Please see propagation delay.

I want to know who the hell shoots a rifle from the hip at all.

Given a reasonable toolbox, that's arguably a reasonable proposition these days, at least for many devices in your immediate vicinity. Yes, things really are that bad.

Perhaps you should look into multiple accepted meanings for a word before you further embarrass yourself with ill-informed commentary.

You seem to be making the implication that it's not okay for Linus to loudly complain about a compiler that produces a broken Linux kernel. Why is that?

Quoting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

Please describe all the platforms you presently use which do not support ASCII, and please provide statistics on the market presence for such platforms.

Whoosh.

I'm curious why you capitalized "black man" as you would a proper noun, but failed to properly capitalize Perl.

How shall we define importance? In terms of scope, are we talking about kernel space, userland code that humans directly interact with, systems/infrastructure code, data processing systems, or something else entirely?

Does your shop have a relatively narrow development scope? Over the course of my career, I've found that single language shops are either fairly tightly tied to a small set of problem domains, or they're full of people who see every problem as a nail so to speak. The latter condition is an unfortunate state of inflexibility that tends to extend into other areas, including higher level systems work and network architecture. I'm not saying your organization suffers from that affliction, but I would like to understand a bit more about the sort of development your team does. For the record, I'm a big fan of mature systems in general, and for most of my work various combinations of Perl, Bash, C, and Python gets the job done (usually in that order).

You're a friend and a cosmonaut.

I'm 33 and have three children, two daughters and a son. I am interested in teaching them science, mathematics, literature, history, and how to think for themselves. I'm also interested in teaching each of them how to grow food, clean and shoot a rifle, clean and cook small game, and build things with their own hands. Political and economic conditions aside, I believe these are all things children should learn. What are you teaching your children?

To be perfectly clear, Snowden is actually in possession of some emails. That much has been known for some time. You know exactly what I'm talking about when I speak to the probability that he is in possession of copies of all his correspondence (extremely low), especially copies which could be authenticated via certain means. Again, you know exactly what I'm talking about here, and you're simply being disingenuous.

Owing to my prior service in uniform and long standing experience in both private and public sector information security, I have a very good idea of why he isn't in possession of those emails. I'm fairly certain you have the same understanding, but you've elected to take the disingenuous route of raising this rather ridiculous question, being secure in your belief the populace at large doesn't have the same benefit of experience. I'll ask the same question I asked you in my last reply: what do you presently do for a living, and what have you done in the past?

What's truly sad to me is the fact that you and I have agreed on so many things in the past. It's sad because I am in vehement opposition to your views in this discussion. I must ask you a simple question: what do you presently do for a living, and what have you done in the past? Thank you.