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Comment: Re:Policy City-State (Score 1) 961

by tha_mink (#37541126) Attached to: Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating

I chuckle when I see what the Warren Court has wrought. Some pepper-spray and light usage of a police baton, and people are screaming the police are overly aggressive/brutal, and using it as proof of a "police city-state". Fourty-plus years ago, if one was unfortunate enough to have an encounter with a baton, the beating was vicious, and continual until the sounds of bones breaking was heard. Some didn't survive. Police interrogations were often just as physical as they were mental. And police could tap phone lines outside of the home without a warrant (Olmstead v. United States, 1928), which I totally agree with (of course, I grew up during the last few years of party lines in my hometown, so my perspective is everyone is listening...just like we did). An honest, object comparison of history to today will show this is nowhere near a police state.

Right, and they used to hang black people from trees too, but that doesn't mean there's no racism today because nobody is hanging from trees.

Comment: Re:Thanks, GoF, for all the Java and C# bloat. (Score 1) 624

by tha_mink (#37305186) Attached to: What Is the Most Influential Programming Book?

At least the C++ community saw it for the bullshit that it is. While they went somewhat template-crazy at times, at least they managed to avoid the sheer stupidity of "design patterns", for the most part. That's probably why most real software today is written in C++.

Ouch. So you're one of those then eh. I love how you say the C++ community saw it for the bullshit that it was, but then leave out the part where there have been hundreds of books published that relate the GoF patterns to C++. But then, I guess the Java community probably wrote those books too.

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