Not just you... I thought the exact same thing immediately upon reading the article.

Well, that sucks... I had hoped Canada was at least better off. Europe certainly is, although like most places it's moving in the wrong direction.

Nothing will change; the utilities will keep fucking us over every chance they get. I'm not sure why this still surprises anyone.

Our political system is so locked down by corporations that there is less of a chance of meaningful change here than in China or even North Korea. I'm not saying we're as bad as those places, but we're certainly headed that direction and there is literally no way to change that within the current system.

Nothing will change in the United States without a revolution, which would first require a huge sea change in the culture to even be remotely effective.

Again, chances are slim. May as well move to Europe or Canada as soon as possible.

I think he actually meant functional -- Javascript has a lot of features that would be called as such.

I am not Korean by ethnicity, blood, or citizenship, nor do I feel any particular attachment to Korea. The name is an inside joke that you unfortunately are not privy to. I was genuinely interested in hearing an explanation of your position on this issue which is why I asked "why". I know I've insulted you in the past (and honestly you deserved it) but now I'm not trying to be combative or argumentative at all.

I hate to sound insensitive, but why are students who are intellectually incapable of normal learning even sent to school? I think the government should provide for his care, but why does that have to take the form of sending him to school? How does sending him to school benefit him or the other students at all?

By the way, I'm visiting Anchorage now from one of the hottest parts of the lower 48. I've never seen such a paradise on earth :)

Why?

Do you also find horse races uninteresting since cars (which can win any race against a horse) were invented?

Pi is used for things other than the circle constant, too...

The odd and even numbers are subsets of the integers... neither pi nor tau is odd or even.

Who cares? How is this in any way relevant to the discussion?

Seriously? A few weak arguments? I see 2pi way, way more often than pi.

That's pretty common in the developing world, and in the United States. GP probably comes from one of those two (likely the former, since this is Slashdot)

I'm a native English speaker who had just woken up when I wrote that :)

"Lambda functions" means syntactic sugar for a certain variety of first-class function. This is a bit like saying every language has operator overloading because one can write a function called Plus.