Firefox is Netscrape.

You've a point about state law. I was admittedly referring to federal law.

Thin film solar, perhaps?

The only real way to tell would be to remove the batteries from the calculator, put it in the sun, and see if it works. (and of course if it didn't work, it might just be that it was broken, which might explain why it was left in the gutter)

I'd like to see some evidence that the performance gain due to more registers outweighs the performance loss due to fewer pointers per cache in the majority of cases.

In the majority of cases, the program is IO bound. In the cases where it isn't, it's likely GPU bound. If it happens to be CPU bound, it finishes too soon for it to matter. And in the tiny number of cases of a CPU-bound, long running program, why guess when you can simply compile both versions, run them and terminate the one that gets left in the dust? If that's not worth doing, the issue is not worth worrying about in the first place.

Also, it seems to me that if you're doing a lot of pointer dereferencing, you're going to get so many cache misses this issue gets lost in the noise.

After spending more hours on everydayfeminism.com than and normal human should

So... why did you?

[Person A] I have an agenda, and will try to hijack an unrelated discussion with my clumsy propaganda.

[Person B] I'm a strawman meant to paint A as a victim of persecution.

Fixed that for you.

From my experience, normal JR rail is almost as punctual. They have special gear that goes out and checks the rails after every earthquake. Typhoons usually don't even make the trains late. I got used to that service when I was in Japan. In 5 years I can only remember the train being late twice (both due to suicides on the track). I spent the last 2 years in England. They don't even count the train as late if it is less than 10 minutes late. Even with that, the train near me is late nearly 20% of the time (some times in the year it is late over 25% of the time). I'm glad I have a forgiving boss. I come in 30-60 minutes late at least twice a month due to the trains :-P

According to John Dean, Nixon's former White House counsel, the purpose of the Republican "Southern strategy" was for the Republicans to replace the Democrats by appealing to racism, among other things. They seem to have succeeded. A lot of the old racist southern Democratic politicians became Republicans.

I too would like to see firearms laws based on evidence. However, the NRA killed the government funding for science-based research, and there wasn't much private research to fill in the gap. A whole generation of scientists and criminologists didn't make a career out of firearms research, because there was no funding for it. I'm not sure it makes any difference, because the decisions will probably made on the basis of politics, not science, in any case.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01...
N.R.A. Stymies Firearms Research, Scientists Say
By MICHAEL LUO
Published: January 25, 2011
The dearth of money can be traced in large measure to a clash between public health scientists and the N.R.A. in the mid-1990s. At the time, Dr. Rosenberg and others at the C.D.C. were becoming increasingly assertive about the importance of studying gun-related injuries and deaths as a public health phenomenon, financing studies that found, for example, having a gun in the house, rather than conferring protection, significantly increased the risk of homicide by a family member or intimate acquaintance.
Alarmed, the N.R.A. and its allies on Capitol Hill fought back. The injury center was guilty of “putting out papers that were really political opinion masquerading as medical science,” said Mr. Cox, who also worked on this issue for the N.R.A. more than a decade ago.
Initially, pro-gun lawmakers sought to eliminate the injury center completely, arguing that its work was “redundant” and reflected a political agenda. When that failed, they turned to the appropriations process. In 1996, Representative Jay Dickey, Republican of Arkansas, succeeded in pushing through an amendment that stripped $2.6 million from the

The "14yo brat" is free to call anyone he or she wishes a faggot, and you and anyone else is free not to listen.

Being called a faggot in an online game might affect your desire to continue playing online games. Thus, it affects interstate trade, and is clearly within the Federal Government's right to regulate. For that matter, since you listening or not listening to such insults will also affect your future gaming prospects, that too falls under the Federal Government's jurisdiction.

I may not agree with what you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it.

Sorry, no can do. Dying definitely diminshes your future interstate trade prospects, except perhaps in the organ market.

For a $25 billion plus industry, the trade press is really terrible. Perhaps people who play games expect more that what the existing setup delivers.

"Trade press" is not meant for people who consume the product, but for people who make it. And they're too busy working 60-hour weeks to spare time for reading.

I find it to be mostly repackaged PR pieces and manufactured outrage at issue X of the day. Its time to grow up and be professional.

"Professional" means someone who works for money. So being at the beck and call of games industry is being professional.

I've still had tax disc reminders this year, and my partner only just got hers even though she's in this first October tranche of no paper disc folks so even with the change to paperless taxation they're still sending out the reminders thankfully.

I agree about the MOT btw, I find it a royal pain in the arse because it's not like the tax disc where you get a reminder and do it online, as you say you get no reminder and then you're at the whims of the fucking garages as they determine when you must give up your car to them. It's so stupidly inconvenient, especially as we only do about 3000 miles a year on one of our cars- the fact it has to be MOT'd as much as the car we do about 25,000 miles a year on is just plain fucking stupid as it's the mileage wear and tear that makes a difference - the 25,000 mile a year car frankly never passes it's MOT so probably isn't really technically roadworthy for a short while before it's MOT given that it's being driven around with those failures prior to the test, whilst the 3,000 mile a year one hasn't failed an MOT for about 5 years now and never needs anything doing to it so it shows what a farce the MOT system really is - it's highly inconvenient and doesn't solve the problem it's meant to solve, low mileage cars are getting penalised for the sake of it, and high mileage cars are driving around unsafe regardless.

I don't know about U.S. v. Miller.

The point of the New Yorker article is that, contrary to Antique Geekmeister, there were many laws in the U.S. during the 19th century regulating the possession of handguns, up to and including allowing towns to ban their possession entirely within their borders.

And even the NRA supported the regulation of firearms, at least up to and beyond 1957.

The authorities are actually pretty good on this, a friend completely forgot to renew his altogether and drove around for 6 months before realising, he phoned the DVLA to admit his mistake and they just told him not to worry, that people forget and as long as he's happy to pay it there and then that they wouldn't see any reason to pursue it as the fact he'd called them to explain was evidence enough in their eyes that it was nothing more than an honest mistake and I know my father forgot to display his new disc once, got pulled, but they took no action after checking he had renewed online (and this was back in 2004, so the ability to check online by the police has been in place at least a decade).

But most people don't know that, and even those that do generally want to avoid the hassle of being pulled over even if it would've meant no action would be taken against you so make the effort to avoid driving around without a valid tax disc anyway.

FWIW you most certainly can renew earlier than 2 weeks from expiration, that used to be the case when you could only renew from the 15th of the month, but you've been able to renew from the 5th for quite a while now just fine (at least 5 years), so you get the best part of a month to renew.

I suspect that normally people renew a week or two or three in advance because they need the paper disc to come through in time so they can display it before expiration at the end of the month and hence the load is spread across a few weeks.

Now however, people probably just figured "Hey, I don't need the disc anymore, I'll do it last minute", hence why it was the last day of the month that it fell over- because everyone now figures they can wait until last minute to do it.