Could you please give a strict definition of these Human Rights (TM) that you love defending so much? In my experience, "human rights" tends to mean one of three things:
1) Whatever the speaker wants from society that it won't give him. 2) Let's be nice to brown people (preferably Muslims), because not doing so is Racism and a violation of Human Rights. 3) A vaguely notion of ethics whose fundamental idea is "Let's not kill people different from us." It lacks any moral or ethical dimension beyond that retarded little slogan.
P.S.: I'm not defending Islamists. I'm Jewish, so they're far more my enemy than yours (unless you're Israeli).
Let's just be frank: Islamism is nothing more or less than a religious twist on the old pan-Arabic-nationalism.
Islam can coexist with the rest of the world. The type of pan-Arabism that sees all land conquered by the Arab empires of old as rightly belonging to the Arabs of today, cannot, whether or not it drapes itself in a burqa to avoid the eyes of the West.
It's not a meme; this year's Macbook Pros are just really good laptops. Consumer Reports even rated them the #1 laptop (which is why I bought it in the first place).
Except that call gates don't call into another address space, they call into another segment. And only one modern compiler for a modern language (Watcom C, IIRC) emits code for a properly segmented memory model instead of the flat-memory-on-segments model normally used.
You see, these sites are for social networking. This means that your profile, Facebook apps, the whole lot of it is not meant to serve as a superb personal web-site but to keep you in-touch-with/humorously-harassing your friends.
You know, friends? Oh, wait, this is Slashdot. You probably think I'm talking about people with green blobs next to their screen-names, don't you?
Well Facebook once did have a way to prevent predators from soliciting minors: you needed a.edu email address to sign up. This meant the only "children" you could "molest" were college kids.
4. He's from Norway, and as long as the oil money pours in they will continue to act as the social-democratic counterpart to America -- rich, arrogant, ignorant, and telling the rest of the world how to live their lives.
We criticize it because, as a language, Java blows chunks. Its syntax and semantics come from C, which makes them good enough for many things, but it forces you to use object-orientation for absolutely everything.
No, I will not use some obscure "design pattern" instead of commonsense language features like function pointers or truly global anythings or class pointers.
Huh? What foreign government? You know which foreign government, MAN! They're occupying the innocent rabs' country and now they want ours, MAN! Pass teh bong, MAN!
Basically, the GP's an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist. Ron Paul seems to attract a lot of those.
Facebook isn't meant to replace email, letters, or phone calls. It's meant to replace your address book and provide a centralized way to organize members into ad-hoc groups and events.
It actually does something that older methods of communication couldn't and didn't do because of all the redundancy and inaccuracy involved in everyone keeping separate copies of everyone else's data.
Or, if you have no Facebook account with pictures of yourself, your enemies can just photograph someone else entirely who really did get drunk and grope the bar maid, then tag the picture with your name.
Back in the day we wrote applications that were supposed to actually make use of all that computing power users payed $1500 dollars for. We didn't think "server side" or "client side", we wrote our applications to damn well run on the user's machine!
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Could you please give a strict definition of these Human Rights (TM) that you love defending so much? In my experience, "human rights" tends to mean one of three things:
1) Whatever the speaker wants from society that it won't give him.
2) Let's be nice to brown people (preferably Muslims), because not doing so is Racism and a violation of Human Rights.
3) A vaguely notion of ethics whose fundamental idea is "Let's not kill people different from us." It lacks any moral or ethical dimension beyond that retarded little slogan.
P.S.: I'm not defending Islamists. I'm Jewish, so they're far more my enemy than yours (unless you're Israeli).
Let's just be frank: Islamism is nothing more or less than a religious twist on the old pan-Arabic-nationalism.
Islam can coexist with the rest of the world. The type of pan-Arabism that sees all land conquered by the Arab empires of old as rightly belonging to the Arabs of today, cannot, whether or not it drapes itself in a burqa to avoid the eyes of the West.
You haven't? So what the hell have you been cooking these past 50 years?
True, but Slashdotters have exploits allowing them to execute arbitrary code.
Please be reminded that the Aperture Science Bomb-Detonating Robot will never stab you and, in fact, cannot speak.
I cast my vote for bbbrrraaaaiiinssss!
It's not a meme; this year's Macbook Pros are just really good laptops. Consumer Reports even rated them the #1 laptop (which is why I bought it in the first place).
Sounds like you've got the wrong laptop. The Macbook Pro I'm typing this on serves as my primary computer day-to-day without any external hardware.
Wow, that was all too easy.
Except that call gates don't call into another address space, they call into another segment. And only one modern compiler for a modern language (Watcom C, IIRC) emits code for a properly segmented memory model instead of the flat-memory-on-segments model normally used.
You see, these sites are for social networking. This means that your profile, Facebook apps, the whole lot of it is not meant to serve as a superb personal web-site but to keep you in-touch-with/humorously-harassing your friends.
You know, friends? Oh, wait, this is Slashdot. You probably think I'm talking about people with green blobs next to their screen-names, don't you?
Well Facebook once did have a way to prevent predators from soliciting minors: you needed a .edu email address to sign up. This meant the only "children" you could "molest" were college kids.
Since when was Troy in Asia?
True, though semantics concern me far more than syntax. C syntax is just fine for most things once you learn it.
4. He's from Norway, and as long as the oil money pours in they will continue to act as the social-democratic counterpart to America -- rich, arrogant, ignorant, and telling the rest of the world how to live their lives.
Don't mind it.
We criticize it because, as a language, Java blows chunks. Its syntax and semantics come from C, which makes them good enough for many things, but it forces you to use object-orientation for absolutely everything.
No, I will not use some obscure "design pattern" instead of commonsense language features like function pointers or truly global anythings or class pointers.
Yeah, not all of us have that problem. If you put work into it, it gets better.
Try a Trekstor Vibez. It's got a decent hard disk, and supports open/free file formats alongside WMA. Kickass sound quality, too.
Yes, but TV and video game exposure at that age has been correlated with incidence of ADHD.
Warning: Correlation does not equal causation. I, for one, was ADHD long before I first goggled at the holy visage of Duck Hunt.
I'M A DELIVERY BOY!!!!
Basically, the GP's an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist. Ron Paul seems to attract a lot of those.
Facebook isn't meant to replace email, letters, or phone calls. It's meant to replace your address book and provide a centralized way to organize members into ad-hoc groups and events.
It actually does something that older methods of communication couldn't and didn't do because of all the redundancy and inaccuracy involved in everyone keeping separate copies of everyone else's data.
Or, if you have no Facebook account with pictures of yourself, your enemies can just photograph someone else entirely who really did get drunk and grope the bar maid, then tag the picture with your name.
Actually, that one's for the I.R.S.
Back in the day we wrote applications that were supposed to actually make use of all that computing power users payed $1500 dollars for. We didn't think "server side" or "client side", we wrote our applications to damn well run on the user's machine!