If that's recovery, I don't want to see what your economy would look like if it was in the dump. Your "recovery" is yet another bubble, with the printing press pretty much propping you up and the fact that you can, by holding the de facto international currency in your hands, essentially tax the world by forcing them to keep your inflation artificially low so they don't sit on worthless toilet paper (aka dollar reserves).

Seriously, if the US was any other country, their rating would have bombed by now due to an economy that can not support the amount of money being pumped out aimlessly.

Ok, not true, it ain't aimlessly. But aimed at the by some margin wrongest targets. Instead of trying to use that money to help your economy recover, you prop up failed banks and failing businesses that are deemed "too big to fail". Mostly because a government take over is anathema to your economical dogma, so you pump money into corporations which is not used to create jobs or spur the economy but is siphoned away by those that actually caused all this. And these people are still not held accountable for it, quite the opposite. They're pretty much assured that no matter how much they damage the economy and abuse it for their personal gains, we'll bail them out.

That's hard to trump. I'm not convinced that it can't be done worse, I'm actually pretty sure a Republican could come up with some ways to fuck this up even worse. But I hope we can agree on this being kinda far away from any sensible solution to the problem at hand.

Why? Since when is it a court's business to protect some business model that doesn't work out?

Sooo... our browsers will honor the ADS_NOT_TO_BE_REMOVED flag as much as they honor our browser's DO_NOT_TRACK flag and we call it even?

We will win this battle.

I can live without their content.
Can they live without my money, or the revenue from ads?

You mean that's different from TV networks cutting movies left and right to make NC17 movies suitable for broadcast or "trimming" them down so they can squeeze in another ad break? Oddly, this seems to be a-ok with the studios.

I don't mind the bandwidth. What I do mind, though, is that they don't even bother checking who's advertising with them and whether they use this vehicle to spread malware. As long as they pay, who gives a shit about the visitors of their pages?

Showing ads to me is a privilege. Earn it!

Courts are not here to protect your failing business model. But it sure shows a certain kind of feeling of entitlement that you think they are.

You mean it could have been worse? There could have been any less accountability for those that drove and continue to drive our economy head first into the ground? It's possible to go below zero on this one?

Umm... could I explain the general relativity theory instead? It's easier.

It's some 80s game show, right?

The question "How much C++ do you have to know for an entry level job" can be answered. The question "how much X do you..." not.

How much you have to know for an $X level job depends on the job. The more people can do X, the higher the level will have to be. Chances are that you need to know a LOT more C++ for an entry level C++ developer job than you need to know about some obscure assembler or industry machine language for an entry level job in that area, simply because there will be far fewer people with the relevant skill set and hence far fewer applicants.

Supply and demand, people.

Intelligent design... I mean, take a look at the platypus. When it comes to this, I can only imagine god and devil sitting in a bar drinking, and after a few cocktails god doodles on his napkin and the devil yelling "dare ya!"

I don't remember which pope said it, but I think it sums up the general sentiments of the European Christians:

"The Bible doesn't tell you how the heaven works. The Bible tells you how you can get there."

And that's basically the position the Christian churches took here in general. Also because the mere idea of promoting new-earth-creationism would make them lose members faster than they already do.

Of course we have our stupid people. We just don't let them run the country. If in Europe someone stands up and claims that his imaginary buddy made the world and that we should teach this nonsense to kids, we don't sit down with him and discuss his valuable input and his interesting idea because every opinion is valuable and everyone has the right to speak his mind and other PC bullshit. We'd tell him to shut the fuck up so he doesn't embarrass himself even more by acting like a complete tool.

Maybe that's the difference.

You settle at the coast, I settle at the hill. You enjoy your seaside real estate, I get to shoot you if you try to escape the climbing sea levels.

Deal?