> However, the government is still constrained by the constitution

Ha! ROFLMAO at that.

The Airline can tell me whatever they like, and I can tell them whatever I like, and they can go frack themselves.

The government are the ones who threaten you with prison if you talk to someone while you are on an aircraft -- but only if you are not wealthy enough for a private charter.

I see, so it is an unconstitutional law.

I found the notion that this was common sense and courtesy to be amusing. If you have to threaten people with prison, then it is neither common sense nor courtesy.

It''s pretty damn uncourteous to put people in prison.

I propose a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and endorsement for the Nobel Peace Prize.

You seem to be missing a dose of reality. A quality product at a discount price typically cannot compete with established manufacturing, distribution and advertising channels. It requires deep pockets and order of magnitude value improvements to succeed against an entrenched player. That's why we don't have flying cards and a Mars colony. Competition is so inefficient as an economic organizing principle that it is literally killing millions every day. Perhaps the only worse principle is central planning.

To lump Java with Ruby demonstrates utter disregard for actual performance in favor of ideological blinders.

> you also need to use 2-pass algorithms to compute Mean Absolute Deviation

Only naively. One pass will suffice.

In other news, there is more than one dimension!

and that's a good thing. we need to render presecriptive grammar obsolete. this can only be done incrementally, by habituating our correspondents to ideographic style

I don't trust der speigel. show us the docs or it didn't happen.

Anyone who finds it useful to call people useless fucking morons is a useless fucking moron.

I have tripled my money in 2 months of bitcoin investing. Wake me up when you triple your money.

It doesn't matter how much the price of bitcoin fluctuates when you are just using it to form a contract. When I send USD using bitpay or any of its competitors, it saves me money, and bitcoin is invisible.

It doesn't matter what bitcoin costs when it is used to transmit USD. Bitcoins are just elements of a protocol for secure transmission of funds. Because they are in limited supply, they are valuable, but you don't need to speculate in bitcoins to use them to transmit funds at much lower cost than other systems allow.

Corruption is the system which enforces the rules against corruption.

With non-anonymous coins, theft is not merely a possibility, but a guarantee. Someone with a gun will take your coins, period.