Yes, but those don't always have the real-time demands of driving.

Rules of the road are supposed to form our expectations of what traffic will do, because they are supposed to determine what the traffic will do.

So now we have to adjust to fifty (forty-eight?) sets of laws?

As Jefferson would say, only eternal vigilance can protect us.

Quantum mechanics can be approximated by Turing machines, but I'm not sure if the integrals can be exactly evaluated by Turing machines.

Apache doesn't start if networking is down.

What if just want to run Apache locally (to test web apps)?

What algorithm do we have for computing pi? Hint: Infinite series are not computable.

Are brains Turing machines?

There is some evidence that consciousness is an illusion, and that people make decisions unconsciously, and then rationalize them after the fact [about.com].

But how could we rationalize about stuff if we weren't conscious?

Does Bob Eubanks do the questioning?

Meanwhile, speaking as an H1B worker,

And what evidence do we have that you are, in fact, an H1B worker?

Believe me

If you want us to believe you, you can start by not posting anonymously.

But however much it costs, it's still easier to get support if more than one company can look at the source code.

OK, Yeah, because Canonical is the only company that can support Raring Ringtail. Nobody else could possibly read the source.

Then there's Excel, which is far, far easier to use than the Libre version.

Not for everything. How do you get a function to return an array in Excel? In LibreOffice, you click a checkbox. In Excel, it's F2, then control-shift-enter.

Yeah, because Ubuntu is the only company that can support Raring Ringtail. Nobody else could possibly read the source.