More general hint: The principle of minimum scope exists for a reason. Declare your variables at the point where they can be initialised, not at some arbitrary point and you make life easier for people trying to understand the lifetime of the variable.

This is obviously a story about Icelandic whaling.

What's wrong with Icelandic whaling?

(Also, I don't know how to spell ;) )

They can always enable an alternate submission method that permits full authentication of the submitter - with full understanding that their safety cannot be assured. Sometimes people are brave - they want given thing to be known, even at cost of own life or freedom.

So - leave the choice to the submitter; anonymous, to be possibly verified by Wikileaks, or open, verifiable by reputation of the known submitter.

What real-world factors would cause only the very best of minorities to apply while still keeping everyone and their dog to apply if they are the majority group?

I don't know about the job markets, but I know the scenario presented in my post already happens in some universities, black students being accepted despite lower entry exam score in place of white applicants.

They calls them like they sees them. They're whale biologists.

(And the fifth reason whales kill is for the sheer fun of it. )

DAZ activator is cleaner and does not report you by trying to activate.

Oh god, it's rare to see such bad English here. Maybe they got my ex's brother to write that page ;) And can they not tell the difference between their accent and apostrophe keys? Also, what stupid stereotyping-about-Iceland-to-market-to-foreigners is this? Just letting people know: almost everyone here thinks this is an absurd product.

Ah, the good old days of the web as it was in 1995? (*boggle*)

Have you set your browser to identify as a desktop browser?

Things like "cold fusion" and this could actually be useful if not managed by irresponsible teams seeking to make headlines for themselves. It can be important to learn when there's things that can throw your measurements off that weren't immediately apparent. You don't need headlines to get the necessary followup; researchers in the field read the peer-reviewed literature and most definitely will take interest in such unexpected results.

Re. Treebeard, see above.

So are we to interpret all statements of extreme facts in Tolkien to be mere exaggerations?

Even if we go with your interpretation, if Gandalf possesses the art to make all of those things, why doesn't he?

Really? The defection of the member of the White Council isn't of concern to the elves?

Okay, so we now need to interpret Tolkien as not only exaggerations, but also full of marketing speech?

But Gandalf calls Treebeard "the oldest of all living things" and Celeborn calls him "Eldest".

Right here is the solid fact.

it's not about skill, It's about how cheap can we get the whores for, and how hard can we abuse them.

20 somethings tend to be too stupid to stand up for themselves and accept a 60 hour workweek as normal. They also buy the bullshit of "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" and keep accepting more and more workload.

I'm an "old fart" and more of a digital native than any 20 something.. I have been in the internet since 1987 in a legit form.. Was a part of it in other forms for 2 years previous... Running Unix and managing dial up nodes for UUnet access. I have been active in usenet at that time as well as not only living the digital world, but I have done more in networking and computing hardware than any 10 of the new kiddies from college put together. How many of them have actually licked a cray?

In fact most old farts I know that are still in the business can still work circles around the new turds on the block. We just work smart using that experience we have instead of being over caffeinated lost puppies sniffing and peeing on every server rack they can find.