How exactly is 1500-15000 worth of equipment 'hobbyists'? /blockquote

I can think of several hobbies that can rack up those kinds of costs. Flying model airplanes leaps to mind.

Great Wall of China... Mongols. I rest my case.

Yeah, that worked real well.

It's not just branching. You also run into difficulties when a following instruction needs to use the results of the precending one.

So what was C written in?

C. At the beginning of the tool chain, there'll be a bootstrap compiler written in assembler, but full production C compilers are written in C.

"Secular decline" is sometimes used to describe a long-term trend of overall decline. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

How can express the movement of the north pole in terms of north or south, given that it is the pole itself that defines those terms?

How does Bikini Atoll show how to remove an island? It's still there. It may show you how to *evacuate* an island and make it uninhabitable, but that's not the same thing.

I go running on the side of the road a lot and I pay careful attention to hear cars come up behind me

Actually, if you're running on the side of a road without a sidewalk, you're supposed run on the left side of the road so you can *see* the oncoming traffic.

Nuts & Volts is still around, too.

Dealers serve a purpose. They need a reasonable profit.

If they serve a purpose, they deserve a reasonable profit. For the life of me, I cannot see what that purpose is. Perhaps you can enlighten us.

"Living History". Japan invaders were thrown out of China some *75 years ago*. Not too many people left who have personal memories of it, any more.

I likes to go swimmin with bow legged wimmin.

Nah, just use a high-pressure spray gun and paint the whole drone to get the camera.

The main thing to remember here as there's ramen--as in what's sold in actual Japanese ramen shops--and then there's "ramen"--what you get in a Cup o' Noodles. There's almost no relation between the two. Not only do you not get all the fresh additional ingredients in "ramen", the noodles themselves are total crap, the broth is crap even for instant boullion, and the whole thing is about as tasty and nutritious as cardboard. It bears no relation to real ramen. In the west, there aren't many real ramen shops and all we know is "ramen".

Huh? Plants absorb nutrients from the soil.

More to the point, they absorb CO2 from the air. Where we eat carbohydrates, plants photosynthesize that CO2. That's how they "eat".