I can't wait for this generation to saturate the industry. Fewer bugs, better features, from less nonsense to code programs with. They might even be better as people, with clearer heads. Python might even help you think more clearly.

You want to know what is really funny? What you said works perfectly if taken absolutely on the level.

Javascript is actually a step up from Python. This does not say anything good about Python.

Clown. And that is all the response you deserve.

now I guess python will be forced fed to people who don't want it

BULLSHIT. Yes, Java has always been a rube goldberg language force fed becausr TPTB always thought it was the coming thing. Python on the other hand is an absolutely perfect first language, elegantly and beautifully designed, simple at core, yet compact, expressive and powerful.

Few companies can claim to have done as much fighting - or feeding - cybercrime.

There, fixed that for you.

Dual axis helicopters have been around since the dawn of aviation.

Er, coaxial is not dual axis. But that's beside the point; both coaxial and dual axis have been around for a long time.

ALL rotorcraft are collections of huge numbers of on-the-edge parts vibrating like hell, kept in loose formation by legions of maintenance workers lavishing a shocking amount of constant work on them.

Well, it is SUPPOSED to cost half as much as an Osprey, but we know how that goes (cough, F-22, F-35). There will be a long development period first; plenty of time for things to go wrong. Or we could - wait for it - 1443 Ospreys right now with no development wait and risk for $100 billion ($69.3 million flyaway cost per Osprey as of FY 2012).

No way in hell will this thing have more range than an Osprey, and "agility" is unquantified feel-good. And the Osprey's real speed is faster than even the claimed speed of this thing. And it would be one less model to lavish your precious maintenance labor on.

I don't know which scheme would end up preferable if ALL factors were considered, but I do know they DO need to weigh ALL factors. So far all I see in the program is a bunch of gee-whiz gung ho attitude.

The US Secret Service is chartered with two utterly unrelated duties:
1) Investigation of financial crimes such as counterfeiting and fraud.
2) Protection of the US protected class of untouchable leaders, as well as visiting foreign dignitaries.

I don't see violation of the rights of third party nationals in foreign lands anywhere in their charter. Surely there are normal cooperative channels to bring the case to the attention of the law enforcement agencies of the foreign lands and also the third party governments.

Violation of the sovereignty of the US by attacking it or its citizens does not seem to be a part of this case.

I believe that is what they do. I don't say "we" any more. It ain't no part of me.

They don't even feel they have to use the magic T(errorist) or C(hild porn) words any more.

I was actually impressed with that board; no hint of pricing from the manufacturer so I took the time to look up somebody selling it.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? $963.75? And for all its super high power CPU and ample IO the RAM maxes out with 8GB in a SINGLE SO-DIMM slot! Then, let's see, you still have to make your own enclosure.

I fail to see how there could be a single user who would not be infinitely better served at far lower cost by an Intel NUC or similar.

Maybe we do this to get going fast and we immediately set about improving it

Is 2032 your definition of "get going fast"? That's the year this hare-brained scheme is supposed to reach the level everyone is interested in; 130 tonnes to LEO. The Falcon Heavy is due to fly NEXT YEAR, and has 53 tonnes capability compared to 70 for this thing in 2021.

Don't design it with o-rings this time

What do you think "five segment SRB" means? The segments of the solid rocket booster are bolted together, and each joint sealed against the raging fire inside by several o-rings plus heat resistant putty. All because it's "too hard" to transport them from the factory to the launch pad in one piece.

In the 1960s, Goodyear already had a proposal for a very large nonrigid airship to carry outsize rocket assemblies. It was never funded.

The entire Manhattan Project, start to finish, including not just the basic science and hugely diverse intricate engineering, but all the civil engineering of building vast infrastructures, and employing 130,000 people, cost only $26 billion in 2014 dollars, and took less than four years.

This is just bolting together a bunch of decades-old parts, but will dwarf that expenditure. It is the swan song of what was once a daring and imposing nation, and clearly will never be completed. All the Congressmen who vote for this budgetary pork, and the President who signs off on it, should be tried for corruption. Those at the heart of championing and designing this abortion should be tried for conspiracy to bankrupt the nation.

Github FAILS the requirement for reliability due to being subject to DMCA horseshit. Will somebody please start the next github in a jurisdiction untouchable by DMCA and other thuggish regulations.

And stay there.