Because the competent try it first.

We really need a war over the moon's resources. Especially if said war produces a gun that plays techno music.

Remember folks, despite having this legion of potential recruits with the interest and aptitude, lacking only training and education, there simply aren't as many programmers as there should be at the price where demand meets supply, We need government intervention, stat!

an image that is decidedly not safe for work

Suck it up, liberal. This is a libertarian world, and your speech policing ways are riding with fiat currency to the dustbin of history.

Once again human racism rears its ugly sensory platform.

If we can delay it long enough, 3d printing might get good enough that all gun control is moot. We can defeat it like we defeated the Clipper Chip - by letting the cat out of the bag.

We bailed out the automakers for the same reason we subsidize food production - there is a strategic value in being self-sufficient. If there was another world war or a global catastrophe, we'd be fucked if all our cars and trucks and armored vehicles and tanks were manufactured elsewhere. And what's $10 billion compared to the trillions we already throw away to make sure the oil keeps flowing.

They work perfectly well with the lid closed.

It seems they only work that way with a monitor plugged in. Which is fine for this context, but it wasn't when I wanted to remote desktop to mine. That was not a problem on my 2007 MBP.

nope, modern laptops are just as good as desktops now

Let me know when I can run three 27" monitors from a laptop.

The thing that makes laptops useful as laptops is what makes them suck in any other context. It's a rats' nest of cables sticking out the side of my MBP, and it takes up too much desk to make hiding in the corner viable. And besides, those pukes at Apple stopped to designing them to work with the lid closed.

So, full of shit it is.

approached by at least 3-4 recruiters a week via phone & email. Do not blow these people off. In a few years, they could be your best friends

You should always blow these people off. They're parasites and "in a few years" most of them will have failed and will be failing at something else, like selling real estate or SEO marketing or astroturfing for a PR firm.

Your professional contacts will provide the overwhelming majority of job leads. If you're competent and don't burn bridges you'll never run out of places to work.

Recruiters don't exist to find you a job, they exist to get between you and a job.

They heavily suffer from NIH syndrome and are convinced that the technology they created (and they created software for pretty much anything) is the best in the world, even when it's painfully outdated. To get hired, you have to use the Google way of doing things to solve problrms. It's a monoculture

Examples or you're full of shit.

At no point did religion enter this.

Really? Then whence does your butthurt flow?

Actually Madison was against direct democracy, but why confuse us with the particulars, it would only confuses our statist little minds. Kook videos are the only education we need.

It is funny how often this nonsense pops up, as if there was an organized effort to confuse the terms "democracy" and "republic", to make people believe one is bad and the other good, opposites in some sort of Sesame Street version of political philosophy. I wonder what motivation they could have to do such a thing.

Of course, they always leave out the fact that China is a republic, or that the Soviet Union was a republic. Republic just means there isn't a monarch, that the government is a public thing. It doesn't mean people are actually free or can participate in their government.

Or to put it another way - every democracy is necessarily a republic, but not every republic is a democracy. So you'd think these people, if they were logical, would be for more democracy, since they like republics so much.

Apparently the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. And look, someone is already doing damage control for Max, removing the Nazi connection from his page: Max Mosley.

I don't know what kind of shit school you went to, but I graduated fifteen years ago, and literally nothing I learned in school is out of date.

Maybe you shouldn't have gone to a place that promised to teach you Java, and instead went to one that promised to teach the theory of programming languages and maybe how to implement one or two in a compiler.