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> This is like the only thing...the only thing...that has gotten better in China while I've been here!

Slightly off topic, but what are the things that have gotten much worse?

Every vote has to count to someone... so you can't have a "dead end" on a ballet (hence a vote isn't counted if it isn't filled out completely).

They preference all 100+ rankings, but do it by groups (generally). i.e. Party A will preference Party B candidates, then Party C. Though some smaller parties do very individual preferences.

But that problem you are describing is solved.

There are meal replacement shakes on the market already. There is fast food (cheap!) there are hot dog stands...

Is that better or worse than dropping it on a city (or two)?

I'm not sure where your position comes from.

> The USA isn't like Russia in terms of the state security apparatus controlling elections.

Yeah they are controlling other countries elections instead. Great high moral ground there ;)

> freeing Western Europe from Nazism

Here I was thinking it was "World War II" not "America saves the world II".

> freeing Asia from Imperial Japan

Yeah Russia had NOTHING to do with that one (except for pushing them out of china, and being as pivotal as the US bombing of Japan in it's ultimate surrender).

> freeing Eastern Europe from communism

Because communist are evil and all that other crap US propaganda teaches us.

> It played a huge role in reconstructing Europe after WWII and I guess the same is true of Japan.

Well yeah, it played a huge role in destroying them as well...

Any more cherry picking you'd like to ad to that list? Invented freedom perhaps?

> Like to admit it or not but the USA still has a functioning system of laws

Sure, if you ignore the secret courts and global spying, that no one seems to be able to challenge in "functioning system".

I will always look for a book on amazon (as I know, from working for a publisher that amazon demand cheaper books). As a consumer why would I act any different?

If you push an update, I can buy that as well on amazon (and still only spend $14.40 total)...

EDIT:

1/3rd of the product? do you mean there is only 1/3rd of the book? or are you referring to the formats? That is an odd way to describe the product. I would say the product is your knowledge, not the paper/format it is produced in.

I wasn't objecting to giving him/her money. Just that there is a 100% price difference between amazon and prag prog (something that the author left out of their comment).

If he/she doesn't like amazon's price... then don't sell on amazon.

Obviously... because it's double the price.

Equivalent to saying: "Please give me more money... because that way i get more money"

Given we are comfortable with firing bullets into each other. (i.e. killing what is already accepted as human life)

I find it difficult to see how this could ever be unethical (given the status quo).

I don't thing any database/technology is well suited for everything. And never said as such.

But as a counter point... We don't know this was a 'general purpose' problem... so your point isn't even valid even if you were responding to something I said... Unfortunate.

It's a two party system, but the two parties don't have to be the same ones that are their now.

I don't understand the "viable alternative" arguement. You are saying "I won't vote for who I really want to vote, because they'll never win, because everyone else won't vote for them" <--- Is that what you mean? That seems self defeating.

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Have your objects update from a form fields without having to select each element, assign it's inputted value to your JS object.

Turns 50 lines (if you're lucky) of JS into 0. (with about 10 characters more markup).

While this isn't really the place to explain it. What takes you 20 minutes with observer listener pattern takes less than 1 in angular (can't speak for ember). It is life changing if you've always hand rolled your own JS.

There is not too much to either of these frameworks. A solid day and you'll be productive. There are many layers to becoming an expert, but (at least with angular) you can just use the bits you know, and refactor as you learn more.

i.e. You don't have to know anything about what "directives" are to build an app

Yeah, having just installed an unofficial build of Cyanogenmod 10.2 for my S3... It would be a bit ridiculous for me to annouce that due to bugs that Google had forgotten how to innovate and thus I'm switch to iOS.

I think people just some time like a sea change, and look for an excuse.

Doesn't that make this field better? Not worse. So the data says this field will convert more?

Guess you ignored the "excluding call-to-authority" part of my post.

No one has tested this form. So just putting it down seems premature.

I'd prefer people to be data driven, than just cargo culters.

Maybe your app wasn't suited for what it's good as. A File system would suck as a relational database... that doesn't mean it sucks in general. I suspect you had the same problem with Mongo.

> Exactly. This isn't a usability improvement, it's fluff.

Do you have any data that backs that up? (excluding call-to-authority and anec-data)

Yeah because apple only gives away all your privacy to the NSA, they have heaps more integrity.

Oh that's right, Apple are American, not Korean... americans are never evil, and always full of integrity. .... But those Koreans!

Why don't we just stop pretending any of these companies have 'integrity' and admit they are just cold businesses competing for money... they are not people with moral codes. They are capitalist entities looking for $$$.

what if you have a need, and that need can only be filled by a product with a loaded price... you don't really have the option to "not buy it"...

What are some of the things worth being angry about?

Nothing wrong with that, just as there is nothing wrong with me taking my copy and distributing it for a lower cost/free. (That's called arbitrage).

Or are we talking about using Copyright to be limited to geographic location? (i.e your U.S Licensed Photoshop can't be used in Australia)... Because that would be a serious misuse of laws. (in my opinion)

> draconian copyright regimes

What are you refering to?

Just as a challenge, thought I'd try to make as case like statement as possible... not sure I like it...

    {'enemy?' => 'attack',
     'captive?' => 'rescue'
    }.each { |test, response| self.send(response) and break if warrior.feel.send(test) }

I think you are projecting here. And attempting a moral high ground. Where was I wrong exactly? Please point it out, then you can return to your high ground.

The argument remains the same, I drew a parallel with a current situation to highlight how ridiculous it was to blame the Taliban for 9/11 (as they had NOTHING to do with it). Just as Russia had nothing to do with Snowden (except that he's there).

It doesn't seem to matter if they are US citizens either...

Exactly, also the more well known attack in Yemen. Also not a war zone.

Firing missiles on civilians, or "combatants" that aren't engaged in any conflict with you is a war crime.

Would you accept this, if the US fired a missile into a Canadian cafe because they thought a terrorist was in there and everyone around him must ALSO be a terrorist (and thus an enemy combatant)?

So is an invasion of russia imminent? (RE: Snowden)

Harbouring criminals is a reason to declare war?