I'm bad because I was born. I had no choice in the matter but I'm bad.
Also if I was born in China say 500 years ago or 40 years ago and in either case died by the age of 20, am I going to hell or heaven. Having neither heard of your savior in either case and therefore having no chance to accept your savior or reject him. You can't let me in for living a "godly" life. If you do then you must be damning those of us living a "godly" life who still refuse to believe your fairy tale.
This is the point. Hitler may or may not have considered himself a Christian, but many who did followed him and his logic. I would also argue that Christians of many denominations were very embarassed by what their followers did to help the extermination of Jews, homosexuals, jehovahs witness, etc. You can see this by how they try to find the one or two of their denomination that actually stood up to Hitler. They write books, make documentaries, trying to cover up the fact that the vast majority did not live up to their so called higher morality provided by being followers of Christ.
I believe the founders of the USA understood that there is no perfect system. They came up with a reasonable system to allow for representation. I believe there is an unreasonable expectation that people expect their vote to make something change now. Instead of, I'm voting for Nader, knowing full well that Bush may get elected. But I'm sending a signal to the Democrats that I think they are becoming too much like the Republicans.
Now come to the next Presidential elections. The Democratic nominee knows he has to somehow placate those voters that like Nader to still win a majority in a state where they are strong and win its electoral votes.
But that is how any system works. Anybody except the current guy is just as valid a reason to vote as you like the candidate. You can also not vote for a certain office. I've also voted for the guy I didn't want to win, because I was certain he wasn't, but I didn't want the guy that was certain to win to get too many votes and think he had a mandate.
This thread does more than anything else to prove that most voters will never understand. If slashdoters can't see the flaw that is being explained, how will the average voter understand the system.
I find it hard to believe that having a minor name difference like that will cause any troubles. I mean the police have been tracking criminals for years using all of their aliases.
The real nightmare comes when the specification changes. So instead of just changing your code. You have to also change this psuedo code, oops contract. Plus I'm guessing you still have end-to-end tests, all of which get rewritten. All this may eliminate are the unit tests, which for me were the easiest to code and in many cases a visual inspection would do. Now you have to maintain this contract and your code. Seems like more trouble then it is worth.
There is also a NWN persistant world at Krynnhaven.
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I keep reading all these books about how to fix the holes in existing s/w. How to not build systems that are full of holes. It seems we need a decent foundation and its not C. The DoD tried with Ada to design a language that eliminates a lot of the coding mistakes, but it just wasn't embraced. It just seems we are attempting to layer security on top of an inherently insecure software language.
The problem is we need to get rid of those mediocre programmers. But too many government projects depend on body count to get a profit. To many managers depend on having large staffs to get promoted. Until the U.S. government will let a company charge a 40 - 50% markup and use 1/5 the staff on a project it ain't gonna happen.
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Take being exposed to different accents as an advantage. Yes it can be difficult, but if you learn to understand how they pronounce words, you will find it easier and easier to understand many different accents. While I was at University, I had many friends and some professors from around the world. After a few months I was able to converse freely with all of them, I even came to the point that I would translate (restate) what a student from India was saying to someone from China. I could understand both of their accents but they had trouble with each others. This also helped me in my work because I have many co-workers with heavy accents.
Look to this as a new learning experience. As a very valuable job skill in the new international market place.
Somebody please mod this up as funny. I almost split a gut over this one. More moral, oh god, oh god, there goes my gut. Bugger all, how can a group of men that deny their natural desires for sexual release be less sinful and more moral then me. The more you attempt to repress a normal desire the more it controls you.
Now there are other ways, for example the research could be all government funded via tax dollars, with the condition that anything discovered was then public domain since the public had paid for its creation. This is along the lines of what I'd like to see.
If this were doable or true, why wasn't the former Soviet Union or the current Chinese government the greatest source of new effective medicine. Instead Soviet medicine was famous for giving enemas and China is looking to 2000 year old research.
I thought the same thing, but it appears you need a network connection to authorize the viewing. Maybe everytime you watch the media player just connects to the internet and checks the time.
But weren't the two biggest scandals that hit the FBI about a devout Catholic and a Mormon agents. I don't believe either one every used drugs. The two guys that sold the super secret satelite info where blond, blue-eyed, white americans. Thus they were awarded Top Secrect clearances quickly. For the most part most americans are good people that wouldn't betray the trust given them whether they smoked a little weed or not while in college. Hell as pointed out earlier our coke head president is awarded the highest security clearance in the land. I'm always reminded of the CCR song Fortunate son:
Some folks are born
made to wave the flag,
Ooh, they're red, white and blue.
And when the band plays "Hail to the chief",
they point the cannon right at you.
It ain't me,
it ain't me.
I ain't no senator's son.
It ain't me,
it ain't me.
I ain't no fortunate one.
I think it is more, he said what most of the people wanted to hear. So they choose to believe, because it was what they wanted to believe. Same with CEOs. People wanted to believe their stock value would keep increasing and wouldn't listen to Greenspan, who kept saying the market is way overpriced.
Some lawmakers are clueless. But for the most part they are very intelligent people. But even if they were all buffoons, treating them that way will never win them over to your cause. They have the power and the only thing they fear is a motivated, educated voting public.
They love unmotivated, apathetic voters. Because they know once elected it is very hard to be defeated. If more people voted then they would have to be more representative versus just being beholden to a few voters/special interest groups.
It is for this reason I don't believe the/. crowd can have much of an effect. We have similiar beliefs regarding say privacy and technology. But I believe we have too much of a variety in our liberal versus conservative ideology (with good dose of anarchy thrown in) to be effective. Can we come up with a platform that binds us enough to be a force in politics and sway elections (or even the preception that we might) so that politicians will start paying attention to us?
The worse case I came accross was a printer from IBM. They had two models. One printed at 60 cps the other at 120 cps. The only difference between the two was a soldered in short. You could pay IBM to upgrade your slower printer. The engineer would show up and snip the solder. You now had doubled your speed. The engineer had no fear of showing me this, because he knew my employer would never let us perform this simple operation ourself.
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Sort of. It only applies to group policies offered by an employer.
I'm bad because I was born. I had no choice in the matter but I'm bad. Also if I was born in China say 500 years ago or 40 years ago and in either case died by the age of 20, am I going to hell or heaven. Having neither heard of your savior in either case and therefore having no chance to accept your savior or reject him. You can't let me in for living a "godly" life. If you do then you must be damning those of us living a "godly" life who still refuse to believe your fairy tale.
This is the point. Hitler may or may not have considered himself a Christian, but many who did followed him and his logic. I would also argue that Christians of many denominations were very embarassed by what their followers did to help the extermination of Jews, homosexuals, jehovahs witness, etc. You can see this by how they try to find the one or two of their denomination that actually stood up to Hitler. They write books, make documentaries, trying to cover up the fact that the vast majority did not live up to their so called higher morality provided by being followers of Christ.
I believe the founders of the USA understood that there is no perfect system. They came up with a reasonable system to allow for representation. I believe there is an unreasonable expectation that people expect their vote to make something change now. Instead of, I'm voting for Nader, knowing full well that Bush may get elected. But I'm sending a signal to the Democrats that I think they are becoming too much like the Republicans. Now come to the next Presidential elections. The Democratic nominee knows he has to somehow placate those voters that like Nader to still win a majority in a state where they are strong and win its electoral votes.
But that is how any system works. Anybody except the current guy is just as valid a reason to vote as you like the candidate. You can also not vote for a certain office. I've also voted for the guy I didn't want to win, because I was certain he wasn't, but I didn't want the guy that was certain to win to get too many votes and think he had a mandate.
This thread does more than anything else to prove that most voters will never understand. If slashdoters can't see the flaw that is being explained, how will the average voter understand the system.
I find it hard to believe that having a minor name difference like that will cause any troubles. I mean the police have been tracking criminals for years using all of their aliases.
The real nightmare comes when the specification changes. So instead of just changing your code. You have to also change this psuedo code, oops contract. Plus I'm guessing you still have end-to-end tests, all of which get rewritten. All this may eliminate are the unit tests, which for me were the easiest to code and in many cases a visual inspection would do. Now you have to maintain this contract and your code. Seems like more trouble then it is worth.
Please tell me where I can buy a song for $0.99 and play in on my Linux box or burn it on a CD and play in my car.
There is also a NWN persistant world at Krynnhaven.
I keep reading all these books about how to fix the holes in existing s/w. How to not build systems that are full of holes. It seems we need a decent foundation and its not C. The DoD tried with Ada to design a language that eliminates a lot of the coding mistakes, but it just wasn't embraced. It just seems we are attempting to layer security on top of an inherently insecure software language.
Ok, I'll byte, got any links. What new technology has come out of MS? Not just an improvement, but something wholely invented at MS and inovative.
I wonder what the Butterflies think of this.
Can you please point me to the Aztec and Maya flood myths.
The problem is we need to get rid of those mediocre programmers. But too many government projects depend on body count to get a profit. To many managers depend on having large staffs to get promoted. Until the U.S. government will let a company charge a 40 - 50% markup and use 1/5 the staff on a project it ain't gonna happen.
Look to this as a new learning experience. As a very valuable job skill in the new international market place.
Somebody please mod this up as funny. I almost split a gut over this one. More moral, oh god, oh god, there goes my gut. Bugger all, how can a group of men that deny their natural desires for sexual release be less sinful and more moral then me. The more you attempt to repress a normal desire the more it controls you.
Did any of them die a pauper.
I thought the same thing, but it appears you need a network connection to authorize the viewing. Maybe everytime you watch the media player just connects to the internet and checks the time.
That is why you do something like the Baen Free Library. Treat the free electronic copy as advertising.
I think it is more, he said what most of the people wanted to hear. So they choose to believe, because it was what they wanted to believe. Same with CEOs. People wanted to believe their stock value would keep increasing and wouldn't listen to Greenspan, who kept saying the market is way overpriced.
Some lawmakers are clueless. But for the most part they are very intelligent people. But even if they were all buffoons, treating them that way will never win them over to your cause. They have the power and the only thing they fear is a motivated, educated voting public.
They love unmotivated, apathetic voters. Because they know once elected it is very hard to be defeated. If more people voted then they would have to be more representative versus just being beholden to a few voters/special interest groups.
It is for this reason I don't believe the /. crowd can have much of an effect. We have similiar beliefs regarding say privacy and technology. But I believe we have too much of a variety in our liberal versus conservative ideology (with good dose of anarchy thrown in) to be effective. Can we come up with a platform that binds us enough to be a force in politics and sway elections (or even the preception that we might) so that politicians will start paying attention to us?
The worse case I came accross was a printer from IBM. They had two models. One printed at 60 cps the other at 120 cps. The only difference between the two was a soldered in short. You could pay IBM to upgrade your slower printer. The engineer would show up and snip the solder. You now had doubled your speed. The engineer had no fear of showing me this, because he knew my employer would never let us perform this simple operation ourself.