Submission + - Methane Eaters at Lost Hammer (astrobio.net)
This in the wake of Friday's article about possible methane-based life on Titan!
"He ran a website for people of like mind, but noticed that many of the comments that appeared on it were beside the point, either mere gossip or insult. So he announced that he was going to exercise a little control over what appeared on it — as was his right since it was, after all, his site. Censorship is not failing to publish something, it is forbidding something to be published, which is not at all the same thing, though the difference is sometimes ill-appreciated.
The torrent of vile abuse that he received after his announcement took him aback. Its vehemence was shocking; someone called him ‘a suppurating rat’s rectum.’ He replied to this abuse with admirable restraint:
"Surely there has to be something wrong with people who can resort to such over-the-top language, overreacting so spectacularly to something so trivial".
Real Programs don't use shared text. Otherwise, how can they use functions for scratch space after they are finished calling them?