I've started playing with something like this (Magic clone). I use Tcl/Tk (pure Tcl at this point, with a plan to add some functionality in C++). The cards are 'canvas' objects, and the playing area is a canvas (you can embed a canvas in a canvas). Cards are bitmaps, with text (canvas supports both, plus drawing functions). The hardest part was getting the drag and drop right.

I even have network functionality done.

I am just about ready to give up development on Windows (outside Cygwin, which is becoming a walled garden).

Is there any solution for package management, library and header configuration (besides CMake)?

Aka Slashdotters.

The IPR in this case is the patents. They can only threaten these people because of the patents. That is IBM using patents against an Open Source project (regardless of whether people are making money - in this case for supporting people who like the code). That's evil any way you slice it.

Records / joule might be interesting to some people, but it is a dangerous metric overall.

Why?

Because it ignores time.

It is accounted for somewhat in that there will be some power draw for spinning disks, or leakage; but all-in-all not good.

1. Unless you have an absolute standard, all positions are arbitrary.
2. Your position is extrinsic (what can you do). It is a moving target, based on what those in power decide is good enough for you to earn your rights (say, "lawyers have full rights, while coders shall toil endlessly in the data mines").
3. My position is intrinsic (what you are). It can never be taken from you.

Being dependent doesn't make you not a person. We are all dependent on other people (farmers, oil workers, auto workers, grocers).

Nearly identical from an information theory point of view (DNA, life experience).

Good catch. By viable I meant alive. If the cells are consuming resources, growing, and dividing, they are alive.

The problem is, you attach some sort of miracle to birth. There is nothing special about birth. The child at nine months inside the womb is nearly identical to the child already born. To make this distinction smells of special pleading.

I don't know what "half-human" means. People with Downs syndrome are human beings (note the approx in my ~46).

I would define "human" as: "Any viable set of cells with common DNA and common experiences descended from a human." With all citizens of all countires grandfathered in as de facto "humans". So twins are two people (different experiences), parasitic twins are also two people, with a serious medical condition. You're arm is not (a whole, independent) human, but your upper torso (including your head) is.

The issue is not abortion per se, but what is means to be human, and when we confer rights on a human being.