I largely agree, but Google could implement finer grained permissions. Permitting an app to place calls in case you might ask it to do so in the future makes little sense. If I'm wanting it to make a call, I can approve the call. I shouldn't have to install LBE to give me those choices.
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LOL, if you're going to troll, you could at least try and make it plausible.
Garbage collection isn't perfect. The system doesn't have any way of knowing the difference between a value that's been saved for a purpose and one that's just been forgotten about.
Sure, the system can figure out when memory isn't accessible any more, but that doesn't cover all the memory that's been allocated and not released.
I know, anything beyond manually flipping switches is overhead. C is a terribly bloated mess.
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4k isn't around the corner, unless you've got a theater around the corner. 4K has so many pixels that you would need a huge TV mere inches from your face in order to observe the difference between it and bluray.
In practice, few Americans, Europeans or people in general have rooms large enough to house a TV that would permit one to appreciate the difference.
That's bullshit. Technically, you're right, since it wasn't a right they ever had, the campaign wasn't to strip the rights.
But, that's overly pedantic.Ultimately, people don't get married solely because they want to be married, there's a ton of rights that are granted to go along with that.
As for the 7 wives thing, why is it that bigots keep trotting that out? That, bestiality and pedophilia will never be legalized because there are serious problems with it. Polygamy and Polygny lead to people being unable to get a spouse because all of a sudden you need only a fraction of the partners you needed to to fill the need for women or men, while the remaining men and women are unable to marry.
In the cast of bestiality and pedophilia, there's no ability of the animals and children to engage in informed consent.
Completely different from consenting adults getting married.
Because it's what we can do. He used his fame and money to advocate a bigoted point of view, and it sounds like he hasn't learned a damned thing.
Now, if he'd own up to the fact that he was wrong and has learned better, then I wouldn't mind giving him money.
I'm not sure how people can live with yourselves, ultimately, tolerating this sort of bullshit makes them a part of the problem. The difference between right and wrong is not hard, you just have to think about it for a few minutes.
The 2nd amendment is because we didn't have a standing military at the time, nor did most parts of the US have any law enforcement of note. Having those firearms at that time served a legitimate need.
Nice to see that you're pretty much completely ignorant of the reasons behind the 2nd amendment.
And apart from murder and kidnapping, none of that is capital anyways. However, the sort of extrajudicial tack is very much a death penalty offense.
The reason why your neighborhood is like that is because the residents of the neighborhood condone it. They might not openly do so, but hell, just look at what happened to Compton when the neighborhood stopped providing a safe environment for that sort of thing to breed. They didn't need to resort to the sort of extrajudicial killings that you're advocating for.
Because Google always used this numbering system, and Mozilla changed it for inexplicable reasons. What's more, I don't think that version number changes have the same effect on killing extensions that it does on Firefox.
Not really, it's easier to pass those sorts of laws when most people don't feel the need to carry firearms around.
The general arguments made in favor of people having ready access to firearms tend to be hunting and personal protection. If it's just down to hunting, then it's questionable how long the 2nd amendment is going to last, as hunting isn't nearly the emotional issue that self defense is.
We have a system of laws to ensure that the right people are convicted, and we don't execute people for petty shit. Seems to me that you're precisely the type of person that ought to be subjected to that sort of "justice." If you want that sort of thing, there's plenty of hell holes that execute people for petty shit, do us all a favor and find one of them.
Ultimately, we have a constitution that applies to everybody, one of the biggest mistakes we've made as a country was watering it down so cowards like you could sleep well at night.
I take it you've never heard of 3rd hand smoke, or you're lucky enough to live someplace where smokers are relegated to outside for their smoking. Which only applies to a small part of the US.
And, I'm curious as to how you justify claiming that somebody else smoking doesn't affect the cost of providing coverage to the entire pool. Because that's how insurance pools work, a few people that refuse to behave responsibly make things expensive for the other people in the pool.
And yeah, it's a valid argument to make, unlike yours which reads like the typical Ayn Rand wannabes.
Before Obamacare insurance companies limited their pay out on insurance policies, now they don't. So, they're on the hook for the cost of whatever covered condition you might have, and don't get to stop paying just because they've paid a million or two.
And yes, there's reasoning to it, it's just that you're ignoring the fact that smoking causes other things like heart disease, high blood pressure and stroke, all of which can be hugely expensive to treat over the long term. Previously, they knew that worst case, the insurance company would be on the hook for a million or two, and set rates appropriately, now they have to provide all the treatment that's covered.
The better clocks would have to be sufficiently better to justify the change. The current cesium fountain clocks are accurate to about 1 second in a hundred million years. There are better ones, but it's difficult to improve much upon that, at least not sufficiently to justify the change.
Which is what I suspect is going on here. The current clock is likely to already be more accurate than the means of conveying the standard to other time keeping devices.
Which is because health insurance costs for people under 65 have drastically increased over that period of time, and people couldn't afford to get routine preventative care. And employers dropping group coverage since then.
I'm all for accountability, but let's not pretend like medicare is the problem here.
BTW, the think tank you referred to wrote Obamacare and are extremely right of center.
Either they're bumped from the health insurance that the company has and I have to subsidize because they're no longer insurable, or the costs for that particular policy goes up.
I've never understood why these costs are free, until the government has to pay, at which point people like you bitch about how it's costing us. It was always costing us, it's just that now we're paying for it via health insurance that they have to pay for, instead of via lost productivity and charity care at the ER.
I don't understand why I should have to subsidize people for poor choices they make. Smoking also causes illness in other people that things like, say being overweight, don't.
Also, what you're neglecting to account for is that there were caps on maximum benefits that the insurance companies could pay out, and I'm pretty sure that smokers are more likely to hit them than non-smokers are.
With insurance companies being unable to decline smokers or limit the benefits they pay , I'm pretty sure that smokers are going to cost more in the future.
You're missing the point, the point of that isn't necessarily to get the card back, the point of it is that they don't have to waste time entering the information as the code does that for them.
If I give somebody my contact information, I'm not doing it as a bit of evil scheming to drown them in clutter, I'm doing it so that they can have my contact information where they'll use it.
Additionally, in which part of my post did I say that the QR code would replace the human readable stuff?
I know you're joking, but if you're trying to archive things like this, it's a good idea to include the documentation for how to generate and read the codes your using.
That's stating it strongly, they're awesome for business cards where you can scan the info from the card quickly, and hand the card back, or take the card and quickly scan it back at the office.
They're also awesome for delivering links very quickly.
In other words, they solve quite a few real world problems already, and because there are many free utilities, you can generate and use them yourself, without having to buy a special device.
That's a concern, I know that there are fireproof HDD enclosures out there, but they're max rated to usually 20 minutes or so, but yeah, you can't use a normal fireproof safe for an HDD because paper is less sensitive than HDDs are.
Well, if you really want it to last permanently, the best option would be to engrave it into copper plates that would survive damn near everything short of an acid bath or direct hit from a nuke.
But, I'd be curious as to what is so important that it would need to be able to survive for thousands of years, just buried in a pit.
I'm guessing that "Lint" paper is linen paper, similar to what USD are printed on, but probably somewhat lesser quality. They are indeed quite durable.
However, asking a library, or the local archivist is probably the best idea. If you're in a decent sized city, there's a good chance that the city itself has it's own archives and somebody there that would know what kind of paper and printing to do.
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I largely agree, but Google could implement finer grained permissions. Permitting an app to place calls in case you might ask it to do so in the future makes little sense. If I'm wanting it to make a call, I can approve the call. I shouldn't have to install LBE to give me those choices.
LOL, if you're going to troll, you could at least try and make it plausible.
Garbage collection isn't perfect. The system doesn't have any way of knowing the difference between a value that's been saved for a purpose and one that's just been forgotten about.
Sure, the system can figure out when memory isn't accessible any more, but that doesn't cover all the memory that's been allocated and not released.
I know, anything beyond manually flipping switches is overhead. C is a terribly bloated mess.
4k isn't around the corner, unless you've got a theater around the corner. 4K has so many pixels that you would need a huge TV mere inches from your face in order to observe the difference between it and bluray.
In practice, few Americans, Europeans or people in general have rooms large enough to house a TV that would permit one to appreciate the difference.
That's bullshit. Technically, you're right, since it wasn't a right they ever had, the campaign wasn't to strip the rights.
But, that's overly pedantic.Ultimately, people don't get married solely because they want to be married, there's a ton of rights that are granted to go along with that.
As for the 7 wives thing, why is it that bigots keep trotting that out? That, bestiality and pedophilia will never be legalized because there are serious problems with it. Polygamy and Polygny lead to people being unable to get a spouse because all of a sudden you need only a fraction of the partners you needed to to fill the need for women or men, while the remaining men and women are unable to marry.
In the cast of bestiality and pedophilia, there's no ability of the animals and children to engage in informed consent.
Completely different from consenting adults getting married.
Because it's what we can do. He used his fame and money to advocate a bigoted point of view, and it sounds like he hasn't learned a damned thing.
Now, if he'd own up to the fact that he was wrong and has learned better, then I wouldn't mind giving him money.
I'm not sure how people can live with yourselves, ultimately, tolerating this sort of bullshit makes them a part of the problem. The difference between right and wrong is not hard, you just have to think about it for a few minutes.
The 2nd amendment is because we didn't have a standing military at the time, nor did most parts of the US have any law enforcement of note. Having those firearms at that time served a legitimate need.
Nice to see that you're pretty much completely ignorant of the reasons behind the 2nd amendment.
And apart from murder and kidnapping, none of that is capital anyways. However, the sort of extrajudicial tack is very much a death penalty offense.
The reason why your neighborhood is like that is because the residents of the neighborhood condone it. They might not openly do so, but hell, just look at what happened to Compton when the neighborhood stopped providing a safe environment for that sort of thing to breed. They didn't need to resort to the sort of extrajudicial killings that you're advocating for.
Because Google always used this numbering system, and Mozilla changed it for inexplicable reasons. What's more, I don't think that version number changes have the same effect on killing extensions that it does on Firefox.
Not really, it's easier to pass those sorts of laws when most people don't feel the need to carry firearms around.
The general arguments made in favor of people having ready access to firearms tend to be hunting and personal protection. If it's just down to hunting, then it's questionable how long the 2nd amendment is going to last, as hunting isn't nearly the emotional issue that self defense is.
We have a system of laws to ensure that the right people are convicted, and we don't execute people for petty shit. Seems to me that you're precisely the type of person that ought to be subjected to that sort of "justice." If you want that sort of thing, there's plenty of hell holes that execute people for petty shit, do us all a favor and find one of them.
Ultimately, we have a constitution that applies to everybody, one of the biggest mistakes we've made as a country was watering it down so cowards like you could sleep well at night.
I take it you've never heard of 3rd hand smoke, or you're lucky enough to live someplace where smokers are relegated to outside for their smoking. Which only applies to a small part of the US.
And, I'm curious as to how you justify claiming that somebody else smoking doesn't affect the cost of providing coverage to the entire pool. Because that's how insurance pools work, a few people that refuse to behave responsibly make things expensive for the other people in the pool.
And yeah, it's a valid argument to make, unlike yours which reads like the typical Ayn Rand wannabes.
Did you bother to read either my post or yours?
Before Obamacare insurance companies limited their pay out on insurance policies, now they don't. So, they're on the hook for the cost of whatever covered condition you might have, and don't get to stop paying just because they've paid a million or two.
And yes, there's reasoning to it, it's just that you're ignoring the fact that smoking causes other things like heart disease, high blood pressure and stroke, all of which can be hugely expensive to treat over the long term. Previously, they knew that worst case, the insurance company would be on the hook for a million or two, and set rates appropriately, now they have to provide all the treatment that's covered.
The better clocks would have to be sufficiently better to justify the change. The current cesium fountain clocks are accurate to about 1 second in a hundred million years. There are better ones, but it's difficult to improve much upon that, at least not sufficiently to justify the change.
Which is what I suspect is going on here. The current clock is likely to already be more accurate than the means of conveying the standard to other time keeping devices.
Which is because health insurance costs for people under 65 have drastically increased over that period of time, and people couldn't afford to get routine preventative care. And employers dropping group coverage since then.
I'm all for accountability, but let's not pretend like medicare is the problem here.
BTW, the think tank you referred to wrote Obamacare and are extremely right of center.
It costs me money either way.
Either they're bumped from the health insurance that the company has and I have to subsidize because they're no longer insurable, or the costs for that particular policy goes up.
I've never understood why these costs are free, until the government has to pay, at which point people like you bitch about how it's costing us. It was always costing us, it's just that now we're paying for it via health insurance that they have to pay for, instead of via lost productivity and charity care at the ER.
I don't understand why I should have to subsidize people for poor choices they make. Smoking also causes illness in other people that things like, say being overweight, don't.
Also, what you're neglecting to account for is that there were caps on maximum benefits that the insurance companies could pay out, and I'm pretty sure that smokers are more likely to hit them than non-smokers are.
With insurance companies being unable to decline smokers or limit the benefits they pay , I'm pretty sure that smokers are going to cost more in the future.
You're missing the point, the point of that isn't necessarily to get the card back, the point of it is that they don't have to waste time entering the information as the code does that for them.
If I give somebody my contact information, I'm not doing it as a bit of evil scheming to drown them in clutter, I'm doing it so that they can have my contact information where they'll use it.
Additionally, in which part of my post did I say that the QR code would replace the human readable stuff?
I know you're joking, but if you're trying to archive things like this, it's a good idea to include the documentation for how to generate and read the codes your using.
That's stating it strongly, they're awesome for business cards where you can scan the info from the card quickly, and hand the card back, or take the card and quickly scan it back at the office.
They're also awesome for delivering links very quickly.
In other words, they solve quite a few real world problems already, and because there are many free utilities, you can generate and use them yourself, without having to buy a special device.
That's a concern, I know that there are fireproof HDD enclosures out there, but they're max rated to usually 20 minutes or so, but yeah, you can't use a normal fireproof safe for an HDD because paper is less sensitive than HDDs are.
Well, if you really want it to last permanently, the best option would be to engrave it into copper plates that would survive damn near everything short of an acid bath or direct hit from a nuke.
But, I'd be curious as to what is so important that it would need to be able to survive for thousands of years, just buried in a pit.
I'm guessing that "Lint" paper is linen paper, similar to what USD are printed on, but probably somewhat lesser quality. They are indeed quite durable.
However, asking a library, or the local archivist is probably the best idea. If you're in a decent sized city, there's a good chance that the city itself has it's own archives and somebody there that would know what kind of paper and printing to do.
That's interesting, so we pay for a chip we're not going to be able to use, because of a licensing deal. That had never occurred to me.