International Shipbreaking did offer to pay for the USS Ranger, but the Navy declined saying: "Son, your ego is writing checks your bodyshop can't cash".

C/C++ is old, C#/C++ is tired, but C++/Ruby is so hot right now.

If an open source client were all it took to establish secure communications between two phones it would have been done a long time ago. There are other hurdles besides the client. It's rare for two phones to be able to communicate directly because phones don't usually get public IP addresses. When a phone gets a public IP address it's likely to have most if not all incoming ports blocked, and even if both phones happen to have public IP addresses with unblocked incoming ports they still need to find each other via some sort of directory server. So at the very least, the IP address and identity of both parties goes through a server that you do not control. But more likely, all data exchange between the two parties (including keys) goes through a server that you do not control.

You might think duck-typing got its name from "If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck". Common misconception. The name actually comes from "If it's declared like a Duck and compiled like a Duck" as pointed out by GP.

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Thank you for the link. I was not familiar with the term "couch" multiplayer and your link greatly improved my search for the next game. For other players looking for a "couch" game I'd recommend Ibb&Obb, nice ambient, smooth platforming gameplay, and quite the linguistic challenge to talk through a puzzle since the words up and down have lost all meaning.

Do they? Right there in the woods?

I'll address gp's ridiculous hyperbole. Goliath is described as a champion, not a bully or a murderous thug. At no point in the story is he said to have killed innocent people. Goliath proposes to not have a war but instead decide the conflict based on the outcome of a single one-on-one combat (himself vs an opposing champion). There is nothing “Goliath-like” about any aspect of the war on terror.

Someone complained and HR agreed that he intentionally stopped short of making the list an even 70. Fired for sexual harassment.

Interesting. There is an asymmetry between "brother" and "sister" in the dictionary: "sisters" may mean a kinship group of objects, but "brothers" may not. The article consistently refers to stars as “it” (except for sister stars), so I endorse your interpretation.

Romance languages go Sun -> Male, Moon -> Female. Semitic languages go Sun -> Female, Moon -> Male . Exact opposites yet quite close geographically. Long story short, assignment of gender to inanimate objects is largely arbitrary unless the object really looks like a penis or a vagina. Bunch of pervs that we are. Not that the two or three billion people who speak genderless languages aren't pervs. Japanese, for example, is genderless.

Peas and some plants you've never heard of because they aren't served next to a steak.

I like your writing style. Why aren't you in charge of the asteroid reports around here?

And keep in mind AC has seen everything, commented on almost everything. This one really takes the cup.

and male dogs