No. Criminals have proven that they are not capable of self-regulation
They're not criminals until they commit a crime. Until then, they're law-abiding citizens. Many of the massacres we've seen are first offenses.

no or outside regulation and no amount of regulatory burden on the law abiding will stop that.
Yeah, if we outlaw guns, only criminals will have guns...but that's precisely the point. We now know who to arrest the person with the assault rifle who walked into a school. To wit, if regulating guns didn't work, we would expect countries with tough gun regulation to have higher gun violence.

Can you tell which countries those are?

Thank you Elon Musk.

If only every other CEO had the same courage. Also, if he's willing to do this for SpaceX, I have no problems with a private company doign space exporation.

I didn't have an argument. I was only pointing out the collective hypocracy.

And there's no one crossing the border. Please go see a therapist about your anger issues.

I totally agree.

They came over from another country and then rewrote the laws so they could stay. That's just illegal no matter how you think of it.

It's really time the Europeans go back to Europe.

As the saying goes "haters gonna hate", but really, it's a big accomplishment. To pass the Turing test, you'd need to choose some "identity" for your AI. The idea of using a kid with limited cognative skills was clever, but not cheating -- but it's also not simulating a professor. If there is truly intellgient AI in the future, it's reasonable to expect its evolution to start with easier people to emulate before trying harder.

We've traded someone who flings rascist insults to a grown man who flings chairs.

Who said progress wasn't dead?

So since there's already too many PhDs competing for too few tenure jobs, their "solution" is to decrease the effort of getting the degree, which econ 101 tells us will increase the number of teachers. With increased supply (PhDs in humanities) and the same demand (no new teaching slots), price (wages in this case) should go down.

...maybe it makes a good case for humanities PhDs taking some economics courses during their decade of school?

I for one, welcome our robotic overlords and wish them luck in the human cloning of Apple's founder -- one Jobs wasn't enough we need 240K and that should be enough for anybody!

When I was in middle school, I got a TI81. On those things, the only way to transfer a program was to manually copy it. After copying a few, I got an idea about the language/syntax and starting coding my own. Friends wanted me to copy my programs to their calculators and by the time the "cabled" calculators came out, I was a being asked for games I had written by strangers in HS. While it's not Lisp/Java/C, TI Basic gave me a love of programming (creating things!) that got me through university with a CS degree and I'm typing this from a senior level engineering position in silicon valley a couple decades later.

But without that calculator? Who knows. Coding while in algebra through differential equations classes in grade school/high school was also a great way to look like I was "paying attention";)

From the tutorial:
----
static struct buffer *buffer_alloc(unsigned long size)
{
        struct buffer *buf;
        buf = kzalloc(sizeof(*buf), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (unlikely(!buf))
                goto out;
----
I haven't seen a tutorial written where "goto" was recommended...ever. When I was taught C back in the late 20th century, we weren't taught how to use goto or when. Now that I'm older and wiser, the instruction has its place -- especially in code where performance is paramount -- but it can also be less confusing than other control structures in the right situation. (I'm still uncomfortable using it myself.)

Any wise old vets want to chime in about when to use "goto" and when not to?

Have you read the qur'an and hadith, and the writings of islamic scholars who have studied islamic scripture?

I have! In fact, you're supposed to inform people about Islam and give them a chance to repent before killing them. Compare this to Abrahamic religion 1.0, where you were simply slaughtered for being unable to pronounce the word "Shiboleth". Progress indeed! Some Christians weren't terribly fond of this approach, of course, and came up with the more egalitarian "Kill them all and let God know his own" in response during the middle ages.

In most deistic religions, there is evil and that evil must periodically personified in the infidel and "cleansed". There only difference between a crusade and a jihad* is the creed of the slaughtered innocents.

[And that "jihad" may be translated as either an internal or external struggle.]

No mod points today, but parent is spot-on.

Linus is quite polite until you prove yourself an idiot -- then not so much. He didn't build a community of thousands of contributers by spewing insults at anyone and everyone.

I love John Lassester (Pixar, including Toy Story and Bug's Life ).

From your link:
On June 22, 2007, management of DisneyToon Studios was turned over to the control of Ed Catmull and John Lasseter under the banner of renamed Feature Animation studio, now called Walt Disney Animation Studios. As chief creative officer, Lasseter called for the cancellation of all future films in production or development at DisneyToon Studios that weren't connected to a Disney Consumer Products franchise. As a result, planned or in-progress sequels to Dumbo, Chicken Little, Meet the Robinsons and The Aristocats were all cancelled, among other projects.[1][9] A few days later, it was announced that DisneyToon Studios would no longer produce future sequels to Disney animated films, but will instead focus on spin-offs and original films.[10]

Ronald Reagan's first election was leader of a labor union (Screen Actors Guild).

Gosh, screen actors and professional athletes get paid well. I sure it must their union...er...I'm sorry Mr. Reagan, I meant the "free market".

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