I already have. I refuse to fly with any major airlines. I'd rather take a small plane or drive.

I've canceled service with them twice in various moves. Even though I requested they send me a box, I never received it.

A degree does not make one code better. Experience makes them code better. A degree and experience is even better (I'm not sure about this one because I've known experienced degree holders who still write awful code).

In about 1991, I gave a presentation on how to build a pipe bomb to my speech class. Everyone laughed, and I didn't get in trouble. If I did that today.... hooo boy... they'd lock me up for months. In retrospect, it probably wasn't such a good idea (even before Columbine). But 17 year old me was clueless.

Wow. They laid it on pretty thick. "He went be several aliases." That's kind of a sinister spin on publishing a few novels under different pseudonyms.

Yes. I'm confused too.

Funny, I keep more porn in the same spot.

That still doesn't explain why they would think planets were uncommon. We didn't know of any extra solar planets because we didn't have instruments that could find them...and we knew they were inadequate. Just because we were incapable of seeing them, that's no reason to believe they were uncommon. What we can infer from the known laws of physics suggests that all you need is gravity and matter and you're going to get clumps of matter orbiting other clumps matter orbiting other clumps of matter until you get stars and planets and moons and galaxies.

Well thanks for that. But this was 25 years ago...hence the C-64. Like you, I developed self confidence too.

How about an overabundance of black holes?

Same. My lack of self confidence is what caused me to spent all my time with my c-64 instead of people.

Few people care if you have datamine the hell out of a bunch of different private databases to determine someone's identity. But if you can google your name and find every discussion you ever had on the internet, then people care. I don't want a bunch of old discussions haunting me for the rest of my life. Nobody does.

Won't do any good. Producing more stupid people is relatively easy. You simply don't educate them.

And less open discussion.

Young males already romanticize war. Video games/movies/novels frequently encourage that. Just because they're fictional, doesn't mean they don't affect people's opinions.