I am a Democrat, and while I think the Mike Huckabee is a complete idiot on the great majority of his stances, I think his income tax abolishment and consumption tax proposal has great merit.

All we need to do is increase the state sales tax rate by the amount of the consumption tax. Then, the state can make tax payments to the federal government. No more income tax. Take a tax whenever money is exchanged for goods or services.

This means that we get all of the tax revenue when illegally acquired revenue gets spent. We also get federal tax revenue from visiting tourists. We also (finally) get the federal tax revenue from churches when they spend money. It also means that people who save (and not spend) actually get an immediate benefit by investing/saving.

Taxing income is moronic. There's too many ways to dodge it, too many ways to loophole it, too many ways to deduct it, too many ways to make exceptions.

Make it fair for everyone. Charge federal tax at the cash register.

It isn't when the person doesn't care. It is when the entire chain of individuals responsible for launching the nuke doesn't care.

This is why MAD works. If MAD was in the hands of any one individual, it wouldn't work.

Even if a crackpot leader wanted to launch a nuke or some other WMD, they couldn't do so if their subordinates couldn't be convinced to follow the order. I'm fairly certain that crackpot leaders have wanted to push the button in the past -- and were rebuked. You are naive if you think this situation hasn't occurred before.

I'm not worried one bit about North Korean or Iranian leaders and their grandstanding.

What does worry me is that world leaders don't do enough to understand and address the motivation behind this grandstanding.

Wow, what amazing genius.

What we have is an MIT CS dork who is bringing everything full circle and realizing that actually rotation, movement, and proximity are important factors in a human-to-machine interface.

NO SHIT SHERLOCK.

Is this really that ground-breaking? My god. Ever see a music mixing board? Ever see a keyboard synthesizer? Ever see a hifi music component? Ever see a car? Ever see a door? All of these machines have knobs, sliders, buttons, handles, and a brain which can alter the behavior of the machine based on the combinations of positions of knobs and sliders and buttons.

So this guy is asserting that these concepts are going to introduce a new and innovative way that humans interact with machines? GIVE ME A BREAK.

Perhaps next, he should create a new tool called a "roundling" which looks exactly like a tire and will revolutionize the way that humans move from one place to another.

I have to say after reading this article -- Stroustrup is a tool. It is just that simple. Nothing more than a pundit at this point. He had a stroke of genius in programming and now is an expert in everything related to programming.

He thinks companies aren't happy with their graduates? Well, I say companies have terrible hiring practices, terrible mentorship programs, and ridiculous expectations.

Balance the theoretical and the practical? Wow. Brilliant observation. Great, Bjarne. Please give us more sweeping Karate-Kid style one-liners.

High schools should teach students to work hard? Great, Bjarne. Thanks again for that. Search out information as needed? Another stroke of brilliance. Express ideas in writing and verbally? WOW. PINCH ME. Such genius can only be dreamed of.

Then, the article closes with him trying to be edgy and go out "with a bang". Sloppy, fat geeks. Nice. This guy is a douchebag. Pure and simple.

Here is my own contribution to douchbaggery... I think we should take aging, isolated, self-important pundits out into a remote area and bury them neck deep in the dirt.