To fill you in: The Lord's Resistance Army

Good for you. With google, I normally find five paid ads at the top of my search that aren't relevant. I have to scroll down to see the surprisingly small number of non-ad results that fit on the first page. Then there are another two paid ads underneath them. Bing is typically no better.

I went to a talk a few years ago by a brain scientist. His results were that the brain response to a physical injury is pretty much the same as the brain response to insults and swear words. Does the constitutional injunction refer to the suffering that's inflicted, i.e. a brain response? or does it refer solely to the physical injury even in cases or people where this doesn't cause any suffering?

I think you're arrogant and deluded. I base this on a talk I went to a few years ago where the speaker explained that the brain activity caused by offensive swear-words is pretty much the same as the brain activity caused by physical pain -- and went on to say that this brain response was apparently pretty much unavoidable. So when you claim to be immune, I assume (because "science") that the low level of your brain isn't actually immune, but you find yourself able to consciously suppress it and delude yourself about it.

When you go shooting, lots of people (especially beginners) take home the target with the bullet holes. This sounds like the next step.

"The program doesn't check for"

In this case, like all others in this thread, the non-anthropomorphic version is shorter, more correct, and less misleading. What on earth does it mean for the program to "know" something? Is there a knowledgebase in the program? What is the difference between "the program doesn't check" and "the program doesn't know to check"? Is there an API subfamily related to some kind of "knowing" paradigm built into the architecture?

The TFA is right. Anthropomorphizing is always bad.

You've got the wrong handle on DMCA...

1. It criminalizes the creation of software designed to circumvent copyright. That's not happening here.

2. It grants"safe harbor" to ISPs and companies against violations*BY THEIR USERS* so long as the company has a takedown & dispute resolution mechanism. In this case Sony claims copyright, and Twitter can absolve itself of responsibility by leaving the user in question to be the one to file a counterclaim (presumably on fair-use grounds)

I have a similar idea. How about I buy a plane ticket to fly over and hit some sense into your silly head, and once you gain more sense, then you can dock 2% of your income to repay me the plane ticket. Sounds fair?

Democracy = each *vote* has equal power
Capitalism = each *dollar* has equal power

We're just seeing the first half of "capitalist democracy" in action. It's how capitalism has always worked and will always work.

Yes it is free. "Visual Studio Community Edition" it's called.

Email from operations to the shop floor: "Hey Klaus, we've determined that for the following job we need parameters set at P=123.79 and Q=119.11". Klaus prints out out from his email-connected computer. Picks up the printout, walks across to the control computers, and starts typing in the parameters from the printout. Unfortunately he has a typo that causes the entire batch to be not quite up to spec.

Solution: come up with a way for the parameters to be taking precisely from email into production, without the error-prone act of typing them out again.

Noordhuis had not one but TWO responses: (1) as you said he dismissed it as trivial, (2) when someone else nevertheless accepted the change he tried to undo it and chided them publically for bypassing both him and (???forgot alias).

Noordhuis chided someone publically, he got chided back publically, seems about fair.

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There are lots of spacetimes that satisfy general relativity and are still pretty goofy. Malament-Hogarth spacetimes, for instance, are ones where you can jump into someone's infinite future. (or more precisely: they're ones with two paths through spacetime, one of which has an infinite duration, the other a finite duration, so if you travel down the "finite" one and your friend travels down the "infinite" one then you'll still be arrive while he's been dead for an eternity).

2c per CD? How does that price work out for those of us who keep our definitive backups on AWS or iCloud or OneDrive? And who also would need to pay for a fatter internet connection to get at all the files?

I have no doubt that FLACworks great for the niche who have lots of CDs, lots of hard drives, and who have time and money to spend curating them. But really, if you have kids or emmigrate or whatever, the FLACs are as good as gone when you realize you don't have the time or money you need to keep them useful.