Except that mobile devices like phones and tablets are fundamentally different than PCs. Microsoft already tried this stunt with Windows 8, and got smacked down hard.

I have my doubts that a "zillion" RT devices are floating around out there, unless you mean in a warehouse somewhere.

I think the 2008 crash demonstrated that there are more than a few psychopaths running major corporations. Maybe we should be thankful they're only screwing investors and customers out of billions, otherwise they would have underground lairs filled with kidnapped plus size women putting the lotion in the basket.

Sort of like your post.

He thinks his company's shareholders idiots. Like most CEOs.

Yes, and the Senators should be reminded that they have no more power than Cnut demonstrated he had. Being democratically elected does not grant powers to alter or negate physical reality.

And what percentage of C/C++ code is well written?

Or, to put it another way, is there any evidence that Java applications are LESS secure, on average, than C/C++ applications?

I know it's for mathematics and liquor.

Has fucking little to do with science, mind you.

Well, the other to be sure of is that fucking retards will repeat Koch memes endlessly out of ignorance, stupidity, and well, just plain fucking cowardice.

There's this story about Canut and the tide that the US Senate might want to ponder.

Reality owes no debt to anyone's political ideology.

I can see how ADD sufferers would prefer the cinematic version of an epileptic seizure.

Pleasant diphthongs?

About the only part of your construct that makes it explanatory is reasonably descriptive variable names. That's a lesson that can pretty much be applied to any modern programming language.

Or PHP vs C

About the only actor in the reboots that I feel comes anywhere close to the original is Karl Urban as McCoy. Pine is just awful, and other than wearing the same shirt, has nothing in common with Shatner's Kirk. Zachary Quinto could probably be a passable Spock, if he wasn't waited with bad dialogue and pointless asides like the romantic angle with Uruha.

All in all, the reboots to me are little more than a series of films that vaguely resemble Star Trek, but in no substantial way evoke the original series' strengths, or even attempt to create the kind of chemistry that the Kirk-Spock-McCoy triad had. Now maybe it is impossible, as chemistry between actors isn't something you can really force, but heck these fan productions do a far better job of evoking the friendship than a multi million dollar film with one of Hollywood's "ace" directors and a cast filled with all the young beautiful people that one could possibly get under one roof.