Aye. And I'll raise a Mumbai Sapphire martini to that!

Thanks.

I once got regular mod points. I think if you cross an invisible "Troll" achievement threshold, you get blocked.

Burma Shave?

Be Low.

Below

Below...

Below

He's gone where the goblins go,

The Wicked Witch is dead!

I'm like this guy, wanted to be an astronomer but went into CS because it was the lazy easy thing.

Now I'm probably going to retire in a few years and would like to do something that matters before I'm too dumb and slow. I doubt I'll ever learn enough physics to advance the science, but I've seen what passes for software in academic settings, and I could certainly make the software suck less.

So what kind of software does astronomy need?

http://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.html

'Zactly. There are PILES of PHP and Perl snippet that filter quotes, or allow Unicode.

I have tried typing Russian (Cyrillic) and Persian (Arabic-derived) into the site in the past. Ouch.

...is that our selfies are safer.

This is not, nor has it ever been a central tenet of Islam. This cannot be viewed in political or historical isolation.

"Convert to Christianity under Papal authority or die by red-hot poker" was a governing principal of church and state - at the center of Europe's most powerful empire, for nearly 200 years. It was never the message of Jesus, regardless of your belief in Christianity. But scripture and political expropriation of pseudo-theology made that it seem so.

I hope someday you have a daughter who marries a an African Muslim. You might be forced to reconsider many of the things that you "know" so assuredly.

It's so much EASIER than THINKING!