If true, please buy something in Canada.

What book did this? I thought I had read them all.

I don't think "space" will just inspire. It can and has produced significant advances (and thus careers) — although that benefit might not be running on all thrusters anymore.

Actually it is AI. What it isn't is Generalized AI. What most AI research is done now is specific techniques to specific problems.

One thing I never got with the "don't talk to the cops" thing is what happens if you actually the kind of help you would generally phone them for — such as your daughter ran away, or somebody just burgled your home, etc?

You insulted my carrot sir!

There are other similar efforts, specifically WolfPAC, which aims to reform using a constitutional amendment. Do you feel that these other efforts are complimentary or just duplication of effort?

I have looked at the language, and although I am an 'Apple Guy', I haven't done much with it yet. The language itself looks like a really really nice language for some of this sort of thing, but I mainly would want it for general purpose — so I agree with your parent that for this application s/he shouldn't look at it. However, if it becomes freely available as a compiler and multiplatform (with libraries) it would be worth a serious look at.

Is it possible they were so high in their walled garden that they couldn't perceive or predict possible backlash?

"My grandfathers fought in a war to maintain our standard of living." What a bunch of bullshit. What war could possibly have had anything to do with standard of living? There was never any credible threat of invasion for almost two centuries. The only thing to improve the standard of living was the exporting of goods to other countries fighting in the war, which doesn't require you actually fighting them.

Don't worry, we trust you completely.

Like this? http://www.imcdb.org/i014240.j...

If I buy a glorious big boat, and somebody on the high seas steals it, then by any definition that is theft. Further, this sort of theft on the high seas is piracy!

I love that: you have to pay for insurance in case they screw up. It should be them paying for that.

Hello fellow fountain pen heads! I don't like to write with a ball point - too much resistance on the page.