Vapor, vapor, vapor.

If we all had flying unicorns then we wouldn't need gas guzzling cars. But we don't have flying unicorns.

Here in Alaska (which really should be part of Canada, you guys interesting in invading anytime soon?) we have three seasons - July, August and Winter. And that's in a good year.

Shut. Up.

You'll get yours when you find out you have to bail out the rest of the EU. Including your friends the Frogs.

Socialist Commie.

LA LA LA LA LA!

We can't hear you! (That's because AT&T sucks but we shall save that for another rant.)

tl;dr. However I skimmed the conclusion and bookmarked it. The "Money is made for man" thing nails the problem in a soundbite, especial when you consider environmental "externalities". Now all we need is a thesis with an answer, a peaceful way to "socialize" profits, like we already do with losses. ;).

What do you mean "our", I'm an Aussie, "my" economy is doing fine, China now buys more of our special rocks than you guys do, if China becomes a military superpower (as well as an economic superpower) we will also have some disused foreign military bases we can rent to them. You see, I'm old enough to remember the last of Mao's famines on the nightly news, and while I agree their political system is more vulnerable to despots I'm also aware that they have dragged more people out of poverty in the last 40yrs than the rest of the world combined.

They paid a heavy price in environmental degradation and the one child policy, but "credit where credit is due", they did it, they basically turned a famine riddled "N Korea" into an economic superpower that now has a rapidly growing middle class and a booming real estate industry akin to the gold rush days of the 1800's.

Philosophically I'd say the most desirable superpower would be an ideological cross between Doctors Without Borders and The National Academies, but with the "can do" attitude of Attila the Hun. It really doesn't matter what you call your ideology, communism, democracy, whatever, what matters is results. Besides, it was rich merchants who forced the Magna Carta on the nobility. Today's rich merchants are not limited by oceans, just as the merchants of the Magna Carta were not limited by the intricate feudal borders of Europe. Since the end of the cold war hard core despots have been seen as bad for business on all sides, in the same way warring nobility were bad for business, their days are numbered because for the vast majority of rich merchants, peace is more profitable than war.

What makes you think I allude to any such thing. I work in security, I know that you can not prove some things outside of theory due to the complexities involved. I actually don't care about the method of proving at this point, I'm making an argument about who should be responsible for providing the proof.

And frankly, when you want to, say, bypass the corporate firewall with a dial-up modem straight to the financial database server, it is not the job of the CSO to prove that your setup is insecure, it is your job to prove that your setup is secure.
Not mathematically, but the usual "best practice" / "reasonable doubt", etc. standards.

Don't hate on the AC parent post, he's just a victim of bad parenting, his parents unwittingly trained him from birth to behave like an arsehole by capitulating to his tantrums. Society does not always react to his tantrums in the same way his parent did, which is probably why he's posting AC.

Huh, why is there so much Chinese construction crap in the yards these days (I use the term 'crap' on purpose')? They have long figured out how to make export only items and size them, finish them, etc. specifically for the market.

We have Chinese 'gypsum board', ABS pipe, EMT and a plastic stuff up the toilet drain. About the only thing I've seen that has never been Chinese is dimensional lumber and I expect that it's simply not economical to ship stuff like that over.

I take it you're not an Apple fan. Apple seems hell bent on ignoring pretty much every UI convention it ever wrote in it's own brain dead attempt to make a "One Ring" interface by wedging iOS and OS X into the molten cracks of the pits of Mordor^HCupertino.

"You'd make a grown man cry."

For once, Microsoft marketing got it right.

Neither has anyone at Microsoft.

Give him a break. When you're foaming at the mouth and hyperventilating it's easy to miss stuff.

That's cuz you're not using DX11.1 - If you were you, would see magical flying unicorns.

Say what? Only a Windows user would type that monstrosity out. ANYBODY ELSE (including Timothy) would script it. Hell, even a Windows admin would script it.

And I'd love to see what happens when you type that into Ubuntu. Go ahead. I dare you.