There's been a live action Doc Savage movie that mixed several of the early stories into one. The audience laughed at some of the incidents such as having Doc's arm muscles bulge so much when he's pulling a bullet out of the side of a safe that they split the seams of his jacket, even though that's straight out of the book. There was also an anime version of The Lensman made by a Japanese animator who neither understood the material nor had proper permission to make or release it. And yes, they deserve to be made again, along with some of the later Oz stories.

Go fix the fucking border.

These are Democrats; they like the border as it is. It's the Republicans who think it needs fixing.

Well, Tarzan has been done to death, but there's another rip-roaring adventure series Burroughs wrote that takes place on Barsoom, his version of Mars, along with several different races of aliens, including giant Green Martians with four arms, and a set of four novels and a novelette that take place on Amtor AKA Venus. Lots of room for great movies with stories that are new to today's audiences without needing the slightest bit of originality from the screenwriters.

I can well remember when Linda Lovelace was better known than Lady Ada. Does that make me an old phart?

Combined with the robots, the robot could flank just because you feel the need you should have a flank.

You always have two flanks, one on each side, because that's what flanks are. You either need to anchor your flanks on something that the enemy can't get around, such as a river or a ravine, or you need to station some troops to guard your flanks unless you want to have the enemy attack there and roll your entire line up. Using robots there would be reasonable because anybody they detect coming at them can only be the enemy.

What method is best sometimes depends on what you know how to do, not which one is most efficient. I've seen cases where inexperienced coders, or coders whose only computer education was a coding school, have used bubble sorts on files large enough that more efficient sorts would be better simply because that's the only sort they knew.

Now you're adding arbitrary restrictions. Who said that it had to be written in C?

...along with the obvious differences in variable names and such.

Changing the variable names is trivial and doesn't make any difference in how the code runs. What matters is changes in the structure and underlying logic. There's more than one way to do any task on a computer, and using the exact same way as the program you're accused of stealing is a great big red flag, especially to a jury of non-computer people.

Suppose we elected 338 independents to Parliament, each one of them selected through a good election based not on partisanship but on reasonable platforms in an effort to actually represent the wishes of the constituents.

What you would have is exactly what the Confederacy had. With no political parties (although they were starting to form by the time the war ended) the Administration would have to put together a coalition to work on getting each bill passed, expending political capital as needed to bring the members together. Then, once the bill was passed or defeated, the coalition would fall apart, meaning that the whole process of getting together enough votes to get a bill passed would have to be taken again and again and again. A lack of stable groups of members who shared common goals (and that's what parties are, when you come down to it) proved to be a great stumbling block for them because it slowed things down considerably when time was of the essence.

This is like saying Xu Yanjun is in the clear because somebody else leaked the trade secrets to him.

Why wouldn't that work? It worked for the people who published the Pentagon Papers, didn't it?

The USPS isn't any better. I live in Trinidad, CO and get shipments of medicine from the VA, often from Albuquerque, NM. I often see in the tracking info that the package has gone from Albuquerque to Denver, right past Trinidad, then a day later coming back down to be delivered. Once, a package of insulin, something that needs to be kept cold, was sent from Tuscon AZ to Memphis TN and back to Denver before being delivered. Yes, it was still cold because the VA is very good about insulating the shipments and including packs of blue ice. Still, you have to wonder who thought that that was a sensible route for any package, let alone something like insulin!

That's why everything copyrighted has a copyright date. After that date, the public is supposed to get that content for free and to be able to make derivative works.

You have that backwards. The copyright date is the year that the copyright starts, not ends. In order to find out when it ends, you take that year, add the number of years copyright lasted in that year and that's when it ends.

Not a smooth move, ExLax. If you're fired or laid off, you're entitled to a number of things starting with getting your last paycheck within 24 hours, getting Unemployment Compensation and possibly other benefits. If you quit, you get your last paycheck when everybody else does and you're not eligible for Unemployment or some of those other benefits. About the only good thing about quitting instead of getting fired is that warm glow of self-righteous pride, but that doesn't pay the bills.

K' Breel has been made aware of the authors of this slanderous allegation...

I have no idea who K' Breel is, or any reason to fear him/her/it. I'd be much more concerned if Tars Tarkas were to take umbrage with Earth.

You do know, don't you, that the coastal part of the Sahara, and parts of the interior were lush grasslands in Roman times? Not only that, they stayed that way until the Bedouins arrived and turned it all into desert, as that's the only type of land they've ever understood or been comfortable in. They're often called the "sons of the desert," but in fact, they're the fathers.