That part is certainly good and you can brag about it. Problem is that it does not help much in the real world.

In the real corporate world you can get by with average solving capability, but good social competence will take you very far. Getting a job is all about being able to sell yourself. Finding a job is all about who you know. Keeping a job is all about image and keeping right people happy and informed. This is the office politics part in a nutshell. If you don't play, you lose.

Even without other debilitating symptoms of autism, this keeps the sufferer from having a successful career. It also has impact on finding a relationship. Overall the negatives outweigh the positives of extraordinary analytical and focus abilities.

Because it will not help! Duh!

However, I am sacrificing a goat every solstice to stop it from happening. Would be nice if you ungrateful louts would thank me now and again for preventing your fiery demise!

Had to switch to sheep recently since logistical problems were encountered. Guess Ra doesn't like sheep as much since global warming is happening. But what can you do? There is only so much costs I can cover...

That is a very large number, yet the country seems to be doing fine. What is the downside of having debt when you got the power and influence of a superpower?

As far as I know there are no western-style country that is not in debt. Looks like it is the norm rather than an exception.

How do we know that what you say is not anti-Russian propaganda? Search enough I may find a post from an oppressed East Ukrainian begging Russia for help.

You missed the parent's point. He said gasoline. We don't run power plants on gasoline: We run cars on that.

Hydrocarbons is still the most efficient energy storage medium that we have for this purpose. You will need to have a process of converting Fusion-generated energy into fuel. I will hazard a guess that such a conversion process would be so inefficient that it would still be cheaper to wage war to get cheaper oil.

Who doesn't? I always thought it was the norm to plot the overthrow of your wife/boss/unions/government. Just as long as you don't implement it.

But the beach is beautiful! Why should that selfish shark be the only one that use it?! The damn fish should share.

Off topic please.

What if Ukraine splits into West and East? East joins Russia and West remains independent. Will you get $125K?

Because by the look of things either it will be this or it will remain just as it is now. But then hard to define what "independent" is. Ukraine was always under influence of its much more powerful neighbors.

Offtopic:

I don't know where I heard this. I heard that division by zero equals an infinity on a complex plane.

Is above nonsense? I certainly can't find it googling and slashdot audience is the best community for such a question.

I love vim, but only for Python. I do not know how you would survive using vim for C++ since projects written in that language are always large.

Given the absolute bottomless complexity of C++, what do you use as a debugger?

I really used to think that as well. What absolutely disgusted me and turned me bitter is when I read about the piracy rate of Humble Indie Bundle:

http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/05/Saving-a-penny----pirating-the-Humble-Indie-Bundle

The bundle came DRM free. You get to decide how much you wanted to pay: Smallest amount you could put in those days was 1 cent (And many did). The proceeds went to charity, developers and further bundles with you able to change how much goes where. Linux, Mac and Windows versions were provided.

There really was no excuse for piracy! And yet piracy was rampant! It was all over the torrents. Just to save a penny?!

So that just proved to me that pirates are just plain dicks. Piracy for piracy's sake.

As you wish.

So, to bring it to the issue at hand: EA's game costs $50. There are 1000 teenagers willing to pay to play it. If they all buy it: EA gets $50,000.

However, 500 have found that they can get the same thing for free by pirating it. Therefore EA got $25,000 instead. Thus piracy costs them $25,000 in opportunity cost.

So by not gaining, you do indeed lose something.

Come again?

Both those activities will end up with you losing $160. How would you "Lose nothing" by gaming.

Furthermore, gaining a skill (Which I assume you undergoing some kind of training) is an investment in yourself. That skill could potentially be recognized as an advantage over other job applicants or a basis for a promotion. So overall that is a wise expenditure of $160.

Gaming on the other hand is completely worthless market-wise. You spent $160 on enjoyment and relaxation that you get from a game. Which could be a perfectly valid expenditure from your personal perspective.

Fair enough. I did not realize we were talking about USA specifically.

US was very fortunate to escape the ravages of war. Majority of the rest of the world had it much tougher.

Really?!

In 1942 men were busy shooting each other. The women were working their asses off in the factories supplying those men with whatever they needed to keep shooting! And were taking care of home and kids at the same time. All between running to the shelters when the bombers were dropping their ordinance.

I have no idea how they got their 7 hours of sleep...

Read your history. There was a reason why it was called the "Greatest Generation".