Prometheus98876
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"You know, there is something [wonderful ] about a man that can lick his own back...". Yeah, except its not wonderful, its really creepy and you are insane if you find this appealing. This has got to be...one of the most disturbingly idiotic movie lines ever.
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I dont get the way US carriers charge for SMS plans ( or at least how Verizon does it). Why do they charge the person that RECEIVES the SMS instead of the sender? Surely they dont do both. Doesnt this create the potenital for someone to unfairly rack up HUGE charges if someone sends them 1000s of messages before that number can be blocked and other things like that? Can someone explain the logic of this to me?
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Having studied Laplace Transformations in greater depth than in Calc II , I can finally appreciate why apparently everyone just uses tables. Deriving these things can be seriously time-consuming and error-prone after a while!
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We are all mathematicians : Math is not inherently a complex science , it is the science of measurement, of identifying quantitative relationships between entities. Every time we estimate the distance from home to work, every time one figures out how long it will take to get from A to B, every time one measures with a ruler, one is doing math. The person that does not do math daily and does not rely upon it is the person that does not move, shuts down his brain and lives as though in a coma.
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You know you have programming on the brain when you are in an IM , you type "new" in an entirely non-programming related contect and you then for a second try to think which class constructor you meant to call.....
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Startup Idea: window washing robot
Prometheus98876 replied to Boris Rarden's topic in Engineering & Technology
So kind of like a ....robotic Spiderman with a rag and a bottle of Windex? -
This is very good. If you are a Kiwi, this is especially important : http://kiwipoliticalmusings.blogspot.com/2011/12/justice-comes-to-maritime-union.html?showComment=1323758228851#c2970971876412832262
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Look people. If I dont say or imply that I think something, dont accuse me of saying or thinnking it. Especially when I alreadey made it clear that I do not. Reading comprehension is important.
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a just found $5.50 and a clothes peg inside his computer case. Well...yeah...not sure how that happened...
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Haha. So in the "Tom and Jerry" movie ( yeah, I dont know why they made a 90s remake of *that* either), Tom and Jerry are friends. This is a good example of Hollywood completely fucking with a concept for no good reason whatsoever. What is more, they can talk and sing about what great pals they are. Did any of the producers ever SEE Tom and Jerry before they made the movie?
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If you want to see the heart of evil, you do not need to open a history book , find reports of the latest dictator or visit a prison. One need only find any one of the vacant-minded, empty shells that attended your local Occupy Wherever. Most of these people have long ago abanboned thought, reason, logic, morality and values. They are not only blind, they refuse to see. They are not only ignorant, they refuse to learn. They are not only stupid, they refuse to think. They are mere agents of...
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Right to a fair trial?
Prometheus98876 replied to determinist's topic in Questions about Objectivism
Yeah know , a fair trial is one in with the judge/jury use the facts of reality in which to determine whether or not the accused are guilty, using a lit tle thing called evidence. If there is sufficent evidence to logically prove ones guilt, they get sentenced. If not, well they do not. There should be a logical criteria of what qualifies as evidence and what does not and what is more, what constitutes a crime would be objectively defined, as woulde what qualifies as being guilty of breaking a given law. A fair trial is one in which the facts are presented and the accused and accusors are free to present the relevant facts in order to prove or disprove the accuseds guilt. It does not consist of allowing useless hacks to ask useless questions which distort the facts and which are not do constitute a proper means of proving ones case. Such "lawyers" should not be permitted to waste a courts time and would be replaced, by a capable court lawyer if required. -
The NZ Police are cowards. The idiotic Port of Auckland workers ( well some of them) are protesting. Ok fine, BUT they are preventing workers getting to work and otherwise costing thne Ports losses in excess of $1milion a day. Yet the police do not intervene. Look you fucking idiots, this is a gross violation of property rights and hence an initation of force. It is not a peaceful protest. Get out there and do your fucking jobs and arrest these people and disperse them. Use pepper spra...
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Right to a fair trial?
Prometheus98876 replied to determinist's topic in Questions about Objectivism
Well , yeah of course they should be entitled to a fair trial. One cannot be rationally convicted of a crime without a trial or some way of proving that one actually is guilty of such. Obviously it would have to be a fair trial, or else it is pointless to bother. Yes a poor person would have a fair trial too. If they could not afford to hire a lawyer, I am sure there would be options. There could be "State-appointed" lawyers available to such people, or perhaps the courts could pay for the costs of hiring a lawyer if it could be shown that person could not pay for it at the time and that no lawyer would accept such terms. Or maybe in rare cases some lawyers might choose to work for less/free if it was a case they really really cared about or had some interest in. But yeah, I see no reason why the fact that the defendant might be poor would create a barrier to him or her undergoing a fair trial. -
Oh for &()*& sake. Why do TV writers these days always think that if any of the main characters are smart, that they will automatically therefore know like 6 different languages and that they will find them easy to learn. I dont care how smart you are, learning another language is hard and time-consuming. One doesnt have time to become proficient with six of them while leading a demanding career with long hours (unless using those languages is a key part of your career). It does not pro...
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$US467 ( is the cheapest I can get an iPhone from the NZ Apple Store, without a contract which I just have no use for or interest in. And people wonder why I say the local Apple prices are insane, given thats the old 8GB 3G model. Severely overpriced.
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Anyone had much experience with optimising the output size of C++ exes ( on Windows specifically) that use the iostream headers? Not really something I have had much reason to care about before, but now I am tryhing to see if I can really squeeze the size down for my current project. Anyone got any hints?
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Designing a programming language /syntax with C++ is not easy work! But it is fun and it certainly does require me to use a few features of C++ I have not used for a while. Dont recall when the last time I use a variadic function in C++ was, but I am damn glad that I know of even relatively more obscure stuff like this!
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Capitalism and the Proper Role of Government
Prometheus98876 replied to Thomas M. Miovas Jr.'s topic in Political Philosophy
" If we abandon the collectivized mindset, we see that anarchism would mean any individual can "take the law into his own hands." But when he uses what he feels to be retaliatory, and thus morally justified, force, he is taking exactly the same action to which anarchists object when taken by a government: attempting to forcibly exclude the "competing" use of force by the initiator of force (e.g., the gunman). If it is morally proper for an individual to defend himself by force, it is morally proper for him to band together with others to do so—i.e., to form a government. The same facts that make individual self-defense moral—i.e., the right to self-defense—makes governmental force moral if it is used in defense of the rights of individuals." - from this excellent articel ( by Binswanger ) here : http://www.hblist.com/anarchy.htm The above alone proves that anarcho-caps are a bunch of hypocritical, pacificist fools that are not talking about capitalism but what you see in Mad Max. -
Something I never though I would have to do : Hook up two computers in order to read a single hard drive to see if it works. One to power it, the other to read it. Totally bizarre...
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Not entirely sure who this guy is, but what the heck! If it brings attention to an Objectivist in this fashion, guess it is a good thing. Looks like he is number 12 at the moment. But anyway : Voted!
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Damn Javascript. Im convinced its a lot more important ( not just for webpages people, more on that in a sec ) than even most developers realize. Or at least it *should* be. Yet it still needs a lot of work. Whats so important? Well, its possible to use JS and HTML 5 to really easily make smartphone ande tablet apps for all the major platforms ( while supporting most features) using things like PhoneGap. This allows you to use easy to use and kinda powerful stuff like HTML5 and JS to r...
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Neato, the fingernail sized MicroSD card from my phone holds 65,536 times as much data as the memory in my first computer. Or well over 6,553.6 times as much as the bread sized floppy disks it used. If you let the looters win, you wont be able to say this sort of thing to your children / grandchildren.
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Well, this : http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Thor Basically "Thor" was the Norse god that one of the Asgard was pretending to be in order to protect primitive transplanted humans from the Goa'uld.
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Trying to study philosophy without a reasonable grasp of history is like trying to do chemistry without a lab.
