Belinda Padilla does not pick up unknown calls anymore, not since someone posted her cellphone number on an online forum for gun enthusiasts. Then someone snapped pictures of the address where she has a P.O. box and put those online, too. In a crude, cartoonish scrawl, this person drew an arrow to the blurred image of a woman passing through the photo frame. “Belinda?” the person wrote. “Is that you?”
Her offense? Trying to market and sell a new
“I have no qualms with the idea of personally and professionally leveling the life of someone who has attempted to profit from disarming me and my fellow Americans,” one commenter wrote.
Their complaint? The gubmint...
Cars are no longer people's "effects" (ie, property) it seems, so that "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated" does not apply.
Canada still has "Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.", where "unreasonable" is fairlt conservatively defined. At the moment.
Being nice doesn't make you wise. Mr. Stroustrup is certainly intelligent: I've read his apologia*, and have no doubt he was following a good lead, and wasn't planning to fail.
--dave
[* See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... I'm using it in the religious sense]
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No one's forcing you to use those features.
Regrettably, you have to navigate around using them: It's like a control panel with the 40% of the buttons you push spattered among the 60% you don't.
Or, more precisely, the statements you know the grammar for are only 40% of what are in in the recognizer. The program that's trying to read your input and sort it into correct and erroneous now has a much greater chance of mistaking an error for a valid statement in the language.
Guess what happens when you say do 10 i=1.5 instead of do 10 i=1,5 in FORTRAN. Syntactically correct, but not what you meant to say!
I've used it off and on since "c with classes", and while it's regularly improved at the detail level, it's still
- non-orthogonal
- complex
- exceedingly subtle in spots.
I think the best characterization is still Ozan's:
Everyone knows 40% of C++. Unfortunately, it's never the same 40%.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance (variously attributed to Thomas Jefferson and others)
Besides being vigilant, you have to "petition the King for Redress of Grievance", well as pressure the commons (legislature) to strengthen the law, lean on the police to enforce the law that already exists, write amicus curia letters to the courts and burn the occasional monopolist at the stake (;-))
In Canada, the local hydro companies are regulated monopolies already, own half the poles on the streets and all the electrical cables on the poles. If they owned the fibre on the poles, we'd be in a distinctly better state, somewhat like parts of the EU.
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.