Sorry to be blunt, but you're kind of ignorant yourself.

Suppose today is the 2015-02-13 and suppose someone is calling you to ask you when will be your next meeting. Suppose it's 10 days from now. How will you say the date? Will you simply say "it will on the 23rd" or will you say "it will be in the year 2015, the month of February, on the 23rd day for that month"?

The "logic" behind European dates is based on the way we truncate dates in our day to day conversation.

You need to realize that even if many times scientists funded by governments do not produce something useful to you in your day to day life, they do create knowledge which is essentials to scientists who work in the private sector. Without government funded scientists, you'd still live like an Amish.

But then again, maybe that's what you wish for...

I do agree anonymity is useful against tyranny, whether that tyranny comes from governments, employers, coworkers, friends or family, but I think it's better to fight tyranny openly than trying to hide. People who are not able to fight for their ideas, whatever the reason, can still find others who will agree to carry the flag for them if those ideas are worth fighting for.

I believe very few babies with be thrown out with the bathwater.

Let me just automatically block anyone who doesn't use his real name. Also, as I'm 45 years old, let me also automatically block anyone who's under 18. Sorry kids, but I'm not interested in what you're saying.

I was there in the 80's. One of the first program I wrote with the school computers was a light cycle kind of game (actually, my inspiration was Snafu for the Intellivision). And you know what? Out of all student in my school, you'd had to hit ME with your stone, because I was the only one who made something more than tic-tac-toe.

As for anyone being able to program... I'll take running as an analogy : although almost everyone can run a 4 km race, it just takes interest and a bit of training, very few people could do an Ironman, even with years of training.

You're right and that's pretty much why computer programs are now so ridiculously buggy and require bug fix releases every two weeks. But then again, as long as customers still buy without complaining, why bother with quality? Worse, a lot of people now think a bug fix release every two weeks is a sign of quality!

Ada doesn't normally allow that error either. There are things like "unchecked_conversion" which allows the programmer to break language safety, but they are always explicit.

For example, and maybe I'm wrong, the language doesn't force the programmer to declare variables outside of the code (in fact it looks like the language allows the declaration of a variable anywhere in the code) and it doesn't force the programmer to specify the type of a variable when declaring it (a quote from the documentation : "Variables can be type annotated when declared. However, in most cases, the compiler will be able to infer the type of the variable from the context, heavily reducing the annotation burden"). That kind of thing is an open door for sloppy programming.

What irks me the most is the "heavily reducing the annotation burden". For me, that should never be a goal with a language whose objective is safety.

According to most (credible) sources, Aisha was married when she was 6 or 7. And she was 9 when Muhammad raped her.

I agree a felony conviction shouldn't be taken lightly, but getting drunk shouldn't be taken lightly either. If you CHOOSE to get drunk, you should suffer the consequences of your action. So for me a felony conviction is appropriate.

I conclude you're a nutcase! Seriously, you don't make any sense.

You don't make any sense. I don't claim anything, I just follow the definition of the word "psychosis".

If religion had any kind of proof it would be called "science".

Whether believing in a god is a sign of psychosis or not depends on why you believe.

If you believe because you want to be part of your cultural group or because you find it useful (either from a social point of view or a personal one), I agree it has nothing to do with psychosis. But if you truly feel there is a god, then obviously your sense of reality is wrong and this is what psychosis is about.

People north of 40 are schizophrenic about voice mail?

Like... they hear voices when they listen to voice mails?