And this is why I wouldn't recommmend C++. I loved the language and did it for right around ten years (1999-2009), and saw people online who knew it, but I never met anyone live in my professional career who ever bothered to really learn it. (And now later, I'm having the same experience with JavaScript.)

But I wonder about why the very particular constraint of "classic OOP compiled". I don't think I'd recommend any of those anymore; aside from specialized applications, if what one is going to be writing is large enough to utilize OOP, then VM'ed languages are much more relevant these days.

That's part of the idea behind the "the debate is over" thing; to make people believe that there is no more disagreement. If Google makes it so that arguments for one side of an issue are never seen, as being non-facts, then it'll be conveniently as if another side never existed. Goodbye nuance. Life will be so much simpler. Governments will be jealous.

I'd certainly start by deleting my info there!

(Or you can, it just won't do any good.)

I guess you're saying these cars have no under-hood starter battery like ICE vehicles, that's user-swappable with a replacement from any auto parts shop. And I guess neither can these cars be jump-started, simply by using another vehicle (with a battery of equal or greater cold cranking amps). Wow.

I guess the same would be for all-electric vehicles. Professional roadside assistance providers will need to start carrying around mega batteries and quick-charging apparati, in addition to being able to provide a gallon of gas and a jump.

And Toyota may have started out planning on along those lines, but may have gotten focus group research that indicated people preferred a little more acceleration.

Having switched to owning only manual transmission cars, I only miss that on a metered freeway onramp, that's uphill. I imagine it's added behavior when in electric-only mode, to simulate a slush box, so not sure how it could be universally defeatable. There's no "neutral" on those smug little cars?

That's an awesome idea, rather than having to bring the car up to the desired speed manually. But I wouldn't be surprised if it's the government disallowing the latter.

Why would a Prius owner want this?

Likely never, directly. Companies want your personal info to go to "the cloud" first, so that they can mine it and monetize you further.

First off, I think you've got reversed those accusor(s) who are trying to set you straight with those who would only be trying to further confound and knock you down (since you're not one of them, on the solid Left). For me it's the latter that I've removed from my sight here, because I want to be more right/correct, not less.

But you seem to think the way to wisdom is via the wicked. And it partly is, as one half of one's studies towards that. But they're like the Medusa, where direct interaction, like you pine for, is death; you have to examine them indirectly or askew, to not be affected by them.

Secondly, that quote is absolutely brilliant. I like to think I'd gotten close to it, realizing of course that Political Correctness was essentially about bullying.

But I had mostly been considering the Left's constant variations of "the emperor is fully clothed" as the movement's/religion's way of checking how far they'd currently come at any given point. That is, I had assumed that the chief purpose of the non-stop peppering us with untruths, of wide-ranging obviousnesses, was to gauge how either converted or dumbed-down the society had become so far.

I thought the Left's goal might be to make gullible sheep out of all of us, however long it took. But no, I think that Theodore is right and there'll always be those who'll never give in intellectually, and the best the Left can hope for with us is to make us feel like we've sold our souls behaviorally.

And to feel like the scum that they are for doing so, which is then also giving in, feelings-wise.

Thirdly, this truth is a helluva lot bigger than just stupid Slashdot. This is going on full-bore of course in America, and the world in general.

But don't lose sight of the bigger picture -- neither communism nor a Caliphate is the be-all-end-all -- it's just Satan trying to unravel God's order in the world. Satanism, effectively, comprises facets of economic, political, and religious beliefs, whichever ones in those categories that leads to the most misery. But the individual isms, and the people that push them, are really just part of one strategy.

America was a formerly powerful, formerly pretty headstrong nation. BHO doesn't love Muslims. He's not a Muslim, despite what stupid Right-wingers say. He's an atheist (despite what your moderate-to-severe HappyThoughtisis says). And atheists aren't really anti-religion, despite what stupid Slashdotters say. Ever hear of an atheist group putting up billboards saying there is no Allah and Muhammad was not actually a prophet?

It's that those who are against God, of the Jewish and Christian religions, feel they're aligned on a fundamental level. Against Israel, and against a nation under God being supreme in the world. America has to be knocked down several pegs, and be fundamentally transformed away from our Judeo-Christian heritage and values and beliefs. When everyone is even and subdued, then the Antichrist can come and rule.

p.s. I'll be waiting for your singular "Lord bless your heart" response.

I liked that little character!

But on the characters shown in that game, I don't care that they're all white, because skin color doesn't matter a whit to me. (Neither do I care that they're all women; why would someone be bothered that other races aren't represented, when a whole gender is missing as well.)

But body image to women (and men) does matter a little bit to me, so it wouldn't have killed them to design more than one body type, if somehow so-called women's issues really is their side cause. Granted this would've taken more time, and more resources on the device. Even the cast of Scooby Do for example contained stereotypes (the tall, thin, non-bespectacled girl of course could not be the smart one!) but exhibited more creativity than this.

p.s. Way in which Slashdot sucks total ass #457: It's 2015; how about displaying Unicode characters or whatever, instead of polluting text with small strings of garbage.

Good point on that first part. I was thinking all-electrics, as I think hybrids are such an ugly hack.

But my sis and her hubby now have two Priuses (from different generations), and I've never heard any complaints about how they're managed. ?

Hillary = Auntie Christ

I'll bet it's a real sweatshop down there.

The truth of any given story is not what's important, as even if one isn't true, there's plenty more where it is, so it's still valid to use the untrue story because it points to a greater truth.

Class dismissed.

Jay Cost makes a number of unfair implications:

A) That pork-barreling is anti-Conservative, and the GOP is supposed to be Conservative, but when the GOP last had complete control, it pork-barrelled more than any prior Congress.
But:
1) The GOP is not a Conservative party, it's a neocon party, and big spending is not exactly incompatible with neocon principles, and
2) Bringing home the bacon to keep getting re-elected is a fact of our system, and will always be a balancing act between limiting spending and staying in office, and
3) Most of that bacon was probably for businesses to expand or military contracts, for jobs, all of which is totally compatible with GOP values, and
4) Probably every Congress generally pork-barrels more than the prior one, so it's probably not a trend suddenly started by the GOP, and
5) If a party has been out of power for while there's probably a mindset of having to catch up one's constituencies, having been starved for however long under the opposition party.

B) That one side of the GOP considers low wages and high unemployment a virtue.
Sure there's the desire to pay less for labor and being in a buyer's market, but it's tempered by those things leading to:
1) Less customers who can afford the products or services one is in the business of, and
2) More unhappy and less productive workers and quality, and
3) Higher taxes to pay for expanded use of government subsidies and safety nets.

Ace is just plain either a Leftie or lost most of his contact with reality:

C) The only people who use the term "corporatist", either as a pejorative, or at all, are Lefties. Like "infidel", it's a dead giveaway.

D) American life both politically and economically is not dominated by a corporate class. This is of course a long-peddled Leftie phantasm, any reader of Slashdot for example already knows. We're dominated by a ruling class, who favor special interests. The ruling class is across both parties, and the special interests are environmental and others in addition to corporate ones.

E) It is not "extremely liberal" to want to import a bunch of cheap labor. It's very pro-business, and totally compatible with the neocon outlook. Just because the Democrat party wants to import a bunch of low-skill immigrants, for an entirely different reason (i.e. votes), does not make neocons "liberal". Any more than it makes Democrats "neocon-like". It's just a policy they both share, for different reasons.

F) Talking about "1%-ers", and with disdain, is something only Lefties do. I for example, personnaly don't want to start a business of my own, so I rely on the wealthy for employment opportunities. I appreciate them for affording me the ability to make a living without having the burden of having everything on my shoulders. I like being able to come home and forget about the business I'm involved with.

G) Taxing the rich to death is something only Lefties want.

I) The Conservative agenda has never been a slave to corporate interests. Any more than Conservatives are "slaves" to the gun lobby. You can't be a slave to something you already strongly agree with.

H) Insisting that corporations serve one's political agenda is only put forth by Lefties. They call it "social responsibility". I tell them to fuck off. Private enterprise is a private enterprise and the Conservative position is that they ought to do whatever their owners want, not what some commie puke wants.