Why! Cisco gear is actually manufactured in the USA. (As opposed to being outsourced to the cheapest outfit on the planet.)

I confess to have used Google translate. I would have done a better job at Spanish as it is more similar to Italian, my mother language. But here we are.

Vocês crianças saia do meu gramado!
(You kids get off my lawn!)

How long would it take to charge your car with a 15ft x 20ft panel? Hours? Days? Weeks?

(Is it just me or does BMW make an incredible effort at failing to design pretty cars?)

I looked it up. Both you and the professor are right. The correct term seems to be contraction. Thanks for clarifying.

Not to start a nuclear war with a professor, but those are three words.

I heard the total cost of ownership for Linux system is shit.

Would agree but I don't. Primarily, to design en develop systems well you should have a full view of all its influences across your organisation. A well designed system should intentionally consider all aspects well, against the business strategy.

Having worked for huge organisations, I must say systems are rarely designed well. Their influences across all disciplines are hardly ever fully considered. From one side I agree that one should avoid paralysis through analysis and that eventually some programming must commence. On the other hand, the badly designed systems come in large packs. As a consequence, putting stress and strain on the organisation and eventually affecting the bottom line.

A good op's input will inevitably be of great value to system designers, as the latter usually have no hands-on experience in the concepts they studied. Indeed, input from all affected disciplines is valuable. Until utopia (CMM level 5) is reached.

Ever tried completing Super Mario Sunshine's Plinko's Pinball Machine the intended way?

Nuff said.

Let's discuss this over a bottle of Ripple.

(Don't know Ripple myself but it seems appropriate to illustrate your point. Fred Sanford ruled!)

You sound much like a creationist. You want people to seriously consider entertaining narratives as a plausible truth. As if there were a higher, better power, that however can't be bothered to make itself unambiguously clear to us idiots. And then you hijack physics.

By the age of 8 I realized that I was jerked around by all religious people I met until then. And that, based on simple logic, god simply could not exist. I really gave it a very long thought and I resolved to dissociate from my catholic upbringing. No hard feelings towards the ones left behind but I simply wasn't to perform a U-turn.

Speak for yourself! I'm made of melancholic and caring disapproval.

Well put. I go one step further. Why should we at all entertain preposterous ideas that have no scientific base? All religious writings always seem to completely discard such an important detail as proof. In exchange, many excuses and concocted reasons as to why striving for a proof is "bad" for us, are poured over us.

Whatever you do, the Internet speeds up personal development processes as huge amounts of information is readily available. Without the Internet you would have come to the same conclusion but it would have taken just a bit longer. Internet can feed both limits of the scale, atheist and believer.

(I attribute my becoming an atheist to myself. I stepped renounced my religion at the age of 8. Simply deduced that there is no such thing as a god from observations and reasoning. That was in the early 70s. Internet would have merely sped the process up.)

Now even foreigners may have the law supporting them. The American Dream has definitively gone to the dogs.