if it moves, it's biology. If it doesn't work, it's physics.

1. Most Britons don't fly, making it a non-issue
2. 8 km to 5 miles, so just pretend the speedo is written in hex to give you km/h
3. People are the only thing that's measured in stone, and it's more convenient to use the Fat Bastard scale, since that takes height into account

Please tell me you are trolling?

'The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, "hmm.... that's funny...."' -- ISAAC ASIMOV

PS. Data is a stupid tin bugger.

Oops, you just killed a valid webpage:
http://www.merriampark.com/anatomycc.htm

*grumble* trigger-happy regexp jockeys *grumble*

Sorry, of course the US would never subsidise alternative energy sources. It's only evil socialist Europe that does that.

What, now Google is meant not to index pages which have card data on them? How exactly is that even possible?

You can bet your boots that Google Checkout is PCI DSS-compliant.

Neilette: 'We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they're elected. Don't you?'
Rincewind: 'Why?'
Neilette: 'It saves time.'

No? Then I guess it's still fucking useless for me, isn't it?

1-3,5:

You're scared of that, not me.

4. there is no true morality except for whatever you and/or society decides to makeup at that point in time.

Yeah, and the church certainly hasn't changed its mind about what is right and wrong during history, nor supported torture, murder and ethnic cleansing.

6. no point in helping others

You're just fucking wrong there. Plenty of atheists believe in giving money to those less well off. I certainly do.

You take that back! We have some of the finest Indian cuisine in the world.

Sorry, all the Ahmeds I have known have been Ahmed, but this one is in fact Achmed. Must be the American spelling.

No, it's *Ahmed*.

PS. I kill you.

Absolutely.

Anyone ever tried to match kernel oops hex dumps to the C code that's faulting? it's fucking hard, even if you know C and the instruction set that's in use.

(For those who don't know oopses, it's the dump of the CPU registers and - on MIPS at least - the last sixteen instructions executed IN HEX. It's the moral equivalent of a SEGV in kernel space.)

At the risk of also being an elitist prick:

four OS's is overkill - you know the one you grew up with, and UNIX.

Discrete Math is the spawn of the devil. Continuous math (analysis, topology) is much more fun

Three years after finding out that you know nothing about CS, you get a job and find out that a) you know nothing about programming for a living, and b) CS is nothing to do with programming for a living.

Actually, last night I was dreaming about a problem and thinking, "it would be really good if I had access to a Maple installation at this point...". Odd, but true.

You missed the end bit: "abilities based on accumulated knowledge, such as performance on tests of vocabulary or general information, increased until the age of 60.'"

Programming is in the latter category. I'm so much better ten years after I started because I know more than I used to about crypto, networking, individual psychology (of colleagues and users), etc.

So, do not panic - real life tasks benefit considerably from experience.