Actually, you seem to have missed a bit. Harry's self-sacrificial death (OK, psuedo-death) gave his remaining friends (fighting the Death Eaters) the same Protection of Love magic that Harry received from his mother's death.
So Voldemort was actually killed by both the power of love *and* his own arrogance (in not checking the ownership properly). A fairly good ending.
Oh, please. The books sounded anti-intellectual at times because the stories came to the reader from Harry's point of view, and Harry was really just a British kid in boarding school. That's kind of the point of the series.
We philo-intellectual nerds can wait until Rowling comes out with "The Mesmerizing Encyclopedia of Magic" by "Hermione Granger", in which she can put down all the learning that, out of the three main characters, only Hermione really did.
So it's OK for people to die if they have different values from you?
I think those idiot Puritans should have bothered knowing about the Pikuach Nefesh exemption, which states that it's OK to eat crustaceans (or indeed, anything edible) to save someone's life. But that comes from the Talmud, and I couldn't expect Puritans to consider it with anything other than contempt.
But I don't go so far as to consider their tragic stupidity a good thing.
Pagan? PAGAN!? Goddamn it, you Christians have no respect anymore. Your bullcrap is ruining things for *us*, God's Chosen Ph.Ds!
But they are the minority. We are the majority. We will use their own Democracy to steal the nation from them! That will teach them. We better invent something better than democracy, and soon.
It also has a lot to do with the fact that US institutions consider it their goal to perform research, whereas in other countries the universities may be explicitly chartered to employ home-grown researchers.
Burning people alive in Waco and shooting women in children in Ruby Ridge was "justified force" on "religious fanatics" or "white separatists", government surveillance/harassment of civil rights leaders in the 50s/60s was policing of "subversives" (the few rare times it was actually reported), but people get their panties in a wad about "violating the civil rights" of "terrorists"? Ahhh, but those people were whites. They didn't have an identity lobby (in the sense of "identity politics") to look after them and call "civil rights violation", or better yet, "human rights violation" for them.
Part of the OP's point was that credit reports are now used for things completely unrelated to the borrowing of money. For instance, a man with a stable job could find himself unable to rent an apartment due to a bad credit report that came about due to simple agency incompetence, even though he receives a paycheck every two weeks and can pay the rent without taking out loans. But apparently not being able to borrow money has something to do with being able to pay money one already earns.
I showed this to my robot, and he says he might actually convert from Robot Judaism! Thank you, CMU, you've saved an electronic soul. Err... hard-disk image.
It doesn't help, does it, that any attempt to seriously use message passing always ends in the creation of an IDL compiler and sophisticated RPC scheme?
Slight problem: operating systems can't detect every memory write or read without turning on debugging interrupts or setting up the page tables so that every access page faults. There's no mechanism in current processor architectures to support STM in an OS.
Wait a minute - you're believing that you're buying your food from China? I knew you USians don't know anything about the outside world, but you don't even know what happens in your own country - sad. Not all of it, dumbass (you want to play the flame game?), but some of it. I believe it was only two weeks ago I opened my morning newspaper and read about how we'd temporarily suspended food imports from China after finding some poisoned meat.
And then in the next few days the whole story broke -- defective products, poisonous drugs, etc.
You're poisoning yourself. You make the erroneous assumption that I buy all that stuff. My family's milk comes from a local organic farm. Our meat comes from a local organic butcher when we really want good meat. When we buy meat from the supermarket, we pay more for the non-antibiotic meat.
And I haven't seen a bottle of soda in this house that wasn't made from sucralose instead of HFCS in years, though it might help that we only buy soda when my younger brother has friends over and they all need junk to drink and snack on. If we want cake or cookies (or anything else involving sugar), we make them ourselves from real sugar, butter, flour, milk, fruit, spices, etc.
Or can none of this be possible, since it wouldn't confirm your stereotype of Americans?
The fact that every modern OS is madly bloated is just proof that the world's OS developers are ADHD suburban twits getting lazy and gratuitous with fluffy GUI features, when really they should be focusing on two core things: device drivers and the almighty scheduler. I'm a hobby OS designer who has ADHD and lives in the suburbs (involuntarily), and I design a lean microkernel, you insensitive clod!
How many people have any understanding of just how much message-passing sucks? Languages like Erlang cover it up by letting you pass arbitrary values around as messages (saving on marshalling and unmarshalling time), but the fact is that sending data to Some-Thread Else with no idea that it will consent to receive it or interpret your data properly doesn't make good software!
Most people who smugly criticize America from abroad are European. If they angrily criticize America for what it did to their country, they're from South America or the Middle East. If they laugh at how much money they make off stupid Americans, they're from Asia.
The one exception is that Britons seem to have some understanding that their food is scarcely better than ours.
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Actually, you seem to have missed a bit. Harry's self-sacrificial death (OK, psuedo-death) gave his remaining friends (fighting the Death Eaters) the same Protection of Love magic that Harry received from his mother's death.
So Voldemort was actually killed by both the power of love *and* his own arrogance (in not checking the ownership properly). A fairly good ending.
Oh, please. The books sounded anti-intellectual at times because the stories came to the reader from Harry's point of view, and Harry was really just a British kid in boarding school. That's kind of the point of the series.
We philo-intellectual nerds can wait until Rowling comes out with "The Mesmerizing Encyclopedia of Magic" by "Hermione Granger", in which she can put down all the learning that, out of the three main characters, only Hermione really did.
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So it's OK for people to die if they have different values from you?
I think those idiot Puritans should have bothered knowing about the Pikuach Nefesh exemption, which states that it's OK to eat crustaceans (or indeed, anything edible) to save someone's life. But that comes from the Talmud, and I couldn't expect Puritans to consider it with anything other than contempt.
But I don't go so far as to consider their tragic stupidity a good thing.
It doesn't help that anything at all fun is now considered unsafe.
It also has a lot to do with the fact that US institutions consider it their goal to perform research, whereas in other countries the universities may be explicitly chartered to employ home-grown researchers.
Oh, I have a reason to desire anonymity. I don't like George W. Bush. In today's climate, that's enough reason.
So it's somehow just fine that you use credit reports as a kind of dangan instead for the credit score? That's even worse!
Definitely not Amazon. I preordered mine from Amazon and it hasn't even shipped yet.
That reminds me. I should check why.
Part of the OP's point was that credit reports are now used for things completely unrelated to the borrowing of money. For instance, a man with a stable job could find himself unable to rent an apartment due to a bad credit report that came about due to simple agency incompetence, even though he receives a paycheck every two weeks and can pay the rent without taking out loans. But apparently not being able to borrow money has something to do with being able to pay money one already earns.
I showed this to my robot, and he says he might actually convert from Robot Judaism! Thank you, CMU, you've saved an electronic soul. Err... hard-disk image.
Bullshit. Post which vendor, oh mighty precognitive Anonymous Coward.
Do you remember the last time a research architecture became prevalent in the field? I can't.
Robotic dogs evolved their own language, remember?
It doesn't help, does it, that any attempt to seriously use message passing always ends in the creation of an IDL compiler and sophisticated RPC scheme?
Slight problem: operating systems can't detect every memory write or read without turning on debugging interrupts or setting up the page tables so that every access page faults. There's no mechanism in current processor architectures to support STM in an OS.
And then in the next few days the whole story broke -- defective products, poisonous drugs, etc. You're poisoning yourself. You make the erroneous assumption that I buy all that stuff. My family's milk comes from a local organic farm. Our meat comes from a local organic butcher when we really want good meat. When we buy meat from the supermarket, we pay more for the non-antibiotic meat.
And I haven't seen a bottle of soda in this house that wasn't made from sucralose instead of HFCS in years, though it might help that we only buy soda when my younger brother has friends over and they all need junk to drink and snack on. If we want cake or cookies (or anything else involving sugar), we make them ourselves from real sugar, butter, flour, milk, fruit, spices, etc.
Or can none of this be possible, since it wouldn't confirm your stereotype of Americans?
Actually, my microkernel design is so lean that I took the scheduler out of the kernel.
Is it just me, or does the contrast between the two sets of OS personifications tell us something about the difference in cultures?
Nigeria? I was talking about China, who make boatloads of money selling us defective goods and poisoned food at a profit.
How many people have any understanding of just how much message-passing sucks? Languages like Erlang cover it up by letting you pass arbitrary values around as messages (saving on marshalling and unmarshalling time), but the fact is that sending data to Some-Thread Else with no idea that it will consent to receive it or interpret your data properly doesn't make good software!
Just shut up and help get the subsidies repealed so we can at least fatten ourselves on better tasting junk food!
Most people who smugly criticize America from abroad are European. If they angrily criticize America for what it did to their country, they're from South America or the Middle East. If they laugh at how much money they make off stupid Americans, they're from Asia.
The one exception is that Britons seem to have some understanding that their food is scarcely better than ours.