You forgot Ada, a child of Pascal.

Not the AC, but I'd say Ada should live on in descendants. It should be split into the eight or so complete programming languages that they bundled together when the committee made it. One or two of them might be a nice tool.

I haven't watched the presentation but I'd heard about some of this. I have a few questions to clear up.

Will the Java server handle all our Ruby custom facts?
Will it handle our ERB templates?
Will it actually be Java or like PuppetDB will it actually be Clojure?
Will it have Jetty in front of it like PuppetDB and take 30 seconds or more to restart and listen on a port vs. restarting Apache in 2 seconds with the puppetmaster Rack application behind it?

What specifically does it buy me over daemontools, upstart, or OpenInit, though? There are other things that are big improvements over sysVinit.

Human rights don't work that way. The US Constitution is very carefully worded, especially regarding where it says "person" or "people" and where it says "citizen" or "citizens".

Here's the Fourth Amendment:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

That doesn't say "citizens". It says "The right of the people".

If I'm going for maximum intimidation a Saiga 12 or Thompson 1927 A1 works really well. For handguns, it's difficult to beat the Desert Eagle Mark 19 .50 AE or the .475 Wildey Magnum.

The stadiums are built and owned by the teams and/or the communities in which they play.

The NFL is a league made up of teams, and does not own the teams or the assets of the teams. Think of it as a trade group for professional football teams.

I think I still have a copy of that whole office suite.

The complaints have always been that MS caters too much to old software and that it continually requires more powerful hardware just to run the OS.

They are starting to buck this hardware trend at the 1 GiB barrier (for the OS!). They finally dropped support for some old, buggy 16-bit DOS and Windows programs that third party developers wrote by bypassing any documented API, too. Most of the software ever written for Windows still runs on Windows, though.

If you want to see what you're asking for, take a look at the 8 desktop vs. 8 RT fiasco when MS told people it was all Windows but it didn't run the same software. Don't ask for that.

Better yet, don't use a spindle for this stuff at all. Get a cheap SSD. Yes, it's write-limited. If you're only using it for temporary files and the page file then there's no long-term data to lose and it's a hell of a lot faster.

If you're on a gaming rig with a whole lot of memory, the page file doesn't need to be 2 to 3 times the size of RAM, either. With 16 or 32 GiB of RAM and only running the OS, one game, a voice app or such, and a game library app (Steam, Origin, etc) then you only need a page file for stuff that's proactively paging. Set it to 4 GiB and forget it.

Also, 7 and 8 handle dynamic page file sizing better than XP so it's not as much a concern to have a fixed-size one on a spinning disk as it used to be. It may still help if you pick the optimal size, though.

I hope you, your grandmother, and your nephew never have to find out for sure. Further, if so I hope your grandmother and two-year-old nephew aren't trying to fire a .500 magnum, especially if it's loaded a bit hot.

Most people in a quick-response situation will be able to handle the bat more accurately than the pistol. There's more you can do with it than a full swing, too, including jabbing at the eyes, throat, or groin with the end of it, strangling with it, tripping, twisting body parts with it as extra leverage in grappling, and short swings which are less powerful but quicker. A bat can take you off your feet pretty quickly, can break the forearm you're using to wield the pistol, and can be pretty damn deadly once you're down.

Inside of arm's reach a pistol can be a disaster as it can be turned on you even while it's in your own hand, by twisting the wrist around. At that range you're probably wielding it with one hand, which make you more easily disarmed and less likely to hit a target that is able to impact you and change where the muzzle points.

If you actually get a good, solid hit with a .38, .380 ACP, or a 9mm from that range, especially with hollow points or JHP then you're doing a lot of damage, sure. With a .45 ACP or .500 magnum even more. Your real advantage, though, with a pistol vs. a bat is that the bat reaches about one meter past the elbow. Use that and stay out of reach of the bat if you're sane.

I'm not sure of shotgun vs. pistol and didn't mention pistols. I recommended a semi-auto or high-capacity pump shotgun over most rifles. I think a Saiga 12 would be pretty intimidating and pretty effective. A .45 ACP would be both intimidating and effective, too, but requires a bit more precision than a 12 gauge with 00. The simple sound of a Mossberg or Bernelli pump sliding is a hell of a deterrent.

I know quite a few people who carry a .32 ACP or .32 S&W (hell, even .22 magnum as a second carry) for concealment. Those are great if you want to carry concealed and don't want to have to dress too bulky. They aren't as intimidating in a dim room as a 1911 or XD and won't have the same man-stopping power. They'll require much more precision if your intruder is the type to keep coming (or on, say, PCP).

For home intruders a big pistol or a shotgun either one could work well. So could a submachine gun if you happen to have an Uzi, Scorpion, or an old M3 grease gun lying around. A rifle is probably a bad idea inside the home where it loses its greatest advantage and has over-penetration drawbacks.

It'd be great to have an AR-10, AR-15, or AK-74 (or even a Cetmi or lever-action Marlin .30-30) to hold someone outside your home at bay if they were firing in. That's a very unlikely scenario, though, for most people.

Why would it be race-based fear? And if so, why do so many black guys I know carry? Are you saying that black guys need to be afraid of white guys and not vice-versa? I find your comment confused and disturbing.