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Comment Re:How dare Texas try to protect women and childre (Score 1) 587

Actually, I speak as someone from North Carolina who saw the Charlotte school district say exactly what I stated, they wanted to let boys use the girls shower rooms and restrooms if they "identified" with the girls. They also have a lot of other crazy ideas and are busy teaching kids there that gender is a "choice", in spite of parents' objections. That is what started HB2 in N.C. in the first place. Perhaps you are the one who need to stop and think and find out what is really going on.

Comment How dare Texas try to protect women and children? (Score 0) 587

It is just wrong for Texas to try to protect women and children this way. Boys should be allowed to use the girl's bathrooms and showers at school as long as they claim that they "identify" with girls. Rapists should be free to enter women's rest rooms whenever they want. Texas is just being mean.

Comment What a piece of crap (Score 3, Insightful) 268

By executable the author actually means interpreted ..Any decent programmer knows this means the language is slower than need be. Translation is not a bad thing, it is another word for compiling and/or assembling, the process that converts human readable code into actual machine instructions. Any language could be compiled, but in practice some languages (for example C) are compiled (and assembled) while others (for example Basic) are typically interpreted. Interpreting makes the language slower, as a step that occurs one time in the creation of a compiled program before the program is ever run must now happen each time the program is run (and in many cases it happens each time a line of code is rerun, although there are "just-in-time" tricks that can avoid the repeated interpreting.). Interpreted languages are an unfortunate side effect of faster computers, people get lazy, want to not have to go through a separate compilation stem when making a simple change, and figure the interpreted language is "good enough" for the user, even though it means the program will run slower than need be each time every single user runs it.

Interpreted languages have their place. Basic was a good introductory teaching language in its day, as it was intended to quickly let beginners write and test their code. But only the feeble minded would have tried to use it for production coding. There are great special purpose interpreted languages like AWK that are quite good for quick and dirty one time tasks. And I'm even saying all of this as being a Forth programmer who even was on a team that implemented a Forth on the C64. (Forth actually does a lot of the "compilation" when each line or word is written, but it is still inefficient as it spends most of its time in subroutine calls and returns). But interpreted languages will always sacrifice speed, and you can write a compiler to translate any interpreted language into true machine code (although in many cases it isn't worth doing).

Comment Re:Great news (Score 1) 251

Obviously the system wasn't designed to be fair to all as you claim. It wasn't even designed to be fair to anyone who wants to rent property, as you would like to claim. If it was designed that way in the first place then the far left wouldn't be at all concerned about this and wouldn't be doing this.

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