Our civilisations use 2 for computers, because a simple representation between "signal" and "no signal" is the easiest to implement.

This isn't quite right. In any kind of storage, the values are explicitly two signal values, not "signal" and "no signal". In a communication link between two components, the two states are usually Ground and +V, or a positive and a negative voltage (as in RS232). Add to that some communication links which use Tri-State logic, wherein a third, high impedance state (usually denoted "floating" or "Hi-Z") is used to indicate "no signal". Such buses use this third state to allow multiple components to share a common conductor.

My little site is also blacked out: http://digitalaudioconcepts.com/

They have since put up a doodle: a black bar covering their usual logo.

Important note: read the last eight lines of that poem in Rodney Dangerfield's voice (as in Back to School).

Think whatever you want about the left-or-right nature of the bill, but your description of socialism is dead wrong. What you're describing is statism or communism (depending on your particular definition and example implementation). Socialism is merely government redistribution of tax money for various public programs. National parks, roads, Social Security, Medicare, your unemployment insurance, fire departments, police, public school, all draw from taxes at some level, and all of these are arguably necessary in some manner for a strong nation and a healthy populace.

The last thing this country needs is cutbacks in our social programs.

do comments change the code

They can if you're coding on certain models of [Timex/]Sinclair 8-bit machines. :-)

It also depends on previous skills : if you know other programming languages, it's not that hard to learn a new one, because the concepts are familiar.

Dead wrong in my case. Sometimes, languages which should be at least similar, are so wildly different that none of your skills can transfer over. The platform one will be using the language with is equally important, to the point that changing from one architecture to another, while keeping the same language, can still require a whole new way of thinking.

My first language was BASIC, on two different platforms, neither of which was particularly similar in the way their implementations and environments worked. I moved to assembly language some years after changing to the second platform in question, but the skills required to write in that language far exceeded what I needed for BASIC. Ditto when I started learning C later in college. Same thing happened again when I started learning bash scripting, and yet again when I started learning Verilog recently, despite them both bearing some similarity to C.

Each language is/was different enough from the previous one to present a significant obstacle to learning it.

Here's an even better one (IMnsHO):

Some years ago, my cousin had a dog, I forget what breed, who would smile (along with the aforementioned body language) expressly to show affection, particularly when my cousin returned home from work or any moderately-long errand. She would often combine that with generally hyperactive behavior if we'd call out such things as "daddy's home!". We always ascribed this behavior to a head injury she sustained before my cousin got her.

Couldn't this technology be used to augment the work being done to study those faster-than-light neutrinos? I realize they're hard to detect because of their weakly-interacting nature, of course, but couldn't one construct a similar experiment with both light and neutrinos and watch the two propagate?