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Communists are still okay though, right?

We still all agree that Communism's little "quirk" of killing millions every time it's tried is user error or whatever? Right?

No, the ocean is where it started.

If we're going to speak meaningfully about where Europeans come from, we need to include wherever they picked up Neanderthal DNA (hint: not in Africa; no African population has it).

Most North American scientists agree that Asia isn't really in Africa per se. Perhaps this news hasn't reached your corner of the world.

The out-of-Africa theory is junky agenda-driven science. It was debunked a decade ago.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-out-of-afr...

> nothing, what so ever to do with the laws against being a Nazi

You are very poorly informed. The laws against "being a Nazi" are generic "no bad speech" laws. Nazism is just their most well-known application. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksverhetzung

> Spoiler: it's a lie.

A lawyer went to prison, for statements she made, in court, in defense of her client. That's not supposed to happen. It's not a feature.

> what you're saying just isn't true

Except that it is.

https://www.casamo.com/can-you-sue-for-defamation-during-tri...

> for illegal statements she made

Oh it was ILLEGAL. Why didn't you say so? That makes it totally palatable that a lawyer might be imprisoned for doing his job, and doesn't AT ALL impeach the entire concept of a "trial."

> would be illegal even outside the context of being a federal court lawyer.

You have it backwards, friend. The inside of a courtroom needs MORE protections for speech, not fewer, than the outside. Laws like libel simply don't apply there (disclaimer: in the US. Can't speak for how they do it in failed states like Germany), and for very good reason.

And you can defend a black girl who won't move to the back of the bus if you can resist the urge to claim blacks are people.

Fair trials without all that pesky social change! What could possibly go wrong?

A lawyer went to prison, for statements she made, in court, in defense of her client.

The action doesn't need embellishment from me.

> you do nothing but speculate about police motives

80 cops "failed to notice" over 1000 violent crimes taking place in a space about the size of a football field, over the course of several hours.

My "speculation" is, by far, the very kindest interpretation.

> So the law was correctly applied.

Let's hope so. Defending her is a crime so we'll never really know.

In other words, she didn't defend him the way you feel that she should have.

We'll just make a list of all the arguments that are okay to advance in court, so then lawyers know which ones are forbidden.

That seems like a good concept with no far-reaching implications.

> So all you can really do is try to convince the majority about what is 'right' and what is 'wrong'.

Unless the people who own all the infrastructure disagree with you, and refuse to accept your money.

> the slippery slope that is always brought up never materialized.

Very true. Well, except maybe for that one time when Germany became an open-air rape camp under the noses of police who did nothing for fear of being accused of racism. That kind of sucked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_Eve_sexual_assaul...

And, oh yeah, there was that time they threw a lawyer in jail for defending a Holocaust denier.

http://www.dw.com/en/german-neo-nazi-lawyer-sentenced-for-de...

But otherwise, sure, unqualified success. Great example.

Neat. Curious to hear your position on waving Communist and Jewish flags.

> maybe that counts as `"editing"`

how would it not

> What do you mean by "Python's quoting documentation"

String literals are described by the following lexical definitions:

   stringliteral:   shortstring | longstring
   shortstring:     "'" shortstringitem* "'" | '"' shortstringitem* '"'
   longstring:      "'''" longstringitem* "'''" | '"""' longstringitem* '"""'
   shortstringitem: shortstringchar | escapeseq
   longstringitem:  longstringchar | escapeseq
   shortstringchar: <any ASCII character except "\" or newline or the quote>
   longstringchar:  <any ASCII character except "\">
   escapeseq:       "\" <any ASCII character>

You can't paste that text into a file and write a Python program around it that outputs the same text. You need to encode the quote characters.

More generally, there is no way in (many languages including) Python to treat an arbitrary (yet known) block of data as data.

> 10 different ways of doing the same thing

Mostly an urban myth. Where it isn't, at least 8 of those ways are actually important.

Exercise: write a python program that prints Python's quoting documentation, without external files, without editing the documentation. Spoiler alert: it's impossible.

Why even put "general office IT" in the ad? Any task that can be described as such is far beneath the abilities of anyone meeting the other requirements. Whatever it means--Installing Office? Stringing cable? Deskside support?--this stuff can get done for $20/hr or less.

It only makes sense to ask a rockstar do-it-all to do it when you already got 40 hours from him, aren't paying OT, don't give a shit about his mental health, and are wringing as many hours as possible out of him to reduce the effective hourly rate.

This is the thinking of a scumbag cheapskate turd. No one who is paying a fair price for talent like this would waste it on vague low-level chores.

> PA is very much a family.

So when, under the rubric of "general office IT," I'm asked to purge malware or replenish toner, I can reply with a lmgtfy link and a jocular reminder that I'm way too busy to give a shit about their irrelevant self-inflicted problems, right?