They make them out of carbon fibre, layed up in interesting ways usually involving a honeycomb sandwich between two layers of flat carbon fibre.

Another example https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

In this crash, Kubica hit the wall at 300km/h. While the car was completely destroyed, the monocoque was again, completely in tact.

Incorrect, in modern F1, it's virtually unheard of for the monocoque (the footwell, plus the rest of the area the driver sits in) to be compromise in any way. This includes head on into the barriers at 200mph type crashes. At the British grand prix last week, Kimi Raikkonen walked (with a sore ankle) out of a 47g impact. The monocoque was perfectly in tact.

Bullshit. In 1960 you would be correct. In 1980 kernels were written in C, for new fangled micro computers.

If you don't want to get left behind the fads, don't choose an area that's all about fads.

Any kernel developer will currently be using basically the same toolset as they used in 1980.
Any driver developer will currently be using basically the same toolset as they used in 1980.
Any game developer will currently be using basically the same toolset as they used in 2000.

Not everyone jumps on a new shiny framework every 2 years because they're struggling to overcome the limitations of a crappily designed language like javascript. If you don't want to jump from fad to fad... just don't be a web dev.

Right, but I've even seen what you're suggesting happen. This is when this "kindness" is at its most frustrating.

You sit and wait for a gap to get out of a junction. You see a gap, and you get yourself ready to slot into it. Then the jerk in front of the gap decides to be "kind" and slows down to try and let you out. He inevitably miscalculates, and ends up not letting you out, and also closing the gap behind him.

My only assumption is that they don't actually look around them while they're driving. I see this all the time - drivers letting one person out, and holding up an entire queue behind them instead. They simply must not realise there are people behind them.

No, pretty sure you're doing it wrong actually - crispy fish skin is a wonderful thing.

I'm pretty sure you'll have a hard time trying to find a user who legitimately wants to pass arguments to command line tools by naming a bunch of files according to those arguments ;)

Bullshit. Roundabouts are used as the primary method of forming intersections between multilane major roads, and motorways in any country other than the US. They are perfectly capable of dealing with huge amounts of traffic.

And saves tarmac too, as the incoming and outgoing roads no longer have to deal with spikes and troughs in traffic, and can become substantially narrower.

The idea IIRC is not to disrupt the tornadoes. It's to disrupt the much more benign winds that interact to form tornadoes once they reach the mid west.

Right, because tesla haven't sold any of their $80,000 car that goes 1/5th of the distance, right?

Uhh, you realise that the other countries highlighted, where this is going better, are more socialist than the US, right?

The problem is, even if you have a job that you love (and I do), that doesn't mean that you want to (or that it's healthy to) spend every waking moment doing it. Variety is important for a healthy life.