Yes, my bad.

Speaking about fail... I meant that by the year 10, Christ was 9.

Yes, this is pedantic. But not incorrect. Now comes the real pedantic part: If you say the best of "the decade" you are implicitly referring to the current decade as counted from the first one until now. The same goes to "the century" and "the millennium". It is correct to refer to the 80's as the period from 1980 until 1989. Every one of those years really belongs to the 80s. Buts. as you said, the first year of our calendar was 1. There was no year 0. This makes the first decade go from 1 to 10. So, it is correct to say that the [current] decade will end next year. It really makes little sense to start on year 1 if you think about it. They wanted to mark the birth of Christ as the start of the calendar, but they made it in a way that by the year 10, Christ was 11. If you ask me that was a major fail.

That is true, but then again, if we must be pedantic about it, since a decade can be any 10 year period, they should specify which decade they are referring to.

We all know the horrible death and destruction that it would cause, but would a meteor impact bring any positive side effects? Has anyone ever stop to consider this?

...but won't do it to actually prevent it from happening. If there is a small chance that this may hit us, we should prepare. And if it doesn't, we have a perfect chance to practice. Do you really want to wait until a meteor is coming dead center to find out if we can figure out how to divert it?

I mean, I get the whole we like to do concurrent staff. But does the world really need another programming language? There has been a literal outbreak of new or revamped programming languages in the last few years. Are we seeing now with programming languages what happened to linux distros a while back? If so, what languages will emerge and what will just merge with others?

Actually, I don't think the election numbers are manipulated in any way in Brazil. Simply because there is no need... People keep voting on these guys and these guys keep the people dumb enough to elect them. If democracy worked, companies would use it. Companies strive to always use the most effective and cost efficient system to manage themselves. It is the law of capitalism, if there is a better way and you don't adapt, you are going out of business. The fact that companies do not use ask the employees to vote on their board of directors should speak enough about how much democracy works.

No You don't. You have to pay about R$4 (USD 2) per election you miss, with a maximum of three elections. So you would have to pay about R$12 if you never go to vote, but need your voter id normalized (in case you decide to vote or get a public job). That is it. The only inconvenience is that you have to go to the voting registry place to do this, and it usually only opens in business hours.

You are right of course. I just could not resist the opportunity. There are better alternatives to sugar cane, I saw somewhere there was a research to produce ethanol using a special kind of bacteria, so it would convert solar power straight to ethanol, without using up crop space. I think that is promising if it works.

Oh come on, There isn't a sugar cane farm within 1000km radius of the amazon rain forest. That is another issue entirely.

Yeah, I am Brazilian and we have our ethanol program (Pro-alcool) since the 70s. It is true that the Engine needs to be specially prepared to handle ethanol. You can't just put ethanol on a regular gas powered car. In Brazil today, almost all cars run on both Gas and Ethanol. It really does work, and has been working for almost 40 years. Making ethanol out of corn? Newbies!

I find PERL very nice for poetry.