I have no idea what a fugue is. I'm guessing he was just going for the pun.

This is not a fugue. Rather cool, though.

Nice choice. One of my favorite pieces. Thank you.

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>> ^schlub:

You also have to consider that many, many newer languages have their roots in C. And many share the same (or similar) syntax since C is used as their model (C++, Java, Javascript, C#, Perl, D, etc...). But, I definitely disagree that C is past its prime. It is still used everywhere, not just embedded programming. It's used for drivers, OS kernels, windows apps, shell apps, compilers, interpreters, windowed desktop managers, etc, etc, etc... It's not great for RAD though, that's for sure!
C rullz!!


Yes, it's still used everywhere. No, that's not a good thing. 99% of the time you read about some security vulnerability being patched, there'll be a C buffer overrun there.

Is it still a useful tool? Absolutely. When you get down to the really low level stuff, it's everywhere and the reason it's everywhere is because it's so trivial to write a compiler for. But for the majority of people, there's simply no reason to use it and yet many still do, hence we have security issues, applications that leak memory and painters algorithms everywhere.

Writing a program in C is like preparing a meal with fugu. In the hands of someone who knows what they're doing, you can have a great meal, but get it wrong and you poison your guests.

Nothing to prepare fugu?

I would buy Pufferware.

A. Obama isn't a socialist.

He sure as hell isn't a free market capitalist and is no supporter of individual rights. His answer to every problem is higher taxes (if he had the balls to confess it's his goal) more spending and MOAR government.

B. Socialism doesn't always fail.

Historically it's been around in one form or another and sooner or later always falls prey to human nature. Private property rights are the bane of socialists.

C. That's not the ultimate goal of socialism.

Not on paper, but that's what it ends up being. The State > Individual at all times. Rights that can be revoked by the State at any time due to not being natural born rights are a fraud.

D. You don't know what communism is. Hint: Your description of Socialism's ultimate goal is pretty close, except Communism doesn't intend to control all freedoms, just economic ones. That's still not Socialism, though. Socialists by definition aren't communists.

Semantics. When the State owns all property, they own you. When the State dictates who may or may not receive health care, they own you.

E. Japan, Hong Kong, and a slew of other countries must import food, too. Their economies are failures?! Your economic analysis is a sham.

Also answering Jigga----I made no claim of a full analysis with pie graphs---the point is this: Russia has far more natural resources than the United States, yet communism failed. Shitty state-made products (tech stolen from USA), long lines for basic staples like bread and gulags for critics.

F. If you're comparing the Soviet Union's economic system to what Democrats and Obama envision, go right ahead.

Most democrats don't envision an economy much different than what you have now. The rich paying 40% top marginal tax rate instead of 35% isn't Socialist. It's certainly more socialist, but if that's socialism, what was the US when the rich paid over 90% in income tax in the 1950s? You know, during that time when McCarthyism was looking for anyone and anything to accuse of being a Communist?

Social Security started as protection for a very small part of the populace and expanded to cover more and more year after year. The original architects of Medicare and Medicaid probably didn't imagine leviathan programs losing 60 billion dollars a year to fraud, waste and abuse. But here we are!

Why wouldn't I share the wonderful leftist vision of the future? Because the left measures social programs based on what they're supposed to do, not how well they do. The left also views life as rich versus poor instead of right versus wrong. This fugue is played every day 'round here. "The rich are evil because their gains are ill-gotten, the poor are innocent victims of exploitation."

You're fooling yourselves if you think taxing the evil rich at 90% tomorrow will change anything. This isn't 1950. The evil rich will simply transfer the bulk of their wealth, investing in other countries. Why would anyone have an incentive to start businesses or create jobs if the federal mafia is going to confiscate most of their profits?

And hero, your little dig at the end of your post indicates you don't have much faith in your answers.


Hey gang, you're skeptical about these candidates? I'm here to tell you I'm not buying what you're selling either. I don't trust the results of the left's good intentions or even that their intentions are good.

Fugu me!!!

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It's just a PR stunt from a lingerie company. It's not like women did this independently and the media is covering it because it has some level of popular support. They're covering it because a story about pretty underwear models prancing around in public is not bad for ratings.

The most irritating thing to me is the message Triumph International is trying to feed women. "Sick of how body conscious and objectified we've made you in the past? It's all good now, you're classical art, not delicious fruit! Buy more frilly underthings, you'll feel better about yourself this time."


>> ^L0cky:

"They're being renamed" - By who?
"I was a pear and now I'm a Matisse!" - According to who?
Stories like these just show me how some people lead their lives in some kind of ignorant fugue, somehow taking for granted that there's some kind of grand master plan; or absolute truth; or hidden authority on absolutely everything; and the're just drifting along accepting everything they hear.
Especially if it's on the news; or written in a book they've read; or in the internets; recorded, or communicated to them in any way - then it must be true!
I seem to spend a lot of my life asking people basics questions like 'According to who?' and 'On what basis?' after they've just asserted, or inferred something as a fact; and am almost always disappointed to hear that they don't know the answer; they were just running with it for no apparent reason or critical thought.
This video is just one example.
/probably guilty of doing the exact same thing on a constant basis
/harsh and inappropriate rant

I completely agree, but to take it even further, the vast majority of men wouldn't think like that anyway.

Men's descriptions would be along the lines of: "I'd do her, and her, and her, and her...after a few beers, and her after a few more."

Plus, calling someone's shape a Botero might make them feel better than if they were called a pumpkin shape, but they are still dangerously obese.
>> ^L0cky:

"They're being renamed" - By who?
"I was a pear and now I'm a Matisse!" - According to who?
Stories like these just show me how some people lead their lives in some kind of ignorant fugue, somehow taking for granted that there's some kind of grand master plan; or absolute truth; or hidden authority on absolutely everything; and the're just drifting along accepting everything they hear.
Especially if it's on the news; or written in a book they've read; or in the internets; recorded, or communicated to them in any way - then it must be true!
I seem to spend a lot of my life asking people basics questions like 'According to who?' and 'On what basis?' after they've just asserted, or inferred something as a fact; and am almost always disappointed to hear that they don't know the answer; they were just running with it for no apparent reason or critical thought.
This video is just one example.
/probably guilty of doing the exact same thing on a constant basis
/harsh and inappropriate rant

>> ^L0cky:

"They're being renamed" - By who?
"I was a pear and now I'm a Matisse!" - According to who?
Stories like these just show me how some people lead their lives in some kind of ignorant fugue, somehow taking for granted that there's some kind of grand master plan; or absolute truth; or hidden authority on absolutely everything; and the're just drifting along accepting everything they hear.
Especially if it's on the news; or written in a book they've read; or in the internets; recorded, or communicated to them in any way - then it must be true!
I seem to spend a lot of my life asking people basics questions like 'According to who?' and 'On what basis?' after they've just asserted, or inferred something as a fact; and am almost always disappointed to hear that they don't know the answer; they were just running with it for no apparent reason or critical thought.
This video is just one example.
/probably guilty of doing the exact same thing on a constant basis
/harsh and inappropriate rant


the worse thing is when you catch yourself doing it lol but at least its posable to develpp the mental cpacity to identify it ,but manny people dont.

"They're being renamed" - By who?

"I was a pear and now I'm a Matisse!" - According to who?

Stories like these just show me how some people lead their lives in some kind of ignorant fugue, somehow taking for granted that there's some kind of grand master plan; or absolute truth; or hidden authority on absolutely everything; and the're just drifting along accepting everything they hear.

Especially if it's on the news; or written in a book they've read; or in the internets; recorded, or communicated to them in any way - then it must be true!

I seem to spend a lot of my life asking people basics questions like 'According to who?' and 'On what basis?' after they've just asserted, or inferred something as a fact; and am almost always disappointed to hear that they don't know the answer; they were just running with it for no apparent reason or critical thought.

This video is just one example.

/probably guilty of doing the exact same thing on a constant basis
/harsh and inappropriate rant

Thank goodness she put them on a paper towel to soak the oil and she puts a "vegetable" on top. So it's somewhat healthy after all isn't it?

This has to be the #2 deadliest dish right after fugu fish.

For those above who do not get this, the part where the guy is talking over himself IS a fugue, constructed out of similar (but not identical) text. It's funny because he's using this traditional form in a very non-traditional way. Very clever.

Thanks for promoting one of my favorite pieces music evar! You rock.

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