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Why must every language have it's own ideas of what operators should do what? Yes, some are stupid. But Why should I have to remember that commas are list separators except in the case where there are two of them in a row? And what if I have an empty item in my list?

Mostly, what's wrong with having "+" or "." be the cat operator? + makes sense in that you're getting the sum of two strings. </rant inspiredBy=sej>

28 Sep 2001 (updated 28 Sep 2001 at 01:16 UTC) »

Stayed up til 3am last night; it's been a while. Maybe I should start drinking coffee again. Though concentrated line juice can wake you up in a hurry... I didn't manage to come up with a [correct] algorithm for one of the questions even after all that; this morning in my first class I came up with the answer. At least last night wasn't wasted; I used a bunch of what I'd already done. Quite elegant in the end too.

Apparently my algorithms course will be delving into network flow soon. Cool.

Too bad I'm sick; I'd be having a great time.

Peace.

No time! I'm late! I'm very very late!

Cantanker: are you proposing a theory of conservation of punctuation?

In other news, my life is incredibly busy. I've got things happening pretty much every night, plus homework and an attempt at a social life. I'm having lots of fun doing so, at least. :)

my ISP cut off all port 80 traffic due to nimba; thanks to a friend my domains are back up. [Mostly]

New worm exploiting IIS. Tons of hits. blacklist anyone asking for cmd.exe or root.exe.

summary for jingoists: FOAD.
16 Sep 2001 (updated 16 Sep 2001 at 08:03 UTC) »
vab: That's mercedes. The peace symbol has a full vertical bar(I think).

jingoism

non-violent peace force proposal

nmw: Most other countries managed to abolish slavery _without_ a bloody civil war. Why are you proud?

Perspective: if an upstanding citizen gives blood, donates to charity, helps their neighbors, and them murders someone, they are still tried and convicted as a criminal. Why should the whole of a country be any different?

chakie: Agreed.
deekayen: AFAIK, airport security is far higher in Europe and Canada, especially in eastern Europe. Perhaps having to do with not contracting it out to the low bid.

"but now I see that it's also about freedom from the control of other governments."
I imagine that's what the terrorists believe as well.

Regarding personal safety, imagine living in a country where there is a constant danger of being killed by a landmine. Millions of people have lived with that fear for all of their lives:

"Every month, about 2000 people are involved in a land mine accident somewhere in the world. Of these, about 800 are killed, while the rest suffer varying degrees of maiming or other injury."
(from here)

anyway, I'll shut up about the whole thing now. Back to trivialities.

ldunbar said:
The U.S. is always a target because we are the premiere symbol of freedom and opportunity in the world.
sorry, but this IS patriotic bullshit, direct from your president's speech writers. The US is a target because of their overbearing foreign policy and disregard for the rest of the world. Pull out of the Kyoto treaty. Supply guns to rebels in various countries to maintain civil wars that are beneficial to the USA. Force your culture on everyone, telling them that their own culture is worthless. Hoard and waste 90% of the world's resources, leaving millions to starve. Use bombs when your diplomacy fails. Preach how you are the premiere symbol for everything. And you wonder why there is anti-USA sentiment?

chalst: Hear hear!

chakie: If we didn't have the USA this would never have happened. What's your point?

fxn: Agreed. The terrorists didn't have to land, or do anything more complex than throttle down(the big level between the pilot's seats) and steer using the yoke(the big steering-wheel type thing). A monkey could do it.

A reply to a friend who wanted retribution. Yes, we have idiots in Canada too.

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