A problem with Java and C# is that it is possible to create memory leaks in those languages, but since people rely so much on garbage collection they don't think about it and get bit in the ass. Event handlers shared across processes are particularly dangerous.

If the Germans had been putting IEDs under their AutoBahns for a decade after 1945, and continued to kill each other by the thousands, it's hard to imagine how we could have forced it to be the industrious, Bier drinking, techno loving paradise it is today.

She beamed down to the Lord of the Flies planet and almost died.

Scotty was killed in an episode, but then brought back to life.

They were going to play off the sexual tension between her and Kirk and have this simmering but never acted upon kind of thing between them. I wonder if she had remained in the series would Kirk have become the space-slut he's famous for?

[face palm] You see how I cleverly proved my own point?

While I loved that scene, it always bothered me because you never see standard keyboards in the Star Trek universe, so how did Scotty get so proficient? It's like if someone from the 1800s wrote a science fiction story about someone from the 21st century going back to their time and expecting them to be experts with the slide rule and Morris code.

I don't think defining specific isotopic ratios will be out of the question for molecular printers. If you want to make a block of wood that seems like it's a thousand years old you just fill your carbon cartridge with the correct ratio of carbon 14.

Any historical media that is exclusively digital can be forged. Once we have molecular level 3-D printers, all physical historical artifacts can potentially be forged and altered. We have to look at a possible future where there in no way to verify any historical fact, an historical fact being anything that happened more than a nanosecond ago.

That's what I get for using hard coded constants.

25 year old son Hey dad, do you have a watch I can borrow?

Father I have a watch in my top drawer, but the battery ran out.

22 year old son That's okay. I'm going to bar tonight, I don't need the watch to actually tell time.

Depends on the severity of the culling. If monsters suddenly appeared in Holland and ate everyone under 2 meters tall in one night, evolution would happen rather quickly.

Hey! It was a Canadian who wrote the most popular song about irony where most of her examples were more tragic or unfortunate than ironic--so the most popular song about irony isn't really about irony at all, which is really quite ironic, don't ya think? Which . . . come to think of it . . . might be what she was trying to accomplish through meta-irony! Boy this is starting to hurt my head. Maybe I am too stupid to understand irony. Oh wait, you weren't talking about Americans, you were talking about Amercians, those people from Amercia. Never mind.

It would be even more ironic if Shortguy881 was Dutch!

I come to slashdot for the rye remarks.