What's the difference between ISIS fundies, and American religious-right fundies?

[Sava]

h?

[Kidlicious]

Human rights

[Sava]

So you are advocating for "human rights" by restricting your "give a ****" to only one gender?

[Hauldren Collider]

Weyuuuuullllllllllllllllll....

they are funding churches and (I think) politicians that are leading the anti-homosexual movement in some African countries, which in turn has resulted in draconian anti-homosexual laws.

Uh, I think that those laws woulda passed anyway.

[Sava]

Uh, I think that those laws woulda passed anyway.

So complete denial turns into "it's irrelevant".

Do you understand how stupid you are?

[Kidlicious]

So you are advocating for "human rights" by restricting your "give a ****" to only one gender?

So you masterbate around small children?

[Hauldren Collider]

I admit, every time MrFun posts I actually do reflect on my stance on gay marriage. I start to wonder if maybe the fundamentalist christians have a good point.

[Sava]

masturbate

Fixed.

[Sava]

I admit, every time MrFun posts I actually do reflect on my stance on gay marriage. I start to wonder if maybe the fundamentalist christians have a good point.

I would agree that hatred of MrFun seems to coincide with bigotry... at probably something close to a 1:1 ratio.

[Elok]

Stop practicing your stand up routine, go learn what a lexical closure is.

Well, normal Wiki's definition was written by compsci nerds who didn't realize the only people who'd understand what they wrote were people who already knew everything they were saying. Simple Wiki's, from what I can tell, says that closure has something to do with all the associated commands and options and such surrounding a term or command in programming. Or maybe not. Still can't figure out WTF is wrong with my stupid program.

HC, there's no need to keep digging. Even conceding that some percentage of American fundies are knowingly giving money to groups which oppress and sometimes kill gays on another continent, that's still a far cry from personally forming death squads that rack up a quadruple-digit body count. Actually, it's probably five digits by now. Anyway, if being the buddy or financial backer of a brutal regime makes you equivalent to ISIS, our own government has been equivalent to ISIS more or less non-stop for well over a century, one way or another. And before that we were doing terrible things to black people, women, etc., so we were still worse by MrFunian moral standards.

[Kidlicious]

Fixed.

French sp?

[N35t0r]

LOL WAT?

[Hauldren Collider]

Well, normal Wiki's definition was written by compsci nerds who didn't realize the only people who'd understand what they wrote were people who already knew everything they were saying. Simple Wiki's, from what I can tell, says that closure has something to do with all the associated commands and options and such surrounding a term or command in programming. Or maybe not. Still can't figure out WTF is wrong with my stupid program.

HC, there's no need to keep digging. Even conceding that some percentage of American fundies are knowingly giving money to groups which oppress and sometimes kill gays on another continent, that's still a far cry from personally forming death squads that rack up a quadruple-digit body count. Actually, it's probably five digits by now. Anyway, if being the buddy or financial backer of a brutal regime makes you equivalent to ISIS, our own government has been equivalent to ISIS more or less non-stop for well over a century, one way or another. And before that we were doing terrible things to black people, women, etc., so we were still worse by MrFunian moral standards.

A lexical closure is a function and its associated scope. That is, it is a function combined with all of the variables that it "knows" about. So let's say I have the following javascript function:

function foo (arg1, arg2) {
    var x = arg1 + 2;
    function bar(arg3) {
        x++;
        return arg2 + arg3 + x;
    }
    return bar;
}

What this code does is this:
When I call foo(a, b), first it stores a + 2 in a new variable, x. It then creates and returns a new function bar which we refer to as being closed over x, arg1, and arg2. What this means is that not only is it able to access arg3, it can also access x, arg1, and arg2. A "closure" is the combination of a function--some piece of code--and all the variables it has access to. A function plus its memory, as it were. Anyway, function bar then increments x--this is the *same x* as in function foo. So if we were to call bar twice, x would increase by 2. function bar then returns b plus its parameter (arg3) plus x.

By using closures, I can create a variable and then make it only modifiable by a particular routine. I can essentially make the variable "private". Say I had some module that counted something. I don't want somebody else's module to be able to reset the counter. I dont' want someone to increment the counter by more than one. I can put the counter variable in a closure and pass a function around that increments the counter, without letting anyone actually be able to mess with the counter directly (i.e., other than through the function). This is one of many ways in which closures are useful.

Sorry if that wasn't a great explanation, I've been writing a compiler for like 12 hours and I'm tired. Hope this helped.

[Sava]

You should write some code for something useful.

[Hauldren Collider]

OK.

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