All the property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.

- Benjamin Franklin, letter to Robert Morris, December 25, 1783

I can't speak to Android, but Apple still supports and issues updates to the three year old iPhone 4S. Microsoft sometimes just walks away from stuff.

The enlightened self interest angle is that I don't want corporations treating H-1Bs like crap, because it enables the companies to get them for cheap, which depresses salaries in my career path. I want companies to have to treat H-1B visa holders well because 1) it's the right thing to do, and 2) so that I'm not competing against guys who'll work for 2/3 my salary for fear of being deported.

Precisely what I was thinking about your woefully inaccurate claim.

Correct, which is why I choose to believe the facts instead of naive misintrepetations off the Internet.

My problem with this new card is, as far as I can tell it barely meets the minimum requirements for some next-gen games. Isn't the min req for Assassins Creed Unity like a GeForce 680?

The specs for all new games are out of whack with the latest generation of video cards. If you buy a $200 card, you should be able to play any game released in the same year (though probably not on Ultra).

I just don't want to pull the trigger on a $350 video card, but it looks like game devs are making that the entry level for AAA games.

LOL that's precious. Meanwhile, the H-1B employees I know - my personal friends, people I hang out with and trust - describe a legal hellscape that's pretty much exactly indentured servitude. One of them managed to escape a bad situation by hooking up with a major corporation who could expedite the process to have the transfer done within a couple of months. That's two months of walking on eggshells so that they didn't get fired and deported. Another wasn't quite as lucky and had to ship out to the European branch of their new employer so that they can come back to America in a year or so, presuming everything is in order by then.

You're on crack if you think an H-1B isn't a recipe for suckishness. Regardless of what it hypothetically sounds like on paper, the situations I witnessed firsthand were terrible for the workers involved.

If the group had valid points, there would have been more than a handful of e-celebs who have identified themselves as part of the group instead of hiding behind anonymous white hoods.

Because Adam Baldwin is pro-GG and Ratzo is very anti-GG so he probably thinks that while he can peddle his point of view it's a bit outrageous that people who disagree with him can do the same.

I keep slipping that stuff in there hoping /gg'ers will post replies under their account names. Like Lt. Aldo "The Apache" Raine, I like to be able to see my gamergators coming.

But I guess the shame factor prevents them from doing so. I can understand that.

Could those have been addressed? No idea. It was great when I reached university though and all that shit went away.

Bless your heart. So much of growing up (and parenting) is just random, it seems. It's good that you can see how things changed for you. Maybe you come to some understanding of what played into the change. You'd probably be a good parent.

Most of what I remember about my kid's early and middle school years was fierce love and hope. Fortunately, my wife seemed to have a pretty good grasp on the complicated stuff of young girls, but even then, I remember a lot of cluelessness on our part. It was mostly a matter of doing our best to be honest with her and honestly listening to what she had to say.

I'm honestly glad it worked out for you. And it seems to have worked out for us, too.

and if my kid HAD cyberbullied, they would be so grounded. I'd take the smartphone away and they'd have a Jitterbug like Granny.

You know, as the parent of a now-grown daughter, I sometimes wonder what I would have done if I found out my kid was a bully. I mean, bullies are just the worst, at every age group and in every socio-economic category. And the thing is, once a kid has become a bully, I'm not sure what kind of parenting is going to get that out of them. Grounding won't do it, because they'll just get more pissed off and take it out on some kid that's too scared to talk about it. Even if you were that kind of parent, it's not something that can be beaten out of them (obviously). Medication doesn't help sociopaths (I don't think).

You know, there are only a few things that would make me feel like a failure as a parent. I don't care if my kid was gay or transexual or wants to be an English major or run away and join the circus or get tattoos on their eyeballs and listen to Disturbed records.. I'd still love my kid. But if I ever found out my kid was a bully, either in real life or online, hassling people for how they look or their gender or lifestyle or making threats or doxxing people or wearing #Meninist t-shirts, I think I'd give them a very serious talking to and then just start hoping they move out early and don't call home too often and maybe grow out of it before they ruin too many lives. Either that or drown them, but then I'd go to jail (unless the judge was the parent of a bully or a bullied kid, in which case I might get let off with a warning and $50 fine).

Python has a PEP (think RFC) for that. It says:

Use 4 spaces per indentation level. [...] Spaces are the preferred indentation method. Tabs should be used solely to remain consistent with code that is already indented with tabs.

That's the the near-universal style almost everyone used anyway, so it was more of a hypothetical than practical issue anyway.

One of the things I disliked about a data structures class using C was that you had to learn a fair amount of boilerplate and memory management to get up and running. Those are important things, but it's a frustratingly steep learning curve when you're more interested in a structure or an algorithm than you in the language. For example, here's a complete, working linked list in Python:

.class Node(object):
. value = None
. next = None
.
.head = Node(); head.value = 123
.second = Node(); second.value = 456; head.next = second
.tail = Node(); tail.value = 789; second.next = tail
.
.node = head
.while node:
. print node.value
. node = node.next

I don't mind C, but it's way too easy to get distracted by coordinating all the moving parts, so that you lose focus on the problem you're trying to solve.

no they were too newfag for 4chan so they went over to cripplechan in order to bitch about their lifetime involuntary celibacy and how they should be allowed to rape because otherwise they will never get any.

Gee, that's kind of harsh.

Three.

- the CIA

And by the way, your fly's open.

God dammit.