Isn't the very *definition* of making code more "maintainable" that it makes the code "easier to analyze or change"?
No, judging from common usage, "maintainable" actually means "my favorite flavor of 'object oriented'".
It has no real world correlation with actual ease of maintenance.
My point is that any time you create an original work using someone else's characters, you've already met 3 of the 4 criteria above,
Nah, it's still not necessarily transformative. This link discusses the distinction. Also, notice the distinction between satire and parody.
Oh shut up, you sanctimonious AC.
That is exactly what the internet, and specifically Slashdot, is for.
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when you're going to shoot someone, you can see them and know what you're aiming at. I guess you didn't think of that.
I didn't think of that because I dismiss inherently ridiculous thoughts. All that happens is that a persons OWN WORDS are pointed out to others.
It's far more like I have a magic shield that reflects anything shot at me back at the attacker. Guess then who is responsible for the amount of damage received back...
You totally should be able to do something about it, and that something should not require you to become a private investigator, politician, lawyer, judge, and security guard.
Too bad that is the reality is that in fact that is the case. It is utterly unrealistic to expect ANY kind of public service like a police force to scale to handle the amount of trolling that actually exists - every other person on earth would have to be employed to handle this.
You claim it's a hardship to have to be " a private investigator, politician, lawyer, judge, and security guard". Well guess what, the internet solves that issue by training you how to be all of those things online, if it matters to you.
This behavior pattern - acting before thinking it through
And YOUR behavior, of failing to act until it is far too late, is what leads to things like gangrene and amputation in real life. It is FAR batter to take informed action quickly than action that comes far too late, or to become lost in analysis paralysis.
YOU were the one to claim that self-defense means you must be "a private investigator, politician, lawyer, judge, and security guard." How can you go through those stages WITHOUT thinking it through? The very act of doxxing or shaming is inherently not done without thought, because it requires thought to complete.
Nothing about what I've just said demands "having inherent trust in the system to do everything for you".
Except that you are advising in waiting for action that will, by the natures of scale of the problem, never come. It's hard to imagine what good that will do anyone, except for serving trolls very well indeed.
The Salem witch trial methods would still have killed many innocents even if witches did exist
But all that we are seeing in THIS case is someone pointing out what people are saying to others. So the harm done is directly proportional ONLY to the persons own actions.
Someone moderately clever will post horrifically offensive content under someone else's name, then "catch" the designated offender and post their info and purported crimes to social media.
So since that might happen one in 500 million times of ACTUAL trolling - so we should do nothing at all about real trolls that we can actually combat. Even though it can be disproved...
The good of the many and all that. We should not back down from preventing common crime because of a hypothetical.
The Salem Witch Trials were good thing. After all, there might have been some real witches there.
In this case you have people literally flying around on metaphorical brooms on Twitter.
If there had been actual witches eating children, are you saying they should have done nothing? Because that's what you are saying should be done in the case of people talking on Twitter about how they want to rape his daughter.
We aren't talking about witch-hunts here against people who have done nothing. We are talking about bringing consequences to people who in fact HAVE done something and expect nothing to happen as a result.
This is why we have police departments.
Come on, you realistically expect the police to handle every case like this?
This is no different from having a reasonable right to self defense to protect your life. If you are being harassed online you should be able to do something about it, because chances are the police will not are at least not nearly as expediently as you can. The earlier you take action, the more you cut off the really bad stuff.
that's a reason to fix what's broken about our system
What if what is broken is having inherent trust in the system to do everything for you?
Sounds like it is being fixed.
I'm not aware of any American sanctions or military moves
The NYTimes article I cited talks about the sanctions. The military moves you mentioned yourself — the move of the navy into Black Sea — the invasion stopped short of taking Tbilisi. Or, maybe, it was diplomacy — the Russians stopped, when Condoleeza Rice arrived to Tbilisi. It was not enough to make Russians return the land they captured, but it was enough to make them stop short of taking the capital.
The "not enough" part was bad. But the "awful" was avoided...
It makes me think you're a partisan shill instead of a thinking human.
I am a thinking human, and therefor I "shill" for Republicans. They are bad, but they aren't (quite as) awful.
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
