Likewise in Southern New Jersey (and Philadelphia before this -- the very heart of Comcast darkness)

I get OpenDNS error pages for nonexistent domains.

Or after we've actually gone through the trouble of figuring out that the solution we came up with fixed the problem at hand and caused many others due to the Law of Unintended Consequences.

Asbestos for everyone!

Seriously, though, if there are better solutions available today than terraforming and introducing pesticides that wipe out indigenous species (read: medicine and vaccines) and the only barrier to entry is the cost of said vaccines -- which are themselves artificially inflated to preserve drug company profits by trade agreements and intellectual property laws that effectively kill thousands of people around the world yearly -- don't you think the rich people that own the companies profiting while people who can't afford their products are dying should get an earful?

C

I thought C compilers had gotten to the point where C was just a convenient syntax for assembly anymore?

I'm only half-kidding here. I'm sure the main reason is for portability across different chipsets, as well as ease of debugging. But, as I said, I think a lot of current C compilers can generate code that's not appreciably larger than hand-written assembly.

Compiler writers, please educate me otherwise.

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