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Comment Re:The Amish are pretty nasty (Score 1) 39

Check your ignorance.

Don't argue with that fuckwit. Malcontents like rsilvergun are perpetually enraged by the existence of Amish and other such faith communities that fail to fail.

Yes, you are correct: they are growing steadily, snapping up affordable land when large chunks of contiguous property becomes available. They prefer land that has low value to conventional agrarians; northern state rural property, where winter provides free refrigeration for slaughter. A bonus when it has tracts of hardwood lumber, which they clear (by hand) and use for high quality furniture products.

And the food is crazy. They eat like 19th century landed aristocracy.

Comment Re: Seriously? (Score 1) 71

No, Doxygen support only determines which languages aren't acceptable.

Actually, a good documentation program that can generate static html pages, is easy to use, doesn't take up too much vertical space, and a few other requirements it the criterion, but basically that's Doxygen or Javadoc, and I don't like Java. ... Well, actually one of the requirements is the same documentation system needs to work on all the programs in the project.

E.g. Markdown takes up too much vertical space. (The requirement for blank lines.) That means that when I'm editing I can't see both the documentation and the cpde.

Comment Re:The Romans (Score 1) 75

There is "no safe quantity" of air to breathe.
Every breath contains cancer-causing oxygen, radioactive particles, and maybe asbestos fibres. There is no threshold - at least no known one.

In plain English, "safe" means low risk. And your theoretically non-zero but immeasurably low risk still counts as safe. You are using technical terms to scare and deceive. Why? How does it make you feel?

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 1) 71

An interesting selection of langauges. I, personally, switch between C++, Python, and D, depending on what I'm doing. I find all of the ones you selected ... umm ... less suitable. I'd be interested in Go if Doxygen could handle it. Similarly for Ruby. Both have cases where they would be the better choice, but documentation of my work says to avoid them. (And Sphinx is lousy, but since Doxygen handles Python I don't need to deal with it.)

Comment Re:The problem with swatting is not the callers (Score 1) 96

You're being silly. Yes, there are lots of instances of the police being trigger happy, and that's a real problem that should have consequences...but...the swatters are the problem here.

It's not clear how the system could be redesigned to serve the needed purpose, but also not allow malicious individuals to abuse it. Being able to trace calls to the emergency system, though, would seem to be a step in the right direction.

Comment Re:You don't use Facebook for the manwhoring (Score 1) 101

What proportion of those who are potential customers are on each of those sites?

It really shouldn't be your only internet presence, you should have your own web site, that's linked to by various social media, but the relative importance of the different social media is "What proportion customers are on *that* site?".

Comment Re:The Romans (Score 1) 75

Scientists have long demonstrated and agreed there's no safe quantity of lead in the body.

It sounds like you don't know what the technical meaning of "no safe quantity" is. If you did, you'd be aware that your audience does not, and would avoid it. What do you even think "safe" means?

Here is an example: there is no "safe amount of time" you can walk outdoors without possibly being struck by a meteorite. Even a walk to the mailbox, it is possible to be hit by an asteroid. Understand? The risk is proportional to time outdoors

But in toxicology, a "safe quantity" means a known amount, below which there is zero risk. The amount of the toxin must reach a threshold before any harm is possible.

So even if there is "no safe quanity" scary words used, the actual risk may be a tiny fraction of trivial. Please stop bullshitting people with technically true, but misleading words. Oh, it's your hobby?

Comment Re:Anti-ageing. (Score 1) 16

I suspect it's a poorly written description. From reading the article I believe that the light is transiting through the "crystal", and being continually replaced by the lasers that are necessary. I'm not really sure, because the description was so poorly written...or rather written to be exciting rather than descriptive.

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