I was listening to some old-timey music (British rock from the 70’s and 80’s) when it occurred to me that the wheels have turned so that the music of the left’ outrage from Thatcherite Britain has become especially timely today:
They smiled so much and waved their flagsThe oldies still are goodies, even if these aren’t getting played on the ClearChannel nostalgia factory stations. Posted by AKMA at October 20, 2002 06:28 PM | TrackBack
As she saluted to the military band
Most of the people failed to see
She had a broken bottle in the other hand
And she took them by surprise
When she took them by the throat
And said "My friend you're not allowed to vote"
But they shook it all off
With a nervous laugh and cough
"Next time," she said "I'll let those people choke"The people who grinned themselves to death
Smiled so much they failed to take a breath
And even when their kids were starving
They all thought the queen was charming
-- The Housemartins, “the People Who Grinned Themselves to Death”"Today, institutions fundamental to the British system of Government are under attack: the public schools, the house of Lords, the Church of England, the holy institution of Marriage, even our magnificent police force are no longer safe from those who would undermine our society, and it's about time we said 'enough is enough' and saw a return to the traditional British values of discipline, obedience, morality and freedom.
What we want is:Freedom from the reds and the blacks and the criminals
Prostitutes, pansies and punks
Football hooligans, juvenile delinquents
Lesbians and left wing scum
Freedom from the niggers and the Pakis and the unions
Freedom from the Gipsies and the Jews
Freedom from leftwing layabouts and students
Freedom from the likes of you..."
-- Tom Robinson, “Power In The Darkness”I'm speaking to the Justice League of America.
The U S of A,
Hey you, yes you in particular!
When it comes to the judgement day and you're standing at the gates with your weaponry,
You dead go down on one knee,
Clasp your hands in prayer and start quoting me,
'Cos we say...
Our father we've managed to contain the epidemic in one place, now,
Let's hope they shoot themselves instead of others,
Help to civilize the race now.
We've trapped the cause of the plague,
In the land of the free and the home of the brave.
If we listen quietly we can hear them shooting from grave to grave.
You ought to,Melt the guns, melt the guns,
Melt the guns, and never more to fire them.Melt the guns, melt the guns,
Melt the guns, and never more desire them.
-- XTC, “melt the Guns”Help save the youth of America
Help save them from themselves
Help save the sun-tanned surfer boys
And the Californian girls. . . .Listen to the voice of the soldier
Down in the killing zone
Talking about the cost of living
And the price of bringing him homeThey're already shipping the body bags
Down by the Rio Grande
But you can fight for democracy at home
And not in some foreign landAnd the fate of the great United States
Is entwined in the fate of us all
And the incident at Tschernobyl proves
The world we live in is very smallAnd the cities of Europe have burned before
And they may yet burn again
And if they do I hope you understand
That Washington will burn with them
Omaha will burn with them
Los Alamos will burn with them
-- Billy Bragg, “help Save the Youth of America”
Seth Roby graduated in May of 2003 with a double major in English and Computer Science, the Macintosh part of a three-person Macintosh, Linux, and Windows graduating triumvirate.
Posted by: Edith at January 12, 2004 09:57 PMNote the new asterisks whenever we reference favoriteNumber, except for that new line right before the return.
Posted by: Christopher at January 12, 2004 09:57 PMThis variable is then used in various lines of code, holding values given it by variable assignments along the way. In the course of its life, a variable can hold any number of variables and be used in any number of different ways. This flexibility is built on the precept we just learned: a variable is really just a block of bits, and those bits can hold whatever data the program needs to remember. They can hold enough data to remember an integer from as low as -2,147,483,647 up to 2,147,483,647 (one less than plus or minus 2^31). They can remember one character of writing. They can keep a decimal number with a huge amount of precision and a giant range. They can hold a time accurate to the second in a range of centuries. A few bits is not to be scoffed at.
Posted by: Barnard at January 12, 2004 09:57 PMThis will allow us to use a few functions we didn't have access to before. These lines are still a mystery for now, but we'll explain them soon. Now we'll start working within the main function, where favoriteNumber is declared and used. The first thing we need to do is change how we declare the variable. Instead of
Posted by: Conrad at January 13, 2004 08:23 AMLet's see an example by converting our favoriteNumber variable from a stack variable to a heap variable. The first thing we'll do is find the project we've been working on and open it up in Project Builder. In the file, we'll start right at the top and work our way down. Under the line:
Posted by: Alexander at January 13, 2004 08:24 AMBeing able to understand that basic idea opens up a vast amount of power that can be used and abused, and we're going to look at a few of the better ways to deal with it in this article.
Posted by: Rosanna at January 13, 2004 08:24 AM