But I haven't got the money.

The more I see of other people's code, the more I am inclined to write and test my own. That way I know it works and when it doesn't, I only have myself to blame. This isn't always possible because most tasks are way to big for a single person, so stick to well-used, well-understood, well-tested (in the real world) FOSS solutions. In general, closed-source vendor-proprietary code is dreadful.

Tell it like it is!

There is a thing called a motorjet or thermojet which was invented in the early 20th Century and was a fore-runner of the gas turbine.

In the days before most people realised that a self-sustaining gas turbine was possible, someone came up with the idea of using a reciprocating piston engine with a ducted fan or propeller to compress air and to inject fuel and burn in in the compressed air stream (like an afterburner on a modern jet engine).

Eggsasperating!

Whenever I crack an egg, I will imagine I am hearing the sound "Li Ka-shing" for the rest of my life . . .

That's the sound of his cash-register while he's Ka-shing in on his new enterprise...

I am allergic to eggs (and milk) you insensitive clod.

this is also a convenient opportunity for promoting local technology firms

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The United States government really does care about BTC and has a strong interest in killing it, because BTC enables international money transfers outside the banking network. The United States government enjoys de facto control over the interbank network, which it uses to bully countries which it doesn't like (for example, you can't transfer money to a bank in Iran). It is therefore entirely plausible that the current DDOS attack on BTC is mounted by agencies of the US government. It has the motive, it has the means. In the absence of evidence about the identity of the attacker, the US government is the #1 suspect.

Bush won Florida. It is a simple fact.

It was the zombie vote that did it.

I ran a little console .net program with p/invoke to the win 32 serial API and .net serial API the other day. It ran better under wine than windows because of crappy Prolific USB serial driver on windows.

So wine already seems able to run .net presumably through mono.

Because the amount of stock I could afford to buy on my meager salary and savings in this broken economy is so trivial that I'd starve and lose my house by the end of the week.

It's just the Invisible Hand's way of telling you that you need to be changed. And after all, what could be more important than placating the forces that govern the Invisible Hand?

"It's nothing poysonal, it's only business," as they say.

Work hard? Why bother.

Quite, when you work yourself into illness to make the shareholders richer as they constantly cut back your resourcing, fire your colleagues, make deadlines shorter and freeze your pay, selling things that don't exist to customers expecting delivery tomorrow when there's 2 year's work to do to get it out the door...

As long as the stock price keeps going up, little things like customers and worker bees are merely incidental.

Anything else is commie.

...how about we start asking employers to train their own damned employees for a while?

Yes, but what's in it for the share holders?

If Iran gets around to putting a man into space soon, you might well see a TSA presence in earth orbit...