I'd wager that tramadol actually is working. Having been on it to recover from some *savagely* painful throat surgery a few years back, the stuff worked amazingly well. Possibly better than the morphine I was being weened off.

Theres a big difference between the Nazis arguments on the Jews and the OWS argument on the 1%.

The OWS believe the ultra rich are ultra rich because they are ultra rich

The nazis thought the jews where ultra rich because the nazis where racist fanatics.

Kind of a difference.

"perhaps look into the concept of semiotics?"

Linguistic bat-sign detected! *whooshes in*. Yes your right in the sense that computer languages are languages in the proper sense of the term. What they are not however is human languages that follow a chomsky style deep grammar. Nor does it have any of the floating signification characteristics and multiple other features common to human languages. "Love" can mean a million different things to a human, but "function()" has only one meaning to a computer.

The main reason however to teach foreign human languages to children is because we know from childhood development research that a child that learns a second language at a young age is vastly more capable of learning new languages as an adult. If you make it to adulthood with only english theres a greatly enhanced chance you'll never be truly conversational in another language , even after years of living amongst that language. For instance immigrants who arive with only their home language often have a lifetime of struggling with the new language despite constant deep exposure. Not always, but often.

However children who grow up with more than one language are often adept at picking up new languages rapidly.

There seems to be a mechanism behind switching languages that if it isn't learned early never really works well later on in life. Theres no evidence programming languages however function this way. And THAT is why you teach *human* second languages in childhood.

The App store TOS prohibits releasing software that is GPL. You can find your favorite source if you google "app store gpl".

Not quite but kind of. As far as I can tell theres nothing to stop you distributing GPL stuff on the mac app store, but theres a major hurdle for the IOS one. The IOS tos requires all apps to be statically linked against libraries ,which makes LGPL code somewhat useless for the purpose as the LGPL requires libraries be dynamically linked so they can be swapped out for updated or user tweaked versions. I'm not entirely sure why they dont allow it (I'm fairly sure the OS can do it, and that they are used extensively in jailbroken apps) but I assume its something to do with the complexities of code signing?

If you follow this argument to its conclusion, it doesn't lead to where you want it to lead.

Denialists (And lets use the proper term here. "AGW isnt happening" is so far out of the scientific ball park its bordering on creationist level silly by now) have been arguing that "Its the sun not CO2(somehow, Im yet to see a good explaination of this supposed mechanism thats stopping CO2 from doing what the physics say it'll do) causing this" but sunspot evidence seems to suggest that we ought be cooling.

And we're not.

And thats a big problem, to which I'd suggest means the mythical mechanism that stops CO2 from absorbing infra red *just like we've seen in the lab since the 1800s when scientists tarted warning about the greenhouse effect* , probably doesn't exist and in fact physics is right and we do have a greenhouse effect (aka 'climate change') problem.

I think thats a reference to Drones?

Not entirely sure how thats an existential threat to humanity, unless AI research has gotten a lot darker since I last looked at it?

Plenty of high end automation stuff uses two wire protocols. Both the crestron and AMX lines use variants of RS485 for their non ethernet control distribution (Ethernets fine but its bulky and not well suited to in-wall wiring). It doesnt need to be RS485, but having the wiring in place makes it easier to drop in control panels around the place to let the user interact with the control units driving the lighting dimmers and what not.

I ended up deleting my google+ account over the stupid youtube integration. I'm sick of being bait and switched by that company. I don't WANT people on Google+ to go finding my gmail page, its for work. The invasions of privacy are getting too much to bear. I can't use my own name on Facebook anymore due to the horrible graph search and abuse of it by recruiters, and now google is trying to burn down whatever privacy I have left.

If your building from scratch, then design your homes wiring in a structured manner. Consider having twisted pair runs around the house for touchpanels or switchpanels (RS485 is still the greatest automation protocol since sliced cheese IMHO) with that and power connections coming back to small hideable racks around the joint. Have Cat5 and Fibre ports around the house, and perhaps instead of messing around with home handyman junk like X10, consider using high end gear like the AMX's and Crestrons of the world. Not actually expensive if you snarf all that stuff off ebay!

Or , ya know, you could actually read the article. Its not about how prone someone is, its when the symptoms start. Schizophrenia shows early symptoms in childhood, and if you've got it, you will succumb to psychosis eventually. Whats happening here is the pot smokers are succumbing earlier. This wont affect most people, but those who are succeptible, perhaps pots a bad idea. The trick scientifically is identifying those in danger.

Its entirely possible Dark matter is about the only thing capable of explaining what I hurked up last time I attempted to eat mcdonalds. Theres definately exotic matter in those "burgers".

Perhaps this is where my recently acquired extra weight is coming from

I could have sworn there was another company called four square at some point that was , like, some sort of big user directory, back in the stone-age.

By "look for" read "worry about". The first guy that comes up with evidence that global warming isn't happening is going to get a Nobel Prize. And since Fourier first demonstrated CO2's greenhouse effects in the 1800s (And promptly started the scientific community flipping out about the greenhouse effect and the industrial revolution), nothing has arisen to demonstrate that the physics is wrong. Unfortunately to get that Nobel prize it would require some pretty massive evidence that some unseen mechanism is stopping CO2 warming the atmosphere PLUS a mechanism to explain how all the thermometers and various other measurement tools are wrong. Honestly reason and occams razor would suggest that no such breakthrough is going to occur.

Which would be fine if people where "massaging the data". Fortunately theres no evidence of that.

As my sister (A post-doc climate researcher) pointed out to me once , her profession is filled with tens of thousands of researchers desparately looking for that one piece of evidence that would show that the whole fields got it wrong and theres nothing to look for. Unfortunately in the century since scientists started worring about CO2 and infra-red, that evidence has failed to materialize.

There is no conspiracy dude. Nobody is massaging anything. Its just science.

So is quantum physics, but that hasn't stopped a century of physicists from using statistical methods to work around the giant clusterfuck that lurks below the planck length.

I had this exact same thing told to me by an undergrad physicist, so I pointed him at my sister who's a post-doc climate researcher and promptly schooled the guy on how its done (And pointed out to him why his knowledge of fluid dynamics was sorely lacking). He's not a skeptic anymore.

For a less confrontational approach, go into your library (I'm going to take a guess and say your undergrad at best) and actually read some of the research, then come back with an informed opinion. Thanks!