I feel I'm pretty well educated about the US legal system, at least. I'm aware that the courts (once again, a group of people) consider themselves to be the finders of law and the juries to be the finders of fact, at least in the US. I'm aware that juries can be tainted with prejudice and misinformation. Hell, that's half the art of courtroom lawyering. And yes, the judge's job is to moderate the effect of a jury's potential biases. That doesn't make my statement any less true, though. Judges can be just as tainted.

Then why respond at all, particularly with such a insubstantial, insulting statement? You don't have the time to educate, only to belittle? I suspect instead you don't actually have a constructive argument.

--sabre86

The court is just as human as the jurors and thus emotional and subject to bias. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

--sabre86

The shuttles are working space craft will full life support systems, lots of living and experiment area, windows, equipment bays and robotic arms. Why not simple add them to the space station and quadruple it's life support capacity. Sure, you need to add maybe another node and some solar panels, but they're already built and can launch themselves. And they provide another reentry method in case of an emergency. Hell, they're working space craft that can be used as actually space shuttles going to and from the station to other orbits to service satellites and such.

--sabre86

Furthermore, the laws in Alabama and Colorado are clearly unconstitutional. That "explanation of his actions" is testimony against oneself.

--sabre86

Interesting position, but that's not always so clear. For one, state universities are a branch of democratic governments. For another, most universities I'm familiar with have some sort of police/justice system and claim governmental powers. If these aren't democracies of some sort, they're tyrannies, and that's not acceptable.

--sabre86

Thanks for the excellent link.

This guy agrees with you.

--sabre86

I appreciate the civil reply.

It's considerably different. For one thing, merely crossing the border doesn't deny you of or remove any of your property or resources. There are definitely immigrants who steal and/or defraud the government, but those are crimes the justice system can handle. For another, concept of a domicile doesn't scale up to a state level because it's rooted in private ownership. Places accessible to the public are public and in a free country, that means anyone can travel there.

Governments are neither private individuals, with living rooms to protect, nor corporations. They don't have owners or stockholders to whom they have an obligation to provide profit or gain to. Governments, specifically the US Government, are put in place to ensure the liberty and welfare of all they have jurisdiction over to the best of their ability.

I've got to return your previous comments. Frankly, governments and nations are pains in the ass. They draw arbitrary lines, they tell people what to do and how to live for no good reason and they ban all kinds of behavior, to the extent that pretty much everyone in the United States has committed a vast array of criminal acts. As such, there's only one good reason to have a government -- they manage to limit the behavior of people with the attitude you espoused. Murderers and slavers who can't respect the human dignity of their fellow man. People who insist their property is worth more than the freedom or very life of another human being.

Who the hell are you to demand the blood and liberty of another? What are you so scared of that you'd enslave and kill to keep some arbitrary group of people from standing inside some arbitrary circle?

Alternatively, we simply wipe out the human race. No more problems.

Why should someone fear the consequences of coming to the US for work or just to live? Rumor has it that it's a country with "liberty and justice for all" and "the land of the free" and things like that.

Of course, I figure you're trolling, as no serious person would suggest battering, defacing, enslaving and then murdering a person simply for crossing a line on a map.

--sabre86

As, um, vectors of complex numbers (2-tuples)? I like the pun, though. It is closed under addition, it's not closed under multiplication (obviously), but I gather if you assume the axiom of choice, it's also algebraically closed.

--sabre86

How long has Fortran had dynamic multidimensional arrays and how are they implemented without some sort of indirection? You can statically allocate multidimensional arrays in C just fine and it doesn't use indirection (I believe). I'm not so sure the pointers actually hurt you that much on performance, anyway. Continuously allocating an n-dimensional array is a pain, though, in C. And I'm facing a head scratcher right now as to why my C code on matrices is underperforming, but theoretically it works pretty well and other people seem to have had success with it.

The issue as I've understood it is that C pointers aren't restricted by default, so the compiler can't assume that these are the only pointers to the array. C99 fixes that with "restrict" keyword. Your compiler may vary.

Oh, and I believe it's foo[i * COLS + j]. C is row major.

Seriously, native complex number vector operations would be awesome, particularly with automagic compilation to vector units or maybe to OpenCL.

--sabre86

Strictly speaking "national defense" isn't mentioned in the Constitution, either. "Common defense" is, though. But providing for the "general welfare" is also in the constitution and I think it's clear Medicare and Social Security are meant to be implementations of this government obligation, just as the Air Force, not explicitly discussed, is a implementation of providing for the common defense.

--sabre86

What game has Ubisoft lost money on due to lack of DRM? It remains a poor solution looking for a problem.