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I wondered. The only way I read this "pardon" is:

"We pardon you of having forced us to persecute you."

> "Alan Turing, the second world war codebreaker who took his own life after undergoing chemical castration following a conviction for homosexual activity, has been granted a posthumous royal pardon 59 years after his death."

I don't understand, I thought what was needed was "royal apologies". WTH.

> "NSA is a intelligence agency: spying on foreigners seems to me like it'd be their objective, regardless of the revelations ... Other foreign intelligence agencies do their share of spying on foreigners too"

I don't know why we should find this more acceptable, whether NSA or foreign agencies. If it is supposed to be acceptable, than give every single person even greater power of surveillance of powerful government/corporate entities and their agents, given their power, they are more likely to do serious harm when unaccountable.

> "The entertainment industry has just never really been able to get their heads around how to best develop a new, sustainable business model"

It's because when a new technology emerge, it often means cheaper way to do things, which means less profits. That's the part they have a problem with: less profits.

I have been entertaining this idea a lot, and I think it makes a lot of sense, and not just because of the potential failure. When a company becomes too big, the virtue of free market economy disappear more and more the bigger the company. This and their undue influence on governments due to their sheer size. Don't allow them to become too big, this will create a healthy free market economy because of all the added competition. Some would argue "economy of scale" etc. but I argue that more healthy competition is what helps customers, not giving more power to these monsters.

Question to RSA:

Are you going to sue Reuters for libel?

> "Storing any amount of money for the amount spent is better than banking none of that money"

It's not just the cash flow which matters, you must consider many other factors. Have you heard of "depreciation", you know the expenses required in order for your house to keep its value? It's a whole lot more than the "10$" gained in the first years when using a mortgage. You keep focusing only on the cash flow of one part (mortgage vs rent) of the whole deal and ignore everything else. That's nonsense.

10$ is the cash asset. The big picture demands that you look at all the assets/liabilities/revenues/expenses. It's far from being that straightforward if you take into account net equity over time, risks, cash flow, depreciation, what-ifs, etc.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I tried to used numbers which fit your scenario, and roughly got this:

Mortgage: 100,000$

Term: 25 yrs

Rate: 1%

Principal payment for the 12th month: 59.38$

Interest payment for the 12th month: 993.84$

Cumulative interest after 12 months: 11,998.64$

Cumulative principal after 12 months: 675.02$

All this with an incredible 1% rate.

> "Not seeing a major conflict of interest is worrying in itself"

The rationalization from some posters in the thread of why he shouldn't be removed is scary.

My thought was, values from function calls used to be returned in one dedicated CPU register (maybe two in some exceptional cases).

You can speculate about the motives, the result though is difficult to argue.

Stasi's Zersetzung: "The Stasi perfected the technique of psychological harassment of perceived enemies known as Zersetzung. ... This often included psychological attacks such as breaking into homes and messing with the contents – moving furniture, altering the timing of an alarm, removing pictures from walls or replacing one variety of tea with another" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi#Zersetzung

It's just history repeating itself.

You participated in deploying a creepy gigantic indiscriminate surveillance apparatus, and somehow you attempt to cast yourself as a poor victim. I don't think it is going to work. Maybe if your thoughts were toward denouncing the subversion of democracy and the violations of basic human rights as the consequences of such a creepy surveillance apparatus.

This article criticizes people who express criticism.

> "The object’s composition and provenance remain unknown almost two weeks after first contact"

Anyone else thought "Arthur C. Clarke" when reading this part?

I wish every one of these requests was available to be seen, neatly organized by countries etc. Nothing like public shame to bring back to reason power-abusing government agents.

And I tried to find the source for this very little animated GIF, but can't find any. If the author wants to be taken seriously, he needs to provide exact references. No doing so I assume attempt at manipulating people's opinions. Not nice.

Let's picture a future reader:

"Hmmm, if 'foo == null' is true, than it's true... I see..."

Seriously..

So transposing a boolean into a boolean is better than transposing a truthy value of an unspecified type into a boolean?

You are missing the point, which is it's really silly to transpose a boolean into a boolean using a ternary operator.

If you want to argue that "foo == null" is the problem due implicit nil value falseness, than the solution is simply to use strict comparison operator "===", transposing "foo == null" into a boolean doesn't solve the falseness issue if you think this is what the original author was trying to address.

The result of "foo == null" (or better "foo === null") is boolean, I don't know what is the "equivalence" problem here.

This reminds me of this one, which is quite common:

   return foo == null ? true : false;

What's a "DBA"?

And easy to rescale, recolor, etc.

I am on 31.0.1650.63-0ubuntu0.13.04.1~20131204.1, and it was ok here. CPU around 3-4% for most of them. One of them was 8%.

An argument which can be used by all sides. In the end, it's the civilians who get screwed.

I don't read anywhere that he said this was the first time. Why would you suggest he said that?

> "For a game like Spelunky, which is a platformer where the whole screen moves"

Ok. It's because from here nothing moves. Using Chrome 30 on Linux Mint.

I'm up since 5h00 and I produced nothing of value yet.

Why is the image constantly redrawn?

EDIT: Ok at first there were no moving creatures in it. I see why it is redrawn, now my question would be more like: why is the whole image constantly redrawn? (Dirty rectangle goes a long way).