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by jussij 13y ago
Tiny Iceland was also the only European country to stand up to the big banks during the G.F.C. http://au.businessinsider.com/olafur-ragnar-grmsson-iceland-... Even the US bent over to the bankers of wall street.
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by jussij 13y ago
> I just don't get it. I mean, my mind bends, but cannot fully wrap around the concept of willingly having kids out of wedlock. I suspect one reason is, many atheists and agnostics associate weddings with religion. Since they are qu
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by jussij 13y ago
Any editor with ctags support should be able to provide this type of code navigation. As an example, the Zeus IDE automatically generates ctags information for all files in the current workspace and it has this feature. The ctags approach o
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by jussij 13y ago
> Fine, then don't buy them If they have a monopoly you no longer have that choice. The 'big four' biotech seed companies—Monsanto, DuPont/Pioneer Hi-Bred, Syngenta and Dow AgroSciences own 80% of the US corn market a
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by jussij 13y ago
That practice was legal in the US up until 2009 and while that one is now gone, there are plenty of other whacky practices used in its place. As a replacement the next wacky idea was to feed cows with chicken manure mixed in hay. The only p
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by jussij 13y ago
The big difference is the former is just some crappy software, while the latter is about control of the world's food supply. Given the choice of a world fed on GMO seeds, controlled by multi-nationals, rammed down our throats by govern
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by jussij 13y ago
> no evidence to support any indication that this these practices are harmful to human You haven't heard of BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or Mad Cow Disease)? http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/bse&#x2
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by jussij 13y ago
The biggest problem with GM is it puts the world's food production into the hands of a select few multinational companies. Companies like Monsanto have already shown they are prepared to fight hard to keep control their GM monopolies:
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by jussij 13y ago
That editor evolved over 15 years (Win16, Win32, Win95, Win NT, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7). But there was one full re-write in that time.
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by jussij 13y ago
I've written a commercial programmer's editor that consisting of about 200,000 lines of C/C++ code. http://www.zeusedit.com Now I don't consider myself an expert in C/C++ but after writing and debugging
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by jussij 13y ago
Because some languages are more enjoyable to code than others. For example, I learnt C before C++ and found coding in C++ was more enjoyable than coding in C. Since then I've been doing a lot of C# coding and I find that much nicer tha
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by jussij 13y ago
Starting with Go you could end up not bothering with C/C++.
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by jussij 13y ago
> That's a bit simplistic, no? The art of good propaganda is simplicity. The aim is to convince the masses, not confuse them.
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by jussij 13y ago
It is a known fact Powell lied to the UN (since he is obviously offering an apology for something) but by saying sorry somehow that makes it all ok? Hundreds of thousands of people died as a result of that lie! How is that an overstatement?
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by jussij 13y ago
> that same exact logic would also justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq... Tony Blair dragged the Brits to war by lying in parliament when he said there was evidence Saddam's military had a WMD capability that could reach London and co
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by jussij 13y ago
> so by all means take credit for your good deeds but don't try to weasel out of the negative effects you should also have known about. G.W. Bush likes to think the war in Iraq was mission accomplished, WMD dismantled, democracy res
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by jussij 13y ago
I think Woz is right when he suggest the American constitution died with the Patriot Act. American's transition from a free state into a police state.
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by jussij 13y ago
> Microsoft have similar rules to Apple for their Windows Phone Store. Only because Microsoft learnt from Apple's success and have moved away from their earlier open Windows model to their new Apple like closed Windows model.
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by jussij 13y ago
Guess how they got out of trouble in the early 90s: January 17, 1993 The announcement by International Business Machines, whose corporate world headquarters are in Armonk, that this year it was cutting 25,000 more jobs worldwide and reduci
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by jussij 13y ago
People have been writing off IBM for decades. If you go back to the early nighties IBM had two or years in a row where it's annual losses where bigger than some countries total income and their share price fell under the $20 mark. That
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by jussij 13y ago
> no docs I suggest the OP just fire up the MSDN.
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by jussij 13y ago
This does read like someone just out of college, working on their first job. > Every company has its own problems. Over time you'll find most companies/organisations operate in very similar ways. I'd say it's not even
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by jussij 13y ago
They already know where the subs are: Submarine Spotting Now a report in the magazine New Scientist says the probable reason for the action is that the scientists are all study bioluminescent plankton which can reveal the whereabouts of su
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by jussij 13y ago
I would add to that, any company bidding for government contracts has to accept that all bids in that tender process, including the winning bid, are to be made public after the tender process is complete. Here in Australia too many governme
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by jussij 13y ago
> one must in the interest of humanity seek to understand exactly how that transition happened. I suspect Martin-Niemöller had some insight into how this happened: First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because
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by jussij 13y ago
I can't recall a single application Microsoft banned from being run/sold for the Windows platform. Can the same be said for Apple? That's the issue I'm referring to.
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by jussij 13y ago
It always makes me sigh when I read stories like this. For decades Microsoft was bashed for offering up a closed system , yet the reality was Microsoft would let you sell any type of software for Windows and they couldn't care less. T
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by jussij 13y ago
> The Danube River reached its highest level in 500 years. Yet the world seems sure there is no chance we are witnessing some sort of human induced climate change (or at least that seems to be the opinion here is Australia)? The climate
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by jussij 13y ago
> A keyboard macro system that doesn't suck (e.g., is available and /as fast/ as the one in Emacs). FWIW the Zeus IDE has keyboard macros that can be recorded/written in Python, Lua, Javascript or VB Script and it can even import VS w
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by jussij 13y ago
> The real question isn’t why Facebook got upgraded, it’s why Wall Street has returned to such a bearish position on the social network. I would have though basic math would answered that question. When Facebook floated they did not iss

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