Comment Re:Batshit Crazy! (Score 1) 680
You can say anything you want about Jesus and no Christian will kill you.
...anymore.
You can say anything you want about Jesus and no Christian will kill you.
...anymore.
A basic precept of science is that you can't prove a negative.
Can we please stop circulating this little bit of folk "wisdom" now?
Proofs of non-existence by reductio ad absurdum are common. Euler's proof of the non-existance of a largest prime number is one notable example.
More discussion here.
For me, using a keyboard+mouse will always trump using a multistick+button controller. I'll put up with crappier graphics to have better, faster controls.
And before anyone argues otherwise, posting to Slashdot is totally like playing an immersve FPS.
The scheme was promising 7% return per week. Even among the gullible and greedy it takes a special breed of idiot to believe such guarentees can be anything but a scam.
That's really not a special breed. That's the garden-variety idiot, right there, and we have a lot of them.
Have you missed the last 3 years of Obama's pandering to the 1%? What do you think the bank bail-outs, Wall Street bail-outs, etc. were? And do you not understand that the Obamacare bill was written by the insurance companies that are supposedly being taken to task?
TARP was signed into law in the Bush Administration. A majority of the big bailouts occurred during the Bush Administration. Roughly 85% of the TARP disbursements have been paid back.
The Affordable Care Act was based on published Republican plans and was brought in because the Democrats figured (wrongly) that they could get compromise support for it. I'm sure insurance companies couldn't wait to be forced to cover pre-existing conditions.
You're remarkably ignorant.
You mean how like how in the US the government can take away your business and give the property to some mega-corp with deep government ties via eminent domain?
How often does this really happen, though?
One notable example from my neck of the woods are the businesses shunted out of the way so that Richfield could offer Best Buy a choice spot for their new corporate headquarters using eminent domain and tax-increment financing.
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/mn-court-of-appeals/1073064.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/realestate/05domain.html
A smaller business and residences were basically kicked out to make space for a big fish, all in the name of larger tax revenue. This wasn't even "deep government ties", this was an external business the city was trying to court into moving in.
There have been several that were known to be terrorists who, under a sting operation, the TSA were waiting for.
I think you're thinking of the FBI.
There are cheaper and more effective methods of terrorizing the masses now.
I object! The Department of Homeland Security is definitely NOT cheap.
I think you misunderstand the thread. He "fixed" (the "FTFY") the quote from prnewswire.com so that it said: (note the bolded, incorrectly-spelled word)
More than 50 percent of Americans surveyed corectly attributed the quote, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" to President Barack Obama"
It's a partisan troll, one that should be ignored.
Thomas Covenant is probably the most depressing high fantasy I've ever read, not really sci-fi though.
I thought Accelerando was kinda depressing, not for what happens to the individual characters, more for what happens to mankind overall.
I was just thinking the same thing, since I'm in the middle of re-reading it.
Watching what we think of as humanity drowning under a tsunami of progress. Everyone ending up virtualized with the solar system being dismantled for computronium and surrounded by entities too vast and complicated to fathom is very depressing to me.
No, you're reversing the roles. Romero is Lennon, and his Yoko was Daikatana.
Carmack is more like McCartney, a brilliant craftsman, but rather uninspired in the creative department. He, like McCartney, went on to churn out tons of serviceable but not very exciting stuff. Lennon is the one who went out into weirdoville to give us "songs" "featuring" Yoko shrieking atonally into a microphone, so yeah. Totally Daikatana.
Damn, I wish I had mod points right now. This is spot on.
Major rewrites should only come when the cost of adding necessary new features exceeds the rewrite by some margin.
If you're lucky, you can build something with an identical interface that lends itself well to automated and manual testing of features to ensure all of the features get implemented. If you're not, you have to dredge up requirements from years of bugfixes and enhancements to ensure that you're covering all your bases.
Stepwise refactoring is usually much easier and safer than rewriting something.
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