You are what is called a "C++ apologist". You are comparing C++ to nothing except itself and abstract complexity (and offhandedly VisualBasic), instead of actually coming to terms with the real problems of C++.

Let me offer you a few pieces of evidence of C++'s failures.
* C++ has a text preprocessor. A solution to engineering constraints of fucking 1970. No one has or will ever do that since 1975. Everything is and should be resolved symbolically.
* C++ is meant to be able to compile C code with no to minimal changes. This really makes
* D. Read http://dlang.org/cpptod.html which is a description of how another systems-level language dealt with perceived drawbacks of C++. I don't think D is perfect by any means, but there are many thoughtful improvements to C++.
* Read http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/defec... for a bunch of valid complaints about C++ (granted, many of those can be argued).

I remember taking a test as a VERY young child (one of my earliest memories). I was getting all of the questions right and was getting bored. As a person who loves exploring, I wanted to know what would happen if you got one wrong, so I purposely chose the wrong answer twice (choose which shape this shape can fit in - star, circle, square, or something like that). I thought it was really obvious the answer, and I chose wrong, and then was very disappointed to learn that when you get one wrong, she just says "no that's not the right answer, this is", and moves on. Turns out I "failed" the test so I didn't get in the advanced classes for kindergartners.

We already have those. They're called taxi drivers.

In the two major cities that I've lived in (in the U.S.), cab drivers are hands down the worst drivers on the road. Usually they didn't grow up in the U.S. and therefore don't drive the same. America has its faults, but we drive comparatively well compared to the rest of the world.

An interesting anecdote from a friend of mine who moved here from South America told me how he was amazed how everyone here follows the rules. He observed a thug-looking fellow bellowing loud music and smoking a joint in his car, with the implication that he probably was a person who committed crimes, but he still stopped at the stop sign.

I cannot speak for the entirety of California, but San Francisco has amazing restaurants.

No kidding - he's probably lying, but if he hired three people who couldn't use {}, or even works for a company who hired THREE of them, then he's the idiot.

FYI to your racist rant, actually it's just African Americans that are athletically superior, not blacks. African Americans are genetically superior athletically due to selective breeding due to slavery and therefore physical work. This does actually confront the "baseball" comparison of the 1950's which does not relate to 2014 Facebook racial makeup.

Comparatively, horses are incredibly larger, stronger, faster, etc., than they were just a mere 2000 years ago due to the military importance of them and therefore the immense selective breeding that came of it. The reasons a few certain countries in Africa such as Kenya always win marathons is due to genetic makeups, but it's not a "black" thing it's a gene pool thing.

"Asians" in your view are actually American Asians. The Asians who come to America are financially superior than their counterparts who could not come.

However, humans are 99.9% genetically similar. There is no plausibility that any human by race could not become equal to another by another race within a few generations of genetic swapping.

WTF? No, he or she doesn't! Name 1 game that actually requires a programmer to learn C or C++, and I can name 100 or even 200 that don't. ESPECIALLY on a smartphone.

Java is, by all benchmarks that I can find, the fastest non-native language that exists. Java was known as slow in 1996. It's been intensely optimized since. I'm sure there are some programs that are sometimes faster due to very circumstantial situations. Here's one example, there are countless others: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.d...

I also think my given citation or the many others I can find just isn't enough to make any declaration about which is "fastest" - it would be safe to say they are fairly equivalent, and this whole argument about their comparative speeds is stupid. Average CPU abilities, amount of memory accessible, and what not change so consistently that anything you write now which is a little bit too slow will be fast enough in a year.

Totally incorrect. Anything that needs fancy graphics just require an SDK with access to a fancy graphics processing engine. I've written games in Java that use OpenGL on the backend. You don't need the language to be C or C++ to access OpenGL. As far as fast processing requirements, I guarantee you most games don't actually need processing that would not be fast enough in bytecode but would be fast enough in native code.

You can also use a progressive tax system to achieve some of the same goals. In fact, we already have a progressive tax system! You just want to ramp it up a bit. I disagree with a maximum wage, and I think you are probably exaggerating anyways, but a progressive tax system is a good thing.

The most verified? The most discussed, sure. I doubt the most verified. There are thousands of data points about the existence of Julius Caesar. How many exist for said Jesus character?

What exactly are you talking about? It is not ambiguous or confusing to be opposed to the death penalty in addition to being opposed to unjust convictions.

That's complete bullshit. Just because the end result is the same doesn't mean the process is the same.

But yes I do agree with the last, all methods of killing humans are inhumane.

I don't agree that it's drinking the Kool-aid. It's definitely better than the situation in 1944. Less wars and deaths is good.