Who cares? You're just shooting the messenger. The media is simply trying to cover up the fact that they seized to be ... the media. Now we depend on the likes of Assange to question the actions of the powerful. And you complain about Assange?

Actually, the million monkeys typing a million years is a point against things getting funky with time. Say Hamlet is 100,000 characters long, say the typewriters only consist of 52 characters (lower and uppercase, let's forget about punctuation). This means that a monkey typing a random 100,000 characters has a probability of 1 over 52 to the power of 100,000 to produce Hamlet. The monkey can bang away for a million years (10^6), he can invite a billion friends (10^9*10^6=10^15), they can bang away for a few trillion years (10^12*10^6), he can turn all atoms in the universe (10^85) into monkeys (with built in typewriters). They all can bang away for a trillion universe lifetimes (roughly a googol), and still the probability that they will produce anything like Hamlet is zilch. They wouldn't even produce the first page. Things absolutely don't get funky in that way.

In short, you either need an infinite amount of monkeys, or an infinite amount of time to produce Hamlet.

And we charge 20% maintenance fee to cover the cost of bug fixing.

Given that everyone picks their airline based on price and price alone, this absolutely make sense. You get what you pay for.

You might want to take a poll on the members of the education boards that favor creationism, and count the number of young earthians among them. The result will shock you. The political creationists in the US are absolutely insane.

You would essentially treat Big Bang theory and Black Hole theory as a hypothesis. It's an informed hypothesis, but still an hypothesis. Also note that both Big Bang and black holes are relatively recent. They might not survive the century mark, and go the way of 'Ether' before it. Not all stuff scientists work on are things that make sense. Far from it. However, in the end, evidence prevails.

So... this makes California not a Republic? Then who's the khalif of Calif?

Interesting take on the difference between a Republic and a Democracy. Given that there is not a single country on earth that has an absolute democracy, you are essentially claiming that governments are either Republics or Monarchies. So China, India and the US are Republics, while the UK, Denmark, The Netherlands are monarchies. None are democracies.

Look up the word 'representative democracy' to understand how silly this distinction is. I know this is doctrine in the US, but it is demonstrably wrong.

He betrayed his country by showing other countries how bad his country was. So he is a traitor. He did this to help his countrymen. So he's a hero.

Something similar goes for the NSA. The are lying about what they do and they're treating the constitution as dirt. So they are traitors. They do this to help their countrymen against terrorist attack. so they are heroes.

Two sides. Both correct to an extent. There is absolutely a middle position here. I'd go with Snowden 80% hero and NSA 70% traitor. Where are you?

RMS has missed the boat. He's working under the assumption that open source code is written by brilliant volunteers that create fantastic software in their spare time. The reality is that the real good open source code is written by brilliant employees on the bosses time. What has happened is that many software corps allow their employees to contribute to open source software. But only if it is relevant to their business. So GPL software takes a backstep because employers are not stupid. Contributing to GPL code will make the work of their employers unusable. So nobody touches GPL software with a ten foot pole. What is done however is letting people, even on their employers time, contribute to MIT, BSD, or Apache license software. As they can sell their solutions using that software.

So, the GPL is dying, if not dead.

I think the point is that they are creating the system that produces welfare recipients, by depending on provably counterproductive moral principles such as abstinence and unlimited procreation in wedlock, regardless of income.

Atheists generally don't go on their knees and pray to a point of light.

I agree with you. However, we're talking about Snowden here, not the heads of the NSA.

I welcome you to see the merit of Brainfuck, Befunge, or any of a plethora of other programming languages that are objectively not suitable to solve any type of problem better than, say, C or Java. So your basic premise is false. It might be that Scala and Lisp both have their objective sweet spots, but it might equally well be that one is better than the other -- if tested correctly.

And BTW, this post was a valid Whitespace program until your renderer ate my tabs.

I agree. But we're talking about Snowden here, not the NSA and the rest of the US government.