...might just taste good to them.

Yeah, you know, I can construct idiotic examples of cases where the government is over-regulating too.
Unfortunately - and despite what you would like to believe - licensing is just as much about consumer protection as it is about taxation. But, hey, you go ahead and drink the snake oil, see if I care.

No, but doing a job for money makes one a "professional". There is a very distinct difference for a good reason, or perhaps you would be happy trusting your unlicensed gas fitter, or surgeon.

...as antivirus suppliers themselves have admitted, anti-virus software only slows your system down (dramatically)

If the code is well written - I know, Windows ? - then tracking down and fixing a bug should take minutes, not months.

Surely this is axiomatic, since the definition of non-renewable indicates there is no way to create more.

However here is your proof.
Let x represent the finite amount of non-renewable energy
Let A represent some non-zero amount of consumption of resource x.
assume: x = x-A
subtract x from both sides
0 = -A
now to make it easier to read
A = -0 = 0
violates the definition of A !

q.e.d

I know, now, that my ex-wife used to make up shit that she would then claim that I said.
I used to think I was insane because I could never remember saying stuff she would claim that I said. Lots of it wouldn't even sound like something I would say, yet she would -supposedly- quote me verbatim.

Bitch !


You have been warned.

How idiotic is that.
Why not give them year names or anything/something to help you navigate quickly.
Why struggle with trying to figure out the relative 'old' path. That's just plain dumb.

Actually, it's not how much cocoa solids, but what else goes into the chocolate.

Hershey's produces chocolates with as much as 60% cocoa, other brands have more, including Dante Confections 98% cocoa "Stevia".
It's added ingredients - particularly in Hershey's milk chocolates - which make mass produced American market chocolates taste like, well, almost nothing, or perhaps vomit.

....intermediate level of mastery.

I'm fairly certain that you mean a rudimentary level. I've yet to meet anyone who learned a language in a public school in the US (i.e. High School) that could little more than ask for a beer and tell the time in that language.

US public school foreign language courses are a joke, mostly because they start too late - perhaps the 7th grade - whereas English taught in much of Europe starts at kindergarten age.

..is this:

The obstacle we shall have to overcome, if we are to successfully program manycore systems, is our cherished assumption that we write programs that always get the exactly right answers.

This is an interesting observation. Let's take graphs for example. We rarely need to solve every possible path and find THE shortest one, we usually only need to find one which is shorter than almost all the other ones.

Do we always care whether every pixel is the best possible color when compressing images ? No, it usually only has to be close enough so that we can't tell the difference.

These are classic examples of that statement that have already been implemented in both parallel and linear algorithm design. I'd like to see much more research into understanding why some problems don't require an exact answer, and some do. Maybe we need to change the way we think about what a solution is, rather than how to solve.

Can you point to beautiful, please.

Imagine if we had never invented the paperless office. Think of the millions of tons of carbon that could be sequestered in printed documents being stored away in huge underground vaults for eternity.

Bring back the carbon copy !

An apple falls from a farmers tree, and rolls to your feet.
You pick up the apple, and eat it
You didn't grow the apple, but you ate it as if it were yours by default.
How do you justify that ?

...that it's not even funny.

Fact is that California has plenty of water most of the time. Occasionally the weather patterns shift a bit, and we miss out on normal rainfall for a year, maybe two. Then it comes back, and we have plenty of water again.

This is just how it is. Making idiotic suggestions about not farming the Central Valley, or ridiculing that "most of California is a desert", so don't live there, etc, etc.. just shows your feeble-mindedness.

Lots of folks live in Tornado Alley, or along the Hurricane coast, and get ridiculous amounts of Federal aid every year. California has much less frequent water problems than those areas have their problems, but nobody seems to be telling those people, hey you live in a stupid place, why don't you move somewhere else.