The failure of that statement should bother you. For it to parse one of two things must be true:

• Your statements about the democrats being "socialists" or "communists" must be garbage as those movements are all about improving the situation for the 99%.
  • or
• The democrats and republicans are interchangeable in the fact that they both look out only for the top percentile and never had any intention of any other outcome

Note that the first one agrees with the notion that you never made any serious attempt to read any part of the Communist Manifesto while the second is also in agreement with my consistent narrative of the current POTUS being the most conservative president in the history of our country.

So, funny man, which is it?

I think you may be expressing too much optimism towards the US penal system. You use the word "rehabilitation", but we don't believe in that in this country any more. If our system was intelligent enough to recognize rehabilitation there would have been no question on the Cornealious Anderson case where the state of Missouri attempted to re-jail a man who they had forgotten about for over a decade.

Apparently up to this point in wine D3D 10 had more complete support than D3D 9. Is there a reason why it would be useful to make D3D 9 support more complete? I understand that this article goes beyond Wine.

I disagree. I have been in a variety of academic or academic-associated roles in the past couple decades and I can tell you from my experience that

Perl is the Perl of academia. Matlab is mostly used for undergrad instruction; researchers roll their own solutions mostly in Perl, with occasional ventures into Python, Java, Ruby, or C++ as needed.

Although you are certainly correct on Matlab having outrageous prices. In my current position if I wanted to buy a license myself my government/academic discount still places the cost at over $2k. Thankfully everyone working under me does their coding in languages whose code can be manipulated and run for free.

Really, calling it an app is like calling a Ferrari Enzo a bicycle. Matlab is a tool that is used for data analysis; when it is described as an "app" in the modern sense it is being classified with angry birds and other such smartphone rubbish.

So then what is there that you don't understand?

Oh, wait. You like to write first, read later (if ever). Your blog is not an indication that you have any idea of what happened or how it matches previous historical precedent. Well, I can't do anything about that; you made your bed go ahead and lay in it.

Very true. However due to the magnitude of what happened as a result of his actions, he could have been charged a an adult.

It is quite possible that had he not been able to hire a defense team the state could have opted to try to make an example of him and charge him as an adult, to discourage kids from drinking and driving.

I believe this case got attention earlier as well, but here's a February 2014 write-up from CNN on the "affluenza" case where a spoiled rich kid from Texas got sent to rehab for killing 4 people .

Oh, I apologize. I forgot that you to the Wall Street Journal is an unreadable socialist rag. Not to worry though, soon enough some conservative blog will pick up on this story for you and tell you that like your previous hero-in-chief, Hunter Biden recently heroically dodged military service and snorted coke. However Hunter demonstrated some one-upmanship by doing those two acts simultaneously.

Don't worry it will set the conservative blogosphere alight soon enough. I'm sure someone can feed you a reason why this is something that President Lawnchair should be immediately thrown out of office (as usual, sans trial) for.

A grant from General Mills or another cereal producer, perhaps. As someone who has spent time working on federal (in particular NIH, NSF, DOE) grant applications I can tell you that this wouldn't fly with them - at least, not in the current fiscal climates that they all face.

This supports their notion that Cheerios have a large amount of natural ingredients. If Cheerios were mostly artificial they wouldn't likely grow much of anything. It would be interesting to try Cheerios vs store brand, regular vs honey-nut (or other varieties) and see how they do.

No. I don't have time to meet you in person and all the rest can be faked. What cannot be faked however is your lengthy record of being anti-learning here on slashdot.

That is a lie. Your own journal entries show your disdain for knowledge and preference for fact-free spin (and that is just one obvious example of you doing that).

It would be interesting to know what you think you are saying by that.

... as if such statements have ever panned out ...

Except for all the times that you have been.

Your distractions are so reliably hilarious, too!

As someone who has looked into doing exactly that, I can tell you that is actually a lot more difficult than what some want us to believe it to be. If you are an American and you want to move to Canada, you need to have a job offer first, and then you still need to take the entrance exam to determine if you will be allowed to emigrate. You can't just simply drive across the border and start looking for work. Furthermore there is little (if any) incentive for Canadian employers to hire Americans; you have to be a really truly exceptional applicant for a very highly skilled position in order for the employer to be able to justify hiring you.

I'm not sure where the free world is, but Americans are generally not welcomed in it.

Why should I take those claims at face value? More so, why should I take them at face value when you repeatedly demonstrate your disdain for facts and learning? You can use your comments here to make whatever claims you want regarding your life accomplishments, but when you brag about illiteracy they make me doubt your claims of educational merit.

The notion of my assessment of you being vicious or fictitious is purely a creation of your own imagination. I evaluate your intellectual dishonesty by reading the comments you write here on slashdot.