Of course, once Buenos Aires is hit [,which kills his beloved wife], he changes his tune right quick and signs right up for military service

How about lockpicking, disarming traps, and backstabbing? Oh wait, you said rouge classes...YOU'RE a BARD!

Faster rotation would help evenly bake the exterior of Venus. Faster rotation would also spin the molten core, which I believe needs to be spinning in order to generate a large magnetic field comparable to Earth's.

My solution is not about making people happy. It's about efficient collection of taxes.

When Congress also demands "information from universities, companies and trade groups about funding for scientists who publicly [accept or] dispute widely held views on the causes and risks of climate change," then I'll care about what "prominent members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate" think about climate change.

It's not like members of Congress understand the "research or testimony" anyways. Nor do members of Congress care what others have to say; they use testimony as an opportunity for themselves to give speeches disguised as questions.

Eliminate income, payroll, and VAT taxes. Replace with retail sales tax.

In America, most politicians are educated as lawyers (and rarely in an additional profession). They usually weren't good enough at being a lawyer to succeed in private practice. Then look at the typical undergraduate and graduate coursework a lawyer does (in America). Not one rigorous science course at all. Why do we wonder that politicians are "scientifically clueless" ?

That would be using astronomy, not astrology.

The 10 commandments are themselves a critique of a rules based approach. In less than 40 days since the commandments were audibly announced by God, to all Israel, they made an idol and worshiped it. As for Adam, he couldn't even follow ONE rule.

In other words, you use macros.

So the real solution is to speed up Venus's rotation. ;)

The *real* problem with gold backed currency is that a foreign country (not on a gold standard) can hoard and dump gold, and thus cause economic pain. Yes it would be expensive to do so, but then again, war is expensive too.

What I want to run is Office 2003. But that is becoming less and less of an option thanks to Microsoft.

Question to those in academia:
Is it true that most students who get a masters in computer science create their own programming language as part of their studies?