Comment Re: Books to read (Score 1) 352
And abandon their horribly over engineered code to some poor fucker while they head off to new shiny land.
And abandon their horribly over engineered code to some poor fucker while they head off to new shiny land.
Yes he keeps loosing a new chapter every so often.
People would be killing each other over which flavours were the true flavours before you could say death to the infidel.
Contract COBOL programmers can make 250+ an hour, just so you know.
Where is this? Not in Europe anyway.
The Alcubierre Drive is theoretically possible. Would that lead to time travel?
Especially in countries where the FBI has no jurisdiction.
Yeah I can just see the headlines if a government department bought Macs for its staff.
The Windows 8 interface being a case in point where there's overwhelming dislike of that poorly thought out mess but there are still plenty of people here in favour of it because new is always better.
The NHS and the welfare state are different things. One is a health service and the other is a social security system. I'm not sure where the rest of your waffle is going but then this is a typical tactic by libertarians - end the argument by boring the shit out of the opponent.
I know it is genius. I am from here and the reference was to British youth or did you happen to miss that while you were quoting it? If British youth really were libertarian leaning as that opinion piece seems to suggest then they would see the NHS as a bad thing. Knowing more British youth than either you or the author, I'm telling you that's not true. But then you also missed the fact that I was making a sarcastic reference to the ridiculous hysteria about universal healthcare in your country.
Yes I did thanks. Not a strawman just knowledge of my country and its people.
I thought it would be something like that. Easy tax avoidance strategy. Don't speed. Don't park where it says you shouldn't. Clean up after your dog. Your example is disgraceful for sure but I get so tired of hearing OMG TAX from people when they've been punished for deliberately breaking the law.
Tax collection?
Given that their monopoly abuse is what led to this clusterfuck they should provide patches until the end of time.
I'd dispute that British youth would support the removal of the NHS which as we all know is an attack on people's fundamental freedom to die of preventable diseases
What is algebra, exactly? Is it one of those three-cornered things? -- J.M. Barrie