I don't know if this is the intent, but it is certainly the (predictable) result.

I remember when my daughter was struggling with one of the New Math algorithms for subtraction. Naturally, I was only taught the traditional algorithm in elementary school, so my helping her was out of the question. As good fortune would have it, I had a parent-teacher conference scheduled with her math teacher the following morning, so my plan was to take 2 minutes and have the teacher demonstrate the new algorithm so that I might help my daughter with it.

Well, the teacher took several minutes just trying to contrive a subtraction problem that this specialized algorithm would apply to, and when she was unable to do so, she admitted in frustration that she doesn't understand the new algorithm either and that only the computer teaches that algorithm. I sat there with my jaw on the floor for what felt like an eternity and said not to worry about it and that I was sure I could find a YouTube to explain it.

So yes. What you say is true. The teachers are slowly but surely becoming little more than glorified exam proctors. It's pretty sad.

Exactly. It's easier to prove structuring than it is to prove an ancient sex crime. While I agree with you that he should be charged with the sex crime and that withdrawing money from your bank account should never be illegal, prosecutorial expediency is what's going on here.

Do you use nomorobo? How accurate do you find it to be? Does it cause any hassles?

If net metering were a good deal for the electric utilities, they wouldn't be fighting it tooth and nail.

Actually, security by checklist is the way to go for writing an insurance policy. An underwriter should be able to work out actuarial tables for companies that follow which security best practices, and then price policies accordingly. For instance, if you pass a PCI scan and have virus scanners installed and don't give your users admin rights, and have websense installed, and you have data of $X value, you have an Y% chance of getting jacked, so your policy costs $Z.

I'm not saying that the checklist should be the company's only security practice. That would be madness. I'm just saying that the insurance underwriter should be able to use a checklist to quote an insurance policy.

Well, I guess it's flagships only or something. I dunno. Looks like the Galaxy Core LTE hasn't been out long, so maybe that's why? I wouldn't even want to speculate.

I don't know of any manufacturer, Apple included, that consistently provides bug-free devices. But if 2 years of updates is your benchmark, Samsung meets it. They have Android Lollipop (5.0.1) running on their Galaxy S4 (released April 29, 2013, so it's just over 2 years old). Granted, 5.1.1 is the true latest and greatest Android version, but it was only released on April 21, 2015, so it's a unrealistic to expect Samsung to push that out to a 2 year old device so quickly.

That type of information is typically also in the docs because you're right. It's important, and if everyone has to hammer it out themselves, it's reinventing the wheel.

You shouldn't be marking stories as complete if they haven't passed QA.

If you find that you aren't completing the stories that were in your sprint plan during your sprint, you bit off more than you could chew. Adjust for the next sprint.

I would prefer the porn, personally, and it has nothing to do with anxiety. It's just easier, it's novel, I can get precisely the stimulus that I want for maximum pleasure. It's really just pretty awesome.

Don't get me wrong; I still have sex with my wife and I still enjoy the feelings of connection. I wouldn't want to stop. But at any given time.... I'd probably choose the porn if I could be guaranteed that my wife wouldn't find out that I chose porn over her, because who wants to deal with the fallout of that little gem?

No, I want them both at the same time, duh!

Could you please take a moment and familiarize yourself with what neoconservatism even is? I feel like it just represents "that which I hate" in your mind. Neocons don't give a shit about porn or video games, and James Dobson sure as shit is not a neocon.

All that being said, I think that there is some room for studying the effects of modern pornography on the human brain. Never in the history of humans has there been access to unlimited HD visual sexual stimuli. Unlimited in the sense that porn is always available, it never gets tired, and never gets stale. You could watch new porn every time you watch porn.

And don't think that I'm anti-porn. I love porn! And why shouldn't I? Humans are evolved to feel reward for sex and sexual stimulation. Porn makes me feel great! But like I said before, it's an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord that we aren't really evolved to deal with yet.

It's like how now that we have unlimited high-carb food, we're getting super fat. Obesity rates are through the roof! Perhaps there are also some consequences of the great porn buffet, but it's not so visible because porn doesn't make you fat? I have no idea, but intuitively it feels like there might be, and that we ought to be studying this.

And if anyone wants me to participate in a study by watching some porn, sign me the fuck up!

I'm not really sure what you mean here. There are plenty of action shows and there are plenty of romantic comedies. Do you have any evidence that TV and movies are targeted more toward men? One thing that I have noticed is that if any character in a commercial is supposed to be stupid or dense, that character will always be male because it's not PC to have that character be female.

If men are so highly-prized by the US, how come in the last war where there was a draft, 58,156 of those killed were men while only 8 were female? You can't really say that those 58,156 men really wanted to go die in Vietnam since they were forced by the government.

Men are always the ones who are asked to sacrifice. We even have a phrase for it: "Man up!" If you were imploring a woman to do something for you that was the opposite of what is in her self-interest, would you tell her to "Woman up!"? Would anyone even know what that meant?

Why must I pay for the sins of my ancestors?

I've used Java for roughly as long and before that I used C++.

One thing that I've noticed is that there is a lot of reflexive hate for the language. I don't necessarily fault people for it because it was marketed as a panacea in the beginning and early version of Java fell far short of expectations. If there's one thing I've noticed about Java, it's that it's really kept up with the times. Just look at Java 8. Is its implementation of Lambdas perfect? No, it's a little ugly, but I really credit Oracle for recognizing that Java would ignore functional programming at its peril.

I would never say that Java is always the optimal solution to every problem in computing, but I would say that Java is nearly always an adequate solution. To ignore Java is to ignore a very useful toolset that can be used almost anywhere.