Just to be pedantic, I don't think COBOL was a systems language. It was for business logic. Back in those days systems programming was straight assembly.

Paragraphs, man! Paragraphs!

What works in a for loop doesn't work for many other things.

I once got in an argument with someone who vehemently insisted that 2000 was part of the 90s, that 1990 was part of the 80s and so on.

P.S. The "90s" aren't the 200th decade of the common era, they're the years that start with 199.

I don't know. Look at 2000 years of European history and compare it to anywhere else (yes, even the Middle East) the Christian world and especially the Catholic world has been the most war-torn hellhole in the history of the planet.

The past 50 years are an exception and maybe it only proves that it takes the threat of nuclear annihilation to keep Christians from butchering each other.

Oh whatever, this is news.

There hasn't been a successful new systems programming language since the introduction of C++ almost thirty years ago. Programming language technology has advanced a great deal since then. A new systems language is a very big deal, and Google is playing very fair and open with it.

Quit bitching.

Too bad scenes of someone typing furiously at a computer are boring as hell.

Why not just maneuver out of the way like in that ridiculous Air Force commercial?

Because Earth orbit is not zero gravity, it's freefall. Moving into a wider orbit takes thrust to counteract Earth's gravity, which is still considerable.

An entire high school cheerleading team, throwing themselves on my funeral pyre.

No, the 10 virgins buried alive with my body, those are for me.

Buried in a war ship.

Body Worlds is great, but when they get cute and gimmicky with their scenes (dioramas? what do you call them?) it's kind of disrespectful and macabre.

That does make me think, where's the Weekend At Bernie's poll choice.

It's a privilege if you own a TV station or a tourism business. It's a privilege if you particularly care about competitive skiing. If you're just a citizen trying to get on with your life, it can be a very inconvenient couple of weeks, and cities often lose millions of tax dollars hosting the olympics.

Natural Gas is only halfway green. It burns clean, but you're still taking stored CO2 and putting it in the air. It's good for things like mercury, but it doesn't do squat for global warming.