:-)

Real engineers *get paid to* make things that are reliable, tested, and safe, because the company could be sued into bankruptcy if things go wrong. Some software engineers *get paid to* make things that are reliable, tested, and safe, because the company could be sued into bankruptcy if things go wrong. Other software engineers *get paid to* get it done by tomorrow, because if something goes wrong no one but a few nerds gives a crap. But none of that could possibly be the fault of the managers.

Most humane way to execute someone:
Bullet (or bolt gun) to the head, followed by organ donation to more worthy human beings. This may be ugly, but it is very humane.

Least humane way to execute someone:
Put them in a box till they die, funded by money that could have been spent saving lives.

I'm opposed to the death penalty, but my opposition starts at the most common method -- putting them in a box until they die because someone was too afraid of the automatic appeals process required for a faster death penalty.

Well, most forms of money are used to fund terrorism. We should ban money!

This being Slashdot, one might say they're waiting on the balls transplant. (Yet if "having balls" works like people say, nerds wouldn't want that anyways.)

Just use your charge card.

Easy, simply replace all coal power plants with wind power. Or do birds killed by carcinogenic particulates, mercury poisoning, strip mining, global warming, all not count because they don't die at the coal plant itself?

Your theory is that eventually a transformer and rectifier and a semiconductor, will be about as cheap as a wire filament? Or that humans are particularly good at spending their money in the present to save more in the future?

Yes it does. It says that abortion is an appropriate response to infidelity (when there are no witnesses as required for the death sentence). See Numbers 5:27. Also, the Bible says that children should not be punished for their parent's sin, but there is nothing that grants pregnant women an exemption from the death sentence.

The great irony is that the purpose of IP is to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, yet the massive extensions in term and coverage mean the opposite occurs. The inventors and artists can stick their IP where the sun don't shine, the only reason we care about them getting their due is so that they're encouraged to produce and share their work.

I have a Big Mac.

Would you like to work for my company? We can't pay too much right now, but you'll get shares in the company, work hard and we'll make your rich beyond your wildest dreams.

Then how about a bar of tungsten with a little lead to lower it's density to that of gold, then coated with gold?

In case you missed it, the parent's point was that sometimes people buy things because other people value or are expected to value them, of which any form of money including gold bars are a perfect example.

No, what would be funny is if he had been charged for espionage, privacy violations, or something along those lines.

Also gotta wonder how much CO2 this outputs per Joule of energy. (Not that this would be a problem on Mars, just the opposite in fact)