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Comment Re:I'll still pay (Score 1) 148

I'll still pay you. I paid for seasons 1-4. I'll pay for 5 on google play. I just couldn't wait, and I don't want your stupid service, since the ONLY thing you have that I want is GoT. Me, and pretty much everyone.

Maybe you should look into True Detective as well. That one was pretty good, and Silicon Valley is pretty good for a comedy, especially given it's CS subject matter.

Comment Re:Hell No Hillary (Score 1) 676

That means, by your reasoning, that George Bush (and by extension his entire family, since the "clinton corruption" search is going to return more than just items on Hillary) is more than 40% more stupid than Clinton is corrupt.

No arguments here. Just remember though, if Bush is infinitely stupid, and Clinton is 40% less corrupt that Bush is stupid, she's still infinitely corrupt. ;-)

Comment Re: Hell No Hillary (Score 1) 676

Waco Texas, where some child raping religious lunatic who thought he was Jesus Christ reborn locked himself and a pack of swirley eyed followers in a compound filled with weapons.

Koresh often made trips into Waco for supplies and could have been apprehended peacefully a multitude of times. The show of force was for the benefit of the militia-types.

Comment Re:If this thread is like all the others... (Score 1) 216

And no, we can't explain what's different about CS that causes that -- so far, we can only measure the outcome.

I think I can, sort of. If you're doing math homework, it typically only takes you a few minutes - if that - to complete a problem. If you're doing CS homework, and you're trying to figure out a solution to a problem beyond "Hello world!", it might take you a few hours to complete it, even if it's less than 100 lines of code.

Comment Re:If this thread is like all the others... (Score 1) 216

That's actually why the subject should be introduced in grade school.

I get where you're coming from, but most of them will get it in the form of Scratch, which while isn't terrible, won't really prepare them for non-trivial programming, such as writing a recursive algorithm to draw a fractal pattern or create a double-linked list, both of which can be tricky and require a bit of thought.

Comment Re:If this thread is like all the others... (Score 1) 216

If you believe that, can you explain what about CS is different from maths, English, physics, chemistry, biology, foreign languages, history, wood working, underwater basket weaving etc etc?

CS seems to be the catch-all these days for undecided students. They're pushed into the program because of the STEM hysteria, but they're not talented enough for science, engineering or math. So you end up with a lot of kids who take CS in college because they like to play video games and don't know what they'd like to do with their life, and "that's where all the jobs are."

So in a class of 20 students, you get maybe 3-4 who really are good at it, another half dozen or so that are passable, and the rest who end up turning in paste-code from Stack Overflow that uses advanced methods but doesn't compile anyway, because they can't be bothered to read the book or look over the example you gave in lecture which you told them is extremely similar to homework problem X. You can lead a student to the IDE, but you can't make them think...

Comment Re:This cop is clearly wrong (Score 1, Troll) 489

I am not sure how the influence of the NRA can be held responsible for the police "needing" military gear, considering that police began using military gear as laws restricting gun ownership increased.

Stop it, you're ruining the popular leftist anti-gun narrative! The NRA has to be the responsible boogeyman whenever someone is killed with a gun.

It is worth noting that when it was legal for the common citizen to own automatic firearms, the police were perfectly satisfied to be armed with civilian weaponry.

Three words: War on Drugs. Sure, there were SWAT teams before that, but they were fairly limited to large cities like Los Angeles, and were originally used in response to bank robberies, etc. Ever since the War on Drugs began, it has become pervasive.

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