We still all agree that Communism's little "quirk" of killing millions every time it's tried is user error or whatever? Right?

If we're going to speak meaningfully about where Europeans come from, we need to include wherever they picked up Neanderthal DNA (hint: not in Africa; no African population has it).

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-out-of-afr...

You are very poorly informed. The laws against "being a Nazi" are generic "no bad speech" laws. Nazism is just their most well-known application. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksverhetzung

> Spoiler: it's a lie.

A lawyer went to prison, for statements she made, in court, in defense of her client. That's not supposed to happen. It's not a feature.

Except that it is.

https://www.casamo.com/can-you-sue-for-defamation-during-tri...

Oh it was ILLEGAL. Why didn't you say so? That makes it totally palatable that a lawyer might be imprisoned for doing his job, and doesn't AT ALL impeach the entire concept of a "trial."

> would be illegal even outside the context of being a federal court lawyer.

You have it backwards, friend. The inside of a courtroom needs MORE protections for speech, not fewer, than the outside. Laws like libel simply don't apply there (disclaimer: in the US. Can't speak for how they do it in failed states like Germany), and for very good reason.

Fair trials without all that pesky social change! What could possibly go wrong?

The action doesn't need embellishment from me.

80 cops "failed to notice" over 1000 violent crimes taking place in a space about the size of a football field, over the course of several hours.

My "speculation" is, by far, the very kindest interpretation.

> So the law was correctly applied.

Let's hope so. Defending her is a crime so we'll never really know.

We'll just make a list of all the arguments that are okay to advance in court, so then lawyers know which ones are forbidden.

That seems like a good concept with no far-reaching implications.

Unless the people who own all the infrastructure disagree with you, and refuse to accept your money.

Very true. Well, except maybe for that one time when Germany became an open-air rape camp under the noses of police who did nothing for fear of being accused of racism. That kind of sucked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_Eve_sexual_assaul...

And, oh yeah, there was that time they threw a lawyer in jail for defending a Holocaust denier.

http://www.dw.com/en/german-neo-nazi-lawyer-sentenced-for-de...

But otherwise, sure, unqualified success. Great example.

how would it not

String literals are described by the following lexical definitions:

   stringliteral:   shortstring | longstring
   shortstring:     "'" shortstringitem* "'" | '"' shortstringitem* '"'
   longstring:      "'''" longstringitem* "'''" | '"""' longstringitem* '"""'
   shortstringitem: shortstringchar | escapeseq
   longstringitem:  longstringchar | escapeseq
   shortstringchar: 
   longstringchar:  
   escapeseq:       "\" 

More generally, there is no way in (many languages including) Python to treat an arbitrary (yet known) block of data as data.

Mostly an urban myth. Where it isn't, at least 8 of those ways are actually important.

Exercise: write a python program that prints Python's quoting documentation, without external files, without editing the documentation. Spoiler alert: it's impossible.

It only makes sense to ask a rockstar do-it-all to do it when you already got 40 hours from him, aren't paying OT, don't give a shit about his mental health, and are wringing as many hours as possible out of him to reduce the effective hourly rate.

This is the thinking of a scumbag cheapskate turd. No one who is paying a fair price for talent like this would waste it on vague low-level chores.

So when, under the rubric of "general office IT," I'm asked to purge malware or replenish toner, I can reply with a lmgtfy link and a jocular reminder that I'm way too busy to give a shit about their irrelevant self-inflicted problems, right?