Jim Norris

Douthat's just waiting to find a Reese Witherspoon of his own. - Andrew C (✔)

The biggest problem that we have here is the definition of sin for the believer. They just can't get around that. They try but can't. Morality has nothing to do with sin. They were told no. And no means no, or else. Love isn't what they want to contest. Legalism isn't what they want to contest. They want to abolish sin. My question to you is; How can we help them do this and still coexist? - Rob Thomas

"David Koch is New York’s second-richest man, a celebrated patron of the arts, and the tea party’s wallet." - Jim Norris

"David and Julia go out no more than several times a week." Quite a strange sentence... - Simon

"What is a computer? A computer is a tool. I am a lot like a computer; I can read fonts, perform arithmetic, etc. But computers don't understand politics or emotions. They can't understand when they are being misused by the UN to raise taxes for example. At least not yet, my knowledge of computers and futurology leads me to believe that by 2020 most computers will simply refuse to process false data." - Jim Norris

"In writing MacPaint, Bill was as concerned with whether human readers would understand the code as he was with what the computer would do with it. He later said about software in general, "It's an art form, like any other art form... I would spend time rewriting whole sections of code to make them more cleanly organized, more clear. I'm a firm believer that the best way to prevent bugs is to make it so that you can read through the code and understand exactly what it's doing… And maybe that was a little bit counter to what I ran into when I first came to Apple... If you want to get it smooth, you've got to rewrite it from scratch at least five times."¹" - Jim Norris

Did you read the code? It is very clean, broken down into lots of little bite-sized functions. Interestingly, comments are relatively rare. I wouldn't have minded some sort of overview (but I haven't gotten to the main block, maybe it has one). - ⓞnor

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See also http://www.theonion.com/article... - Andrew C (✔)

and honestly, these are the sandals I keep at the office: http://www.zappos.com/adidas-... - Andrew C (✔)

It really creeps me out to see people wearing these in the OR. - Megen Vo

"n the fall of 1969, I was beginning my final year in college. As the months went by, the rock on which I had unthinkingly anchored my hopes—the certainty that the war in Vietnam would be over before I could possibly fight—began to crumble. It shattered altogether on Thanksgiving weekend when, while riding back to Boston from a visit with my relatives, I heard that the draft lottery had been held and my birthdate had come up number 45. I recognized for the first time that, inflexibly, I must either be drafted or consciously find a way to prevent it." - Jim Norris

:)))) - Mil∂d

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Um, you decided Putin's middle name is Lili? I'm afraid some other people might remember that username too... - Ruchira S. Datta

"Republicans almost unanimously oppose spending $33.9 billion for extended unemployment benefits for some 2.5 million people who've lost them, because they say it would increase federal budget deficits. At the same time, they're pushing a permanent extension of Bush administration tax cuts, especially for the wealthy, which could increase federal budget deficits by trillions of dollars over the next 10 years." - Jim Norris

"Other tax experts say the government should tax the wealthy at higher rates so that some wealth can be redistributed to those who may need aid, the traditional progressive taxation principle that guides U.S. tax law." - Jim Norris

To the contrary: I think that sort of thinking derives not from to much but from too little brain washing. Poor mental hygiene can have deleterious effects, especially for economists. - Jim Norris

"We Colored People have taken a vote and decided that we don't cotton to that whole emancipation thing.  Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards.  That is just far too much to ask of us Colored People and we demand that it stop!" - Jim Norris

At first, I thought the NAACP resolution was kind of pointless, but if it helps to out these dudes as unrepentant overt racists, I guess it's worthwhile after all. - Victor Ganata

"Prominent white conservatives are angry about racism. Forget all that talk about a post-racial society. They know better than to believe in such a thing, and they’re hopping mad." - Jim Norris

"But the intellectual strength of the claims is not the issue. It doesn't matter. From a political perspective, even the most insane-sounding claim about Obama's supposed hatred for white people makes sense. It's a perfect way to prime white racial fears and anxieties, [... In the modern US,] playing upon white anxiety is the perfect recipe for political mobilization. They've said very clearly that they want their country back. And if we who oppose the right don't challenge these folks for the racists they are, or continue to shy away from making race an issue (as if it weren't already), they just might get it." - Andrew C (✔)

Weird. - Mona Nomura

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