Wasn't Texas the place where someone caught two burglars, forced them to kneel at gunpoint and shot them in cold blood? He was aquitted.

We don't have an "empire"...

Don't be ridiculous. The US has military bases in most of the civilised world and a lot of the less civilised world. The US feels free to intervene (using military and other means) throughout central and south America whenever they don't like the results of an election.

The US is probably the only power in the world that you could say has an empire.

How does the perl hammer feel on the fingers? Perl is one language I've spent a fair bit of time on and decided to not use unless forced to. It shares that category with VB6. Perl massively tends towards unmaintainability.

Where the hell was Petraeus when we invaded these countries?!

In the case of Iraq he was saying don't invade....

I'll have to dig out the quote from The Accidental Guerrilla (written by his senior advisor on counter-insurgency.

Sure, full credit to Petraus and Bush for the surge. However no credit to Bush for going into Iraq in the first place. Even Petraus said going into Iraq was a stupid idea before the event.

Obama does deserve credit for opposing the war before it started (which matches Petraus' position).

There is also one more:

3. You are expecting people to remember too many passwords

Second that on the DLink. I picked up a DLink modem that fell over on a small rsync over SSH. Junk.

FWI: Your shift key is right next to the Z.

The more I look at it, the harder it is to see the Germans as particularly evil. They didn't start the war, that's for sure. And Britain and France didn't have a moral advantage over them in any way.

That is not correct at all. The war was primarily fought and resolved in France and Belgium. Aside from the actual trigger for the war (and the domino effect that followed), Germany did invade Belgium and France. Germany does not have the moral high ground in this one at all, Britain, France and Belgium do. Aside from, Germany also was the first major power to declare war. In addition the initial situation that enabled the war was created primarily by Germany's attempt to become a great power to rival Britian, France and Russia.

The war degenerated into an appalling mincing machine and the British and French do not have any moral high ground on the conduct of the war. They do have the moral high ground on how the war was started.

The 3.5 stuff that lets you create a readonly or write only property as part of the declaration is nice though. Getters and Setters are a waste of space (however 'pure' they might be).

I'd like you to point to a single case where this has happened.

Way to be inflammatory. Who is suggesting anything needs to be done at gunpoint?

Not for type 1 diabetes.

The US is incapable of change due to the large libertarian minority in the US. The rest of the world knows these people from their history books as anarchists. As anarchists object to any effective form of government anarchists distrust any government initiatives.

It isn't priced like an item with high margins. I don't think you are correct. I think they are going for the middle ground on sales.