make it so only corporation dictate what yo can do, news at 11.

Pubs have become more and more ant citizen every year. The citizens wont municipal broadband? FUCK EM!

"that taxpayer-funded projects are barriers to future infrastructure investment."
That's been shown to be false over and over again. Why do these people get away with a provable false statement.
We have seen, over and over again tax-payer funded program create jobs, create infrastructure, and in some cases create entire tangential industries.

It doesn't onset until well after we have propagated, so there isn't enough pressure to evolve in a manner where we have a lot of HMW-HA. See:Naked Mole Rat.

"Look, cancer is another word for evolution. "
No, it is not. You just let everyone know that you know nothing about cancer and evolution, so thanks for that.

" anything that lives, dies; it's just about timing and quality/functionality of life while you're living."
You can't prove that until everything is dead; therefore I will live forever!

It seems to me as a non-specialist that descent from the naked mole rat,

you did not. Perhaps the lack of understanding evolution is why it's puzzling to you?

Brain transplant!

I like how you assume no future knowledge of the brain and science should possible find a way to do this.

I'll take sharing my knowledge with my kids AND living for ever, thanks.

This is what they mean by flying car:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Non of that other stuff counts.
Are you clear on that now?

And never is a really long time.

I don't write mediocre code, I write smart code which is something else entirely than being "clever". With a certain amount of hubris I'll say that I don't think I've ever written really bad code at the micro-level. However, I used to write a lot more code which disregarded encapsulation, separation of concerns, side effects, poor function and variable naming, anti-patterns and so on. And if I wrote enough of it then it resembled spaghetti code, it lacked the structure, abstractions and layers to make it clean and easy to maintain. I still suck at writing high level documentation but at least when people jump into my code they usually praise it for being easy to follow. That's much harder than it looks.

Yep, I've argue the industry need a P.E. many times.

I prefer not to be elbow deep in actual shit.

"don't be afraid to say "no" and "I don't know". "
never, ever, say that at work regarding an opinion. You will be seen has not being an expert.
Its sad, but true.
Radiolab did an interesting podcast on it:
http://freakonomics.com/2014/0...

That's not correct at all.
Forming a group for you interest is the most constitutional thing you can do. Not allowing people to do that would be unconstitutional.

I wish idiots like you would stop saying everything they don't like is unconstitutional just because they don't like it. You're using tepa party logic and you should be ashamed.

Of course its beneath you. Where the hell would you go were the were over you? :)

"...thought androids on nuclear-powered motorcycles were cool."
That's only because they are cool.

My Dues, 30 a month.
I get 6 weeks vacation, great sick time, and fantastic benefits.
I make 6 figures.

I work 4 tens, any after hours work is billable, being on call is billable. If I give a profession opinion or fact I can't be fired is it happen to be contrary to what some VP wants. Yes, I was fired for explaining why something wasn't possible to a VP. With facts and number and even maths. Yes, I was polite. Hell, once I was reprimanded for putting people in the wrong order in a cc in an email when I worked in the financial sector.

Working 40 is the minority of programmers schedule.

"That's ignoring the risk of the union making it hard to get rid of the people who sincerely need to go,"
I seen people let go. There is a process here, and it's a reasonable one. Warning, write up, write up with correction plan, fired.
It prevents people for getting fired for political reasons, and it also lets people know when their performance has dropped.
As a side note, I got a warning for my performance dropping. Since I normally evaluated as high as possible for my work, this lead e to finding out I was suffering from depression.
I've seen people join the union and think it's like the urban myth of the union. They don't last long.