There's an easy answer for that, once you've had 16+ years in the industry, and I stumbled onto it by accident, and thanks to this one weird tip I have gotten a raise every few months.

That weird tip: keep your Dice, Monster, and Linked In profiles active and up to date.

I'm not currently looking for a change, but last week I had 48 hours in which I had 12 recruiter calls. And I've been able to wrangle a 2%-4% raise out of every job change for the past three years.

"The vast majority of your deities, including today's most popular ones were conjured up by winos and opium addicts."

Yes, they were. You can tell them from the real thing by not being universal and lacking the ability to say, choose the gravitational constant for the entire universe.

That's not true at all. An automated car which can't deal with unexpected human actions also can't deal with unexpected vehicle actions due to software error or hardware failure.

Great. The so-called "Green Revolution" has resulted in the destruction of topsoil everywhere it has been used, and increasing fossil energy dependence. What's next?

You're talking about the Roadster, we're talking about the Model S. Please stay on topic.

...they were trusting Cirrus Logics to put together two out of four chips, and they failed to execute in a timely fashion. By the time they had a prototype, the hardware was outdated.

Claiming that's what's claimed is frankly bullshit. Before systemd Linux systems used either sysvinit or BSD-style init, one of the two primary init standards.

The Beretta 92fs is a dream. The 96, not so much. Much preferred is the Glock 22c. That little c actually makes a difference to me. A big difference. YMMV, and those suckers stopped making them, IIRC.

I said that druggies were harmful to themselves. The entire intent of getting high is to escape reality, so why are you even arguing the fact that I acknowledge that those who get high are escaping reality?

The Objective universe does exist, even when your brain is too addled to notice. Plenty of people have met their ends while high because of that.

Better than somebody who continually uses illicit substances to specifically blur the line.

"What miniscule fraction write screeds and take up arms"

Approximately 10%. But that's not the reason I say Islam is a fake. The reason I say Islam is a fake is because as a theology, it can be used to justify everything from Sufi to ISIS and everything in between. There is no coherent morality to Islam, because Allah himself, as portrayed in the Koran, is not a faithful God, is not coherent from verse to verse.

A similar problem can be found in the Old Testament, and has inspired an awful lot of fundamentalism and atheism in Christianity and Judaism, perhaps the extreme example that can be found in our time, and a close cousin to the violence of ISIS, is Zionism in Israel.

"Catholicism has the bloody destruction and enslavement of the Americas on it's conquistador hands."

Yes.

"Islam - past and present - has nothing to shade that, by way of comparison."

Have you paid attention to what has been happening in Africa in the last 150 years?

"The "muslims" that you see and read about with violent conversion and conquest? They are created, inflated and supplied by the various trans-national agencies and alliances in Global para-politics."

They've been in existence far longer- the Sunni/Shi'a split happened within a generation of the death of the Prophet.

And you need it, to match the practical (road-going) performance of the Model S. I think that's a pretty fair comparison. Truth is, the average car is just quite heavy these days. 4,000 pound cars are commonplace again. 4,600 just ain't so much of a stretch. I don't appreciate this trend; I like lightweight vehicles. My old sedan is a 300SD (~3500lb) and my new one is a D2 A8 Quattro (~3900 lb) and both vehicles are lightest-in-class.

In being able to tell fantasy from reality, quite possibly.

As in, ordinary "Neurotypical" people are not capable of it.

He wasn't. He was just a Catholic Boy, a foolish young man who thought that Islam was a peaceful religion. He was trying to tell the story of the street both times he was captured.

Islam is a fake.