He can run as long as he hasn't been convicted and gone to jail. If he runs and wins and is unable to take his seat, he can nominate a replacement, though possibly just from his party.

http://pirateparty.org.au/give-no-quarter: They recognise it is impractical, won't adequately protect privacy or due process and is just the ISPs trying to avoid regulation. That's my interpretation of their release, anyway.

I wasn't trying to say that the loopholes are justified or rational. I guess one difference is that if you tried to scientifically disprove the existence of Santa (for what it's worth to "disprove" something's existence), nobody would even argue against you, as long as you didn't do it in front of kids... Personally, I'd probably do it in front of kids.

The Judeo-Christian god isn't even omniscient. It can be seen in Genesis when god asks Cain where Abel is because he knows something is wrong. He doesn't actually know exactly what has happened. Seems pretty straight forward that he's not omniscient... But that's all off-topic.

And actually, Bob is a (non-practicing) Jew who knows quite a lot about it.

Santa's meant to have a physical presence here on Earth, which can effectively be disproved. Plus, his "actions" can all be attributed directly to other causes (with no close examination of causality).
The god thing has far too many loopholes to be refuted so easily. Believers can always say that it's because god isn't in our universe, but merely pulling strings from outside of it, or that god doesn't want to get directly involved, etc. and works "through" people, blah, blah, blah... There's always a new dodge, and god's actions aren't considered predictable.
Santa is really meant to go flying around the world each year, in a physically impossible way, and deliver presents that have never been seen, once you take out all the presents from parents.

I think you can fairly distinguish different supernatural stories from each other, based on what claims are being made. Like leprechauns can be disproved if the assertion is that you can find them at the end of *any* rainbow, and you create a small rainbow in a lab, where both ends can be seen at once.

Time to Godwin this thread: When you live in Nazi Germany and you believe that the fervour, by what seems to be the majority of the populace, over extermination of millions is mentally ill, you should be a coward and keep your mouth shut.

+ a lot: Seeing past the misdirection

Habeus corpus, innocent until proven guilty, jury trials, etc. were all used in England before they were used in the U.S.. And in answer to all the others who are talking about due process with respect to the authorities, I was referring to the posters presumption that the guy is guilty. According to LulzSec, he merely runs an IRC server that LulzSec uses, among others, and while they didn't specify, I got the feeling they meant that the IRC server was used by non-LulzSec people as well. If that is true, then next, they'll arrest the guy who runs pastebin.

How about some due process, first?

At my workplace, we replaced most of the devs' spinny disks with SSDs. SVN checkouts went down from about 5 minutes to around 30 seconds, with most of that being due to the SVN server not having an SSD. Other tasks across thousands of files have reduced by heaps as well. On average, easily an hour or two can be saved per developer per week, which pays for itself within a month. Developers don't need more than that kind of size, typically, and large files, like database backups can be kept on the old HDD if space really becomes an issue. The main issue has been a ridiculously high failure rate (over 10% in around 3 months), in this case with Corsair disks, though I don't know if the problem is limited to that brand or the particular model. Also, the lower power consumption and quieter operation are features that nobody could argue with. 10krpm spinny hard drives might not be too much slower for some operations than SSDs, but they are certainly a lot louder and thirsty.

In Australia, you aren't allowed to limit the sale of something because a person doesn't also buy something from a different provider.
The ACCC will rip shit into Apple over this if it is true.
They'll probably also lay into the retailers that are performing the actual transactions. Any clause like that in an Apple agreement is illegal and therefore void, so the retailers shouldn't be enforcing it.

Firstly, I didn't do that much iPhone development, partially because I disliked it so much. I admit that I am not educated enough about the language to speak authoritatively. I'm just giving my impression. If Apple doesn't like it, there are several options. One of them is to improve the experience for developers like me. Another is to ignore me, because I'm just one developer.

1. You're right. Syntax is subjective, and I personally think that Objective C's syntax is horrible. It's just my opinion.
2. Part of the reason I don't like it admittedly comes down to the fact that I jumped into some iPhone programming without actually learning the language properly. With that in mind (my lack of understanding), I find the way modifiers are specified to be strange, such as the - for instance methods.
3. XCode is primitive. It only seems modern until you use VS.Net 2008 or later. Visual Studio blows it away. I'm happy to be shown to be an idiot in most of the other points, but until you have used Visual Studio, you can't really talk about what makes a modern IDE.
4. I understand, but I just don't like the amount of modifiers involved in declarations, and it feels like a step back. I learned about memory management back at university. I always give thought to what data structures I use for an given purpose, but I have grown beyond actually wanting to manage the memory of objects myself. I acknowledge that when there are experts writing software specifically to manage memory, they are probably going to do a better job than me. And I could be contributing value to the business by writing software that does stuff, rather than managing the memory of the software that does stuff. I've done assembler, but I'd like to work at a higher level of abstraction now that I understand how the fundamentals work.
5. I can't remember is that much detail, but I remember having to write the signature, then the autoproperty, and I think there was something else that needed to be written to get them to work.
6. It felt more like a few applications loosely tied together. They are all separate apps that are called from each other, but that is only integrated for low values of integrated. Once again, try VS.NET 2008/2010 and get back to me.

I wasn't trying to troll. I just gave my opinion on not liking the language and tools. I feel dirty when I say that MS has done something well, but I have to give credit where credit is due.

What will hinder development of the platform is the god-awful language Objective C and the associated framework.
It's horrible. I'd like my framework methods to b less than 30 characters long, please. Sorry to promote MS here, but I happen to like method names like OnInit and OnLoad.
And somebody please give them decent Intellisense. ReSharper, I'm looking at you! Get on it, please.

Also, MVC is a pattern. It's not the be-all and end-all. What if I want MVP? Or something entirely different? It's so locked down, that it is infuriating to work with.