• Mike R. (unregistered)

    I think the WTF was making an offhand post-election political comment...

  • e. thermal (unregistered)

    I guess that's the problem with democracy there is nothing to protect the people from themselves. To someone's point earlier, if something takes the popular vote it doesn't mean it should be law. That is why there is a constitution, to try and protect people from themselves. And yes judges are there to uphold the constituion. I would bet, if left to a vote, most basic rights every American enjoys would be taken away. One really springs to mind "Freedom of speech".. exactly the thing the moral majority work very hard to abolish.

  • Brent Railey (unregistered)

    Awesome! Now I am a redneck hillbilly from backwoods nowhere! Only those with the intellectual capacity of Sherlock Holmes could use such astute deductive reasoning to conclude that I am a redneck merely from my stance on gay marriage.

    Wait...

    I have to go brush my tooth, clean my belt buckle, and polish my snakeskin boots. I have a banjo recital tonight!

    Texas Programmer, you cracked me up. Thanks for coming to defend with such eloquence!

  • Adrián (unregistered)

    My opinion: I string with missing quotation marks!!!!!.

    Harrrrdcoddde!!

  • foobar (unregistered)

    I think the original blog post was fair. He didn't make his opinion as to whether he thought the choice was good or bad, he was merely pointing out that some people thought the choice was bad.

    Fair enough, I think. And just enough politics to be appropriate and funny for a programming blog, but not enough to be inappropriate.

    Please take your political views to the political blogs. Lord knows there are enough of them to go around.

    Why does the ultra-right think that this election is a Sign From God to change everything and why does the left continually blast the right (99% of whom aren't radical fundamentalists) as stupid gun-toting religious freaks?

    It's funny how the left stereotypes, pigeon-holes, descriminates against, and down-right insults the right while claiming that the right is intolerant, "us-vs-them", demonizing, etc.

    The left really needs a wake-up call here. At least the ultra-rightists know that they're biggoted, stereotyping, full-of-hatred fundamentalists and proud of it. The ultra-left still seems to be in denial of this fact. Especially when they throw around words like 'religious and warlike', etc. in the same breath as accusing the right of being intolerant.

    I suggest to all the lefties here that before you start stereotyping and being biggoted ignoramouses, you should take a look at your own stereotyping, biggoted, ignoramic behavior and maybe that'll give you a clue why the left is losing so much power today.

  • foobar (unregistered)

    One other thing, why do people who are against the Iraq war lament the death of possible 15,000 Iraqis (a number I question, but for the sake of argument...) but were strangely silent when, for the past 12 years or so, Saddam was averaging a slaughter of around 5,000 a month.

    Last official body count was around 300,000 - 350,000 dead at the hands of the Saddam since Gulf War I. This is under the Oil for Food program, mind you. No telling how many countless people he slaughtered before 1991. A million Iraqis and Iranians died in the Iraq/Iran war according to various sources (UN, Amnesty International, etc).

    The Right and the Left both choose when and what numbers they will use to defend their cause. For example, the Right conveniently forgets the Reagan/Bush support of the Iraqis in the Iraq/Iran war to get back and the Iranians and to cause problems for the Soviets, and the left conveniently forgets all the corruption in the UN by the French, Russians, Germans, and Iraqis under the Oil for Influence -- I mean Food program headed up and profiting Kofi Anan's own son and probably himself, not to mention the 300,000+ slaughtered under this program by Saddam. The left idly sat by and did nothing and now lament a few 15,000 dead in a war to save umteen million people?

    Face it, the Right made a big mistake in the 80's in the middle east by supporting Iraq, by supporting the Mujahadeen (Bin Laden), etc, and the Left made a big mistake in the 90's by letting Bin Laden get away 3-4 times, by not doing something about Iraq and making the UN look like an idiot the entire middle east and the terrorists, and seem to be making it worse now by blaming Bush for everything which is unfair. He was merely the last idiot to come along and mix things up. The blame goes back long before Reagan, Carter, etc. At least now the Iraqis are free, Saddam is out of power, we know there are no longer any WMDs (where they went is troubling -- they didn't just disappear after the UN inspectors found them in 1998 and were promptly kicked out of Iraq), AND we know that the UN, French, Russians, and Germans had their red hands in the Iraqi cookie jar, stabbing us in the back all along.

    All the cards are on the table, so we can finally begin to get some truth.

  • Ian T (unregistered)

    @ Bill B ... way back

    > Like Mayor Daley of Chicago said, if you want to defend marriage, start with divorce..

    and like Bill Hicks said "if you want to be so pro-life, blockade the cemetary"

    DailyWTF rocks... when the ego contest doesn't get in the way! : )

  • ScanIAm (unregistered)

    Concering the comment by Andrew about a case statement having 256 cases:

    State Machines are very easily written using switch/case statements. For large and/or complicated systems, you can end up with many huge switch/case statements. It is even possible to have your 'default:' statement jump to a second function that again contains a huge switch/case statement.

    This may not seem like a good idea for applications that handle user input, but systems that deal directly with hardware almost require it.

  • StriKer (unregistered) in reply to ScanIAm

    Smells like teen scripting

  • (cs) in reply to Dave Mays
    Anonymous:
    I'm surprised when I meet programmers who are Democrats, but more because programmers tend to make a pretty high salary compared to the average in the country.


    I'm surprised when I meet programmers who are members of either half of The US Political Party (the Repatricians and the Demogogues: one organization with two faces, in all senses of that term), but more because programmers need to have a certain amount of intelligence, including and ability to detect and reject the sort of nonsensical smoke and mirrors that The Party puts out. But then, this page regularly demonstrates that many, if not most, programmer slack the intelligence the job requires, so...
  • Dan (unregistered) in reply to Texas Programmer

    Wow. A person who can copy and paste from www.insultmonger.com

    Well done.

  • (cs) in reply to foobar
    Anonymous:
    One other thing, why do people who are against the Iraq war lament the death of possible 15,000 Iraqis (a number I question, but for the sake of argument...) but were strangely silent when, for the past 12 years or so, Saddam was averaging a slaughter of around 5,000 a month.


    Because Saddam was never the Good Guy.



    The Right and the Left both choose when and what numbers they will use to defend their cause. For example, the Right conveniently forgets the Reagan/Bush support of the Iraqis in the Iraq/Iran war to get back and the Iranians and to cause problems for the Soviets, and the left conveniently forgets all the corruption in the UN by the French, Russians, Germans, and Iraqis under the Oil for Influence -- I mean Food program headed up and profiting Kofi Anan's own son and probably himself, not to mention the 300,000+ slaughtered under this program by Saddam. The left idly sat by and did nothing and now lament a few 15,000 dead in a war to save umteen million people?


    Nearly a decent paragraph except for "probably himself" and "a few 15,000 dead"




    we know there are no longer any WMDs (where they went is troubling -- they didn't just disappear after the UN inspectors found them in 1998 and were promptly kicked out of Iraq), AND we know that the UN, French, Russians, and Germans had their red hands in the Iraqi cookie jar, stabbing us in the back all along.


    Or, you could face the fact that politicians lie, and there were no WMD (the UN never found any, just indications they were trying to make stuff.)

    Has everyone forgotten the cool computer graphics of mobile anthrax labs that they kept showing?

    AND we all know that the UN, French, Russians and Germans are Communists because....

    Gak, my brain just rebooted from trying to comprehend how an organisation the US is part of managed to be Communist without that making America Communist.

    Also, regarding France, Germany and Russia selling to the Iraqis... Henry Ford donated money to a fledgling Nazi party, IBM's computing machines greatly facilitated the Nazi administration, and Coca Cola invented Fanta, as the local German unit couldn't source the syrup during WWII...

    What's your point? Business has always been business, the profits and risks just get a little higher at times.


  • ELIZA (unregistered) in reply to DrPizza
    DrPizza:
    "But, if you don't want a political fire pit here, try not to take a cheap shot at many in America who do vote based on "moral" values by branding them as hypocrites. "

    There's nothing moral about voting to outlaw gay marriage or re-electing a fiscally irresponsible warmonger.

    It's not "morality" that made people re-elect W. It's "bigotry".

    "judicial activism" is a bullshit term invented by the neocons to describe the process of judges striking down laws that are unconstitutional. Which is their fucking job.

    Seriously, there needs to be a judicial-branch body with the power to tell Congress that no they cannot pass a law that violates the Constitution, preferably one with the power to introduce legislative rewrites, which always seem to be required by groundbreaking cases. Sometimes it seems like the people who write the laws know they are popular, or pander blatantly to the right special-interest groups like the Midwest Ethanol Lobby (or the left ones like MM and the Heritage Foundation), and reason that they are therefore constitutional. PS, does anyone else wonder if tax-exempt status counts as establishment of religion?

  • british (unregistered) in reply to Bill B

    Hello from 2020- yes that is exactly where we have gone, but it's the left who is intolerant. They're the ones pushing cancel culture and trying to wipe out freedom of speech

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