Shame if someone smeared it all up with advertisements...

Tell you what - for the low low fee of 230 dollars a year, I promise Guido and Nunzio here won't fill your windows up with popups.

This.

Anecdote time: I have a sysadmin friend who manages a regionally successful food chains POS machines. When trying to upgrade the system he recently pushed to adopt a SQL database and a proper web interface for it, all running Linux (They were/are just dumping data into excel spreadsheets). The managements response? "Why would we want to run that communist software?"

Although I enjoyed the game enough to waste 20 minutes on it, I am less than impressed with a "Pay to not watch the grass grow" model of business. So, while it may run blazingly fast, I'm not going to pay to see if that's the case.

As it is, it seems painfully slow, and more than a bit of a rip-off of games like these ones I can play for free in my browser with no speed issues.

I'm just not seeing the value.

While all technically true, the problem happens when these agencies straight up lie to Congress or the president about their activities.

James Clapper, the Bay of Pigs, etc etc. If you believe those oversight committees are worth anything, well...

This really all depends on the coder. I work on a very large commercial project written in C++/Qt and Tcl. The majority of the main programmers use Emacs and Eclipse. I use qtcreator and vim. IDEs don't get in the way of project specific tools at all - that is why you tell it where all your bespoke classes and tools are. Most all IDEs understand Git, Subverison and Perforce as well as project trees.

The reason I love the IDE I use is the ability to quickly follow inheritance back to parent classes from some class or function definition, quickly find all uses of some function in the project tree, and just overall ability to hop around, switch from header to source, etc. Qtcreator even has vim mode, so all the easy text editing I'm used to is right there. I'm sure some programmers have scripts that do these things, or some Emacs/Vim magic, but I don't know it, and don't have the time or desire to learn it.

In the end, no one gives two shits what you use as long as you're productive.

People just forget to do these things, then wonder why the nightly breaks.

Builds fail due to engineer error.

That's the benefit to owning the means of production and not giving a shit about what design they're churning out. Intel would like to beat them with Atom, but they don't have to.

So, just because the Warren Burger led supreme court went 5-3 (Justice Stevens did not take part) in Buckley vs Valeo in favor of this line of reasoning does not make it correct. It simply means that our Supreme court believed that it knew better than the majority of Congress, who felt strongly enough about limiting campaign money to override Gerald Fords veto.

Well, to start with Reagan:

http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/debunking-the-debunkers-of-october-surprise/ And of course we have:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair -- Not really debatable.

Are you referring to this as the small pilot plant? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

A 5 year operation is hardly unproven. It is well known that the light water reactor design was chosen for its ability to create fissile material for weapons. It was the perfect design for the cold war. We are no longer trying to beat the Russians on warhead count, so its probably time we revisit the design question. Thermal cycles make more sense than fast ones, liquid fuel makes more sense than pellet, breeder systems make more sense than non-breeder ones.

it almost seems to be a running joke these days.

"We gotta figure out how to do nuclear safely!"

"How about we use proven molten salt technology and burn thorium?"

"Naah...How about we build a huge floating light water reactor out in the ocean?"