Working with power-grabbing dictators, no, that would't produce good results.
In Libya, Syria, and Iraq we were supposed to be working with "moderate" Muslims, against dictators. Libya turned to shit after Gaddafi was deposed. In Syria and Iraq our arms ended up in the hands of ISIS. In Egypt we supported the end of the dictatorship and free elections, then they elected the Muslim Brotherhood and the military took back power after further protests.
In Afghanistan we allied with militants against the Taliban fundamentalists and tried to install some kind of democracy. That is also not working out.
But please answer the question. Where should we ally with non-radical Muslims, and in what manner?
The repository system is so much better. No more worrying about compatibility, or someone adding malicious software to my programs.
Any software you install is potentially malware or contains an exploitable bug -- all it takes is one to slip through. As it stands now, on a typical Linux distribution when you run a program it has full access to all of your account.
Linux really needs to move towards "app" models where the programs are self-contained and explicit permissions are required for sharing. This is a step in that direction -- though I haven't looked at the details as to how good it is.
Let's face it, the people in the series aren't very bright, because if I was living in the south of the USA when this occurred, then I would say that it's quite logical to head for the coast and get out to an island seeing as how zombies haven't mastered the breaststroke or freestyle techniques.
The most interesting thing about the Walking Dead is that the zombies weren't the most dangerous threat -- it was other people after the breakdown of society.
I liked this series a lot in the beginning, but as it wore on, I have myself bored with it.
I watched a few episodes from the first season and quickly found it boring because of the pacing. Game of Thrones, on the other hand, I look forward to every week.
Your point would be more compelling if there were no anti-LGBT violence in the US by Christians. There is, however. And it's a bigger problem for Americans than IS is.
"In the past 20 years, how many Americans have been killed by Christian fundamentalists? How many by Muslim fundamentalists? What percentage of the US population is Muslim?
Should we blind our eyes to current happenings, keep making apologies for Islam, and enact foolish immigration policies along the lines of Europe?"
I just can't understand the stupidity of people making such moral equivalences to Christians after over 50 people were shot in cold blood while the attacker pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.
You're right... that's one of the big differences between muslims and christians.... muslims take their religion seriously, while christians only give it lip service. Course, we have to ignore places like http://www.thenewcivilrightsmo... don't we.
While that story is horrible, you do acknowledge the difference between Christians and Muslims. One has a widespread problem with fascism and violence, while the other does not. And Jesus ultimately taught peace, love, and virtue, even if there's some shitty parts of the Old Testament. Islam is built on Jihad. If Christians took their religion more seriously, they would be non-violent pacifists. When Muslims take their religion seriously, they are violent fascists.
His argument is compelling, and spot on for truth. People in the US are more in danger from the activities of "christian" fundamentalists than they are from islamic fundamentalists.
Why, because they don't want to bake a cake or issue a license for gay marriage? In the past 20 years, how many Americans have been killed by Christian fundamentalists? How many by Muslim fundamentalists? What percentage of the US population is Muslim?
Should we blind our eyes to current happenings, keep making apologies for Islam, and enact foolish immigration policies along the lines of Europe?
My claim is this difference isn't due to some fundamental difference between Islam and Christianity. It comes from a particular extremist ideology that happens to be very influential in Islam right now.
That's because of reformations that occurred in Christianity and elsewhere. That isn't going to happen if people keep apologizing for current Islam by making shitty moral equivalences. Islam has been violent and fascist for a long time over a wide geographical area.
I also think Islam is going to be much harder to reform, because while you can point to some shitty parts of the Old Testament and Jesus saying he wasn't there to change the old law in the New Testament, his message was one of peace, love, and virtue. While that was completely ignored during Christianity's aggressive period, the seed was at least there to be returned to. Islam was born a bloody and violent religion, and has "Jihad" at its core.
I mean Mohammad Ali was a Muslim! Do you think he was an extremist?
Funny you should mention that. Yes, he was, though not a militant one.
And where would that be? Because we tried that in Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and the results weren't very good. Where the Muslims terrorist living in Brussels non-radical and "allies"? Were the Muslims living in the United States who became radicalized "allies"?
What should we do? Bring in more "non-radical" Muslims and grovel at their feet? Make special accommodations for them? Be careful not to offend them?
How about if they seek to withhold homosexuals' constitutional rights? Does that qualify?
Oh noes, they are against a newly minted right, created by the Supreme Court, for same-sex marriage, something never mentioned in the Constitution and never given serious consideration until the past 20 years. That's totally comparable to mass murder and fascist Islam all over the world.
But the crazy pastor calling for the killing of gays is just some nut who has nothing to do with Christianity.
Your point would be more compelling if there was a Christian state throwing gays off the roofs of buildings or involved in a rash of terrorist murders.
Sure. As you can see usage is actually increasing.
You didn't say usage was increasing. You said: "Perl 5 usage still outstrips python and usage hasn't decreased at all for sysadmins." What your link shows is that Python is ranked 4th and Perl 8th (in that particular list). So you don't have a source and just pulled that statement out of your ass.
Actually the concurrent non-blocking thread model that is needed to break 10k connections which is being newly adopted everywhere else was the heart of the now ancient POE system in Perl.
Who cares? Who wants to use Perl to use that model?
I completely respect people who don't want to use Facebook for privacy or other reasons, but I don't feel this is a smoking gun of them hating their users or even mistreating them.
It's one thing to separate out an app, it's another to bully users into downloading the app by telling them you're going to delete their photos if you don't move to it. Is this the kind of move you'd make if it was your decision?
So do Perl, Ruby, Python, Java, C#, PHP, Tcl, Lua, Erlang, Go, Swift, Haskell, OCaml, JavaScript, and numerous other languages with garbage collection or other forms of automatic memory management. So Rust is nothing special.
But Rust is special, because it was designed to be used without garbage collection. Garbage collection isn't free and this is one of the main reasons that C/C++ is still used today.
At least you're admitting there's nothing special about Rust. That's more than most of its supporters are smart enough to do. Most of them just keep on insisting it's "safer", despite the Rust implementation itself being bogged down with bugs.
You clearly have a problem with reading comprehension. It is safer with the class of bugs I mentioned, the #1 source of security bugs and memory corruption bugs that waste a lot of time tracking down.
The newer parts of many C++ projects are written using these techniques. Some examples you may have heard of are LLVM (funny, Rust's implementation uses this!), Boost, and Qt.
"This was precisely the root cause of the memory problem: MDNodeFwdDecl's constructor always tried to construct its ReplaceableMetadataImpl parent past the end of its allocated memory buffer, because its own operator new was not properly overloaded. Sometimes there are no visible side-effects because of this, and things seem to work. However, Valgrind always flags it."
The only implementation of Rust is very buggy (over 2,000 open bugs right now!), despite it being written in Rust, which is a language that's supposed to make it harder to write buggier code!
It removes a class of bugs that are common in C and C++ that are the #1 cause of security bugs in those languages (and also cause weird behavior that can be hard to track down due to random corruption).
Any program of significant complexity is going to have bugs. There is no silver bullet. That doesn't mean the improvement Rust brings isn't worthwhile.
Rust's supposed benefits are typically no better than what you get when using C++11 or C++14, and modern C++ techniques.
Can you point to a notable open source C++ program, then, that follows these techniques?
A good theory I read about somewhere is that the reason we can not find evidence is simply to do with technology either other alien cultures at the point in time we are witnessing there systems have not developed the technology that we can detect or they have moved beyond the need to blast everything in the entire em spectrum out to space.
The Fermi Paradox goes beyond just detecting communication. They should be here because they would have had plenty of time to spread throughout the galaxy. The linked Wikipedia page includes many possible explanations, including the one you mentioned.
Every time someone uses the legal system to get at someone else in a way we deem "unjust", the bulk of our anger must be aimed not at the hacker, but at the system itself. Because as long as it remains there, it could be used against any one of us.
I don't think you'd feel this way if you were the one being faced with a bill for a $30,000 court-ordered settlement over a $40 printer. My anger is first at foremost at the asshole abusing the system, then the system.
You're wrong because the items that compose the yearly GDP are only accounted for ONCE, either as the revenues generated by the economic system, or according to how these revenues are spent or invested by the government, companies and consumers, so by definition nothing is double-counted, it's two ways to analyze the same thing. This confirms what I was saying before: you have no clue of what the GDP actually is and how it is calculated, hence you shouldn't have even started arguing about it.
I saw that the definition of GDP included government spending, so I made a guess as to how it might be double counted. I didn't pretend to be an expert on the subject.
You, on the other hand, despite being arrogant and calling me clueless, merely assert nothing is double counted, but offer no evidence to the contrary. Since exports count towards GDP, and result in tax revenue for the government, and government spending counts towards GDP, how could it be the case that the 20% GDP from energy doesn't result in other GDP that isn't accounted for under energy?
As a simple example, if they sell $100 worth of oil, and tax it for $50 to spend on social welfare, then GDP here would be $150, the oil would be 2/3 of GDP and social welfare 1/3 of GDP, but all the money spent would have been generated through the sale of the oil.
Because non-stategic businesses, especially small and medium enterprises, can be operated by private entities without damaging the public well-being or increasing wealth inequality, especially in a country where half of the economy is government-run, and the other half is heavily regulated.
In other words, a mixed economy with free markets and capitalism work better than complete state control.
Nope, 79 years is not "pretty high" at all in the western world, and a 3-year difference (and even more with respect to other countries) is pretty relevant, since western countries should be supposed to enjoy very similar living standards, technology and, most importantly, healthcare services.
82 vs 79 is pretty similar, but I understand you wish to hype up any difference at all. You're talking about a 3.8% difference. If 3 years is such a big deal, is it a big deal that Norway is 2 years behind Japan, which is at 84?
Nope, obesity is really a US problem, not "western
No, it really is Western. The US may be leading the charge, but rates have increased dramatically in European countries. You ignored the France article and instead pointed to another article, which is probably based on old data. Here, have another one.
I don't know: maybe because the Chinese government owns roughly 70% the Chinese stock market capitalization? [..] Do you know what the big problem of the internet is? It's easy to be ridiculed if you're not informed. Have a good weekend.
Yes, any idiot can ridicule somebody by selectively looking at data. Congratulations. But what you haven't addressed is that China did in fact move away from communism and towards capitalism and free markets with great success, as is widely acknowledged.
Also don't see any mention about my Venezuela link, with people rioting for food in the socialist paradise country of price controls (long live the revolution!), nor any rebuttal to failing socialist states like Greece.
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Working with power-grabbing dictators, no, that would't produce good results.
In Libya, Syria, and Iraq we were supposed to be working with "moderate" Muslims, against dictators. Libya turned to shit after Gaddafi was deposed. In Syria and Iraq our arms ended up in the hands of ISIS. In Egypt we supported the end of the dictatorship and free elections, then they elected the Muslim Brotherhood and the military took back power after further protests.
In Afghanistan we allied with militants against the Taliban fundamentalists and tried to install some kind of democracy. That is also not working out.
But please answer the question. Where should we ally with non-radical Muslims, and in what manner?
The repository system is so much better. No more worrying about compatibility, or someone adding malicious software to my programs.
Any software you install is potentially malware or contains an exploitable bug -- all it takes is one to slip through. As it stands now, on a typical Linux distribution when you run a program it has full access to all of your account.
Linux really needs to move towards "app" models where the programs are self-contained and explicit permissions are required for sharing. This is a step in that direction -- though I haven't looked at the details as to how good it is.
Let's face it, the people in the series aren't very bright, because if I was living in the south of the USA when this occurred, then I would say that it's quite logical to head for the coast and get out to an island seeing as how zombies haven't mastered the breaststroke or freestyle techniques.
The most interesting thing about the Walking Dead is that the zombies weren't the most dangerous threat -- it was other people after the breakdown of society.
I liked this series a lot in the beginning, but as it wore on, I have myself bored with it.
I watched a few episodes from the first season and quickly found it boring because of the pacing. Game of Thrones, on the other hand, I look forward to every week.
Your point would be more compelling if there were no anti-LGBT violence in the US by Christians. There is, however. And it's a bigger problem for Americans than IS is.
I'll ask you what I asked another poster:
"In the past 20 years, how many Americans have been killed by Christian fundamentalists? How many by Muslim fundamentalists? What percentage of the US population is Muslim?
Should we blind our eyes to current happenings, keep making apologies for Islam, and enact foolish immigration policies along the lines of Europe?"
I just can't understand the stupidity of people making such moral equivalences to Christians after over 50 people were shot in cold blood while the attacker pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.
Here, useful idiot, have a video.
You're right... that's one of the big differences between muslims and christians.... muslims take their religion seriously, while christians only give it lip service. Course, we have to ignore places like http://www.thenewcivilrightsmo... don't we.
While that story is horrible, you do acknowledge the difference between Christians and Muslims. One has a widespread problem with fascism and violence, while the other does not. And Jesus ultimately taught peace, love, and virtue, even if there's some shitty parts of the Old Testament. Islam is built on Jihad. If Christians took their religion more seriously, they would be non-violent pacifists. When Muslims take their religion seriously, they are violent fascists.
His argument is compelling, and spot on for truth. People in the US are more in danger from the activities of "christian" fundamentalists than they are from islamic fundamentalists.
Why, because they don't want to bake a cake or issue a license for gay marriage? In the past 20 years, how many Americans have been killed by Christian fundamentalists? How many by Muslim fundamentalists? What percentage of the US population is Muslim?
Should we blind our eyes to current happenings, keep making apologies for Islam, and enact foolish immigration policies along the lines of Europe?
But this ideology is shared by only a tiny fraction of the Muslim population.
A dangerous fraction. "Islam has bloody borders".
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/13/...
http://www.dailysabah.com/afri...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/11/...
My claim is this difference isn't due to some fundamental difference between Islam and Christianity. It comes from a particular extremist ideology that happens to be very influential in Islam right now.
That's because of reformations that occurred in Christianity and elsewhere. That isn't going to happen if people keep apologizing for current Islam by making shitty moral equivalences. Islam has been violent and fascist for a long time over a wide geographical area.
I also think Islam is going to be much harder to reform, because while you can point to some shitty parts of the Old Testament and Jesus saying he wasn't there to change the old law in the New Testament, his message was one of peace, love, and virtue. While that was completely ignored during Christianity's aggressive period, the seed was at least there to be returned to. Islam was born a bloody and violent religion, and has "Jihad" at its core.
I mean Mohammad Ali was a Muslim! Do you think he was an extremist?
Funny you should mention that. Yes, he was, though not a militant one.
ally with non-radical Islam
And where would that be? Because we tried that in Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and the results weren't very good. Where the Muslims terrorist living in Brussels non-radical and "allies"? Were the Muslims living in the United States who became radicalized "allies"?
What should we do? Bring in more "non-radical" Muslims and grovel at their feet? Make special accommodations for them? Be careful not to offend them?
I appreciate your acknowledgement. It's a rare occurrence.
"I mean, how dare people in a free and open society take advantage of that, right?"
I read this as acknowledging gay activism, or "the gay agenda". Are you saying you deny the factually obvious?
It was you who labeled the "gay agenda" a conspiracy. Now you're just moving the goalposts.
How about if they seek to withhold homosexuals' constitutional rights? Does that qualify?
Oh noes, they are against a newly minted right, created by the Supreme Court, for same-sex marriage, something never mentioned in the Constitution and never given serious consideration until the past 20 years. That's totally comparable to mass murder and fascist Islam all over the world.
But the crazy pastor calling for the killing of gays is just some nut who has nothing to do with Christianity.
Your point would be more compelling if there was a Christian state throwing gays off the roofs of buildings or involved in a rash of terrorist murders.
Sure. As you can see usage is actually increasing.
You didn't say usage was increasing. You said: "Perl 5 usage still outstrips python and usage hasn't decreased at all for sysadmins." What your link shows is that Python is ranked 4th and Perl 8th (in that particular list). So you don't have a source and just pulled that statement out of your ass.
Actually the concurrent non-blocking thread model that is needed to break 10k connections which is being newly adopted everywhere else was the heart of the now ancient POE system in Perl.
Who cares? Who wants to use Perl to use that model?
Perl 5 usage still outstrips python and usage hasn't decreased at all for sysadmins.
Do you have a source for that?
Perl usage has dropped for the internet.
Oh, I didn't realize that sysadmins weren't part of the Internet.
What some people don't realize is that Perl 5 has continued to be developed. It it much faster and more feature rich than it was in the past.
Too little, too late.
Perl 6 is a new language altogether.
It's got one foot in Perl's legacy, and the other in new, incompatible territory. Just who is Perl 6 going to appeal to?
I completely respect people who don't want to use Facebook for privacy or other reasons, but I don't feel this is a smoking gun of them hating their users or even mistreating them.
It's one thing to separate out an app, it's another to bully users into downloading the app by telling them you're going to delete their photos if you don't move to it. Is this the kind of move you'd make if it was your decision?
It uses ownership. It's not anything that can't be done in C++, but the difference in the compiler enforces it.
Are the memories painful?
grown-ass white men
Hush, child. Calm down. Now point on the doll where the Priest touched you.
So do Perl, Ruby, Python, Java, C#, PHP, Tcl, Lua, Erlang, Go, Swift, Haskell, OCaml, JavaScript, and numerous other languages with garbage collection or other forms of automatic memory management. So Rust is nothing special.
But Rust is special, because it was designed to be used without garbage collection. Garbage collection isn't free and this is one of the main reasons that C/C++ is still used today.
At least you're admitting there's nothing special about Rust. That's more than most of its supporters are smart enough to do. Most of them just keep on insisting it's "safer", despite the Rust implementation itself being bogged down with bugs.
You clearly have a problem with reading comprehension. It is safer with the class of bugs I mentioned, the #1 source of security bugs and memory corruption bugs that waste a lot of time tracking down.
The newer parts of many C++ projects are written using these techniques. Some examples you may have heard of are LLVM (funny, Rust's implementation uses this!), Boost, and Qt.
Oh, so you won't get problems like this:
"This was precisely the root cause of the memory problem: MDNodeFwdDecl's constructor always tried to construct its ReplaceableMetadataImpl parent past the end of its allocated memory buffer, because its own operator new was not properly overloaded. Sometimes there are no visible side-effects because of this, and things seem to work. However, Valgrind always flags it."
The only implementation of Rust is very buggy (over 2,000 open bugs right now!), despite it being written in Rust, which is a language that's supposed to make it harder to write buggier code!
It removes a class of bugs that are common in C and C++ that are the #1 cause of security bugs in those languages (and also cause weird behavior that can be hard to track down due to random corruption).
Any program of significant complexity is going to have bugs. There is no silver bullet. That doesn't mean the improvement Rust brings isn't worthwhile.
Rust's supposed benefits are typically no better than what you get when using C++11 or C++14, and modern C++ techniques.
Can you point to a notable open source C++ program, then, that follows these techniques?
I, for one, am voting for Kodos.
Just for Libertarian this year, since it doesn't matter. Gary Johnson was a successful 2-term governor of New Mexico.
A good theory I read about somewhere is that the reason we can not find evidence is simply to do with technology either other alien cultures at the point in time we are witnessing there systems have not developed the technology that we can detect or they have moved beyond the need to blast everything in the entire em spectrum out to space.
The Fermi Paradox goes beyond just detecting communication. They should be here because they would have had plenty of time to spread throughout the galaxy. The linked Wikipedia page includes many possible explanations, including the one you mentioned.
Every time someone uses the legal system to get at someone else in a way we deem "unjust", the bulk of our anger must be aimed not at the hacker, but at the system itself. Because as long as it remains there, it could be used against any one of us.
I don't think you'd feel this way if you were the one being faced with a bill for a $30,000 court-ordered settlement over a $40 printer. My anger is first at foremost at the asshole abusing the system, then the system.
You're wrong because the items that compose the yearly GDP are only accounted for ONCE, either as the revenues generated by the economic system, or according to how these revenues are spent or invested by the government, companies and consumers, so by definition nothing is double-counted, it's two ways to analyze the same thing. This confirms what I was saying before: you have no clue of what the GDP actually is and how it is calculated, hence you shouldn't have even started arguing about it .
I saw that the definition of GDP included government spending, so I made a guess as to how it might be double counted. I didn't pretend to be an expert on the subject.
You, on the other hand, despite being arrogant and calling me clueless, merely assert nothing is double counted, but offer no evidence to the contrary. Since exports count towards GDP, and result in tax revenue for the government, and government spending counts towards GDP, how could it be the case that the 20% GDP from energy doesn't result in other GDP that isn't accounted for under energy?
As a simple example, if they sell $100 worth of oil, and tax it for $50 to spend on social welfare, then GDP here would be $150, the oil would be 2/3 of GDP and social welfare 1/3 of GDP, but all the money spent would have been generated through the sale of the oil.
Because non-stategic businesses, especially small and medium enterprises, can be operated by private entities without damaging the public well-being or increasing wealth inequality, especially in a country where half of the economy is government-run, and the other half is heavily regulated.
In other words, a mixed economy with free markets and capitalism work better than complete state control.
Nope, 79 years is not "pretty high" at all in the western world, and a 3-year difference (and even more with respect to other countries) is pretty relevant, since western countries should be supposed to enjoy very similar living standards, technology and, most importantly, healthcare services.
82 vs 79 is pretty similar, but I understand you wish to hype up any difference at all. You're talking about a 3.8% difference. If 3 years is such a big deal, is it a big deal that Norway is 2 years behind Japan, which is at 84?
Nope, obesity is really a US problem, not "western
No, it really is Western. The US may be leading the charge, but rates have increased dramatically in European countries. You ignored the France article and instead pointed to another article, which is probably based on old data. Here, have another one.
I don't know: maybe because the Chinese government owns roughly 70% the Chinese stock market capitalization? [..] Do you know what the big problem of the internet is? It's easy to be ridiculed if you're not informed. Have a good weekend.
Yes, any idiot can ridicule somebody by selectively looking at data. Congratulations. But what you haven't addressed is that China did in fact move away from communism and towards capitalism and free markets with great success, as is widely acknowledged.
Also don't see any mention about my Venezuela link, with people rioting for food in the socialist paradise country of price controls (long live the revolution!), nor any rebuttal to failing socialist states like Greece.
What can I say, if the shoe fits... hypocrite.