Asking the bank if the check cleared yields an answer which doesn't mean shit. If none of that means anything, what question must one ask the bank to require them to not reverse the answer? Is there a point where they can't do what ever the fuck they want to do?

Don't worry, it's still funny here in the US, just for all the wrong reasons. We have "Virtually" the best health care system available, at least that's what they tell me on the TV. Wouldn't want some pinko-commie to actually implement a real health care system. You're right, I shouldn't laugh, someone might charge me for that, it's the best medicine after all?

Since when has life been fair? The people are always collectively punished for every stupid decision their government does. I'd have no problem disconnecting a country that can't police it's network. What other options have they given the rest of the world?

C++ is stuck with C strings, it's wrote into the language.

char *bad = "this is bad\0 ha ha";
sizeof (bad); /* returns size of pointer */
length (bad); /* returns wrong size */

It shouldn't be a happen unless you don't know where the strings originated, but I don't know of a good way to process that. Meanwhile, for web pages, code generators make code from code from code from code, etc. and inline and cache it all. It just doesn't easily work in C++. I could write a template engine, but it'd just end up as "#include " following by why even bother.

Where do you get "dodged" from? Sounds like he did what was asked of him. He showed up and answered honestly, I've served three times, and some of the crap people try will amaze you. Seen one guy try and get excused because he had a "drinking problem" and said he gets off work at 5 in the mourning by 9am he'd be much to drunk for court. The funny thing was the judge look at him and said "The days you are a juror you can't be punished for missing work so you can drink then." But I was excuse because the defendant went to the same high school as me 15 years ago. If that makes any sense at all

It's all about money. As long at the games are paid for and the console it's self is legit, MS doesn't care. I can grossly cheat on any game currently. The most sever punishment for cheating I've yet to have received was being booted from a game, only to return to the main screen.
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I've built my own chip and turned it up to grossly exaggerated rates without any real penalties.

So clocks only move at .1 intervals and I never have to use division? What wonderful world to you live in? I expressed it exactly for fix, it's a speed hack that still caries all the problems of float. Not if there is something to be measured that does in fact only happens in quantified increments, then yes, count on those. Time is not one of those things.
So you are quite wrong about fixed point not rounding. 10/3 is always going to be estimated without storing it in a large-number, fractional representation. The last number is always a guess, else it isn't a measurement. Measurements are always estimated, and counts can be held in exact amounts in binary. Time is not a count however, as time does not only change at specified increments.

Fixed point? What would that accomplish? Rounding creep happens, irregardless of data type, every time it rounds the last digit, fixed or float.
Fixed point is never a good idea, bad idea or not, it does speed up things on limited hardware. A missile isn't "budget" though.
Yes floats are difficult, every operation moves it farther from original guess, it's just guessing the last digit. Only solutions are to not do fractional math at all, or to reload and adjust values periodically. Time keeping however is a subject that been already well researched. Any embedded platform I've seen has at least a dozen app-notes and a dozen different ways to keep accurate time.

Perhaps I need to find better friends.
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