The term is often used in reference to the exact opposite groups, as well. For instance, the Tea Party (who don't necessarily support a crackdown like this) were called an astroturf movement. Generally any case in which a conspiracy theory can be put forward in order to discredit the group is an astroturf movement.

I think exceptions should be used at a reasonable point where the application cannot utilize the given parameters to continue.

For instance, Null argument exceptions. Your code should be written to assume that the arguments presented to it fit within the functional parameters of the code. An Exception should be thrown if it's determined they are not.

Another: SQL connection exceptions and other Network Exceptions. Your code should be written to assume that these resources are available. If they are not, that is a valid exception case.

Note I'm not saying the exception should crash the program. You catch it, report it, log it, move on.

Source: Years as a development consultant. If you've ever been to a hospital or even a walk-in clinic, chances are your MR and even your payment are a record in more than one of my client's databases.

My mistake, Peer1. Peak10 is a company here in my town :)

"The guy should be fired" Further proof you cannot please everyone 100% of the time. Boneheaded, yes, dangerous, too. But it worked, didn't it? And now Peak10 gets all kinds of free publicity. The guy deserves recognition.

Yup. Having been born and raised in Nashville, I clicked on this link and immediately started scanning for the "urhyyuck, It's in Tennessee" comment. Didn't have to look too far. I suppose you call every state in the central and mountain time zones "flyover country" too.

I love this. Especially the constants for left_wall_representation and right_wall_representation. If this were dot net and the kind of stuff I have to work in often, it would have to pull the random values from a WCF service.

There's a book about this? It looks like it just randomly prints either a forward slash or a backslash. The fact it appears to be a maze is just an artifact of the monospaced type. Am I missing something here?

That's a true statement. Let me clarify, when I say "led by God" what I intended to convey was "facilitated by God" meaning I believe that He created the universe and rules which allowed evolution to occur.

Why would you think that would surprise me? Does it surprise you that this thread is titled "U.S. Christians and muslims and jews -not issue" ?

As an "educated" Christian myself who believes in Evolution led by God, I used to think exactly what the parent says here. Unfortunately, that statement is just not true. 46% of adult Americans believe that humans were created by God in their present form, less than 10,000 years ago. I was very troubled when I saw that. As for those who hold my belief, 32%. http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/hold-creationist-view-human-origins.aspx

I'll take your word on the accuracy of barometer readings as I don't know much about the science there. But I can add that I believe this to be a fact with pretty much any crowd-sourced data. Your algorithms will have to allow for these sorts of things, and you are sacrificing an exact single reading for an approximation based upon multiple slightly inaccurate readings.

Bitter much? Get fired or something?

A worth cause, but it's getting to be that whenever Bill Nye passes gas it's a story.

I remember reading it when I was a kid

Sad, I didn't even know they had sold. I used OnLive's service for a few months and enjoyed it. Only quit due to changes in my personal budget. I wonder if the "spectate" mode is what took them down, where people could watch others play for free? Looks like Twitch has filled that spot.