You do realize that Disney is one of the largest multimedia conglomerates in the world, right? While the word Disney gives rise to images of cartoon princesses they also own ABC, Marvel, and the Lucasfilm properties, among many other things.

To say they only make princess movies is like saying Kraft only makes crappy cheese products or Pepsi only makes cola.

Personally, I am sort of conflicted on the issue. On one hand, this is a topic not for everyone. Every school should have a CS program, but it should be an elective. The closest thing to a required computer class these days should be on the art of typing, because hunt-and-peck is not the way to go on anything outside of a tablet / phone.

However, as someone who taught themselves programming in elementary school, I can see the value of a "CS-light" type class. Something that teaches the concepts of logic, flow control, and variables. Especially if taught before algebra. It seemed to boggle my mind that people just couldn't understand the idea of variables when algebra was introduced in middle school. "What do you mean that the letter is a number? My head hurts!" Yet, I was using "FOR I = 0 TO 10 ... NEXT I" before I even learned long division and could see the concept in action.

For some, some of us would love to see more equality in the workplace. As an engineer, I would love to see more women, this place is a sausagefest. Ideally, most jobs should have a ratio comparative with the population at large, that fact that coders and engineers are fairly well paid (well, except me) makes it even more important for generally equal representation.

However, I am also convinced that much of this is a bunch of rich assholes who see the 70-cents-on-the-dollar statistic and say, we need to hire some more of these cheap women, only to find that there aren't that many in the field. Same with the push to get the markets saturated with cheap coders any way they can so they can systematically lower the pay of programmers in general.

"Hello, meine dispatcher says there eez somezing wrong mit deine Encrypted Connections?"

"Yeah, come on in. I'm not really sure exactly what's really wrong with the cable."

"That's why they sent me, I am an expert."

I can tell someone hasn't worked in many large multinationals. Some VP or CXX gets hired, brings in his buddies, implements some stupid crap policies, milks the position for what its worth and then leaves after 3-5 years for greener pastures and the cycle continues. Everyone else is left to clean up the mess left behind. Usually the next guy will see the resulting disfunction and hire some consultants who recommend layoffs and various reorganizations. It is the same thing over and over again.

When I was a kid, I used to read Dilbert and laugh. Now I read Dilbert and cry because that shit is all too real.

Funny, most of the people I know who are doing that are usually 40-50 year old MBA managers and CXX-titled executives.

... Mike and Joel Make Autonomous Drones in Their Spare Time?

Well duh, Cambot! Joel, alone, must be a robotics and AI genius to create Gypsy, Tom Servo, and Crowwwww!

Yeah, that would be well into the mantle. As we all know, the only thing that can live there is the Mole People.

She was a female Republican CEO. Seeing as her competition is Hillary Clinton, obviously some people think that if there is going to be a female president, it should at least be a Republican.

None of that matters in corporate America. It's all about short term gains. Workers are nothing but a resource to use up, wear out, and throw away. If they can get a 10% productivity boost at the expense of your health and well being, that is a no brainer! If you get burned out, they can just as easily get rid of you and replace you with someone for half your salary.

The only thing that matters is stock price.

VPs don't use prescription medication to be up at all hours, they use cocaine. This also one of the reasons that most VPs are insane.

It's a game. It is supposed to be fun. If you want gritty realism, why are you looking at a Star Wars game? Go play America's Army

There is offline single player. I am a bit miffed on the space battles thing. However, the space-based combat in BF2 was hardly the end-all-be-all of Star Wars dogfighting. X Vs Tie or Rogue Squadron it was not. As for the Prequel era stuff, They more or less said it will be DLC While I hate EA's DLC practices and it is pretty shitty they can't include them what is a $70 game, if they can bring back Gungan genocide mode, playable Palpatine, and the Naboo and Mustafar maps, I might consider buying them.

Either way, Battlefront 2 is still on steam and still works very well on Windows 7 (and Wine for the Mac / linux gamers) in 1920x1080.

I was there. In school, I was horribly depressed thinking about all the different ways my life could quickly turn south, in spite of every parent and teacher saying that I will practically be the next Bill Gates. I also couldn't help but dwell on the ephemerality of everything I loved to the point I was more-or-less a nihilist.

At some point, I realized it was just wasted energy that not only did nothing to help me but actively hurt me. It made me a serious, dour person that nobody wanted to be around. Worse, there is only so much time and energy to spend on thought that using it for what amounts to little more than self-loathing is just pissing away what could be used to focus on my real problems. After much hard work, and many ups and downs, I like to believe that I am a happier, more likable, and more successful person than I was 10-15 years ago.

It isn't about living for the moment, tomorrow be damned or making decisions with little information. It is about refocusing your introspection to where your real problems lie instead of dwelling on what you have no control over. Turn your gift of analyzing your situation and sussing out the truth into an asset for success instead of a depressing curse. Ask yourself, "Why am I unhappy" and attack those areas with ruthless abandon.

There is a possibility that there is an assassin in your house ready to kill you. There is a possibility that an asteroid will strike you. The probability of either of the situations being true is practically zero, but not impossible. You can waste your time wallowing in those situations which will either never happen or you have no control over or you can use your intellect to root out the real problems in your life and solve them.

This is not about giving up on truth, this is about tackling the real issues instead of "What ifs." Any time spent on thinking about losing loved ones is time that could have been spent with loved ones. Any time spent thinking how they will leave you is time taken away from focusing on why they might leave you and how to prevent that from happening. And any time you think about a loved one dying who isn't at this moment fighting for their lives is not about them, it is about you wallowing in self-loathing whether you admit it or not.

Priorities.