Hitler and Mussolini were fascists... certainly not left wing.

It depends. Having a security clearance helps insulate one from this. Having left such work for pure commercial work I definitely see it, whereas I never saw it in the government space.

Still on top of the coding game at my age. I went into management for about 5 years but that wasn't for me. I was good at it but I found it tedious and I find meetings to be insufferable.

Will probably get out soon, have some other things I may want to pursue.

It hasn't been easy: constantly learning new technology is becoming a PITA. The same old arguments with the youngsters: no - style doesn't matter as long as it is consistent, yes - this is the way we do it (was not even my second choice of style btw), no - we will not revamp the entire code base because you like tabs, thanks for an hour of useless back and forth.

Also staying late at the end of sprints annoys the hell out of me... mainly because these late sprint spikes are rarely the result of my work (in fact, this has only happened once that I can recall and I told the rest of the team to go home while I fixed my own mess). So yeah, I am leaving now - to go see my kids not that it is any of your business as I don't question you when you show up late with a hangover... no, I am not going to stay late to fix your work yet again.

But all of this is moot: the real issue is that I am not doing a better job than many devs with ~15 years of experience. But I probably make more money (not always tho! Some of these late 30's dev are making BANK). Being completely logical about the issue I would definitely get rid the higher pay guy first. It is that simple.

What you say is true. I have left work either on time or sometimes early to take care of my kids.

But my younger colleagues often times show up late (or not at all) with hangovers, my piss will test 100% clean and many of theirs will not, and I spend my time at wok actually working as opposed to a lot of socializing and what not.

So choose your poison.

Nothing is stopping you.

Apache 2.0 please.

Proven technology - not necessarily superior.

that said military thinking prized proven above all else... so your point is valid until proven otherwise.

In case you are not up on not so current events, the last attack on the US was executed by a few guys with box cutters and multitools.

Sadly, I think humans will be the side blowing peace loving civilizations to shit.

You have no basis at all for your assertion that the hypothesis is unlikely.

Here's your explanation:

1) We don't know shit about the universe, physics, or exobiology

2) We have not been listening very long

Give it time - lot's of time.

Canada is in a unique position that they can enjoy being nuclear free, but has all of the benefits of having them due to proximity to the US.

(Not to mention some of the problems as well - like being a target regardless of their nuclear posture.)

I've always likes that one, along with the fighter that would land on its tail.

I worked as a NASA contractor for a while, and there was not any getting rich on the green badge side of things I can assure you.

Some of the games are great fun. Ballistic in particular. Not a lot of thinking involved, but fast, fun, and pretty.

Draw Rider is good on the Ouya as well. A couple of others come t mind.

My kids refuse to play it for the most part - they are too into their Xbox.

As does NASA out of the Palmdale DAOF which is much closer to LAX. That said IIRC it takes the ER-2 about 45 minutes and over 200 nm to get to 60,000 feet depending on initial fuel load and climb speed. Usually there wasn't a problem operating over national airspace... they go out over the ocean, climb, and go feet dry over Vandenburg (ish).

(I wrote software for an instrument that went on the ER-2 (the white one, the black one was off doing something classified), and later helped integrate that instrument on said plane.)