COBOL was never cool, either, but is still in use in enterprises.

For learning the craft, they should use what's best to teach it, not necessarily what's relevant at the time (unless it's a job school).

You only need to learn one oo procedure based language. All others are just a book exercise.

One assembly language and how compilers translate stuff.

And then you should also learn scheme.

That will handle basically everything, reducing it to a book learning experiment.

Maybe so it can work on those paralyzed from a spinal injury?

I wondered the same thing.

It has nothing to do with ownership. It has everything to do with creation and distribution of the new copies.

The copyright holder cannot tell you what you can do with the copies once legally obtained. There is no control of downstream use, barring copying.

It is a monopoly in every sense of the word, and furthermore, that's the correct word to use.

Ebola is trying as hard as it can.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

Potentially true, a BSOD is preferable to a rootkit.

I'm not aware of QA layoffs, I just started a new QA position at MS!

the layoffs were mainly Nokia, marketing, and middle managers from what I've read.

Jesus Christ, you fuck up your computer like that, and still try to blame MS?

No, it was mostly marketing and middle managers.

You don't require the existing federal government to do anything to homogenize laws across states, see the Uniform Commercial Code and the Uniform Child Custody Act; where states agree that it's easier to adopt basically the same laws

Privatize? Really?

This will never happen:
"Your patent has been rejected, we ( the patent review company ) already have a patent on that."
"PS: we will have our eye on you..."

If I were a serial killer I would not want others to know about it.
They would put me in prison or kill me, an undesirable outcome.

You clearly either know or suspect.
You are part of "others".
You are capable or telling others.

I should silence you.
Killing you would be a very effective way to silence you.

If I were a serial killer I would be capable of causing your death
I am not a serial killer, or you would be dead.
QED.

The "old white haired ghost in the sky" never told anyone to destroy the earth and everything in it.
Ezekiel 34:19
Psalm 24:1