Or if you really want to save that 1 line of text:

if ( ( a == b ) ) {
// yadda
}


Now it's no longer an assignment where a boolean expression is expected, it's an expression where a boolean expression is expected.

Sure there is. Your declaration doesn't match your definition. Bad. Fix it.

You are just not trying hard enough. I write various commercial products which compile with _no_ warnings. And yes, this is for performance-critical services, and a few hundred thousand lines of code.

All in the space of a connector the size of your thurmb...

You need to complete your analogy. The ones that "only took a spray can and shot a few seconds" were willfully joining into an expansive coordinated attack with the intent to amplify the damage. This wasn't a case of "wrong place at the wrong time", they knew they were joining a larger group. One of Niven's laws... "Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man."

Actually it doesn't. If they catch the 2nd person, then the 1st person would have standing to sue the 2nd for their portion. Why should the ultimate victim bear the costs?

Why not? If you figure it's that unfair, go sue the rest of the people who were destroying the house to reclaim the portions of the cost that you feel is their responsibility.

I recall the same thing. "Must have 5 years of experience with Windows 95"... in 1998. I was thinking: "Uh, that's about 6 people in the world, and the all currently work for Microsoft...."

For #2. If the job description says 5 years of C# and you don't have it (and your cover letter doesn't have an adequate explanation why that shortcoming won't be an issue), your resume will be immediately thrown away due to your obvious inability to follow direction. If you're not going to listen before you have the job, what makes me think that you'll listen after you have the job?

You may wish to examine how Ford determined that the potential for fire exists. Likely it's because there were a few cases out in the wild where the Escapes actually did ignite, prompting some sort of investigation as to why they ignited, which lead to the determination that there was a fault in design, which lead to a recall. Since this investigation has determined that a fault exists, Ford is proactively avoiding lawsuits by recalling vehicles that are now known to be faulty.

Do be sure that when calculating the per mile cost on the IC automobile you include the costs of rebuilding the engine/transmission, and the rest of the IC maintenance (timing chains, spark plugs, etc).

Exactly. It also means that a car that gets 4.1 and a 5.9 is also a "5 star" car. Which is probably equally misleading.

Yep. The NHTSA apparently gives the manufacturers the individual ratings in each category, which presumably go above 5 and may be decimal. They may have some sort of agreement that they aren't allowed to publish the individual ratings.

Apparently people aren't reading what's been said. Tesla's press release says: "National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has awarded the Tesla Model S a 5-star safety rating", and "NHTSA does not publish a star rating above 5". Thus Tesla is not claiming that they were assigned a 5.4 since they outright acknowledge that NHTSA doesn't publish a rating above 5. What Tesla did say is that if one were to take the individual scores that were provided by the NHTSA (which apparently includes ratings above 5, and possibly decimal as well) and average those, the resultant number would be a 5.4.
Now what is probably getting the other manufacturers upset is that the clipping of the results at 5 means that the vehicles that just squeaked into the 5 look the same as vehicles which may have blown past the 5. If they didn't like that, why aren't the individual scores also integral and clipped at 5? Then one could not possibly claim (or even appear to claim) a number higher than 5.
So, this whole release is trying to beat up Tesla for something they didn't say. They didn't say that the NHTSA awarded them a 5.4 rating (see the first quote). They did say: "achieved a new combined record of 5.4 stars.".

Then they shouldn't be in the meeting. Here's where the problem is. People calling meetings and including as many people as possible so as to appear important "look how many people I can get to show up", instead of calling the people to which the meeting's content matters. Yes, doing email or making phone calls during a meeting is a bad thing. (Additionally, meetings that just simply go on too long. People who want to rehash the same thing over and over, that sort of thing.)