How much in taxes do you think you paid last year? $1k? $5k? $50k?
How much of the Interstate that you use daily will that pay for?
Maybe 1/2 an inch of the interstate.
Whine to us all about how government is raping you...
while you enjoy electricity, navigable waterways, the internet, safe food, police protection, fire protection, libraries, schools, parks, national forests, etc.
>You are assuming a perfect world where taxes are used efficiently, whereas most western government have rather low bang-for-the-buck. At the end of the day, what really happen is more of the realm of "Everyone pays taxes, but infrastructures still sucks".
Are you on the Internet in America right now?
If so, then the government infrastructure is working quite well. Last time I checked, we had relatively clean water and air, reliable utilities, navigable waterways, weren't being invaded by some foreign army, and have roads from one end of the country to another.
This notion that government is largely errant and irresponsible doesn't jive with reality. The exception does not prove the rule.
>What's unrealistic is believing one strategy is always favored by evolution. Evolution tries everything, so you get all strategies tried.
Actually if you read the study, their conclusion is, the aberrations in the cooperation between the parties is the result of their desire to "change the game" and avoid being put in scenarios where there is no clear winning choice.
Specifically things like dependency injection and modifying existing libraries to suit your purpose without having to touch the code of the core library [...] When I learned that on the fly I could inject or replace a method in a core object at load time
That sounds like an utter nightmare. 2 + 2 = 4, except when we patched + to mean something else.
I like to customize my email addresses. (parts 2 and 3 are not as relevant here.) The problem is, not all websites accept this format. Somehow the extra period throws them for a loop and either i get no response from them or they reject it from the outset.
DoS the hidden site, see where the traffic ends up. Rinse, repeat.
God damn you.
Maybe they came after Katz then. I just remember they were the next prolific mass poster everybody hated.
Bennett is just the latest incarnation of Katz and that other guy before him who I've thankfully forgotten the name of.
who remembers all the acronyms?
SD, SDHC, SDXC, SDIO, BFG, LOL, WTF
(lameness filter, blah blah blah)
I learned to program on PLATO. It was an AMAZING system. In addition to supporting a variety of development environments, their system used a proprietary language called TUTOR. A good bit of networking technology today is derivative of this amazing system. I wasn't rich, although I noted a lot of kids who had access to PLATO tended to be children of CEOs and such. My parents worked at a college that had a grant to have the terminals available. The games on the system were also amazing.
As a programmer, PLATO was a great example of the "cloud"-type systems that will eventually become standard.. what Google is doing and Adobe is now proposing was done in the 70s at Plato, with centrally-hosted apps that routinely are updated automatically. As developers we could put in requests for program features and see them reflected in newer versions of the API. 512x512 resolution, touch sensitive screens, multi-player, real-time games between people all over the world..... in the 70s.
By the way, the original PLATO system has been ported and is running over TCP/IP. If you're willing to donate to the project, they have been known to grant access to people wanting to experience what it was like. See: http://www.cyber1.org/
By the way if anyone has the archive of the PLATO game 0drygulch.. PLEASE contact them... we've been dying to find that code and put it online.
Heh.
Anyway, thanx for posting.
OK, i misunderstood what expat meant. I thought it had to do with revoking citizenship. There i go not looking up words again.
Who knows, maybe i'll take a peek at reddit again someday.
expat? I don't remember that.
reddit is a cesspool, so i rarely bother with it, even when it shows up from a search.
I (like to) think i would pay for a service where someone filtered slashdot & reddit comments to what is actually informational, interesting, and truly funny. IOW, what comment moderation was intended for.
That works almost nowhere in the real world.
I know in my field, if you fail to report your neighbor if you know they violated policy, even if you did nothing else, they'll fire you too.
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
