Yes, but what about anti-virus? Anything with that much technology is going to get a virus. So. Before this will really work, we need a network updater and a package management system. /sarcasm.

A little googling and I see nothing to indicate Grinspoon is dead. There are no mentions of death in his Wiki bio or anyplace else that I can find. If you have solid evidence (e.g., obit in a newspaper or something) then update Wikipedia.

I think I see an animal in there. It's heavily obscured by fungus, bat guano or something. Look to the left and you see a couple of skinny legs or tree like things. Look to the upper right and you see a head. It might be depicting a flightless bird or something. Needless to say, it needs serious conservation since it's just been discovered. I don't know what if any cleaning was done in France.

Oh wow, good one. Totally forgot about it. That's the thing about Forth. It's in the type of code that just sits there doing jobs so well that you forget about it. One might mistake this for death, but it's really maturity.

Nobody mentioned Forth. It must be dead. Half-joking here. The first user that leaps to mind is NASA. IIRC, they're known to have written some very robust Forth for probes. It's been a long time since I've looked at the early boot process of a BSD or Linux distro. Is it still there? The reason I think Forth might die is because I come across people who think something with a gig of RAM is a "tiny embedded system". With that kind of power you don't need Forth.

A few people are playing with other languages like Joy, which also use RPN. These are academic "esolangs" though. Can they ever be said to have been alive?

If you live in Europe, chances are you've visited much of the continent. Thus, taking a job in another country isn't that big of a leap. If you live in the US, you've probably visited much of the lower 48. If you move from Boston to LA, it's quite a culture shock but in this survey it isn't considered a move because the United States is a country made up of united states. I think it might be more interesting to see how many Europeans are willing to leave the EU for work.

Can they form corporations? That's where it gets really interesting.

Policy makers? I thought this was a representative republic. I thought we voted on stuff, and it was applied to everybody. Ha-ha. Just kidding. I didn't roll off a turnip truck. Yep. Policy Makers. They make policy for everybody... except those with enough money to buy out of it. IMHO, Policy Makers need to do one thing: Go into a corner and fuck themselves. Of course they're not going to do that. They'll make some kind of "carbon policy" or "water policy" or whatever. Then some corporation will buy their way out of it. You and I? I say, hop in the car and guzzle while you still can. Whatever nightmare that will be created by Policy Makers is inevitable. You might as well have some fun before it happens.

Modding this down? Really? Parent is not coming off as nutty at all. If ebola becomes established in the USA, figuring out how to avoid human contact for the incubation period is a perfectly sane thing to do.

Studies notebook, checks over a few calculations, and turns to colleague: You're not going to believe this. I really am a PIG FUCKER and I really SHOULD DIE. Oh no, forgot to carry the two. I'm good. Yes. I'll have another.

You aren't hunting on 100 acres of land and you definitely could not farm and hunt it at the same time. That could not support a single human let alone a village.

40 acres and a mule.

When I heard the $1/day figure, I always assumed there was a lot of barter and a lot of "doing without". You live in a shack on land that nobody buys, so you have no rent. Your village holds sway over 100 acres, which you farm and/or hunt. You trade bush meat for vegetables in the market. There's no electricity, so there's no electric bill. You fetch water from a stream, which is filthy; but there's no water bill. There's no sewer bill either. You crap in a hole if you're lucky, or the foul smelling street if you're not. Your family has a member who specializes in something that requires skill, such as being a motorbike mechanic. That pulls in some money. You use that money to buy a few things that can't be obtained by barter or other means. There. You're living on a dollar a day, but you're not a social outcast or any more poor than people around you. Thus, it's not as tragic as it sounds. At least, that's what I always figured. There has to be something that makes it different from just giving an American $1/day and telling them to live. If you did that, the only sensible thing to buy would be magic markers, a cup, and cardboard. Most of us would be miserable. It'd be psychologically debilitating. It'd be nothing like "living on $1/day" in Africa.

If China really wanted South Korea on its border, they could have it in a few weeks. I don't think DPRK can really deliver a nuke, and even if they could the guys who actually launch them would probably be too busy partying. It's probably the only country on the planet where everybody would pour out into the street welcoming Chinese tanks with true sincerity.

Hey man, I don't know why you're so upset. Maybe you need a punching bag. Maybe somebody left a bag of poop on your door, or ran over your rose bushes. If so, glad to be your virtual punching bag. Looking back over this, I'll admit that I might have escalated things unnecessarily by saying "you should have just corrected my sig". You opened the door of pedantry though, and that pissed me off. I apologize for that little remark. I apologize for nothing else. I'm done with this. Chill out and have a nice day. The last word is yours.

That's a good point. Tesla probably has the ability to fight and win outright.