain? You got what you wanted.
Half of married people cheat. If you think you're safe because you only fuck your spouse, you're retarded.
If you only feel sorry for people who you think of as innocent, you're an asshole. Nobody is innocent. We all make mistakes.
Same way you test anything. Give vaccine to one group, placebo to another, double-blind. 2 years later, analyze infection rates statistically. If 2% of the control group got infected and 2% of the test group got infected you have a bogus vaccine.
As long as drug ads go away, count me in. They're annoying to watch, make patients whine for pills they may not need or may not be best for them, drive up demand unnecessarilly, and bleed massive amounts of cash that could be spent researching new drugs.
I bet if pharma would stop advertising and spend those billions on R&D they'd wind up making more money in the long run. No amount of advertising second-rate hardon pills or whatnot can compete with a doubled or tripled pipeline of new drugs.
The only problem is R&D pays for itself later. Advertising pays for itself now. Guess which one gets bonuses.
You're a sanctimonious and narrow-minded person. Just because you can't conceive of an ethical framework without the crutch of a made-up deity doesn't mean nobody else can.
If there were a god, people who unthinkingly follow church dogma would make him want to vomit. If there were a god, and he created us, he gave us brains. It'd be insulting to not use them. It'd be willful sacrilige to blindly follow an inherently bogus book written by men, and an unspeakable horror to kill anyone over it.
Oh, and many people don't have a religion, don't have a god. I'm willing to re-evaluate my ethical framework when new data becomes available. I'm willing to question my beliefs and change my position. I'm a lot more compassionate towards other people than most religious people.
Best of all, I get rewarded for the way I live right now, in reality. I don't have to make up an afterlife to make this life bearable. The beauty I find is more precious without a fairy-tale framework to put the difficult things in.
I'm sorry if this seems harsh. I went back and tried to make it nice. I normally don't judge people, unless they judge me first.
Blind people can read braille. Amazon sells thousands of braille books. Amazon is quite useful to blind people (assuming it is accessable) since braille books are a hard-to-find item.
Hm, I do that dishwasher thing too. I always thought it was because I'm crazy.
It started with a dust and beverage caked keyboard and progressed from there.
I've been afraid to use detergent though. That stuff is corrosive. What's your policy on that?
I like the ballot. I got to vote on a lot of interesting issues, such as marijuana decriminalization, domestic partner benefits, and so forth. I think politicians often have different priorities than voters, and lobbyists have a lot of influence.
I also like being able to vote for city, state, and federal representatives. Sometimes I vote for different parties for these, depending on the individual running and what I think priorities are for that level of government.
The big problem is uneducated or bull-headed voters. Oh well, nothing I can do about that.
All news reports, witnesses, and involved police agencies indicated it was peaceful. The justification for the raid was drug use. Here is some further information.
This is why I voted absentee again this election. For one thing, here in Colorado we had about 80 items on the ballot. There is no way I'm going blind and crazy checking that all 80 were recorded properly.
Best of all, the 2 double-sided legal sized pieces of paper are a permanent, human-readable record. They count them with a machine and do limited hand-counts to sanity-check the results. If the election is close, they'll be entirely hand-counted.
If everyone voted absentee, we'd have no problems with machines. I just wish they could use the same system in the polling places instead of stick-crazy machines.
I think jackbooted paramilitary thugs persecuting a peaceful festival smells like fascism. I'd sure hesitate to express any nonmajority political views in Utah.
It's Bigbootay!
What a great film.
It's a joke, not an attempt to convince anyone.
It's funny because the US gov't has been consolidating power and has become more controlling over the years.
I'd say it isn't too late to avoid becoming a fascist police state, but we're far enough down that road that jokes about it are half funny and half scary.
I don't think many in the US can seriously say that the government doesn't have enough power and doesn't meddle in people's lives enough.
We sure had similar childhoods. My high school chemistry teacher would help us build explosives and go "supervise" on weekends and after school. He loved it as much as we did. The lab ceiling was cratered from countless explosions. Once he detonated a kilo of thermite on his desk and it set off the fire alarms in several other buildings. He rarely wore safety equipment and was not uptight about us using it either. Those days are sadly gone forever.
I wish you luck raising a child. It'd be depressing for me with the safety-obsessed fascism we're moving towards, not to mention the brand-fixated and horrid popular culture. At least your daughter has a good chance of having an independent mind.
A thin acetate sheet would be sturdy and no parallax. Plus, you can roll it up for storage or transport.
My grocer has a self-checkout with a touchscreen. Not only do they get heavy constant use, but they get wet and filthy and keep on working. I've seen a couple malfunction, but it is always the coin/bill handling. I've never seen the screen malfunction, in several years of shopping. I even enter produce codes in tiny 1/2" square boxes and it has never registered the wrong number.
Why are grocer's self-checkouts so much more advanced than voting machines? It must be because voting doesn't matter and grocering does.