Why is using the built in features of one runtime program but using the built in features of another runtime not programming? You can write things like the game arkanoid or the calculator dc for sed. Do they suddenly become non-programs?

Or how about your "Hello, World" with input:

#!/usr/bin/sed -f
1 i \
Input Name:
1 d
2 s/\(.*\)/Hello, \1/
q

(It requires an initial carriage return to get the prompt, because I'm not that good with sed.)

Some people need to get over the ridiculous notion that they have the right to force other people deal with their dicks jokes.

Most programmers don't need computer science: when was the last time you really cared about the difference between a 2-3 tree and a red-black tree?

"The ability to write computer programs is mostly useless, outside actually writing computer programs."

For most people writing programs, the program is a tool used to make thing they are actually trying to sell; the program itself is not the product.

So you're trying to prove that most people don't need to know who to write a program *by writing a program*?

I do not predict success for this endeavor.

"Remove the third party"

You ran point-to-point network links to everyone who want to get to your website? Impressive!

'Don't forget that there is a concept called, "jury nullification."'

Don't forget that meta-monkey explicitly mentioned nullification and explained why it would be hard to prompt it, so saying "don't forget" makes you look like kind of a jackass.

A free market would care, because the players in the market need information to make efficient decisions between suppliers and their products.

"make sure it is used for space exploration as intended"

Why do you want NASA to go against its objectives spelled out in The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958?

Have you tried reading National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, which spells out the firs eight objectives of NASA? The first is "The expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space".

"they should have the right to admit or bar any horse they want"

But they also have an obligation to adhere to the rules they already established in the contractual relations with its members and its charter.

The very question at hand is whether AQHA actually has a rule that forbids cloned horses, and thus it becomes a matter of contract law.

"in fact it's some corporate task force that abuses the old City situation to give themselves public powers."

While the specifics of the City of London Corporation may be unique, the fact that the city government is an incorporated legal body makes it just like any other chartered city government since chartered cities were invented.

"You're still going to only get the alcohol of a standard drink whether you eat the starchy stuff straight up or put it in a quart of water."

Only if you consume the starchy stuff at a rate as slow as consuming the amount of water you are intended to put it in.

"It builds stuff for consumers."
Tell that to all my coworkers with MacBooks.

"And a sizable percentage of consumer laptop users regularly use HDMI."
My desktop computer doesn't even have HDMI. It has 2 DisplayPort and one DVI. Of the tree monitors I have running at home and tow at work, the only one that even has an HDMI input is the weird knock-off Korean brand. The HPs and Dells have none.

" A sizable percentage regularly use their laptop to charge their cell phone while traveling."
In a situation where you're already using the laptops for for a display you'd would necessarily have an output to plug in a phone charge because you'd need an outlet for the display somewhere.

On the one hand, there is a weakness in my argument in that all I am offering are anecdotes. On the other hand, you are not even offering that much.

There were eight original Foundation stories, but _Foundation_ only contains 5 stories: "The Psychohistorians", "The Encylopedists", "The Mayor"s, "The Traders", and "The Merchant Princes". "The Psychohistorians" was written specifically for the book.