I thought a programming language is just a tool to do some job. Some tool are better some other are not so good and some cannot do particular task. Sometimes we work with a tool that is not suited for the job because of bad choice made long time ago by a person long gone and the change to more suitable tool never happens because it costs money and time. Sometimes the tool we have to work with is just good enough. I know none that is perfect for the job and by nature of things doing next project with the same tool may feel uncomfortable in slightly different then it used to. Other than that you still need to know about memory management even if you use a system with GC. But for all purposes the language is just a tool no need for it to be hip or cool. In fact I felt certain coolness about a programming language only once in my life. It was long time ago and when I look at this now then I wonder how silly I was back than.

Hmmm - that is normal. Some companies grow to the size where this actually is not only possible but also cheap to move jobs, facilities, taxable income and losses around the world at will and only thing you actually need to do that is to press few keys and then enter. This is especially true of IT jobs but others are the same. It does not usually work for small companies or ones that base their business model on quality of goods and services. As soon as thanx to company size you can generate profit in virtual way by moving income or merger or spinoff etc - you have leverage over your work force and over authorities. The benefit of having such corporation at one given location is sometimes negative as communities have to cater for a behemoth which brings more costs than revenue that is 'taxed' elsewhere. Customers are also not served better by such massive corporations unless huge economies of scale are actually used to win them. Volkswagen and Toyota are trying but I am not sure if an average US based corporation is at all interested in providing good service. A company that has customers in all parts of t he world does not care if John Doe is very satisified - it can leverage a monopoly out of its mountain of cash that is gathered in other areas. No comparison, no competition no pressure on price and quality. This as said is not always working this way but often enough it is. OC I say so only because I am a commie.....

So it is good to have them - I agree, I also have this warm fuzzy feeling when I think about all these nukes stationed nearby.

However it seems to me that you did not understand the question - which was : what to do with deterrent if there is nobody to deter?

I am not sure how that works for German residents that German gov forced to pick up private health insurance like me. From what I understand there have been court cases where jobless idiots could not cover their insurance because their private one was too expensive while if they had been insured by the state this would all be covered. There are some other cases where illness in old age where change of insurance is legally and practically impossible that chronic illness made people sell their houses. This is not a common situation as private insurance is not very popular in Germany (ever wondered why?) but it still happens.

I thought shooting people without even an intention to ask questions is a specialty of the land of the free?

I thought the same for a long time and still do to some extent. But the last World Cup changed my view slightly. Consistent performance of Germany in recent tournaments show that not only the trainer was good and his strategy was OK but also that basics like team work, good local players that is not easy to get if most of your stars are from abroad as seems to be the case in England top league. If the main clubs have so much money then they buy their players in the whole world as that is easier than taking care of local players. So yes some of them are overpaid but success is not always in the budget or at least not only there.

Other than that they can dope, go to hookers and drive under influence for what I care - they are not my people. You can also see that in football countries there is sometimes a trend to lower leagues where football match is what it used to be - a game between two teams of which one is local in a very good sense i.e. people know these guys and by supporting them often meet their neighbours. That is 'slightly' different from premier league. Maybe it is a coincidence but in the world cup 2014 you could see how teams built from stars fail and how teams built on team spirit win. Or so I would like to see it maybe.

People talk about capitalism as if there were one. If there is one principal system you can call capitalism it is a very simple and not very realistic one. In all our societies some market and some ownership of property exist. These are basic for capitalism or rather for capitalist society yet private property and market exist even in communist countries like Cuba, Soviet Union or NK. All complementing features for such systems may differ slightly and thus a person in some states may have more customer rights in another it may have to sue instead, in some there is a safety net in another it is just a concrete floor somewhere. In some places markets have more rules than in others. In reality an absolutely free market does not even exist. Leave capitalism alone - it is just a tool or a basic way the economy operates - all other things that make this economy and society in which it is embedded function are adds on and those adds-on make a difference between the systems. We call some type of such systems communists albeit this has more to do with political freedom and oppression from the state and some others capitalist albeit there is a huge difference between Denmark, Germany, UK, Canada and US for instance. These countries are based on capitalist principles but their function is very different in few quite important aspects. So Capitalist as an description of a society is just insufficient. You have to be a bit more specific.

I suppose that is an aspect of the societal development that the grounding fathers tried hard to prevent from occurring and failed miserably. You know all these scumbags kings and nobles from old Europe that did whatever they pleased to complete their murky plans on the costs of the society on which these parasites fed. Now you have your own 'nobles' and funny thing is - most of them most of you never know that they exist - they are that far from the rest of the society.

that is only partially true. If these things fail (which they may) this most likely destroys the payload which even if insured i.e. does not bring too much damage financially, still costs time to rebuild, even if 3d printer can do it all. so safety standards do matter unless there are replacement parts for payload objects that you can buy in walmart. I am not saying this is going to happen or that spaceX uses substandard safety standards or not at all but that is a valid concern that matters for spaceX and its customers.

the golden 3 are most likely corrupt till bone mark or maybe just silly not sure which one is more damaging - I guess this works best if combined!

who cares if that was independent or not - UK, US and others have to pay royalties on this great invention of patents to if I understand correctly - an italian city of Venice.

I think British public services are a perfect example of privatization that went wrong. I wonder if some good examples also could be provided for services like public transport, health care, water etc. It works well in Gemany where communities own water companies, gas and energy companies and even housing estates. The later was a hot thing to sell few years back and some communities want to buy them back because private ownership proved inefficient. As per a documentary I saw on telly some time ago this seems also to be the reason why lobbyists want so much to outlaw such buybacks by public in free trade agreement between US and EU entities - which is another story of course.

I am sure there is an US army sponsored private enterprise that knows an answer to this problem. There always is these days, it seems.

Indeed but I still save power but not going out and not using FB.

Besides I tried the world outside and after all the years I realized that it was not worth it.

what is that? Why not furlongs or Manhattans?

Ever since Putin shot down this plane over Ukraine we do not have any doubts anymore about anything US does: free trade agreement that is so good that it has to be kept secret from the people it concerns, spying everybody, supporting evil regimes )hey they are our bastards), extrajudicial killings, extended interrogation techniques etc. all this forgotten because of Putin. We even got humanitarian bombing in Iraq which if the place was not messed up by US few years back would be the first ethical thing in years that US military actually did.

Come to think of it Putin is the best thing that happened to US for quite some time. And the best thing is that the French and Germans cannot do new business with Ruskis. I still do not understand why this all is happening - is this a PR stunt by NSA or some other deepshits or what exactly that is done for?