If they fly with that luggage it would be "pi in the sky"...

Sorry.

It's okay, it would need a PIN number to activate, just like at your ATM machine...

The scary part is, there is a court, set up to only deal with them, just like the IRS Tax Court only deals with IRS cases. So, since the FISA court almost never turns down a request for a subpoena, it's a thin bandaid of legality over a suppurating sore of government abuse of power.

QED is Latin for "DuhDoy"...

Exactly right. I prefer someone tell me where they stand when they report something, rather than falsely make some high-handed claims to "objectivity."

I wish I had mod points, this is exactly right.

Do they even still teach the Halting Problem in Computer Science these days?

No matter how thoroughly tested software is, there will be places where it breaks in production, through no fault of the developers and testers. If you don't believe this, you haven't worked on enough systems, or they haven't been complicated enough.

Most of the time the customer asks for xyz and doesn't tell the developer about w, and complains that it's not there. Or the customer forgets to tell the developer that their data integrity isn't checked, and that data outside the spec sometimes slips in. Sometimes the customer forgets to mention that other systems are used with the data and will sometimes make changes to the data that weren't documented in the spec. Putting all the blame on the developer is nice from a pure management perspective, but it breaks too often in the real world.

Not to mention that for any project maintenance is the largest percentage of the project's lifetime. It kind of sounds like this guy doesn't really understand what constitutes a "bug," at least doesn't understand that not all bugs are caused by developers making mistakes. There are bugs caused by invalid data entering the system by user error, or by parts of the system outside the control of the developers, or by bugs in the compiler or libraries used in the system that only show up during run-time, or by changes in the business rules after development starts, and many many other causes. To hold the developers responsible for finding these beforehand, and refusing to pay for any work needed to come up with fixes or work-arounds, sounds like he's not really interested in maintaining the systems he builds.

He also sounds like a real peach of a guy to work for in other respects, as well. I wish him good luck in finding his cheap experienced expert developer.

Well, why not nationalize food care, and housing care, and transportation care? How are those so much less important than medical care?

Thank you for making my choice for me, it's important to get society's input on my choices. Now if I was female, obviously my choices are my own, but I don't have that luxury.

So, this morning, should I eat breakfast? What if I don't, that could cause my blood sugar to crash and I'd make the wrong choice at the yellow light to run through it. On the other hand, if I eat breakfast I might eat the wrong thing like meat, which would elevate the worlds' carbon footprint by some amount, or I might eat cereal that would take grain from the mouths of children in some other country by not being exported. What should I do, o speaker for the "other people having a say in [my] choices"?

Hm, how about an "inverse steganography", hiding a message by selectively leaving out words or parts of words that should there, but that the brain fils in autmaticaly on casual reading?

Did the mice with more brain sound like Orson Welles?

Riker: "So, about this Klingon ritual?"
Worf: "Yes?"
Riker: "You stick the pain sticks whhHOAAOOOOOH sweet mystery of life at last I've found you!"