Fella I worked with a while back was born in the 1960s in a refugee camp in Beirut. As far as I can tell the only country he actually held citizenship in was the United States.

Let me guess ... the wells were in "schools" and "hospitals" ... right under the rocket launchers, lol

... then see how well your economy performs when you have mass civil unrest. And all the tech bros who BS about paying people to do nothing using AI profits - yeah, people on benefits always find constructive things to do with their time, they never get depressed due to lack of purpose and end up on drinks, drugs or in prison.

The conflict is over honor before reason. As most wars are. And as with most such things in recent decades, it really does take two to tango.

If the Israelis had really wanted peace, they wouldn't have engaged in half-assed occupation for the past sixty years. They would have either flat out annexed the territory and expelled the occupants (as the Soviets did to ethnic Germans in Poland and western Ukraine, for example) or they would have drawn a line, built a wall, and made damn sure no one went across it. Not the have your cake and eat it too they've been doing.

Similarly, if the Arabs wanted peace more than they wanted honor, they would have granted full citizenship to "Palestinians" in their territory instead of keeping them as refugees for four generations now.

to behave themselves for another couple of generations, perhaps.

Holdern asks Leon the time...
Leon looks at his Casio and tells him.
Roll end credits.

Hmm.....

Thinking yes, sentience no.

Are you saying you didn't see this coming? It is a democratic system, ain't it? So this means politicians just do what is expedient, that's why they are elected. Leaders have stopped being elected long long time ago. Not that I am for any government intervention into any of this at all, I am against it. I believe we must do what we do as a species without any collective action enforced by government, I am against all government intervention. I am totally against anyone trying to architect our survival as a species, I am all for real natural selection.

Asked the thing to tell me:

is this it?

I don't know how some people get these types of weird answers, I cannot get the damn thing to tell me the wrong time. The only really weird thing is that it is 'searching the web' while 'thinking'.

Well gee; that just totally obviates my point, lol

Every time I see this advice, I can't help but think the person giving the advice hasn't worked with very many junior developers.

Auditors check exactly what you ask them to check, no more no less. They can see all kinds of problems, but if you didn't ask them to check that, then they won't mention it. They don't get paid to do that, and won't be thanked for doing it.

Given a lot of businesses financial departments use integers to represent money to specifically avoid floating point rounding errors I very much doubt they give a flying fsck about 42 digit precision.

Having sat I don't know how many times in a room waiting to have my government credentials renewed while the government IT on this side of the Pacific was living up to its expectations, I am somewhat relieved to again be reminded that the United States did not invent stupid. But I am somewhat dismayed that we appear to have competition in perfecting it.