Comment Re:Are you kidding (Score 1) 818
The blame can be laid squarely at the feet of Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution. That is what has grown the government into the massive beast that it is.
The blame can be laid squarely at the feet of Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution. That is what has grown the government into the massive beast that it is.
I assume this means New Zealand dollars (as I do for all sites where it doesn't explicitely say). I mostly spend money on childrens' educational apps, probably up to NZD$50 a year.
I update at least once every two days and I very rarely experience problems caused by portage. It pulls in all requred dependencies for me automatically and I can stop it from installing crap I don't want via USE flags. I've run a number of linux distributions and gentoo is my favourite.
Not for those of us running Gentoo linux.
Then you're in luck! You get to do it the hard way, which should please you since you're using Gentoo.
Typing emerge --sync && emerge -uDNvt world is hardly what I would call "hard". The point of my post is that not all users can automatically update as the article summary suggested.
...and all existing users should be able to upgrade to it automatically
Not for those of us running Gentoo linux.
There's nothing unreasonable about different companies having different standards. This is none of the governments' business. It's regulation where there should be none. The state should stick to their core business of protecting people from the initiation of force.
No, I'm a fan of well structured development toolkits. Don't get me wrong - javascript is fantastic. It's when you add to it the DOM that it becomes a pigs arse.
If using web technologies to build a native application is the answer, then we've asked the wrong question.
Javascript, DOM, CSS etc are a bastardised mish-mash of technologies that lack elegance and coherence; they've come about from the legacy need to display static pages in a browser. To gain functionality more and more features have been added like throwing crap against a wall in the hope something will stick. Using this spaghetti system to drive a text editor makes little sense from a technology point of view.
Yes, my mistake, I falsely assumed the link took me to the authoritative source - next time I'll check! I find it difficult to visualise a foot, a mile, or a pound; metres and kg seem more natural. But that's edging ever so closely to troll territory so I'll stop now.
It seems backwards that a scientific organisation still uses the archaic units of feet, pounds and miles when describing an event such as this.
I do. My children don't have a cell phone and don't need one. They have iPod touches, but they aren't allowed in their rooms with them and most definitely cannot sleep with them (this is more about my paranoia of wifi signals than of privacy). All digital devices get put in a common area in the evening.
And no moral authority to confiscate wealth from hard working Americans to fund it.
You're assuming that people would only pay for services that directly benefit them
And it is not what everyone does nowadays? How many around you are screaming they do not want pay taxes to "sustain vagabonds" (aka, people who by most who try are not getting employment)?
Compulsory wealth redistribution is not a "service". I regularly pay for things (voluntarily) that do not directly benefit me. Foodbanks, local charities etc. That is how it should be done - not via state enforced extortion.
Yeah, right.... Just imagine a world where the police are private, and where they only serve the places that are profitable. Now, imagine that this private police services are expensive (after all, profit is now above the service itself), and you can not afford her services. Nightmare scenario for those who have income, but can not pay.
You're assuming that people would only pay for services that directly benefit them. That wouldn't be the case. It's in everyone's interests to see people protected from harm.
You would pay for direct benefit, but do not want to pay when it indirectly benefits you.
I've not said that at all. What I have said is that I will pay fo things that I use, and also for things that I find valuable. "Valuable" doesn't mean I directly benefit from it. This is why I donate to food banks in my area and spend many hours a week with youth organisations. I do this voluntarily because it is the right thing to do.
According to what you wrote, you would prefer that no space program got off the ground.
I've not written that at all. I don't think it is ethically justified to force people to pay for things like a space program.
Or, you assert that enough monied altruists would have donated to accomplish the same feat. Either is preposterous.
But then you say you would give voluntarily. Do you see direct benefit?
Direct benefit? No, I don't see that. But then again I don't need to see a direct benefit in things I choose to give my time and money too. I'm not sure where you get this idea that people should only pay for things that directly benefit them. I sure haven't made that claim.
Ah, it boils down to the libertarian view. Even if you see the value, you do not want to force other people to act in their own self interest.
Next time, just say "libertarian" and save us the time. Your argument is based on dogma, not logic, and you will gain no converts by arguing based on logic. Stick to dogma.
It's not dogma, it principle. The principle is that it's wrong to initiate force against someone else, and that the state should exist to protect people from such harm.
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
