I'd say the aerospace industry is dealing with it a lot better than the software industry. Perhaps we should get held up to the same standards, maybe then we could earn the title of "(Software) Engineer".

I'll take it, proviso that if SCOTUS strikes the law down as unconstitutional in less than 5 year... make that 10 ye... How long has the USA PATRIOT Act been around?

Simpsons did it! Simpsons did it!

Nah, Rust is the new hotness!

In fact, I like it more now that it _isn't_ cool!

There are developers who ride the wave of new languages (who appear to be surfing towards Go and Rust now that JavaScript has crested). In that respect, Perl has long since settled down, and Ruby is on the wave's trailing end. It could be said that now the hype wave is over, people can get real stuff done in the language.

Shall we drag out all the other obfuscated code contests and judge all languages guilty by the most heinous crimes committed with them? Remember that C and C++ give us Windows.

Do they not appreciate Huey Lewis's undisputed masterpiece? You should murder them with an axe.

Harley owners want to be noticed, and without the 120 decibel roar, we won't be paying enough attention to them.

They're fighting this on the grounds that it should never have been granted because it was disparaging at the time it was granted, not that it is no longer okay, that it wasn't okay when it was made.

No big loss

You're right, the Japan of 2014 likes to pretend the Japan of 1945 never happened.

Considering their history, China has every right to be concerned about Japan even looking at them funny...

So the "Empathy Box" from "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" is real? And now?

To be fair, a teletype would solve 80% of what I need, with a video-capable tablet providing the rest...

Perhaps you were supposed to [citation needed]?