After electing another Republican house majority we should have expected the government to be shut down.
Hell yeah, that's why we did it. When either party gets rubber-stamp power, government works.. too well. They go crazy and give themselves and their cronies whatever they want with money that should be spent for the nation's benefit, or returned (not taxed next year) to the citizens. Then they vote to raise taxes to feed their evil schemes. We should want gridlock. We should praise the days when Federal government doesn't work.
I'm sorry that you don't seem to comprehend that an assault on the fourth amendment is just as evil as anything Bush or any of the Republicans may have done. I'm sorry you don't understand the meaning of the word liberty; that you have no notion of this country's founding ideals.
I'm sorry that you're retarded.
He's not retarded. He's foreign. He doesn't have the freedoms outlined in the fourth amendment, so doesn't understand why we prefer having them.
Instead, they fake service records, lie about it on television, even after getting caught, then get fired. They also lie about being objective, then rip in to "Teabaggers" when they think the cameras aren't running.
He's worse than Bush. Bush may have been stupid, but he wasn't such a fraud.
If Obama had been president 10 years ago he would have gone to war as well. No doubt about it.
If anyone but Bush and maybe a handful of neocon politicians had been in office, we would not have gone to war in Iraq. It took active fraud and a bizarre and paranoid worldview to think that it was a good idea; 99% of Republicans and 100% of Democrats would have refrained from invading Iraq.
Which war was started ten years ago? Do you also believe the lies about us going into Iraq because of 9/11? To be clear, I'm not talking about Bush's lies, because he never said anything about a tie between Saddam and 9/11. I'm talking about the media's lies, where they tried to make everyone think that the neocons were using 9/11 as an excuse for Iraq. Wait, which war was started ten years ago again?
Missing from the list [...] Ray Palmer (The Ant) [...] I think maybe Professor X could make it in, but 14 was quite a bit
Ray Palmer is the Atom.
Professor X has little to no technical expertise. The Danger Room was made by his space alien girlfriend.
Ozymandias didn't do most of the work for his "engineering", he just set up a pyramid scheme of scientists and engineers (including Dr. M), and put it all together.
Forge makes stuff all the time. He's constantly whipping up new crap that he dismantles later.
Reed Richards? He regularly invents "Science!" stuff, and a lot of it becomes mainstream in the Marvel universe (like the water breathing pills and unstable molecule suits). All the superheros come to _him_ whenever they have an issue.
Best of all: Dr. Doom. He's invented devices in less than a day that steal Silver Surfer's Cosmic Power, The Cosmic Cube's power, and The Effing Beyonder's powers.
Waiting for ST:tNG to start, I caught a clip on TMZ where some celebrity had a robo-cast that uses ultrasonic pulses to stimulate bone repair. There's some neat tech out there these days.
"ooooooeeeaaaaeeeeuuuuueeuaeuaeueuaaueueaaaaaaueeeoooooooooo"
"Admin, the commander is spamming teamchat with Moose mating calls"
*USMC has initiated a recall vote.*
GP wasn't talking about truth. He was talking about science. Science can be false (false assumptions, lying researchers), and religion can be true. Of course GP is wrong. Both science and religion are testable (Gideon tested God multiple times with a made-up experiment involving dew). Faith, however isn't testable, and people can have faith in anything, including what learned people tell them. Before the modern era, the learned people were priests. Now, everybody's learned in some domain (lay people take what I say about computers on faith). Scientists are a lot like ye olde priests because most people can't read what they write, and if they can read it, often can't understand it sufficiently. So they belief via authority.
> Doubly amusing when you think how important French assistance was to the American forces in the war of independence.
If it wasn't for the USA you'd be speaking German right now...
If it wasn't for France the USA would be speaking English right now...
Funny how Americans (you're American, right?) started making so many jokes about the French surrendering the moment France became one of the most resistant to US behaviour over Iraq.
I'm afraid this plan will only make them successful and allow them to make good products. If you want to ruin the company, scare the execs, but find a way to force them to stay. Paranoid megalomaniac sociopaths will do more damage than their absence would do.
I've got a nice used PS3 just for that purpose. I struggled with whether or not buying a used console actually put money into Sony's hands, but I got it from a girl on Craig's list who had thrown her unemployed boyfriend out and was selling all his stuff. Fifty bucks.
You just admitted to knowingly purchasing stolen property (and potential conspiracy). I am not a lawyer.
Perhaps the fact that mega cities only became possible once we figured out things like refrigeration, farming, transportation, all of which (in the modern sense) require cheap fuel. Remove the energy from a mega-city: no influx of food, no removal of wastes. Remove the energy from a rural home: food is grown in the "backyard" and wastes are immediately recycled (plowed under). Look, I'm not a hippie, but you can't deny that without cheap energy our current cities can't exist.
I'm saying it's a poor example because GUI batch-processors exist for image editing. Even if image magick didn't exist, there's gimp-lisp or gimp-perl or a hundred other CLI methods. But GUI advocates point to photoshop GUI batch and say: "see? look! GUI is powerful too!", totally ignoring that editing images is the _only_ thing that the batch processor can do, and that the batch processing is a specific component in the program, not the overall interface, whereas image magick/gimp-lisp is only one amongst bajillions of things that a CLI can batch process.
Why? Because this is/. We don't dip our chocolate bars in the peanutbutter jars here. You might as well say you prefer emacs for programming but vi for conf file editing. Waffler.
Photoshop has a batch automation process that is all done through a gui that could have done the same thing in as much time. I don't see why so many equate automation with CLI.
Can Photoshop run an install program on hundreds of computers or alter permissions of a directory on those same computers? Maybe it can change text in text files? The problem with GUI batch-jobs is that they're always specialized for a domain, and if you want to solve a problem in a new domain, you have to write a new GUI program to do it. CLIs are far more flexible.
If you watch some TNG episodes where Geordi interacts with the computer, you'll see him getting frustrated with it not understanding what he wants.
Geordi: "Computer, in the Holmesian style, create a mystery to confound Data with an opponent who has the ability to defeat him."
Computer Voice: "Define parameters of the program."
Dr. Pulaski: "What does that mean?"
Geordi: "The computer wants to know how far to take the game."
Dr. Pulaski: "You mean it's giving you a chance to limit your risk."
Geordi: "No, the parameters will be whatever is necessary in order to accomplish the directive. Create an adversary capable of defeating Data."
Even a for loop in a windows batch file is complicated. The syntax can be very strange, and there's all kinds of gotchas. It really is a pain, and I'd avoid using a batch file whenever possible.
In DOS, yes (GOTOs and IFs), but in Windows, type
for/?
It's pretty nice, and works like for and foreach
for/f %X in ('type blah.txt') do echo %X
for/L %X in (1,1,100) do echo %X
The trouble with CLIs though is that the functions aren't always named whatever you would expect so you *have* to look up the function name and formatting.
If a command line could be written as:
"Take this image, resize it by 50% and increase the contrast 10%" then people would use CLIs all the time.
You know what? Whenever I look through my history (as a sysadmin), man and --help show up more than anything. I'm Proud of that. You know why? The next line after your last in the example is usually something like:
ls./*.jpg |cat| while read X; do ImageProcessor -scale 50p -filter (contrast,1.1) ${X}; done
I'd like to see that process with a GUI and thousands of files. This example is a poor one since specialty mass-image editors exist, but imagine any task you do with the GUI that might be neat to do repeatedly with different values (or the same). CLI makes it happen, which is why I happily read the man pages for every new task I'm given.
dragging computing back to the 'dark ages of the C:\ prompt.'
Well there's your problem right there. Comparing all command lines to a command line system where choice.com was king, loops were crafted from GOTO statements, and return values meant nothing consistent. Even the C:\ prompt in Win7 these days is much better. cmd.exe is passable with For, and powershell is quite nice. But [ba/[t]c/k/z]sh is better than anything native on a windows system, not to mention the standard gnu utils.
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My point is that you responded to an Afghanistan war comment with an Iraq war response. And you didn't get that after I pointed it out. Twice.
And he's also Earth-616's Scientist Supreme. http://marvel.wikia.com/Scientist_Supreme So says Eternity. http://www.comicvine.com/hank-pym/29-2247/since-pyms-been-recognized-as-the-scientist-supreme-by-eternity/92-532715/
But I hear Eternity gave Hank the title under duress (Dr. Pym threatened to rape Eternity).
After electing another Republican house majority we should have expected the government to be shut down.
Hell yeah, that's why we did it. When either party gets rubber-stamp power, government works.. too well. They go crazy and give themselves and their cronies whatever they want with money that should be spent for the nation's benefit, or returned (not taxed next year) to the citizens. Then they vote to raise taxes to feed their evil schemes. We should want gridlock. We should praise the days when Federal government doesn't work.
I'm sorry that you don't seem to comprehend that an assault on the fourth amendment is just as evil as anything Bush or any of the Republicans may have done. I'm sorry you don't understand the meaning of the word liberty; that you have no notion of this country's founding ideals. I'm sorry that you're retarded.
He's not retarded. He's foreign. He doesn't have the freedoms outlined in the fourth amendment, so doesn't understand why we prefer having them.
Liberals don't spend all day lying
Instead, they fake service records, lie about it on television, even after getting caught, then get fired. They also lie about being objective, then rip in to "Teabaggers" when they think the cameras aren't running.
He's worse than Bush. Bush may have been stupid, but he wasn't such a fraud. If Obama had been president 10 years ago he would have gone to war as well. No doubt about it.
If anyone but Bush and maybe a handful of neocon politicians had been in office, we would not have gone to war in Iraq. It took active fraud and a bizarre and paranoid worldview to think that it was a good idea; 99% of Republicans and 100% of Democrats would have refrained from invading Iraq.
Which war was started ten years ago? Do you also believe the lies about us going into Iraq because of 9/11? To be clear, I'm not talking about Bush's lies, because he never said anything about a tie between Saddam and 9/11. I'm talking about the media's lies, where they tried to make everyone think that the neocons were using 9/11 as an excuse for Iraq. Wait, which war was started ten years ago again?
Missing from the list [...] Ray Palmer (The Ant) [...] I think maybe Professor X could make it in, but 14 was quite a bit
Ray Palmer is the Atom.
Professor X has little to no technical expertise. The Danger Room was made by his space alien girlfriend.
Ozymandias didn't do most of the work for his "engineering", he just set up a pyramid scheme of scientists and engineers (including Dr. M), and put it all together.
Forge makes stuff all the time. He's constantly whipping up new crap that he dismantles later.
Reed Richards? He regularly invents "Science!" stuff, and a lot of it becomes mainstream in the Marvel universe (like the water breathing pills and unstable molecule suits). All the superheros come to _him_ whenever they have an issue.
Best of all: Dr. Doom. He's invented devices in less than a day that steal Silver Surfer's Cosmic Power, The Cosmic Cube's power, and The Effing Beyonder's powers.
Waiting for ST:tNG to start, I caught a clip on TMZ where some celebrity had a robo-cast that uses ultrasonic pulses to stimulate bone repair. There's some neat tech out there these days.
When can I use this to play Battlefield?!
"ooooooeeeaaaaeeeeuuuuueeuaeuaeueuaaueueaaaaaaueeeoooooooooo"
"Admin, the commander is spamming teamchat with Moose mating calls"
*USMC has initiated a recall vote.*
I used translate.google.com to translate that from Finnish and it's a URL shortener pointing to goatse.
GP wasn't talking about truth. He was talking about science. Science can be false (false assumptions, lying researchers), and religion can be true. Of course GP is wrong. Both science and religion are testable (Gideon tested God multiple times with a made-up experiment involving dew). Faith, however isn't testable, and people can have faith in anything, including what learned people tell them. Before the modern era, the learned people were priests. Now, everybody's learned in some domain (lay people take what I say about computers on faith). Scientists are a lot like ye olde priests because most people can't read what they write, and if they can read it, often can't understand it sufficiently. So they belief via authority.
> Doubly amusing when you think how important French assistance was to the American forces in the war of independence. If it wasn't for the USA you'd be speaking German right now...
If it wasn't for France the USA would be speaking English right now...
Funny how Americans (you're American, right?) started making so many jokes about the French surrendering the moment France became one of the most resistant to US behaviour over Iraq.
Those jokes go back to WWII.
Which was is the Vatican liked again?
I'm afraid this plan will only make them successful and allow them to make good products. If you want to ruin the company, scare the execs, but find a way to force them to stay. Paranoid megalomaniac sociopaths will do more damage than their absence would do.
I've got a nice used PS3 just for that purpose. I struggled with whether or not buying a used console actually put money into Sony's hands, but I got it from a girl on Craig's list who had thrown her unemployed boyfriend out and was selling all his stuff. Fifty bucks.
You just admitted to knowingly purchasing stolen property (and potential conspiracy). I am not a lawyer.
Perhaps the fact that mega cities only became possible once we figured out things like refrigeration, farming, transportation, all of which (in the modern sense) require cheap fuel. Remove the energy from a mega-city: no influx of food, no removal of wastes. Remove the energy from a rural home: food is grown in the "backyard" and wastes are immediately recycled (plowed under). Look, I'm not a hippie, but you can't deny that without cheap energy our current cities can't exist.
I'm saying it's a poor example because GUI batch-processors exist for image editing. Even if image magick didn't exist, there's gimp-lisp or gimp-perl or a hundred other CLI methods. But GUI advocates point to photoshop GUI batch and say: "see? look! GUI is powerful too!", totally ignoring that editing images is the _only_ thing that the batch processor can do, and that the batch processing is a specific component in the program, not the overall interface, whereas image magick/gimp-lisp is only one amongst bajillions of things that a CLI can batch process.
Why? Because this is /. We don't dip our chocolate bars in the peanutbutter jars here. You might as well say you prefer emacs for programming but vi for conf file editing. Waffler.
Photoshop has a batch automation process that is all done through a gui that could have done the same thing in as much time. I don't see why so many equate automation with CLI.
Can Photoshop run an install program on hundreds of computers or alter permissions of a directory on those same computers? Maybe it can change text in text files? The problem with GUI batch-jobs is that they're always specialized for a domain, and if you want to solve a problem in a new domain, you have to write a new GUI program to do it. CLIs are far more flexible.
If you watch some TNG episodes where Geordi interacts with the computer, you'll see him getting frustrated with it not understanding what he wants.
Geordi: "Computer, in the Holmesian style, create a mystery to confound Data with an opponent who has the ability to defeat him."
Computer Voice: "Define parameters of the program."
Dr. Pulaski: "What does that mean?"
Geordi: "The computer wants to know how far to take the game."
Dr. Pulaski: "You mean it's giving you a chance to limit your risk."
Geordi: "No, the parameters will be whatever is necessary in order to accomplish the directive. Create an adversary capable of defeating Data."
Pity it was a Pulaski episode.
Even a for loop in a windows batch file is complicated. The syntax can be very strange, and there's all kinds of gotchas. It really is a pain, and I'd avoid using a batch file whenever possible.
In DOS, yes (GOTOs and IFs), but in Windows, type /? /f %X in ('type blah.txt') do echo %X /L %X in (1,1,100) do echo %X
for
It's pretty nice, and works like for and foreach
for
for
The trouble with CLIs though is that the functions aren't always named whatever you would expect so you *have* to look up the function name and formatting.
... /help ... ... /help ... .. /help ...
If a command line could be written as:
"Take this image, resize it by 50% and increase the contrast 10%" then people would use CLIs all the time.
Instead it goes:
ImageProcessor
ImageProcessor -scale 50p...
Image Processor -scale 50p -filter (contrast,1.1)
You know what? Whenever I look through my history (as a sysadmin), man and --help show up more than anything. I'm Proud of that. You know why? The next line after your last in the example is usually something like: ./*.jpg |cat| while read X; do ImageProcessor -scale 50p -filter (contrast,1.1) ${X}; done
ls
I'd like to see that process with a GUI and thousands of files. This example is a poor one since specialty mass-image editors exist, but imagine any task you do with the GUI that might be neat to do repeatedly with different values (or the same). CLI makes it happen, which is why I happily read the man pages for every new task I'm given.
dragging computing back to the 'dark ages of the C:\ prompt.'
Well there's your problem right there. Comparing all command lines to a command line system where choice.com was king, loops were crafted from GOTO statements, and return values meant nothing consistent. Even the C:\ prompt in Win7 these days is much better. cmd.exe is passable with For, and powershell is quite nice. But [ba/[t]c/k/z]sh is better than anything native on a windows system, not to mention the standard gnu utils.
If it's peeing on my leg or biting me non-playfully, the puppy deserves a kick. Its parents would nip at it to keep it in line.