Summary says: "Syrian military allegedly launched sarin gas rockets".
It is not that obvious who used chemical weapons. We have evidence rebells used sarin
IMO, tools are a secondary problem. Many FLOSS project succeed with just e-mail and a distributed version control system (even plain old CVS). Motivation if the key point of FLOSS: people really want their contribution to get upstream, and that push them to make a lot of efforts. This may be difficult to reproduce with employed developers that may not care much about the project.
We are heading to the situation where patching the kernel will be faster than patching applications:
Kernel upgrade: no downtime
Adjusting a parameter in Java application: wait for 4 minutes for Glassfish to restart
Submitter wants a "widespread compiled language that has good ties into FOSS".
What about plain old C? Otherwise, second best choice seems C++
Posting porn: wrong
Expressing your identity by posting porn: good
There is something weird in this logic.
"Ukraine is ours. Deal with it."
It is more like "Crimea is ours. Deal with it". Obviously Russia never intended to take over Ukraine, as their army could be in Kiev in less than a week if they wanted to perform a real invasion. We talk about Ukraine, a failed state, versus Russia, a major nuclear power.
But of course, invading western Ukraine, where a lot of people hate russians, would mean dealing with a fierce resistance after the military victory. This is probably the reason why they did not do it. Invading Crimea, which mostly contained russians, made sense, invading Ukraine does not.
And bluntly, whether you think your politicians are greedy, selfish idiots with zero qualification for their job and no well being in their mind aside of their own, or whether you think your boss is like this, where exactly is the difference between public and private sector?
There are huge parts of public sector that operate far enough from unqualified politicians to maintain the ability to actually work. But I guess the situation depends on the countries.
You forgot to take into account the private sector efficiency, which is usually obtained through negative externalities: crushing workers, polluting...
Of course someone will tell me that public sector pollute as much because laws allow it, and has lazy and unproductive workers...
BASIC is the Computer Science equivalent of `Scientific Creationism'.