On a related note, I think final car safety tests should be performed with the CEOs of the car company inside the car.

When romans inaugurated their bridges, the architect was below them. They lasted two thousand years.

By supporting the pirate industry, they give jobs and new opportunities to the local people. But this is not the only reason why we should support them. They do an amazing job reverting the global warming. Every ecologically responsible person should invest in this stock exchange.

In unrelated news, it is rumored that the Rainbow Warrior will join their fleet.

What's next, a license for sex?

Actually, fuck is a backronim for "Fornication under consent of the king" (see wikipedia)

Because Subversion offers working out of a shared branch as the path of least resistance, developers tend to do so blindly without understanding the risk they face. In fact, the risks are even subtler: suppose that Alice's changes do not textually conflict with Bob's; she will not be forced to check out Bob's changes before she commits, so she can commit her changes to the server unimpeded, resulting in a new tree state that no human has ever seen or tested.

This statement is incorrect. Subversion requres you to update your working copy before committing whenever you have modified a file that has changed in the repository.

The GP is correct, subversion only requires to update to the latest version to change the svn properties of a file or a directory. Normal commits can be made given that the files committed are not changed in the repository.

You can walk up to a girl, and literally say the biggest crap. If it creates the right feeling in her, it will work.

I disagree, I walked up to a girl, and indeed literally said "the biggest crap," and it didn't work.

How did you said it?

My bet is a lack of adaptation to the new sources of knowledge, but YMMV.