I thought of that first. it's a violation of handicap people ( wheel chair laws )

most of the USA. door width has to be 36 inches in width.

Disclosure : I'm really hating this law since it seems ( and I don't know exactly ) that it's an easy way to discriminate.

My question is: ( more like an extreme thought exercise )

I have create a faith that does not like fat people, can I open a restaurant and only admit thin people ?

based on everything I have read so far, even this is acceptable under this rule ( so to be law )

No, the civil rights battles STARTED with religion and continued on to race, women and homosexuals.

This law would literally blow away ALL civil right progress since Philadelphia in 1776, not just Montgomery in 1955.

Completely un-American to support discrimination of any kind for any people and I would even debate un-Christian as well.

Extremist strawman is extreme.

Any public shop must allow the public to enter and purchase products or services. A merchant doesn't have to do everything the customer asks and they can refuse service if they have good reason. But any shop that discriminates on any stereotypical ground is at least being unprofessional and unethical but at worst breaking discrimination laws.

This law is a thinly veiled attempt to remove all of the civil rights successes of the last sixty years.

Anyone can make a religion and say they aren't allowed to do X or talk to Y, then discriminate against anyone they choose. The entire point of the United States of America (LITERALLY) was to avoid that kind of thing.

I am rather amazed that more people are not posting to this. He's an amazing person that helped create some foundation in which we operate today.

I completely disagree. The majority of the HPC realm still uses Nvidia only because they know CUDA and not because of any technological advantage. AMD has held the line at not allowing sloppy programming methods into their OpenCL compiler and that has held back a lot of HPC users from jumping ship. You can even see this in many complaints from open source projects, like Blender, where they refuse to produce proper multi-threaded code and rely heavily on the CUDA compiler to do the work for them.

The rest of your complaints, "shitty drivers", "piss-poor memory handling" and "worse performance per watt" are also bogus. I own or manage machines using a large number of Nvidia and AMD video cards, and have seen as many driver issues between the two that neither has come out worse. This is a typical fanboy stereotype that keeps being repeated with no real fact behind it.

Your second complaint is seen a lot in programming forums, but I have never seen anyone do a proper write up of any memory issues with any of AMD's generations and most of the conversations lead me to believe it was an issue of the programmer's personal preference not wanting to learn a second platform with less market share than an actual technical issue. Most of these issues would be alleviate if the programmer would just use a common optimized library and stop trying to redo the work themselves.

Lastly, AMD's offerings have historically produce more performance per watt and their latest offerings continue that trend. This, besides the bit shift ability you mention, is also one reason why AMD was used for Bitcoin mining and supercomputers.

http://www.tomshardware.com/re...
http://www.green500.org/news/g...

Now, my latest personal computer has an Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 inside because I more often need to fix CUDA code and noticed some of the games I wanted to play ran better on it (again, from the game designer's preference and not a technical merit). I personally own eight other video cards across AMD, Nvidia and Matrox (who use AMD GPUs these days) and three generations for testing.

And I am only sticking up for AMD because I admire their push to get people to code for multi-core better. Nvidia has been too conciliatory in the last six years in that respect, which is fine for their revenue stream and market share but not a good thing in the big picture for the broader computer industry. Since Moore's law has begun to slow, we are going to need a massive shift to multi-core optimized applications and we need programmers ready for that day.

AMD seems to be ready with the tough love to get everyone there while Nvidia keeps enabling bad behaviors.

I am one of those that you met ( I have spoke 11, 9 of them fluently at one time or another )
The problem is simple. Our map ( using the reference of 'map' from "stranger in a strange land' ) is much more confusing when communicating and some of us fight to use the correct map to convey a message.
the solution is normally ( at least for me ) is to speak slowly, and tell the other party to ask more questions. It's not that I'm being an ass, I'm trying real hard to communicate correctly.

as a side note, communicating about family and friends is easy, communicating about anger get's confusing ( try cursing someone out, and I have to think in Italian, or Portuguese, or Russian because those languages really have the ability to covey disgust ). Another set of words is 'yes' and 'no'... those words are amazingly hard since my perspective shows degrees of 'yes' and 'no'.... the most annoying word in American English for me is 'like' when used for comparison.

The one advantage I might have over those that speak only 1, is that I can re-frame an idea under another 'map' and see a slightly different perspective, bring it back to my 'map' and add that benefit.

I would hope that my little write up might help you in the future when communicating with someone that speaks multiple languages.

While they can buy it for less time and money and effort...
it's the ability to teach and do it.
What's amazing about science and scientist is ( and the human race in general)
, if they see it done, then they know they can repeat it.

Tinkering for the fun of it.

Correct, your time frame of 10 to 20 years seems about right for metal material design firms to come up with something really strong that can come out of printer jet and make it into mass production.

Problem is ... how does one profit legally, I've got to guess that the above example is protected somehow?

Since I don't have Mod points ... I want to confirm you made your point with the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Axis of Awesome Four Chord Song.

More perfect ( and a good mix of laughter ) presentation of the point could not have been done.
I did like the lady gaga song, I would have never guessed it was 4-cord

don't get it.
he's in his legal right to point out to everyone that
a) someone posted under a specific account a specific threat.
b) everyone is everyone.

How extreme his actions are might be perceived as malicious, then the law would step in.

the action of the employer, schools and ... are those parties actions. Which could spell more trouble for both sides.

It's a real tough question for me, I've stood my ground on my beliefs more than once and paid the pipers tune. And I've been in this guys shoes 2 times in my life. Both times I followed legal protocol and effectively destroyed the other side. both times I've lost friendships too. with that said, I've taught my daughters the value of your actions and words.

I am proud that they have decent manners and behaviors and some respect for others. Who knows maybe one day they will be great coders, scientist or speakers. and will fight with other based on facts with principles

funny that you mention them. I looked at their postings recently. I was happy that they took what I told
them to heart. nothing outside the normal, he said this, she said that, my hair is not right .... nothing that is vulgar about others.
rather proud

You asked :
"Should these guys have their lives ruined over this?"
That's a very fair question.
and I've sat here for 20 minutes wondering if this was my daughter, what would I do.

Resolution, Justification ...
I grew up having to suffer from being stupid and speaking without thinking, that weight
I still live with and forces me to think before speaking.
While I don't like this type, IE: "internet justice", it just might be the only solution in this
day and age. Before the internet, you just moved out town and started clean.

I've also read that some of these kids used a sexual type attack. That makes them
fair game for using all the resources at ones disposal to stop them in any way.
It does not matter if they are joking, kidding or fooling around.

Gosh I people were this tough when they speak about science and the way it's taught
schools.

Sorry I've re-posted this because it's making me an AC.

Lately I've been getting hit with well crafted emails that would get most people.
so I wrote a simple step by step for basic security for the average person.

I kept in mind that most people don't have spare cash, so I choose freeware
and I've included the above product into the set up.

What I have enjoyed is most people have sent me emails saying thanks.

What I would like, if someone knows other products that could be used,
for the average layperson.

While it's not much, here is what I wrote.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...