Yes but if you never offer the opportunity for people of those different groups to generate that code you'll never see it

Maybe so but what you describe is still illegal. Let's change some of your words: replace 'older' with 'black'. Now what?

Reminds me of the movie "The Wolf of Wall Street", the senior trader giving tips to the new guy advising him to use cocaine in order to "stay sharp between the ears." And "That's not a recommendation, it's a prescription". Pulls out a little tubular dispenser, uses some right there in front of everybody. I'm inclined to think that that part of the movie is not an exaggeration of what goes on on Wall Street and in those big law firms.

I'm sorry to hear you've struggled so much, seems that this drug has been very beneficial to you. Nobody is saying that there are not people who legitimately need it. The focus of the story & discussion is that people are abusing it to get ahead. Think of those douchebags who go to medical marijuana dispensaries because they want to get high. How does that make all of the people who legitimately need it look and feel? Like you, I imagine. Really terrible, and then politicians want to ban it. The worst part is these abusers don't care that legit users might lose it because of them. Likewise there is massive abuse of drugs like ambien. Most people who take it are not suffering from the kind of debilitating insomnia it's supposed to be used for.

It's the Prisoner's Dilemma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

It only works out if we're all SURE that everybody else is going to abide by that promise. Yada yada yada, we all violate the agreement. Not me, I'm too old.

Yep, another deadly weapon to use for the AI system we eventually turn over everything to. We best begin to plot the Butlerian Jihad now.

Way back in the day when Microsoft was unleashing IE onto the world, everybody howled that they were introducing new IE specific things for websites to be able to provide, eg ActiveX. Now it seems that google is doing the same thing with Chrome. In both cases the idea is to take ownership of the web...

I know how to copy and paste in vim (yank/put), but I always use the mouse anyway. Do you know what happens when you paste something with tabs? Converted to spaces. Now it's all messed up.

Also, when you prepend a # in front of lines to comment them out, it goes all over the place.

I hate tabs.

The Japanese leadership did not see the atomics as significantly worse than what they had already suffered due to the sustained bombings their cities had endured in which many more civilians died than from both the bombs combined. What did it for them was the Soviet Union declaring war on them and rapidly taking Manchuria and able to invade via the relatively undefended north and western borders in very short order, like one or two weeks time instead of the months it would take the Americans to get on with it.

There was no point to a valiant stand against the Americans, they would be slaughtered by the Soviets from the other end. At this point they surrendered and to save face, in a way, they attributed their defeat to the magic bomb against which there was no honor in facing.

The US knew this of course, that neither invasion nor the abomb were necessary to end the war because the Soviets would take care of it, but then it was about who got to dictate the terms of surrender and keeping Japan's resources and conquered territories out of Soviet hands. Not an unreasonable motive, which is hard to say when 150-200 thousand civilians died by the bombs, but many more than that would have died by a Soviet invasion or an American one or both. Some in Hirohito's inner circle wanted to bring it to that, fight till the last man woman and child.

Also, the bombs were punitive. I'm not saying this to express approval or disapproval of this, but after all - it is these civilians who sent their sons to massacre the Chinese, taught them that they were the master race to rule the world, commit atrocities, etc. Nanking, Unit 731 (thought Auschwitz was the worst place you could possibly imagine?), etc etc etc

Lastly, just as the Japanese were able to have a "neat" reason to surrender, the Americans wanted a big final bang to symbolize victory and to take their place as the world's #1 superpower, knowing the Soviet Union was going to be competing with them for that claim.

Disagree. Exercise is of course fantastic for keeping your heart and muscles fit, as well as for your mind, but it makes zero difference to me when the goal is weight loss, only what I eat.

If you start counting calories like "ok, 30 mins on the treadmill will burn off that scoop of ice cream I had last night" nope doesn't work that way. Have to stop eating ice cream, period. Have to eat smaller portions, low fat low carb, just basically reduce calories and make the ones you do consume worthwhile. That's it.

I know this because I've been ~30-40 lbs overweight all my adult life and I've tried the exercise approach, the no carb thing, etc. Nope. It took having an ulcer where I could not eat much without feeling sick for like 6 months to lose 40 lbs with no change in my non-existent exercise regimen. Kind of happy about the body image change (yes, I'm a victim of the culture and what endless torment by my school peers ingrained in me), but pretty darn worried about where this all going.

And so it begins. Google and Apple are building their own private armies. First it starts with these security people that are just for show. Then after some kind of incident they get weapons. Yada yada yada, Google and Apple have nuclear arsenals.