Yeah, I mean slaves were willing to work for free, so it' pretty damn obvious that paying employees at all is stupid.

Google has killed at least one deer. http://www.streetviewfun.com/2...

When I served in the King's African Rifles, the local Zambezi tribesman called it "long pig." Never much cared for it myself.

Can we still catch them?
Some individuals may be too smart for us to eat, but the ones that end up in the fisherman's nets are obviously not too smart to be eaten.

You're dead wrong about "animal" instincts in humans being "a load of crap". Whenever you're scared into a "fight or flight" response, the adrenaline released decreases the blood flow to your frontal cortex re-directs it to your motor cortex. Your brain shuts down it's long-term planning center because it knows that if you don't survive the next few minutes, long term planning is pointless.

Yeah, most of the species that have never been observed participating in cannibalism are what we call "herbivores". There is no such "evolutionary institutional element" not to eat your own kind. When leadership changes in most carnivorous pack animals, the previous alpha's offspring are usually killed and eaten. That's an evolutionary instinct to eat your own kind that actually passes itself on by reducing genomic competition.

There are an average of ~4,400 construction workers were killed per year on the job in the US and there are about 3 million construction workers in the US. There are an average of 500-600 accidental deaths per year caused by firearms, and about 100 million gun owners in the US. It seems like guns are actually safer than most other tools ;)

Because college and university police departments are full of petulant man-children who were rejected by city and county police departments and who whine like 8 year olds: But mom! All the cool kids are getting issued M-16's and tear gas launchers!

Yes, Really. I wish Oracle documentation was complicated, but it's not. It's entirely insufficient to actually use their products for anything but the most simplistic use cases, and frequently completely incorrect. Of the ~30 SR's I've opened since this January, 4 of them turned out to be the result of the documentation being wrong.

Proprietary documentation is often just as bad or worse than FOSS software. Oracle software is particularly bad about this, as well as being broken in ways that make it almost nonfunctional for many of it's advertised purposes.

I don't underestimate it, I use Google to find solutions to problems all the time. Google has more answers to problems with Oracle software than Oracle's official documents do. The point I was trying to make is that we wouldn't be spending money to hire consultants if Google had the answers to our questions. We never brought consultants in for any problem that we hadn't been trying to solve via an SR through our official support contract for at least two or three weeks and we were always well past the "have you checked Google" stage of problem solving, yet the consultants provided by Oracle (for outrageous fees) never had any useful contributions or problem solving approaches beyond "Google it". We were trying to hire knowledgeable professionals with experience troubleshooting problems with very specific pieces of a proprietary software component. What we got were living versions of lmgtfy.gom

I couldn't agree more. I've been working on an Oracle based JMS-SOA system for the past year. I've opened over 30 SR's in that time that have lead to over 20 bugs being filed. The development team has told us that they won't be able to fix some of the show-stopper bugs we've discovered until next December (as a year and a half from now). I have weekly meetings with Oracle product managers where they give me the same song and dance about how hard they are working to fix our issues despite never getting any closer to providing us with a functional product. We've spent millions of dollars on licensing fees and hundreds of thousands on consultants. Four out of five of the Oracle consultants we've hired have been completely useless. I'm talking useless to the point where they were just sitting next to me and searching Google for answers to the problem we brought them in to solve. Never hire Oracle consultants for anything more complicated than installing a database. We have ~15 very competent engineers on this team and we've finally gotten upper management's approval to begin a working on a proposal to move away from oracle products to open source or in-house solutions after six months of completely useless support and schedule slips caused by Oracle software not working as advertised.

The Papal States, Vatican City, and arguably The Holy Roman Empire

If you think DARPA is funding "development of multi-scale computational models with high spatial and temporal resolution that describe how neurons code declarative memories " because they care about veterans and not because they're looking for a more effective way to pull memories from people's minds than water-boarding, you haven't been paying attention to how America treats their military veterans.

The debtor's prisons that we've started running. Because we've reverted a medieval mentality.