not sure if joke, troll, or serious, but thanks for the laugh

because it was positioned early in the browser's evolution

that's the big secret

it has no other advantage (well, familiarity with syntax, if you want to advance to java/ c++/ c# i suppose)

now you can write iOS, Android, and Windows code single source with Apache Cordova, and code on the server with node.js

javascript marches on

meanwhile, those who have a pathetic arbitrary need to feel superior have to crap all over javascript and steer beginners away from the language that actually will advance them, in favor of brittle niche choices? why?

javascript has plenty of obvious, longstanding problems and weaknesses

and? who gives a fuck. what language doesn't?

and especially for noobs, it is a great introductory language and should be the primary language for all programming neophytes to learn because of its immediate applicability and, yes, simplicity. a lightweight scripting language is what you want to teach beginners, not how to write an OS

later on, if they become professional programmers, maybe then they can develop fetishes for esoteric languages and derive an artificial sense of superiority from that as well, like some of you assholes

I don't know how it does it (except that it doesn't involve Startup Items), but it works for apps that don't use installers (which is most of them), so an installer isn't needed just for that.

sorry:

metric, as in another topic

permanently spring 3 hours ahead

so we wake up and have dismal darkness in the morning (6AM=3AM). lunch means the sun came up just an hour or two ago (12PM=9AM)

but here's the winning point: when we go home (6PM=3PM) we have glorious sunlight all evening with our friends and family

until we go to sleep at midnight (12AM=9PM), the sun setting with us

but really, i just wish the usa would finally go metric like the rest of the modern fucking world

No, my watch is a superior watch. Their watch is a superior bracelet. To each their own, just don't lie to yourself about what you're buying, that's dumb.

In addition, those western flanks show solid evidence of past glaciers

I know of no instance on earth where glacial ice fills lava tubes. Lava tubes are fragile. Glaciers are very destructive. What plausible process exists where ice will non-destructively fill lava tubes? Earth has thousands of volcanoes and lots of glaciation. Mars has neither. This is a ridiculous statement even for slashdot. The Indian Mars images are impressive, for 1970.

criminal masterminds will always get guns. and use them wisely

casual hotheads simply won't get guns. because they aren't trying hard in life. they'll pick up baseball bats and knives for their idiotic reasons and instead. which is a wonderful impovement, because those are hugely less lethal than a gun

proof:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

casual hotheads are the assholes that are causing all the senseless death. and for some moronic reason, some americans think it is important that guns be very easy to get for irresponsible hotheads. why?

now mod me down for stating the plain truth

look at all of our social and economic peers. they do not suffer from all the fearmongering bullshit you spout if guns are controlled as the founders intended, as stated in the second amendment

Nope. Violence is the problem, not the solution.

There isn't one solution. But every decision you make shapes the world, and the beginning is to be conscious of that.

If I can use the same profile if I just swap one or two extensions, then it's close enough for government work.

It isn't. It's that it's the best browser available. It might not always be fastest, but I actually find that sites work better in it... even Google sites like Youtube. I don't know how google is failing so badly at the web, but they are. Example, Youtube in chrome. Pause a video and go away for a long time. Come back and start it up again. Instead of reconnecting to the stream and buffering and picking up like normal it chokes at the end of the buffer and actually reloads the page. In the process it fails to accurately remember where you were and restarts about the place you paused last time. WTF? What was the point of having their own browser again? Certainly it wasn't to have a platform on which their own site would work correctly, because it doesn't. So just for the purposes of tracking people? Right-o!

I do run Chrome all day every day, I use it for gmail, which is still slightly better in Chrome than in Firefox. I can spare the memory. But seriously, Chrome's only real justification for existing (sandboxing) has been shown to not actually provide meaningful security, so who gives a shit?

Try slashdot :D

(Streisand was here)

Just like Hockey. Most people who are interested are already watching.

MMA, UItimate Fighting etc. proves that people want to watch people hurt one another. Some graphics might be just the thing to liven up boxing.

Yeah, you should see what the news says about Israel.

So, is there any other kind of news from India? Is there anything worth mentioning in comparison to the ongoing rape? Answer, no. It all pales by comparison. Nothing else happening in India is vaguely as interesting as how rapey they are, just like nothing more interesting than the ongoing Third Reich-esque treatment of Palestinians is ongoing.

When the government insists that women are at fault for their own rapes, then there is provably an actual culture of rape. Period, the end. When these things can happen in public and no one gets in trouble, there is a culture of rape.

The fact that a small minority of Indians are protesting against it doesn't change the fact that they live in a culture which protects and even encourages rape.

A lot of it is right out in the open, like campaign contributions. Then people just ignore it.