Personally, I like speed. It must be fast, you can comment out a nice readable version, but the one to be compiled must be fast.

"It's only those damn Russians are doing this, all other countries are saint."

I can assure you that I'm not getting paid for my trolling.

"But what I get is priceless: total control"

Unless there's a fire, a break-in, an earthquake, a tsunami...
Or do you also have backups all over the world? After all, you pay 10 times the Amazon price.

" a humidity sensor — on a bacterial spore. They call it NERD,..."

For the first NERD I would have used a pizza-detector and not a humidity sensor.

And I always thought spores had humidity sensors built-in, after all it's kind of their 'thing'.

"simply stealing BRG's intellectual property"

There's your problem right there. There's no such thing.

It's just people wanting to be paid for the same job multiple times.

Are they hiring a new racist then?

" That said, a 250-mile long, 4-story "anything", that's going to be hard to make look nice."

As long as you can see it from the moon, it will be a tourist magnet.

"Most of Japan is very beautiful... but their beaches, usually not so much."

Yea, all that whale and dolphin blood stinks to heaven.

At least Sarah Palin would not only see Russia from her house but be able to drive there for the family vodka.

OTOH, the Crimea was a gift while Alaska was just a cheap sell, but nonetheless, one should be careful with infrastructure supporting tanks.

Who would pay for that? The US and Russia can't even maintain the existing roads they have.

"The people in the area would typically just come by with a jug and fill it up with fresh oil as needed. But that is being made illegal."

That's just because a lot of them gave the people oil from the year before last, or mixed that one with fresh oil.
It's their own fault this had to come.

Not to mention the unsanitary oil bottles on the restaurant tables that got filled with the same crap. Also the bottles were never cleaned in years!

That's why those practices got illegal. You can still put bottles on the tables, but they have to be labeled with the date and provenance and must be un-refillable.

Good-bye 12.49 Meter tsunamis, welcome 13 meter tsunamis.

Does that mean, nobody can distinguish him from a real human?

Can't be.
I just ran a dBASE III test with my first harddisk I ever got, a full height 20MB Seagate and memory always won.

Ignore, despise and loathe your fellow robots.