just because you're a single mom with multiple sclerosis does not give you a right to steal music/software any more than it gives you a right to deal drugs.
Israel has supported Arab dictatorships in order to maintain peace agreements. And what about that Norwegian waiter murdered by the Israeli goverment because he looked like a terrorist? Instead of calling the cops, they blew the guys head off, and wonder why everyone in Europe hates them. Israel is just too trigger happy for their own good. Every time they could do something by calling the cops on the terrorists, and giving them trials, they just blow everyone's head off. Not the best way to make friends. Also, the idea that one people is entitled to a homeland over the people who already live in that area is so absolutely wrong from any standpoint. Just think about what it says: "We need living-room and those who are in it must go".
And what makes you think the weaker side won't try to make internal conflicts in the stronger one? The more the stronger one tries to avoid them, the worse the witch hunts get. And then they piss off enough people so the alliances flip positions, or a third one gets made. Success never lasts. Look at Ancient Rome. Conquered the known world, and destroyed by a few illiterate barbarians.
Your applications don't need to do stuff that differs wildly from OS to OS. While portable platforms like GNUStep exist, a lot of features don't integrate tightly. And even seemly portable code can have problems, ex
int i=1; i << 1; cout << i;
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When heavily optimizing, you will need to make different tradeoffs on different architectures. So while a lot of time it's not a big deal, like for games, for some applications, like firewalls, porting will involve a lot of reading the fine manual.
Locking down machines so tightly that you make China look free by comparison. A file sharing program gets distributed and a patched blacklist comes out locking all computers running it from the internet. All through Trusted Computing and a little arm-twisting.
Like counting people barred from voting as part of the population in redistricting calculations isn't cheating? Or imposing burdensome ID requirements? Or barring people from voting on the basis of *similar* names to those of felons? Or changing the distribution of voting booths to make your supporters able to vote faster then your opponents supporters? Or how about confusing ballots? When it comes to elections, the appearance of impropriety is improper itself. Or what about approving voting machines which fail to meet basic security standards? Are any of these actions ever part of an ideal election?
Or I could use U-233 like India did. Making that requires neutron bombardment of thorium, and they can be separated easily. Thorium isn't considered bomb-making material, so this is feasible to do in the US. And we would be screwed. No matter how much our boarder was tightened, it wouldn't matter with the nuke already made. They could set it off anywhere and scare the shit out of everyone. That's the nightmare scenario.
When we developed fire, evolution stopped because the pressure had been removed. When we first evolved, it was 1 billion heartbeats. Technology made medicine and better nutrition, which improved our lifespan significantly. It's not evolutionary, it's technology.
Speed limits make people safer. Arresting people who ignore that you have the right-of-way, and attempt to enter the same bit of roadway as you, makes you safer. Not signaling turns in turn-only lanes? Well, oncoming traffic can't tell how your lanes are set up.
And what about the dissidents who disagree with him, who think that communism is essential for political change? One was recently the subject of a New York Times magazine article. You can't box people up into little categories and be surprised when they break them.
So use Scheme to do the code. That reduces the opportunity for mischief. Use Trusted Computing to insure the image is valid. And seal everything up at the factory. Use transparent boxes for the circuits, and make 1 giant chip do everything. Only bus is to the keyboard, screen, network, and printer. Use cryptographic voting protocols and paper ballots. Make this thing Level 4 Common Criteria Certified. Make sure that the workers know how to spot tampering. It should make the Pentagon look like an easy target by comparison.
I have said this many times before. The ITU has regulated radio for nearly a century with no problems. They should be able to handle a network of computers.
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Israel has supported Arab dictatorships in order to maintain peace agreements. And what about that Norwegian waiter murdered by the Israeli goverment because he looked like a terrorist? Instead of calling the cops, they blew the guys head off, and wonder why everyone in Europe hates them. Israel is just too trigger happy for their own good. Every time they could do something by calling the cops on the terrorists, and giving them trials, they just blow everyone's head off. Not the best way to make friends. Also, the idea that one people is entitled to a homeland over the people who already live in that area is so absolutely wrong from any standpoint. Just think about what it says: "We need living-room and those who are in it must go".
And what makes you think the weaker side won't try to make internal conflicts in the stronger one? The more the stronger one tries to avoid them, the worse the witch hunts get. And then they piss off enough people so the alliances flip positions, or a third one gets made. Success never lasts. Look at Ancient Rome. Conquered the known world, and destroyed by a few illiterate barbarians.
Locking down machines so tightly that you make China look free by comparison. A file sharing program gets distributed and a patched blacklist comes out locking all computers running it from the internet. All through Trusted Computing and a little arm-twisting.
NeXT was after OS/2. And they had a pretty good run of it, getting their machines used to code Doom and Doom II.
That's even more obvious. If each candidate gets 100 votes in a town of 80 people someone will notice.
1: B-grade movies. And gag them so they can't riff.
Or MySQL developers who put mediumint as a datatype.
And like COBOL, making the code handle bigger integers is a very hard task where your estimates will be a third of the actual time taken.
And then it takes 9+.
- The secretary level(basic Word, Excel,..). Something else would work fine.
- The Critical Service Level. Windows should be driven far away
- The Scientific User. They mostly use Linux anyway. The one exception is CAD.
So only the CAD'ers might need Vista, but they probably don't. So why does the gov care? And did I make a mistake in the list?Unfortunately, treason is a very narrow crime in the US. You have to give aid to an enemy of the United States. So it wouldn't stick.
Not true. Only if the system is powerful enough to contain arithmetic is there a contradiction.
Like counting people barred from voting as part of the population in redistricting calculations isn't cheating? Or imposing burdensome ID requirements? Or barring people from voting on the basis of *similar* names to those of felons? Or changing the distribution of voting booths to make your supporters able to vote faster then your opponents supporters? Or how about confusing ballots? When it comes to elections, the appearance of impropriety is improper itself. Or what about approving voting machines which fail to meet basic security standards? Are any of these actions ever part of an ideal election?
Mac OS X with Cocoa using WebKit.
What do the words not a cause mean to you?
You mean worm. A virus infects files, a worm other machines.
Or I could use U-233 like India did. Making that requires neutron bombardment of thorium, and they can be separated easily. Thorium isn't considered bomb-making material, so this is feasible to do in the US. And we would be screwed. No matter how much our boarder was tightened, it wouldn't matter with the nuke already made. They could set it off anywhere and scare the shit out of everyone. That's the nightmare scenario.
When we developed fire, evolution stopped because the pressure had been removed. When we first evolved, it was 1 billion heartbeats. Technology made medicine and better nutrition, which improved our lifespan significantly. It's not evolutionary, it's technology.
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Speed limits make people safer. Arresting people who ignore that you have the right-of-way, and attempt to enter the same bit of roadway as you, makes you safer. Not signaling turns in turn-only lanes? Well, oncoming traffic can't tell how your lanes are set up.
And what about the dissidents who disagree with him, who think that communism is essential for political change? One was recently the subject of a New York Times magazine article. You can't box people up into little categories and be surprised when they break them.
So use Scheme to do the code. That reduces the opportunity for mischief. Use Trusted Computing to insure the image is valid. And seal everything up at the factory. Use transparent boxes for the circuits, and make 1 giant chip do everything. Only bus is to the keyboard, screen, network, and printer. Use cryptographic voting protocols and paper ballots. Make this thing Level 4 Common Criteria Certified. Make sure that the workers know how to spot tampering. It should make the Pentagon look like an easy target by comparison.
I have said this many times before. The ITU has regulated radio for nearly a century with no problems. They should be able to handle a network of computers.