Does that mean that we will soon have them in the US? Will Uber then lobby for more H1B visas since obviously no American is qualified for that job? ;)

I havent kept up with it but the trailers were enough to convince me the rot had set in

If Lucas had created Star Trek; Uhura would've have been a northern European princess, Chekov a darkside villain, Kirk a 20 something whiny white boy, Spock a droid, and Scotty an ethnically insulting alien based on Mexican stereo types.

that seems fair

I thought The University of Mississippi was a football team....

Hes so very very sorry:

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no. I think 4 is though

1) Good for the resume. You never know where your next job might come from. Or your manager pops his/her head into your cube saying "We need to support client X and they only use language Y".
2) Most of the popular languages are imperative, I am not sure why. Perhaps because that is all that is taught or that Joe Average Programmer cannot wrap their heads around functional languages. Get proficient at at least one functional language. It will challenge how you think.
3) It's fun.

TO expand on johnlcallaway's post, it takes longer to learn the problem domain for COBOL than it does to learn the language. My experience with COBOL was a few months for the language, a few more months for the IDMS database system and mainframe OS, and a year or more for the problem domain. This was sue to the code having years of business information embedded in it. You essentially have to understand all the nuances of the business to understand what the code does and why.

Problem: fossil fuels are required for a fossil fuel based economy. Yes that includes tech which requires plastics, electricity, and fuel to extract the mierals needed to build the products, make the products, and ship them.

Problem: reliance on foreign fossil fuels can cause wars.

One solution: extract fuel from places where the fuel was unreachable or very difficult to extract.

Problem: can cause environmental damage.

Benefit: energy independence

Benefit: jobs

Problem: does nothing to reduce carbon emissions.

Solution: non-fossil fuel energy sources with lower environmental impact.

Problem: bridge fuels are needed.

That's about it.

why not? it happens in real life....

Moderated "interesting"?

You lost your audience at 'libertards'.

That whoosing noise etc.

Many "rich" people I know or heard of are in debt. Either they are or their company, or companies, are.