Yep, if only because literature is the sole mean to save the masses from analphabetism. It is a source of self-education that allows to understand the difference between principle and principal, capitol and capital, affect and effect, and all those weird ways to expand your vocabulary beyond the 1000 mark or the 10,000 mark.

Not that Hachette helps in any way there.

Isn't antitrust when you use your strength in a market to sell at loss in another?

RTFA, used momensin antibiotic on the foam to deflate it. Moreover, foam does not occur from distillers grain only, there's an unknown trigger agent at work.

Well of course Real Time programming is a special beast, but I don't think it is representative of whatever programming the OP is trying to learn. Basing your whole critique on optimization needs is off-base.

OOP is a good tool to encapsulate UI, it has brought Angular, DOM and javascript prototype-based system.

For heavy work, functional programming simplifies parallel processes. Scheme can handle this and offers a very different syntax to learn. If you can wrap your head around both the ((parenthesis)) and the {imperative;} syntax, you can understand any new language.

I say that with 10y in C++ and 10y in Scheme with a dabble of other languages. Which is why I can say Scheme is a much better learning tool than OOP imperative languages, although its blessings carry the Lisp curse. {Using Scheme for eulerproject.net is almost cheating, its numerical tower makes them a breeze.}

Why, thank you!

I am glad to see some can maintain a NPOV on this subject. We need more like you.

Those who use the almost 30 years of studies on Chernobyl instead of counter-pulling sensationalized numbers. Anyone coming up with numbers larger than those studies have their arm so deep in bullshit that their shoulder smells.

Despite the accident being much worse and the fallout being over land, the numbers affected are counted in thousands, dixit: "for a total of 9000 Chernobyl-associated fatal cancers". You could reasonably claim that Fukushima should affect one tenth that number and use 1000 as the death cap.

Back of the envelope calculations, but at least it doesn't smell.

Well, if some NewAge customer wants you to sell them homepopathic remedies it's good business to serve them. Much better than letting them find a competitor. Should libraries stop selling religious books because it's all crock?

This.

We can shun M$, McD or any other other company we dislike. If we allow Monsanto to hide from consumers, we won't be able to treat them the same way. Would you pay more for Canadian bacon, or do you prefer God-blessed American one?

That makes it clear, thank you.

I am not sure it's that black and white.

I watched the 16 minutes first part. There are maybe 2 minutes of original video at the start and 2 more minutes of a Foo Fighter music video, leaving about 10 minutes of House of Number material.

He really did a convincing work on the montage and the voice-over, but NPOV must agree the majority of the video came from the deniers. Now I don't know how far fair use goes, but maybe they really have a case there. How did MST3K handle that?

That'd what I read...

Add to this that that era went from roughly 700 to 1400 with Leonardo da Vinci at the reverse point. Assuming western civilisation lasts just as long, we should be safe until 2100 or so. At least with tongue deeply in cheek.

Don't you mean jynnan tonnyx?

But you see, rebuilding a down tower or two is a quick task. These things happen regularly and as long as the power station is fine, it should be back up in less than a week. Blasting bridges or overpasses would be a bigger pain to fix. And neither of those are sexy enough for our terrorist friends: not enough bang for the bucks.

A guided tour would offer more than what google satellite maps does, I don't know how critical that extra information could be and maybe the "security reasons" is just because they're too lazy to find out. Security through obscurity.

I think you forgot to add your cynical tag.