While many user applications (Explorer, for example) were partially rewritten in.NET
... and I'm still waiting for the patch that allows me to hide the "Organize bar" and allows me to turn back on treeview lines, get rid of the "locations" crap and pretty much make it look like it used to.
"Reckless Endangerment" is still used as today to prosecute anyone falsely shouting something that could place people in harm's way.
From Wikipedia's article on Brandenburg v. Ohio:
Finally, Douglas dealt with the classic example of a man "falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic." In order to explain why someone could be legitimately prosecuted for this, Douglas called it an example in which "speech is brigaded with action." In the view of Douglas and Black, this was probably the only sort of case in which a person could be prosecuted for speech.
So, while that overturned the case against a man who was distributing anti-draft propaganda, it really had no bearing on the whole idea of shouting "fire." It was merely used in example and it was still agreed upon by the judges that shouting "fire" in a theater could be prosecutable... so it was not overturned in that manner.
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I've been looking into Clojure and the parenthesis vs. curly braces thing is one that stuck out to me. Braces define blocks and only blocks of code in most OO programming languages. Clojure's parenthesis enclose lists of data, defn functions (ignore redundancy in that), and practically everything besides vectors. So it's sometimes hard to tell where one logical block stands apart from another. Not to mention, the "recommended" indentation style feels counter-intuitive coming from an OO development background. Be it "Java Style", "Linux Style", or what have you... braces always mean a block of logic and it's easy to see it as one entity. That's been my biggest hurdle with adopting Clojure to do anything... and I really want to learn to use it.
Actually, what you describe (and are complaining about) isn't a free market at all. I would argue that we don't have a free market in the world... anywhere. The fact that our government takes 30% of our income off the top (out of your wallet, not accounting for returns... you don't have that money to "vote" with) and uses it to place regulations on certain industrial production places that free market into a nosedive.
We definitely need a reboot. We are so fragmented and corrupt right now. On one hand, we have our virtual memory being consumed at an alarming rate while we borrow more and more disk space to cover operation costs that we don't have the memory for. On the other, we have applications that demand more and more memory without regard to how much the system can handle. The common solution is to put in more memory, but that only makes each byte of memory that much more insignificant and applications will demand more and more until our whole system comes crashing to a halt.;)
Considering that possessive "it" has a page dedicated itself and it listed as a common mistake I don't feel the slightest guilt to making that mistake.
You most likely take your keys with you, so locking the vehicle doesn't prevent someone from driving into a crowd of people with your car. They still have to bypass the starting mechanism in the car, which is pretty much always protected by key... physical or electronic.
How many layers of protection is enough?
That's like saying that anyone that walks into your house through an unlocked door, proceeds to the crack the locked safe you have and pulls out the gun to use is your fault. You took the effort to put the gun in a safe and lock it, but since your front door was unlocked you may have well given them your gun? No, I don't agree.
The only thing this could possibly be is protection of personal items in the car... and making it illegal to "not protect" your own items walks a thin gray line.
... if he practiced freedom of choice? Seriously, there's only so much I can take. If someone wants to be an idiot and weld a metal spike in their steering wheel, let natural selection run it's course.
It's something for the politicians to do to continue painting a big red X on Wall Street so they can take it over and control it themselves. I'm beginning to think Congress' job is to take over things and run them in a constant state of deficient funds.
My Mazda came with a credit card sized "key" that slips in my pocket and as long as I have it on me, the doors open and the car starts... it's just a bit too thick for the wallet. I use the garage door opener on my mirror to get in my home and I keep my mailbox key in a compartment inside my car. when I leave in the morning, I have my wallet, my car "key" and my sunglasses.
At work, I have a numeric keypad door to get to my desk.
In case the garage door doesn't open, I have a hidden key in my car for my apartment. I don't carry it with me.
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While many user applications (Explorer, for example) were partially rewritten in .NET
... and I'm still waiting for the patch that allows me to hide the "Organize bar" and allows me to turn back on treeview lines, get rid of the "locations" crap and pretty much make it look like it used to.
"Reckless Endangerment" is still used as today to prosecute anyone falsely shouting something that could place people in harm's way.
From Wikipedia's article on Brandenburg v. Ohio:
Finally, Douglas dealt with the classic example of a man "falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic." In order to explain why someone could be legitimately prosecuted for this, Douglas called it an example in which "speech is brigaded with action." In the view of Douglas and Black, this was probably the only sort of case in which a person could be prosecuted for speech.
So, while that overturned the case against a man who was distributing anti-draft propaganda, it really had no bearing on the whole idea of shouting "fire." It was merely used in example and it was still agreed upon by the judges that shouting "fire" in a theater could be prosecutable... so it was not overturned in that manner.
I've been looking into Clojure and the parenthesis vs. curly braces thing is one that stuck out to me. Braces define blocks and only blocks of code in most OO programming languages. Clojure's parenthesis enclose lists of data, defn functions (ignore redundancy in that), and practically everything besides vectors. So it's sometimes hard to tell where one logical block stands apart from another. Not to mention, the "recommended" indentation style feels counter-intuitive coming from an OO development background. Be it "Java Style", "Linux Style", or what have you... braces always mean a block of logic and it's easy to see it as one entity. That's been my biggest hurdle with adopting Clojure to do anything... and I really want to learn to use it.
It depends if you think police are there to protect the citizens or if the police are the law... There's a fine difference.
Not sure if you knew this, but in some parts of the world, it's illegal to shout "fire" in a crowded theater.
Are you telling me that the years I've spent practicing "Power Word: Pain" were fruitless?
Due to the construct of the sentence above, I'd suggest a funny mod. It's really too bad there's no ironic mod. ;)
If they don't like seeing the word, they'll filter it on their end.
Actually, what you describe (and are complaining about) isn't a free market at all. I would argue that we don't have a free market in the world... anywhere. The fact that our government takes 30% of our income off the top (out of your wallet, not accounting for returns... you don't have that money to "vote" with) and uses it to place regulations on certain industrial production places that free market into a nosedive.
For a while, we had a tug-of-war competition between the Republicans and the Democrats with the people in the middle holding on.
Now the Democrats and Republicans have glanced at each other and decided they can both pull to the side and drag us all along for the ride.
His gears are plastic in the model, but yes... I'd love to see some action other than spinning gears around.
We definitely need a reboot. We are so fragmented and corrupt right now. On one hand, we have our virtual memory being consumed at an alarming rate while we borrow more and more disk space to cover operation costs that we don't have the memory for. On the other, we have applications that demand more and more memory without regard to how much the system can handle. The common solution is to put in more memory, but that only makes each byte of memory that much more insignificant and applications will demand more and more until our whole system comes crashing to a halt. ;)
One mistake does not an idiot make.
Considering that possessive "it" has a page dedicated itself and it listed as a common mistake I don't feel the slightest guilt to making that mistake.
Because we all know one grammar mistake will cause instantaneous death. It's a mistake, get over it.
You laugh, but the three people still driving around in Ford Pintos/Chevrolet Chevettes can still fix and maintain their own cars.
We all love comparing everything to cars.
I'm not sure I agree with that position.
You most likely take your keys with you, so locking the vehicle doesn't prevent someone from driving into a crowd of people with your car. They still have to bypass the starting mechanism in the car, which is pretty much always protected by key... physical or electronic.
How many layers of protection is enough?
That's like saying that anyone that walks into your house through an unlocked door, proceeds to the crack the locked safe you have and pulls out the gun to use is your fault. You took the effort to put the gun in a safe and lock it, but since your front door was unlocked you may have well given them your gun? No, I don't agree.
The only thing this could possibly be is protection of personal items in the car... and making it illegal to "not protect" your own items walks a thin gray line.
WTH... we go over 200 years under Capitalism, grow to be the world superpower and all of the sudden, everyone hates Capitalism now?
... if he practiced freedom of choice? Seriously, there's only so much I can take. If someone wants to be an idiot and weld a metal spike in their steering wheel, let natural selection run it's course.
Wait... there's actually a law that says you have to lock your car?
Couldn't the same be said for all your rights? ;)
Think of the children! Sorry...
I've seen a trend recently... and I think my sig says it best. (Rights are not Entitlements)
People somehow think that they should be immune to failure and the government should protect them from failing.
It's something for the politicians to do to continue painting a big red X on Wall Street so they can take it over and control it themselves. I'm beginning to think Congress' job is to take over things and run them in a constant state of deficient funds.
I have a hidden key in my car for my apartment.
My Mazda came with a credit card sized "key" that slips in my pocket and as long as I have it on me, the doors open and the car starts... it's just a bit too thick for the wallet. I use the garage door opener on my mirror to get in my home and I keep my mailbox key in a compartment inside my car. when I leave in the morning, I have my wallet, my car "key" and my sunglasses.
At work, I have a numeric keypad door to get to my desk.
In case the garage door doesn't open, I have a hidden key in my car for my apartment. I don't carry it with me.
that's how I manage my keys. ;)