My girlfriend had about 6 fake accounts just to play Pet Society - you got rewarded for every friend you visited. Fortunately she stopped playing this after everything needed to be purchased with real money, and many of those fake accounts were spotted (she didn't do anything to disguise them as real, even the names were ridiculous).
I have heard the Raspberry Pi mentioned dozens of times on Slashdot. I looked at their website, checked out their logo competition.
It's only with your comment about porn that I've realise it's a pun for "Raspberry PIE". I think because I only ever read (rather than heard) it, I just took it a face value.
The problem is that the UN is full of unelected career politicians who are paid shitloads to do nothing with our tax money.
We had a politician (Chris Carter) who enjoyed having expensive holidays in Europe with his partner, courtesy of the taxpayer. When his party let him go, he fucked off and never returned to work - still receiving his enormous salary. Once the term was up, he was given a UN job by his ex-PM friend Helen Clark.
That's the type of people who get jobs with the UN. People who like to have holidays courtesy of everyone else. Fuck them. It seems like a nasty corrupt organisation.
A reasonable way of coping with a trolling cocksmoker who deliberately misunderstands science is to stop arguing with him. BMO sounds like he has very good anger management.
I'm also really disappointed to hear they're getting rid of the Sybian search engine. I loved seeing girls ride those, but never knew that Google was indexing them all - there's nearly thirty years of history there.
An obvious retort is: "Assembly uses "goto" statements."
Another is "What's the difference between breaking out of a loop with a "break 2" statement, and changing a variable that causes the loop to end?"
I'm not a programmer, and have never done computer science*, and I've never read anything about these theories, AND I only have a basic idea of some things that are probably fundamental to programming. But (for the GP) I'll give my explanation of why I think gotos and breaks are meant to be bad. I don't know if I'm completely off track, but at least I'm giving an answer. (The PHP philosophy:-P)
I like to think about what happens when the program is turned into machine language (and interpreted languages have the same concepts). Programs use something called a stack. This is a list of numbers, and the analogy is like a stack of plates. You put a plate onto the stack, and if you want to remove one you have to take the top plate.
This is how when you call a function, the program passes on the parameters of that function. So if you have f(a,b), parameters 'a' and 'b' will be put on the stack. Inside the function, a and b are taken off the stack. If you've got many functions inside other functions, the stack increases - you keep adding more plates, and the functions will then take each plate and deal with it (if you look at asm, that's what all those pops and pushes are about). (A similar thing happens in nested statements.) The deeper nested you are, the larger the stack will be, but it doesn't really matter, as each function just deals with the "top plates". Basically after calling a function and getting the return value, the stack will be back to its state before this.
By using gotos and breaks, you go to another position, without necessarily ensuring that the stack is how it should be. Obviously, the programming language should sort this out for you and gets things back to how they should be, but it sort of breaks the "niceness" of dealing with each function at a time.
But PHP isn't really using a rock. It's like using a portable, light-weight and ubiquitous nail gun. In many cases it's quicker and easier to get those nails in, but for certain situations might be inappropriate and compromise the stability of the house you're building.
Even if you breathe out as much as you can, there is still a lot of oxygen in the residual volume of your lungs. Your ability to hold your breath, I am told, is not limited by oxygen but by your ability to toleerate buildup of CO2, which triggers certain reflexes.
Indeed. If you're keen to do an experiment (or win a breath holding competition) here's what you do.
Firstly, time yourself holding your breath without any real preparation. That's your baseline.
Next you'll try it again after hyperventilating. Before you start, hyperventilating means ventilating MORE than usual. So fast but still deep breaths - as deep as possible and as fast as you can. Do this for a 30 seconds- if you do this well you might feel tingling in your hands and lips - that's the pH of your blood changing as you blow off all the CO2.
Make sure you're not in the house alone before proceeding.
Now, try to hold your breath again. It's eery how long you'll be able to do it for. This is because your body has so much "room" for the CO2 that your body is generating. Unfortunately, you can sometimes do this long enough for your oxygen to become low and even blackout without much warning. So be careful, and don't do this to impress the kids when you're driving the car through a tunnel.
Furthermore, as another poster wrote, God could have done all His work through Evolution. The concepts of God and Evolution are not mutually exclusive, and neither is required for the other to be true or even possible.
Evolution does do "work" - it just is. If you have something capable of reproducing and surviving better, there'll be more of that thing. (Same applies to subatomic particles, memes and religions).
You might as well say God did all his work through the Big Bang. In which case, yours is a God of the gaps. And if he did work through evolution, what's all this Bible crap about? Why all the killing under His name? What is the point of God, if he's something who started a spark, letting the fire to burn without intervention. Or are you saying God controls Brownian motion? And all the chaotic and random events that happen are God's work.
And what about things like Heaven and Hell? They both sound like terrible places. I'd hate to be in heaven - what the hell do you do? You're never given the chance to end your life! The whole concept is just... stupid.
Your head should be held that way for a while then. This is no more ridiculous than many other Creationist claims - but a bit less common. (It's also no more ridiculous than Heaven and Hell, but I'll hold my tongue, because those are even more widespread delusions.)
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My girlfriend had about 6 fake accounts just to play Pet Society - you got rewarded for every friend you visited. Fortunately she stopped playing this after everything needed to be purchased with real money, and many of those fake accounts were spotted (she didn't do anything to disguise them as real, even the names were ridiculous).
Because it's much easier to type:
This is a [[link]] and here is a link to a [[different subject]].
Than it is to type:
This is <a href="\wiki\link">link</a> and here is a link to a <a href="\wiki\something else">different subject</a>.
I'm going to admit how stupid I am.
I have heard the Raspberry Pi mentioned dozens of times on Slashdot. I looked at their website, checked out their logo competition.
It's only with your comment about porn that I've realise it's a pun for "Raspberry PIE". I think because I only ever read (rather than heard) it, I just took it a face value.
Thanks AC.
He uses the term neo-con a lot:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2957783&cid=40547637
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2957783&cid=40547125
But states he's a libertarian - so he can't be all bad. Although he does defend Obama - make of that what you will.
The problem is that the UN is full of unelected career politicians who are paid shitloads to do nothing with our tax money.
We had a politician (Chris Carter) who enjoyed having expensive holidays in Europe with his partner, courtesy of the taxpayer. When his party let him go, he fucked off and never returned to work - still receiving his enormous salary. Once the term was up, he was given a UN job by his ex-PM friend Helen Clark.
That's the type of people who get jobs with the UN. People who like to have holidays courtesy of everyone else. Fuck them. It seems like a nasty corrupt organisation.
He seems to be managing it quite well.
A reasonable way of coping with a trolling cocksmoker who deliberately misunderstands science is to stop arguing with him. BMO sounds like he has very good anger management.
Wow. That's the first time I've learnt breaking news on Slashdot. Thanks.
I'm not looking forward to all the media outlets calling it the "God particle" though.
I'm also really disappointed to hear they're getting rid of the Sybian search engine. I loved seeing girls ride those, but never knew that Google was indexing them all - there's nearly thirty years of history there.
...then post anonymously to reverse it.
But then the suppliers, who happen to be quite good friends with the people in charge, would not have had the chance to make 53.95 million euros.
I've just whipped up a quick mockup in PHP. :-D
I bought my Mac because it had a glossy screen, you insensitive clod.
* No, I don't own a Mac.
An obvious retort is: "Assembly uses "goto" statements."
Another is "What's the difference between breaking out of a loop with a "break 2" statement, and changing a variable that causes the loop to end?"
I'm not a programmer, and have never done computer science*, and I've never read anything about these theories, AND I only have a basic idea of some things that are probably fundamental to programming. But (for the GP) I'll give my explanation of why I think gotos and breaks are meant to be bad. I don't know if I'm completely off track, but at least I'm giving an answer. (The PHP philosophy :-P)
I like to think about what happens when the program is turned into machine language (and interpreted languages have the same concepts). Programs use something called a stack. This is a list of numbers, and the analogy is like a stack of plates. You put a plate onto the stack, and if you want to remove one you have to take the top plate.
This is how when you call a function, the program passes on the parameters of that function. So if you have f(a,b), parameters 'a' and 'b' will be put on the stack. Inside the function, a and b are taken off the stack. If you've got many functions inside other functions, the stack increases - you keep adding more plates, and the functions will then take each plate and deal with it (if you look at asm, that's what all those pops and pushes are about). (A similar thing happens in nested statements.) The deeper nested you are, the larger the stack will be, but it doesn't really matter, as each function just deals with the "top plates". Basically after calling a function and getting the return value, the stack will be back to its state before this.
By using gotos and breaks, you go to another position, without necessarily ensuring that the stack is how it should be. Obviously, the programming language should sort this out for you and gets things back to how they should be, but it sort of breaks the "niceness" of dealing with each function at a time.
*Disclaimer - yes I'm talking out my ass.
But PHP isn't really using a rock. It's like using a portable, light-weight and ubiquitous nail gun. In many cases it's quicker and easier to get those nails in, but for certain situations might be inappropriate and compromise the stability of the house you're building.
An airplane's not a car. I don't understand any of this!
...is not "demented (or drunk)", it's "psychotic (or high)".
It's a fucking rabbit.
How's that going to help? It's just going to make more people, and soon you won't have enough water again.
Even if you breathe out as much as you can, there is still a lot of oxygen in the residual volume of your lungs. Your ability to hold your breath, I am told, is not limited by oxygen but by your ability to toleerate buildup of CO2, which triggers certain reflexes.
Indeed. If you're keen to do an experiment (or win a breath holding competition) here's what you do.
Firstly, time yourself holding your breath without any real preparation. That's your baseline.
Next you'll try it again after hyperventilating. Before you start, hyperventilating means ventilating MORE than usual. So fast but still deep breaths - as deep as possible and as fast as you can. Do this for a 30 seconds- if you do this well you might feel tingling in your hands and lips - that's the pH of your blood changing as you blow off all the CO2.
Make sure you're not in the house alone before proceeding.
Now, try to hold your breath again. It's eery how long you'll be able to do it for. This is because your body has so much "room" for the CO2 that your body is generating. Unfortunately, you can sometimes do this long enough for your oxygen to become low and even blackout without much warning. So be careful, and don't do this to impress the kids when you're driving the car through a tunnel.
I write Hello World programs for a living. Here's some of my recent work:
char buffer[10];
sprintf(buffer,"Hello World");
They use buffers, but because they're well designed they never cSegment violation Address 0x401a35
Arrgghh... I need to stop doing that!
I meant "DOESN'T DO WORK".
Fortunately that is quite irrelevant as I was not replying to OP.
I work for free all the time. But I won't do it for you.
Furthermore, as another poster wrote, God could have done all His work through Evolution. The concepts of God and Evolution are not mutually exclusive, and neither is required for the other to be true or even possible.
Evolution does do "work" - it just is. If you have something capable of reproducing and surviving better, there'll be more of that thing. (Same applies to subatomic particles, memes and religions).
You might as well say God did all his work through the Big Bang. In which case, yours is a God of the gaps. And if he did work through evolution, what's all this Bible crap about? Why all the killing under His name? What is the point of God, if he's something who started a spark, letting the fire to burn without intervention. Or are you saying God controls Brownian motion? And all the chaotic and random events that happen are God's work.
And what about things like Heaven and Hell? They both sound like terrible places. I'd hate to be in heaven - what the hell do you do? You're never given the chance to end your life! The whole concept is just... stupid.
Your head should be held that way for a while then. This is no more ridiculous than many other Creationist claims - but a bit less common. (It's also no more ridiculous than Heaven and Hell, but I'll hold my tongue, because those are even more widespread delusions.)