Hey Emacs vs VI is a real division in IT and not stupid, unless you use beeping VI.

$6 million for a down payment?

Every time someone complains about how long he takes to write a book he kills another Stark!

http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3049/

Check out the elevation map. South Louisiana would be in trouble. Central Louisiana would become the new coast. North Louisiana would be just fine.

Well, that just depends on who you know. Oh wait, you actually want to be able to do the job? You will never get promoted to management with that attitude.

Dude relax. I am assuming you have a job. So use that to earn a living while you learn. Programming is either something you love or you don't. Take a course, read a book, volunteer on some open source projects. Scratch those "itches" you always wanted to find software to help you reach.

Which text editor....is the official text editor of this union?

I will not be associated with beeping VI users.

Emacs is my favorite operating system, even if the text editor is a bit on the weak side.

What happened was the filtering of job applicants based on the completion of a college degree.

Doesn't really matter what degree you have once you get the job. It matters what you can do. I have a BS in computer science. It opened a couple doors for me. I still had to walk through that door each day and do the job.

Web development may be "easy" but it can be a real discipline if done correctly. There are many different tool stacks and environments one needs to learn.

But hey don't listen to me. I am just a systems administrator. No, I don't remember Computer Science having even a systems admin 101 class.

'The scientific community now accepts to some degree that this contact may occur in the next 50 to 100 years,'

Not a very strong consensus.

I read what he has to say because I have respect for his accomplishments regardless of his point of view. I do not have to agree with everything he believes in. I want software that works. I am as likely to use a blob (non-free) driver if it works as to use a free one that works.

I personally benefit more from having a mobile phone than I fear being monitored or tracked by it. I am aware that having this phone does allow for this to happen. I was joking about "TV watching us" more than 10 years ago. It was actually funny, and I got "picked on" for saying it. That joke isn't funny anymore these days.

I love meat, but I do have one favorite vegetarian dish.

Corn tortilla flat round shell, spread with refried beans and top with shredded lettuce/tomato or whatever typical taco toppings you like.
Is better when you don't add meat to it.

Dude did you smoke the mushrooms then drink the Kool-aid?

You explain what a sine wave is in the review section for information you need to be successful in the class. You then offer time during office hours to help anyone who is at a different level of knowledge a chance to catch up. The motivated students will do what it takes to succeed and get the help offered. The rest you could not help regardless of your effort. Equal opportunity not equal results regardless of effort and talent.

I believe that is done by a Radiologist. That is a specialist position for a medical doctor, not something you pick up in trade school.

I saw a boy in a yellow shirt with a telescope.

Now tell me if it can be determined, with or without the addition of punctuation, if the person speaking was using a telescope and saw a boy in a yellow shirt or if saw a boy in a yellow shirt holding a telescope.

Once implants get better than actual hearing, the rest of us will be the new "deaf" and we get to inherit the culture.

I got titanium and bone grafts, so doesn't matter if the machines or the zombies rise up, I am already a Zomborg!