By your definition, Microsoft WIndows must not be an OS. After all, it can't compile itself, because it doesn't come with a compiler.

Nor is Android; I doubt that it even has a compiler. Even app development for Android is done with a cross compiler on a different system.

Of course, all of those dilemmas are false, because in reality, the definition of "OS" simply does not contain a requirement for self-compilation.

It's apparent that you don't know the answer to that question.

Ruby is a safely typed language. It happens to use *dynamic* typing, but it checks those types at runtime nonetheless. Static-typed languages try to do the same thing at compile time.

Type-unsafe languages, such as FORTH, do not check types at all before operating on them. If you provide the wrong type of operand to a call, you get garbage output, but no error is raised unless you cause a CPU-generated segfault.

If you exclude assembly languages they're not very common, but examples include FORTH and BCPL.

It's perfectly valid Lisp code. So it looks exactly like Lisp.

(so (that (can (understand (non dweebs) (your program)))) (is (necessary syntax)))

No can do.

Open sourcing the software would reveal the secrets of the technology behind their "uncopyable" install floppy disk.

That's the attitude that I'm talking about, and it's bankrupting this country.

Except in times of large-scale war or financial panic, the government needs to collect taxes to cover its expenditures. If balancing the budget raises taxes enough to be painful, then people will demand reductions in spending. That's the only way you're going to actually shrink the government.

Instead, people like you demand tax cuts first. Well, cutting taxes is easy; they've done it again and again in the past few decades. Cutting actual government spending is hard, because no matter what you cut, you're taking away someone's entitlement. So what we get is a stalemate that generates endless deficits, with no solution in sight.

Whoa... that's a keen insight, Einstein.

You don't say!

As I pointed out, the problem is that those who believe in a mythical shape that only seems to have a right-hand side have set our tax policy for the last 30 years. With disastrous consequences for our nation.

Not necessary. The system has already been rigged by propagators of the Laffer curve myth so that the government collects only a small fraction of the taxes necessary to pay for its operation. So you're already not paying most of your taxes.

It's easy to be "free" when the companies in question aren't actually IN your country. The government-provided services the freeloading companies depend on are paid for by the non-dodging taxpayers of the countries in which the business actually operate.

Just because people have stockpiled an item near you doesn't mean it's not scarce.

Go out in the wilderness and see if you can spot any loaves of bread.

And what is of value?

Things that are scarce.

Businesses make money by charging people for scarce resources. IPV6 addresses are in no way scarce, so why would they invest any money in that?

With NAT, they can keep making money the way they always have with minimal additional investment, and they can make even more money by offering dedicated IPV4 addresses to people who pay extra for some kind of "platinum premium plus pro" plan.

That's true. Decades ago, I bought an old Ford pickup truck that had come factory equipped only with an AM radio. Some previous owner had addressed the problem by bolting a combination 8-track player/CB radio transceiver under the dash (I kid you not).

In one step, they had solved both the mobile communications and media storage deficiencies of the original model, while at the same time definitively reaffirming the that vehicle's legacy as a product of the 1970s. And no firmware upgrades were required.

It still can be extreme conditions, based on where you leave the car parked. You're expecting a cheap high capacity big-box-store-grade hard drive to operate correctly after being: Parked in the sun all afternoon in Arizona: that's probably +140F. Or parked overnight in an Alaska winter: that's probably -40F. Or parked for years on the Gulf Coast at near 100% humidity. Then you expect it to keep operating while the car's heating and A/C rapidly change those conditions.

That's a tall order. These drives already barely work in a climate controlled household environment.