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Benny Pollak's Rants: January 2006
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Sunday, January 08, 2006. Declaration of Independence, circa 2000. WHEN in the Course of a Presidential Election,. Hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Politicians are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator, and their Wealthy Ancestry, with certain unalienable Traits, that among these are Arrogance, Self-righteousness and the Pursuit of. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, ...
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My Programming Rants: January 2006
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Sunday, January 08, 2006. How do I Love thee C? Let Me Count the Ways. While casually glancing at the CORBA C bindings, I read about the very nice wrapper class String var. It has all the nice features of String classes and smart pointers. It, of course, has overloaded constructors for char * and const char *. Only one of them (char *) takes over the pointer and frees it in its destructor. You wouldn't want anyone doing a free(. Hello world"), Which is why you need the two constructors. Grace Hopper: whe...
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Benny Pollak's Rants: March 2007
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Sunday, March 18, 2007. Where I Get My Ethics from Part I: The 10 Commandments. Being an atheist, I am constantly being asked the question of where I get my ethics from. My answer is very simple: t. He same place most people get them from, various sources,. For example. As is the case with everybody, I cherry pick only the ones I agree with. Let's take a look at this, here's the text:. You shall have no other gods before me:. Again, there is a freedom of expression issue here. Even though I see no re...
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Benny Pollak's Rants: February 2007
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Sunday, February 04, 2007. Okay, the debate is over, I think it has finally become apparent that the consensus in the scientific community is that climate change not only is happening but it is most likely caused by human activity. The question is, what can we do now? I believe the short answer is: nothing. Fog emergency in 1952, they do. In cases like that, it was very clear what needed to be done and there was a marked improvement in the situation in a very short time. This is complicated by the fact t...
