Why not put the logo on the marker of Christopher Reeve or George Reeves. They are the only people who would have actually earned it.

What about Kirk Alyn, you insensitive clod?

/ducks

I'm guessing, since I've heard this argument before, that s/he's saying that if you're going to drive a car that will be an average of 7 1/2 years old over the time you own it, you might as well buy a used car to start with and avoid the upfront depreciation hit of a new vehicle.

I'm with you, though. My response to the person who made this argument to me was to refer him to George Akerlof's The Market for Lemons, and my sentiment that it's worth it for me to know that the only one to ever abuse my vehicle is me.

Yep, sounds like just another variation on the evil bit.

John Gabriel's Greater Internet Dickwad Theory, Shitcock!!

FTFY

Search the text for /sarcasm or #sarcasm.

Done. Where's my paycheque?

Unfortunately, I think you'll need to go a bit further and submit an RFC for the Snarky Bit.

All government services are based on "theft" of resources from people who don't use that government service. This includes the roads that private cars drive on, which are funded in part by gasoline taxes but mostly through non-user-pays revenue streams such as income taxes.

Which "non-users" would those be? Even among those who do not own a motor vehicle, how many of them buy no products or services or otherwise engage in the modern economy; or rely on no public services like fire depts, ambulances, police, post office, all of which are dependent on those roads to function?

Unless you are living a more off-the grid lifestyle than Dick Proenneke, you can not honestly claim to be a "non-user" of the road system.

Github as a yardstick for language usage tells you nothing beyond what the most popularly used languages for github hosted projects are. Publicly accessible github projects at that.

The other thing that makes such a comparison fairly uninformative is that the vast majority of publicly accessible GitHub repos are surely small hobbyist/academic projects, so the stats are going to skew towards the tools likely to be used by hobbyist/academic developers. And since new languages arise all the time and old languages never die, it's not really very surprising that by the raw number of projects that GitHub would show increasing diversity on that front. If someone pushes a 3 line Brainfuck experiment, then the language diversity has increased, but I don't think that tells you much.

It's a line from Caddyshack.

Is that welder working in an oil field? There are a HUGE number of extra qualifications and certifications you need to be a pipe or tank welder. I speak from project management experience that these guys get paid very well and it is hard to find enough good ones.

Not to mention, this kind of work often requires you to chase work to far-flung places like N. Dakota or the Alberta tar sands and live your life in an itinerant worker 'community'. There is a huge premium paid for working in these places for precisely that reason, even for much less skilled work than pipe/tank welding. So yes, these are not typical incomes being cited.