World of Warcraft can be played as a single player game if you want, pretty much. It's a single player game that gives you the option of grouping up.

The US government borrows money by issuing bonds, which are all in USD.

We could use these time dilation drugs to allow convicted criminals serve their sentences in a matter of days rather than years.

20 year sentence? You can do your time before lunch! 40+ years? You'll have to spend the night.

You are wrong :)

The amount of money you owe is set in stone. A loan of $20 is a loan of $20, even if inflation has made that $20 worth the equivalent of $10 when you first borrowed it.

If you were to borrow money in a foreign currency, then have your inflation shoot up 600%, you'd have to come up with the same amount of foreign currency, which would now be considerably more expensive in your native currency, so it would in effect cause your loan to rise 600% the way you describe.

Many loans have adjustable rates tied to indexes (in particular LIBOR), but that only affects the interest rate that is paid on the loan, not the principle itself.

Consider yourself corrected :D

The "superior" lightning cable that doesn't use USB 3.0 and fills up with pocket lint that's nearly impossible to clean out? Yeah, you're smart.

Yep. I haven't been asked for a phone number in a long, long time. I go in there looking for their closeout stuff pretty regularly.

I haven't seen a single Radio Shack in the Portland area that doesn't have a cabinet of components. Not one.

So how does that free vs proprietary translate to good programmer vs bad programmer? It's just a different skill set, like a new programming language or a new methodology.

Yeah, like all those quarters, nickels, dimes, and pennies out there. They claim to be "coin", too! They're not crypto currency,either! What a scam!

Just a recommendation for lowering your local water consumption...

Well, for one, you can use it.

Anything I don't like is evil, right?

They should stop everyone who works (for money, fame, bitcoin, flooz, notoriety, et whatever) from editing wikipedia. That's the only way people will stop writing silly, pointless articles like this.

I don't think it's the lack of complexity that makes Visual Basic applications so lousy, in general. I think that it's the ease of use of Visual Basic that facilitates all sorts of people with no training or core programming competency building complex applications. Don't blame the tools, blame the makers. It is possible to write solid application code in Visual Basic. Easier to use, accessible tools make for worse programmers making programs. It's not the simplicity of the tools so much as their ease of use. The same goes for Access.

I beg to differ. Machine language and assembly code is some of the simplest computer language there is, but it's the basis for all of the higher level programming languages. In an ARM processor there are only 34 commands. From this are derived all sorts of esoteric and mundane high level language operations.