Comparing Google to RIM is a bit of a argumentative stretch. Google is making money now, in its "present". RIM was making money on it's "present". The latter flopped because of a variety of reasons, none of them present in Google's modus operandi. The allegorical causal-relation does not necessarily follow.

Because the difference is so fundamental </yougottabekiddingme>

Nice non sequitur marinated in red herring sauce.

That's one awesome thing about Minnesotans. The rest of the country, in particular places like NC should do well to learn from that.

He didn't call anyone names. He said that something proposed (in this case, legislation) is stupid. Otherwise intelligent people can (and do) make stupid decisions. Assuming that the film does run afoul of the same advice, it is still Academia's place to put it forward so that it is up to debate on the state and taxpayers' dime. That's what state-sponsored academic institutions in the free world are supposed to do.

In that case, so much for an academic center's freedom to purport controversy and satire independent of the state's political POVs and the current temperament of the plebe.

You bold that part out as if that was a valid reason for the museum to decline the exhibition of said film. How much more stupid could that statement get? You are equating the state with the residents whereas I can assure you a substantial number of NC's residents would disagree with you.

And if the state, and academia for that matter, were completely subject to whatever the popular mood might be (which in this case, your statement is completely debatable to begin with), then we would still be living with segregation laws.

The whole point of state-sponsored academic institutions in the developed free world is to present information, examine controversy, and why not, satirize and challenge the status quo independently of what state officials, and even residents think.

I could see how the Nazis sponsored Aryan science as opposed to "corrupted Jewish thinking" proposed by the likes of Einstein.

I could understand Soviet academies forced to abandon research deemed counter-revolutionary which brought us stuff like Lynsenkoism... and even then the Soviets were wise enough to give Soviet intelligentsia a great degree of freedom.

But to whiff the smell of such thinking in a developed, free/capitalist country, in America of all places, man, that is a sad day for humanity.

I worked at the Home Depot for two years, and I never got what you described. I never met one HD worker who complained about chronic foot pain due to hard concrete floors. I trust this observation because we, Home Depot workers always complained about other physical things: like dust from the Building Materials and Flooring departments. Back pains (the company gave us elastic back braces to help with lifting heavy stuff). Incredibly rude customers. Getting our fingers smashed when carrying tiles or concrete blocks or whatever.

We came in all shapes and sizes, male and female. We even had a joke, that whenever we finished our day, we would have been "Home Depot'ed" (beat up to crap by work.) But I never heard people complaining about chronic foot pain from walking 8+ hours on the concrete floor.

I'm not saying that what you describe is false. But it is not something that I ever experienced, or witnessed, when I worked at a Home Depot store.

As reproducible as you configure it to be. Fundamentally no different from running Mathematica (or a similar package) on a Beowulf cluster or in any assortment of machinery.

And configuration, and choice of numeric data types, and choices of operators (.ie. division vs multiplication).

I doubt anyone is making such type of research. And the only way to ensure replicability of results is by strictly using fixed-precision numeric data types (instead of relying on floating point types.)

Which is one people with common sense stop and check the maps, whereas stupid people looking for a Darwin award do not.

No, what's needed is to stop and look at the map. Common sense >> gadgetry.

Not as interesting as, I dunno, stop and look at the map. Fucking revolutionary, I know!

I'm ambivalent towards that feeling. I do prefer languages like Ada that allows you to define logically sound, problem-specific index ranges (plus, what is not to love about Ada's strong-as-nails range checking capabilities, but I digress here, I know.)

But for better or for worse (I tend to think the later), C-like syntax with zero-base-indexing is pretty much the de-facto way of doing things in the programming world, and it is one of the first things programming students struggle with. It is not brain-twisting, but it is certainly not the normal mode of thinking for the uninitiated.

So it has become a feature of programming in general. Whether that is a good or a bad feature, that is a type of value judgement that I rather not do since those rarely lead to anything of substantial constructive value for the workings of everyday things.

Or you are counting from a point where you can only count up (.ie. I inherited a back-log of bugs of which zero have been fixed). Zero is the value at which you *start* counting and you stop when the number of fixed bugs equals the total # of bugs in your back-log.

We can dice it anyway we want, counting is counting, independent of reference, or direction.

Too early. And if ownership is to be given, let it be to nations in terms of sovereign rights (or leases), not private individuals. Then those nations can lease exploitation/leasing rights to individuals and corporations.

The Moon is humanity's patrimony. Individuals and private entities must not have ownership right on the moon just in the same way we do with Antarctica. It is simply just too early. Here be dragons.

I would much prefer private entities explore the concept of asteroid mining and space station building. Once that is done, and it is done for a while, maybe, just maybe we can talk about private property rights on the Moon.

This. And that was also certainly the same concern with trans-oceanic exploration. Shit, I sure that Homo Erectus had the same argument

Don't pingeonhole everything in Texas. They have decent universities and a strong tech industry. Blame it on the parochial minds voting in the red districts for demanding Creationism and shit to be put in the text books. You simply do not put Dallas, Austin or Houston in the same category as some backwater county the voting majority thinks evolution is the work of the devil.

Pragmatism please. If it makes financial and scientific sense to build in in Texas, let it be. We have enough knee-jerking appeals to emotion already.

So, let me see, either I'm a probable liar (as you claimed now), or I'm a definite leftist (as you originally stated.) Either way you have not given any proof of it other than making the claim (as Colbert once said "I cannot prove it, but I can say it.")

And you do need to know the "dogma", for you are using something to measure my alleged leftiness (and/or ability to lie.)

And this is a perfect example of circular reasoning and guilt-by-association. You took a general form of speech (yes, general) that I happen to use, and because it matched something described in wikipedia, and voila, guilty!!!

What's next, a "No True Scottsman" claim? I'm not going to debate you on whether I'm a liar or a leftie or a false-RINO, or, I dunno, a Klingon. Whatever the fuck gives you comfort and mental stability in that political corner of yours.