errno is completely thread-safe on all modern platforms. errno is allowed to be a macro, and often looks like

#define errno (*get_pointer_to_per_thread_errno())

i.e. there's a function which returns a pointer to a static, but per-thread thread-local, errno variable. The errno macro dereferences this pointer, so that reading from and assigning to "errno" still works as expected, but is a completely thread-safe manner.

Only if the guy routinely samples the water and counts condoms.

Similarly, there is no observable correlation between cycles of the moon and crime.

I don't know either, but whoever did is very upset right now, and I bet so is their IT support.

There is "indie" music which is just as commercial as the popular music genre. Siouxsie and the Banshees comes to mind as something that is "indie" but really pretty mainstream.

Then there is indie music which is really independent. The guy with the Fender down at the tavern or the guy with his Ibanez out on the sidewalk or the crazy New Age woman with long unkempt hair singing at the bottom of the stairs in the subway are all "artists" that come to mind when I think of indie artists.

The difference between these two types is simply the quality of their music. The latter being mostly a mass of untalented hacks.

So when I hear that indie musicians are being somehow screwed out of money, I have to wonder how much money they are really missing out on. Who are their customers? Are there any really good indie artists?

Although I think that pretending that only the "initiated" can understand the data is ridiculous, I would be cautious about putting the matter to a public vote in order to make up our minds.

The truth isn't democratic. If it was, we would be doomed into a big standstill defined by what the majority of people believe. The ones that bring progress often discard what the majority of people think and even some of what their predecessors thought. Take Einstein as an example if you need one.

Your original quote was a couple of centuries of wars and european (and, post-WW2, american) imperialism fucked up their culture and sent them into their version of the Dark Ages

yes. and who do you think it has been fucking them over for the last century and a half or so? european imperialists (esp. british and french) and, later, american imperialism.

      1. The Mongol invasions were 800 years ago, and the Crusades 900-1000 years ago.
      2. The Europeans were in an almost-constant state of war for a millenia, yet still somehow managed a Renaissance, Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution.
      3. Up until 90 years ago, most of the Islamic world was controlled by Ottoman Turkey, not Europe.

you say that as if it somehow contradicts anything i said. instead, it just demonstrates that your knowledge of history is limited, at best.

btw, the Crusades were from 1095 - 1291 AD (that's 700-900 years ago - roughly contemporary with the Mongol invasion, approx 1205 to 1337 AD). also btw, the Crusades were neither the beginning nor the end of the hostilities and battles between the european/christian and arabic/islamic cultures.

things don't happen in a vacuum. there's a long - very long - historical context to everything that happens - even the shit's that's happening today. the arabs didn't just suddenly decide out of the blue that they hate america, the palestinians didn't wake up one morning and decide to hate the israelis for no reason. there are reasons. whether you or i or anyone else agrees with those reasons, or think that they justify any action is irrelevent - those reasons exist regardless of opinions.

but really, your rhetorical question "if it was the Arabs who had mathematics, navigation, and a technological understanding far superior to that of anyone else, how come they have to import every damn thing they need (technical expertise, labour, doctors, nurses, etc) from all over the world ?" was meant to imply either that their discovery/invention of these things is a lie (perpertrated by the Great Left Wing Conspiracy<TM>, no doubt) or that they were a bunch of lazy retards for having these things and fucking up. and then you descended into overt racist crap with "Your basic Arab wants to sit smoking shisha and drinking coffee" and "...but since then they have degenerated into a pack of savages".

My point was that like many civilisations before them, they were fucked by war, not by some inherent moral failure (even if they did have the supreme "moral failing" of being arab and islamic rather than white and christian).

in short, your redneck bullshit irked me, so i called you on it.

oh, BTW, i think your "johnny-come-lately" religion is just as fucked up as theirs. and, like all religions, just as cretinous.

Tell me that you haven't heard this before?

- Flexible displays
- Flexible PCB's
- Flexible Chips

Yes, they've been around since the 80's. But have they ever been used? No!

The pager data was released long after 9/11. Did the interceptor wait for the expiration of some statute of limitations?