there are limits to everything. Calling somebody a pedophile stops any discourse. There is no argument you can bring against this. If you have legitimate problems of this nature with the guy go to public prosecutor and clarify the issue. There are also organizations that can help judge if such claim is valid and in pursuing prosecution. Just throwing such abuse in public is wrong.

I think you are wrong about it who is going to do this. We know that H1Bs can do it cheaply and maybe there can be savings on return trip?

This article has nothing to do with different units systems but with the standard carry-on bag size. Besides that you are right - it is a mental masturbation most of the time to discuss different units. Sometimes you learn something. Sometimes you just enjoy the ride - why cannot you just enjoy the ride? It is Friday after all.

'my pound is better than your pound (I can cheat better this way too)' being a main argument of not adopting common units till french revolution came and forced everybody to use common scientifically but still arbitrarily chosen units. It was the widely adopted because of benefits it offered, at least everywhere where French army went trough. Everybody else adopted it, I guess at the point where they standardized units to use on national level. I guess US was too big manufacturer of things to ever comply and UK did not like the French and continental things in general (thus forcing 'Made in Germany' to show where bad quality was). At the end you convert as much as we in Europe do. Sometimes we do not and expensive satellites fall from the skies. Some would fall anyway because somebody forgot to test things properly etc.

In metric Europe we still use inches for pipes and some such. Life, it seems, is never easy.

It is not extraordinary legal process - the interview in foreign land or by video link is part of European, European Arrest Warrant which wanted him extradited to Sweden on charges of lesser rape and coercion is also part of European law. The coercion charges expire this year due to statute of limitations leaving more serious but possibly more difficult to prove 'lesser rape' charge. So I guess UK authorities may be cutting costs of course but cutting the charge because it expired is maybe also an issue. In any case it is a correct decision - why wait if one can interview the guy and indict him instead of waiting. Not sure if that changes anything but at least it looks like public prosecutor is doing something.

That is odd. Over 20y in development and QA and I have not seen a language that has not been abused by morons to the point one had to agree with you. Sometimes there is a significant amount of skill required to show that one cannot code (C++ is known for that). Sometimes it is easy - java is like that.
At the same time I have seen amazingly well written code in all of the languages I have worked with.
Even this annoying indentation can be argued to be a good thing especially because there is whole bunch of idiots out there that think that putting a code into readable structures is evil and against nature.

Stripping things to the absolute core has some advantages. Yet because shells are different and the one you consider basic, is not always available (due to corporate policy or some other force of nature), this makes this absolute minimum a set of absolute minimums. If so you can just say - chose the tool available and best fitting your approach to the problem
Besides simplification is good but you should not simplify beyond certain point. I'd say python belongs to the set of common tools as are grep, awk, sed, all shells and other tools. I am divided myself on whether that is good or bad but I accept it as it is.

Ask their friends at CIA to send the drones?

Different or not but Elonis' conviction has been reversed on 1st of June 2015 by SCOTUS. That would mean throwing even very vivid threats at a person is nothing under law as long as there is no intent to threaten. Not sure I agree with this but I am not a lawyer and do not live in US so why should I care. Still the current interpretation of the law seems to have changed. Maybe if threatened person were a judge this would be different.

Since when the fact that a person is not within US jurisdiction has stopped US from action? There are so many options available. One can send a drone, or some rangers and seals, or ask friendly savages in power in some odd country to do something to a person, sending some missiles is also an option. One can twist the law in such a way that everybody is in US jurisdiction - see what happens with FIFA people (they were corrupt and they possibly even deserved what they get actually). One can also just wait and see. World is a village these days. Chances are that a person having such radical views of US reality will visit US one day.

There was a scene in "About Schmidt" where retired manager hands over all the special knowledge to the new guy only for the new guy to throw everything away. The world did not stop indeed.
Having said that - just leaving with not even one hint to the next guy is not very professional. Telling to the direct supervisor that the startup info is in mail account would be good enough me thinks. If they wait 90days to sort out who takes over the info is not that important and even if it is, there is time to find a solution if need be.

If not for that they would not have anything useful or good to announce. From what one sees the group is committed mostly to fighting Rusksis because they are evil and should rot in hell especially Putin. But as they have less guts than Reagan had (could not be less reckless really or?) they would not provoke Ruskis they way he did. Or maybe they do, who knows, either way nothing to tell the public so we get this strategic plan announced.
I understand this even. Not even great philosophers had something meaningful to note after every dispute. The bastards at the top shall chat with each other. Makes sense to me. Only they should meet somewhere where costs are limited - almost half a billion for a few days session of chatting is a bit excessive me thinks.

Probably true. For NSA it would be more efficient to rip off DBs of driving license issuing authorities around the world.

It is/was like a normal corporate or any other project then? Low on budget and with other project parameters (skill of a crew, time etc) also constrained. I'd say with all that they went ok. It was after all only a test flight. The main mission being scheduled for 2016.