WxMaxima is may go to choice for intense mathematical stuff.

Precisely. There is an utter lack of explanation for this extra CO2. Humans don't produce that much CO2 relative to nature each year, but somehow this article has leaped to the conclusion that this extra CO2 is all from anthropogenic sources. If this counts for "science" these days, we ought to all throw in the towel.

I think you missed the point of the OP. That was precisely what he was saying.

This is a government backed monopoly (in my opinion, the only true use of the word "monopoly"). It needs to be shut down. The same way utility providers currently get to exercise monopolies, enforced by government. Tesla ought to succeed or fail on their own merit (and I think they will fail, but they deserve the chance).

Maybe we could add a GPS tracker that way we could track the weapons and know exactly where and how they are used...I know! We need a good name for this operation...hmm...missiles go fast, so maybe we could call it "Operation Fast and Furious!"...oh wait...

Libertarianism would "prepare Americans" by not coddling people when they are stupid. The vast majority of the idiots would either climb out of the mire, or die.

I would wholehearted support this concept. People shouldn't get "second chances" on my dime.

This could be a fantastic thing for the Opensource Community.

Providing the OpenOffice (OO) and the LibreOffice(LO) developers can get past the bad blood of the past, they could merge their to projects back together and focus their efforts.

Corn prices go up because of ethanol subsidies which drive an otherwise failed alternative energy source. Ethanol makes no economic sense, unless you happen to be a corn farmer and in bed with big government.

So in a "perfect socialist (substitute communism or whatever other "planned economy" belief you hold)" all the dogs in your cage would starve because there isn't enough food for any of them when it gets equally portioned out? This assumes that capitalism has anything to do with crony capitalism which it doesn't (other than a similarity of name). It also assumes that capitalism is a zero-sum game, which it isn't and never has been. Putting aside all of these gross generalizations. Lets take your analogy at face value. You allege that it would be better for every dog to starve to death equally instead of half of the dogs to survive. How is that any more moral, or right, than the best and brightest dogs surviving while the slower and dumber dogs perish. I thought we believed in evolution and survival of the fittest, or doesn't that count in the social-economic world?

There are different types of rockstar coders. One type will get shit done under ridiculous deadlines. The other will write great code quickly and meet sane deadlines. Most of the time you want the later. Sometimes, you need to bring in your pinch hitter (the first group) and get stuff done. Most of the really bad spaghetti code can be mitigated by having good requirements and not wasting your rockstars on stupid, simple projects, and of course, strong helpful management.

I think rockstars get a bad wrap precisely because they are called in to fix things when projects are getting over deadline for the exact reason that the requirements suck. You really can't hold them accountable for spaghetti code or not exact solutions when the project requirements were the reason they had to step into the mess in the first place.

Thanks for the info on "Cave". I see I'm not the first to come up with the idea. Unfortunately, I don't use Drupal, but hopefully some others will know of similar code bases out there.

Yes, I do work in the US. I get paid hourly, and OT is the same rate as regular hourly, but at least my OT isn't for free. It's one of the reasons, I haven't taken a higher paying salary position elsewhere.