Comment Re:Just another facet of post 'Citizens United' US (Score 1) 243
The point remains that if Citizens United is to be reversed, the job of making that happen, for all practical purposes, still falls to congress.
The point remains that if Citizens United is to be reversed, the job of making that happen, for all practical purposes, still falls to congress.
Well, perhaps finding things to fix should be the job of static code analyser.
Because static code analysers can catch all bugs?
The Senate is part of the US Congress
You are right of course. I misspoke.
And they can pass veto-proof legislation with supermajorities in both branches of Congress.
Yes they can, but that's not the usual way. The president doesn't veto that much in the first place, and of the vetoes congress only overrides a tiny fraction.
So legislation is not at all the same as a constitutional amendment.
I never said it was the same thing; I know well they are very different.
But you are splitting hairs saying its not congress' job to amend the constitution. It can't do it by itself, and it doesn't even have to originate them, but its certainly the origin of most amendments in historical practice, and by most, I mean ALL 27 of them. So its disingenuous to represent that its not their job to amend the constitution.
Yes, this is true. But they are also making it a lot more possible to actually find the things that need fixing.
US Congress can start a constitutional amendment process, but they can't make it happen by themselves.
Splitting hairs.
They can't do anything by themselves. Even a regular bill needs to go through the senate, and end with a presidential signature... etc.
All of this was drama to cover up his desire to release the files to Russia. Now he's on TV, obviously repeating a Putin script.
That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. If he desired to release them to Russia, he could have simply done so without any drama at all.
but I've never seen a hundred commits that didn't introduce their fair share of bugs - let alone a hundred commits in a single week.
Take a look at the commits.
Majority of them are things like
sometype
*name
to
sometype *
name
and fixing indentation, formatting comments, etc
The ones that actually -change- anything significant are FAR fewer, and most of those are simple straight elimination of special platform specific paths, for platforms they don't wish to support in this fork.
Very few actual bugs are being eliminated. No new features. The number of "real code" commits is very nominal.
Those laws reversing it are properly called "Constitutional Amendments".
It's human nature to occasionally (or always) speed and break minor traffic laws.
Indeed. I just had an argument with a local neighborhood group. They've gone and posted the speed limit at 10kph, but they don't want people to actually drive 10kph and even came out and admitted that... but they got the idea that you set it 10-15kph below what you want people to do, so they set it at 10kph to get people to drive 15 to 25 instead of.
The problem though is that set at 10kph, with the expectation that we drive 15-25 is that legally we're doing 50% to 100% and beyond over the posted speed limit, which as you can imagine is not merely 'speeding' but 'excessive speeding' and 'reckless driving' per the letter of the law. Sure the cops are probably never going to bother with a speed trap to nail me going a measly 22kph, but an automated GPS insurance monitoring system... will probably record that I do double the speed limit habitually... and assess my premiums accordingly.
They didn't, apparently, as they were eager to get their hands on him.
What revisionist history are you imagining?
The *only* reason he's in Russia is *we* trapped him there.
Or maybe convert all postings to monotype courier, so we're reminded that slashdot's still only a handsbreath above a BBS?
above?
The last BBS I used supported extended ascii just fine so accented e's and such were fully supported.
But if this was the case, then the buyers are to blame
If the buyer orders a perpetual motion machine then he's an idiot.
But any engineers and consultants taking money to work on the project are morally bankrup too.
in addition to leaking several hundred times more than was necessary to prove his point.
Until something meaningful changes it hasn't been enough.
I note none of these fanboys admitted that he leaked all of it to the Russians.
If Snowden revealed one thing, it was massive incompetence of the security itself at the NSA.
So bitch all you want about Snowden, but he wanted the public to know. Only an idiot thinks Snowden is the only one ever to have had the kind of access he had, and only a fool thinks that the Chinese and Russians couldn't have had equivalent sources of their own already.
Archives of the document were on Guardian public servers when the password was mysteriously "leaked."
I recall something like that being the case for the Manning data.
I do not recall this being the case for the Snowden data. Do you have links or evidence to back this up?
Wow, I quite the HL franchise halfway through Ep 2 it stank so badly. All subjective I guess.
I enjoyed HL2 but found it incredibly linear in a way that even, say, the original Doom wasn't. I haven't tried ep1/ep2 but do plan to at some point.
I still go back and play HL1 every couple of years, followed by OpFor and BlueShift. I think that was the peak of single player FPS gaming
Hmm. I really enjoyed Serious Sam 3 BFE which is pretty recent, albeit also a throwback to old school FPS. That you mentioned Quake 4 is surprising, I quite enjoyed that one too... but it wasn't generally well reviewed and I agree with some of the criticisms of it. Duke Forever also had its moments too if you like classic single player FPS, and even the strip club level, which i originally thought was beyond stupid... I've since gained a healthy appreciation for just how much of a parody that level is of similarly interruptive and pointless fetch-mission mechanics as-seen in other games -- that I now sincerely believe that the level's stupidity itself is deliberately intended as a commentary on the game mechanic itself.
To me, its a deceptively smart and cleverly crafted game wrapped in a veil of vulgarity and stupidity. Or maybe its just vulgar and stupid... but I don't think so.
Real Programmers don't write in FORTRAN. FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies. FORTRAN is for wimp engineers who wear white socks.