Whether you believe animal testing is right or wrong, that is not the way to go about protesting it.

Says who? If you believe in something strong enough, why rule out certain kinds of actions? Look at any violent independent movement in history. I'm sure the oppressors involved said the same kind of thing, "that's not the way to protest us."

So what you end up with is what we have: patches of admin and users on each side defending their own little piece of ideological turf and leading to a heinously uneven project that ranges from brilliant to utterly useless.

If you think about it, that actually describes every area of human endeavor that has a large number of people involved in it... software projects, governments, you name it. Fact is, humans simply aren't evolved to work in very large groups. We evolved in small tribes, and we don't have the mental machinery needed to work effectively in very large groups. Look at financial meltdowns, wars, etc. Things breakdown as soon as your group gets too big.

You should try reading Nassim Taleb. Interesting guy, interesting ideas, but the man can't get through a page without sprinkling it with parentheses.

http://www.amazon.com/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Chance-Markets/dp/1400067936/

Combined with the fact that they recently switched to a horrible new UI, this made me login to remove my personal details, change my password, and remove my resume. Most people are using craigslist these days anyway. It's cheaper for employers to post jobs there, and it's a better run site in general (clean UI, good security, etc.). I also left my Yahoo resume up, because that site's not too bad, and I know I get a few hits off it.

No distinction between questions and answers? They could have at least wrapped the questions in bold tags. Nice job, computerworld.

Huh? I'm learning this for my own curiousity's sake. I am not even a programmer.

Computers and synthetic systems in general are ONLY going to get better at doing anything a human can do. I mean anything.

Robot sex slaves, here we come!!!

But I made it a goal to learn Python during my unemployment period. I read a little bit of the online Python books every day. Let's just say my unemployment has been long enough that I've gotten awfully proficient. :-/

You should watch the documentary A Death in Gaza. It doesn't argue in favor of suicide bombing, but it will help you understand why desperate people in a desperate situation do things that seem otherwise irrational.

It's a frakin' TV show, not a philosophy seminar!

Have you tried any of those cracks? I tried playing a pirated Half Life 2 and it crashed on me every few minutes. A cracked Team Fortress 2 would only work on a handful of very laggy foreign servers.

Screw that. I'll pay rather than having to deal with it.

I must be missing the reference. But anyway, I chose "turning leaves", because I see myself getting away from civilization one day, watching the leaves change color from a remote mountain cabin. :-)

I was laid off, so I'm not working right now. My last job I had an eight minute walk to work. It freed up two hours per day, ten hours per week, compared to my other jobs' commutes.

I just started learning Python a few weeks ago when I got laid off from my QA job. I imagine I'm not to the point yet where the language differences between 2.x and 3.x are going to matter?

Okay, but what is that in real units of measurement, like Libraries of Congress?