I'll add one more thing. Sometimes you got to have a Python thread and most of the time it's because you need to do some I/O that is separate from your main thread of execution. Keep it to a minimum and you won't take too much of a performance hit.

Seriously though, Python is good for getting stuff done when you don't really care how fast it is completed. Otherwise there are better languages out there, but most would argue that the performance gains you make are offset by the programmer productivity lost.

Let's be honest. Python may support multiple threads of execution, but most of the time (thanks to the GIL) it's just shooting yourself in the foot. Threads in Python always had the feel of being simply a feature that is on a checklist. "Does Python have multithreading? Yea sure..."

You better off keeping the multithreaded work in C or just run multiple Python processes.

In an open primary you can only vote for one party. You declare the party you plan to vote on at the desk and then your choices for office are limited by the party that you chose. If you're a democrat and voted in the republican primary you forfeit any possibility of voting for a democrat candidate running for any other office during the primary.

I personally prefer this method, since people are not forced to update their party affiliation prior to the primary and it allows independents to vote. In my neck of the woods, the republican candidate runs unopposed therefore the only chance for any independent or democratic voter to choose who will fill that office is with an open primary.

Nice "Bumper Sticker" phrase. It doesn't answer the question.

You've never been to the school board meetings in my area. We've had enough political motivation to create a completely new school system and secede from our very large countywide school system. The main benefit was not the closer management of funds collected from property taxes, but the ability to only hire competent teachers from the old system.

The long history of public employment abuse definitely shows some sort protection is needed.

What makes a teacher more important than any other occupation?

Let's replace your anecdotal evidence with some information gathered by the Pew Research Center:

Smartphone Owners in 2014:

By Sex: 61% of men and 57% of women have a smartphone.
By Education: 44% of high school grad or less, 67% of some college, and 71% of college grads (or better) have a smartphone.
By Income: 47% of less than $30K/yr, 53% of $30K - $49.9K, 61% of $50K - $74.9K, and 81% of $75K+ have a smartphone.
By Age: 83% of 18-29, 74% of 30-49, 49% of 50-64, and 19% of 65+ years old people have a smartphone.
By Location: 64% of urban, 60% of suburban, and 43% of rural residents have a smartphone.

The percentages for the population who are likely to use a city bus doesn't look "quite high" to me. This demonstrates the dangers of anecdotal evidence. You normally associate with people like yourself and assume that just because your social group owns or use something then everyone else does too.

Seems like a good idea until you realize that the majority of the people currently using the bus service aren't the ones carrying the smartphones or using social media apps.

This reminds me of the pothole app that allowed people to tell their city where the potholes were and then someone figured out that only the wealthy neighborhoods were getting adequate road maintenance because of the app (and webpage).

Maybe we should stop electing people who are hellbent in demonstrating how bad government can be and actually elect people who demonstrate good governance.

You shouldn't be surprised by the inexperienced having all their attention taken by the shiny and new.

I lived long to witness television screens transform from convex tubes to flat screens and now to concave OLED.

Comcast barely provides customer service to people who pay for their expensive offerings. What kind of service can the low cost internet plan customers expect to receive?

Too bad some dickhead impersonated my username and spammed the fuck out of this article, because I had a great Better off Ted reference.

It's hard to be romantic when the translator makes everyone sound like Phil.

You'd think Slashdot wouldn't allow duplicate User names either.

I'm wondering how that fuckhead spammer BillTheEngineer is using my username but with a different UID.