Here's the scorecard. If you decide out of the blue to try to ID someone you don't like, you're an ass. I see nothing wrong with trying to identify people who are speaking out against you. Where you go from there is what matters.
If it gets done to you in return, it's a good old-fashioned payback which is the best way to convince people of the pain they cause. The difference here is that we know who Niro is. This isn't "payback", this is advocating violent mob justice to Niro and his family for trying to identify the source of people who are saying negative things about him.
The risk isn't as much as you make it out to be:
We've had smaller objects hit the earth before, like the Tunguska event. Most of the earth has little or no population, and it's no surprise that Tunguska didn't strike a highly populated area.
We've had a comet smack into Jupiter not too long ago, leaving lasting marks. Jupiter is much bigger and has a greater chance of attracting space objects. Really big strikes on Earth are extremely rare. You're talking on the order of 1 in a million.
It was nice knowing us! It's more likely will kill ourselves with our own technology than via an asteroid strike.
We're saying that the majority of people want music sharing to be legal. Do they? Have you taken a poll? And do the majority want to be taxed $60 a year for this privelege? Or do they just want free stuff?
I don't use IE any more, but when I did use to browse at "High" security settings. That turned off all the crap by disabling Javascript. Most sites work fine without it (Snopes included), and you can selectively "Trust" sites that need it.
Looks spiffy, but I have my doubts when it comes to the dynamic typing of Python. For example, looking at the screenshot, could I click on the "buildscript" parameter and go to its definition? Inside the def, could I type buildscript.set, and get only the completions that apply to whatever buildscript is? Or does it put all the names into one big namespace?
there's been a single dramatic failure of a nuclear plant ever Three Mile Island was a dramatic failure. The plant was designed to never reach that point, but it did. There was also a hydrogen bubble that they were worried might explode, and they were debating taking risky action to prevent it.
even that happening again is impossible due to reactor designs changing Of course, before Three Mile Island and Cherynobl both would have been described as "impossible", just like Titanic was "unsinkable".
It's supposed those using Python seriously aren't supposed to need that kind of babysitting. One man's productive facilities are another man's "babysitting". Of course the C++ guys talk like this too, and would say the same thing about Python when it comes to stuff like garbage collection. Engineering is all about tradeoffs.
You are talking about editors. Static typing makes the stuff I'm talking about easy to implement.
You can edit large Python programs with anything you want, as it never gets as bloated and complicated, and the abstraction capabilities are much better. There is no limit on complexity, and even for a small project it's nice to have easy one-click access to stuff instead of grepping through code or poking around documentation.
Renaming symbols is as easy in Python as it would be in Java, only that you don't even have to go through all of it if you want something renamed just for you. I frequently find better names for my own code that I want to change project wide, including all existing references.
More importantly, you shouldn't want to know, for example, whether a property you're trying to use actually exists, or whether an object you're passed is of a particular class. That breaks abstraction and reusability For a vast amount of code, even Python code, you need and expect certain properties to exist. There are times when you want some dynamic fu, and I fully admit that, but I also understand that it comes at a tradeoff.
If you want an example of a non-toy object model, i.e. one that doesn't get in your way, but actually allows you to build powerful abstractions, supplant builtins and reuse code that might even not yet exist, take a look at Python's. Python is dynamically typed -- all that flexibility comes at a price. Where's the compiler-checked documentation in Python? Where's the keystroke or mouse-click to get to the implementation? To find all references? To rename things? For auto-completion?
Where's the IDE that finds errors while I'm typing?
So, if I and everybody else lend something form the library, then the author only gets paid once. Not much difference, is it? So, if 100,000 people want to read the same book, are they all going to wait in line at The Library to read The One Paid for Copy? Or will some buy it?
Or, is it possible that illegal downloads - as well as libraries - are in another category altogether, one that has no bearing on author profits? One is valid under copyright, and one isn't. The library model clearly limits access to resources by paying for copies (even if not every single person pays), and the illegal download model has no such restrictions.
As an aside, my local library now has e-books as well as audiobooks and music available over the Internet for anyone with a library card. The library has to negotiate a licensing scheme. The author gets paid.
If he's pissed off at me downloading his work off the Internet, he should be pissed off at me for lending it from the library. Either way I'm not buying his work, right? If you lend a physical book from the library, it was paid for, and somebody else cannot access the paid for copy. They either have to wait or buy their own copy. If you and everybody else illegally download something from the net, then the author never gets paid.
I've declined to copyright anything I've written, designed, or produced digitally, for about 10 years. You get copyright protection automatically. Are you placing your works in the public domain?
I've maintained blogs that have driven people to my subscription-only print newsletter Aren't you violating the principles you are espousing? Why isn't an electronic copy available for free?
My print-on-demand supplier has been offering me paperbacks for under $4 printed, so I can sell it for $11 and make a reasonable profit. What's the problem with understanding that? If you don't control the copyrights, then why can't somebody get it published for less?
Money hasn't been reliable enough to be used as a measure of performance for nearly a decade now. You buy stuff with influence? The dollar may be tanking, but it's still accepted currency.
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As a huge fan and native Minnesotan, I was hoping to hear that they often get together to watch movies in a large group and make fun of them. I was hoping they were still pals. Haven't you realized that a lot of people who form creative groups like bands, comedy sketches, etc. aren't actually friends? It's a job, and many people are found the same way as other jobs. It might even be an ad in a paper.
I am probably horribly wrong living in a delusional world but it would have been nice to hear otherwise. Sorry Charlie.
Well, neverminding the copyright issue, it looks like he wrote his own introduction (in sock-puppet fashion), followed by "Whoa! Thanks for that Intro".
I was kinda surprised by Taco's "which was a bit odd" remark, but reading the "intro", I can see Taco's reservations.
I understand the general idea of privacy...but to expect any sort of privacy by putting your pictures online onto a server out of your control isn't exactly the smartest thing to do. What about email? Hardly anybody uses encryption, yet there's a general expectation of privacy (though Google feels it's ok to use the content of your email for advertising purposes).
What about web searches? Remember all the trouble when AOL released their "anonymized" data?
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You're advocating the same tactics used by white supremacists, anti-abortionists, and Muslim extremists. Fuck you and the people who modded you +5.
I don't want to live in a country where every time somebody gets a bee in their bonnet they decide to kill or harrass somebody's family.
How do you feel about Larry Flynt's offer of money for dirt on politicians?
I don't use IE any more, but when I did use to browse at "High" security settings. That turned off all the crap by disabling Javascript. Most sites work fine without it (Snopes included), and you can selectively "Trust" sites that need it.
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/advanced/browsing.mspx
Looks spiffy, but I have my doubts when it comes to the dynamic typing of Python. For example, looking at the screenshot, could I click on the "buildscript" parameter and go to its definition? Inside the def, could I type buildscript.set, and get only the completions that apply to whatever buildscript is? Or does it put all the names into one big namespace?
Look for yourself at the comments of lower-digit users then. Do most capitalize or not?
A single carriage return is not a new paragraph.
Wow. How old are you? I hope you at least got "Fuck!"
Where's the IDE that finds errors while I'm typing?
Lots of trailing off there...
...implies you can't complete a thought ...maybe half-baked?
Well, neverminding the copyright issue, it looks like he wrote his own introduction (in sock-puppet fashion), followed by "Whoa! Thanks for that Intro".
I was kinda surprised by Taco's "which was a bit odd" remark, but reading the "intro", I can see Taco's reservations.
What about web searches? Remember all the trouble when AOL released their "anonymized" data?
I agree. As soon as I see those words I just skip over the post.