If you want to earn 1/3 as much as an engineer, and barely enough to survive in NYC, then don't get a degree. Otherwise, go and fucking learn something.

Yes... That's the entire point of a CA, to certify that a person really is that person. If the certificate is bad, they can no longer make that certification, so it really really really is their job to do that. It is in fact their only job.

Honestly, I like the fact that they put a penalty on expanding too much too quickly. Early Civs had the issue that the roll your war machine over everyone approach by far dominated other paths to victory. Civ V balanced that out nicely.

You're right though, the way that culture worked (as opposed to just happiness) was completely broken, and completely impossible to win in a multiplayer match, and yes, the expansions sorted that out.

The city state mechanic I felt worked well though –it stopped the AI playing by elimination of dominated strategies, and just always voting for itself, making diplomatic victory impossible.

Honestly, I have no idea how you can not enjoy Civ V. I've owned all the Civ games except for II. Enjoyed all of them, but V is by far the most tactical, and interesting to play. The hex based system, and the fact that you can only have one unit per tile makes attacking cities much much much trickier than it ever used to be.

Actually, in the UK, it really does work like that. Even if you're only visiting the UK for a 2 hour period, and manage to become seriously ill in that time, you'll get free treatment there.

Yes, it is. In much the same way as we had to have a culture war to prove that women were not second class citizens, and a culture war to prove that blacks were not second class citizens. Unfortunately, these wars (including the one proving that gays are not second class citizens) are on going.

So you can declare a variable of type MyClass called myClass, or a method that returns a MyClass called myClass().

In most languages this would be impossible if case was not preserved by lexical scanning (there are a few languages where the intention can be distinguished by syntax, which would allow the class name and method to be exactly the same, and then case sensitivity may be less of a problem).

Another huge problem with case insensitivity is that the rules get really complex once you get out of ASCII-only, and different interpretations of the rules in effect mean you have literally thousands of actually different syntaxes.

It needs Monster catgut on the bow

I see arrows there. Never noticed they were missing however.
This is on Linux with 34.

Because lots of people who are not religious (or of other religions) feel that "marriage" is an important thing in their life, and "civil union" is not. The bottom line is that the church can not, and does not have a monopoly on the word. The government shouldn't give to them.

My home computer is dual boot with Ubuntu (12?) and Windows 7, and I never use Windows on it (I know because there is a bug and it does not work with the serial keyboard, so I have to dig out and plug in the USB keyboard that came with the machine if I want to boot it into Windows, and right now I don't even know where that keyboard is (ps the bug is strange: only the login does not work. Once you log in the serial keyboard works just fine)). We also have a much older iMac and a couple Android tablets and one iPad, an ancient iMac PowerPC used to play music on the stereo, and an ASUS Linux netbook that amazingly still works and is used by visitors more than I would expect.

Here is the correct commentary, I mixed up which bogus data this is:

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/201...

Basically he shifted the predictions line up by .3 degrees

Did you notice the "troposphere" in their data? They are cherry-picking the portion of the earth that has warmed the least.

Average temperature increase for the earth has *exceeded* the models, consistently when averaged over a period of ten years.

While I agree it is not at all impossible to save our cities, I'm pretty certain it would be much more cost effective to build sea walls.

It's pretty obvious from your graph that the decreases are much slower than the increases. This is because they show the carbon dioxide being absorbed by rocks after the source of it has turned off or slowed down.