I present to you a fine collection of straws, which you may feel free to grasp at.

Yeah that's a real credible-looking source you've got there.

This isn't a very useful option because it doesn't describe WHY it should be an elective. Elective programming courses are already the status quo, so when the question asks "should it be a required curriculum", your answer is saying "No, because it isn't". Maybe there are other good reasons why it shouldn't be a required course, but "it should be elective" isn't one of them.

Agreed.

What's a few orders of magnitude between friends.

200,000 x $7,500 != $1.5M

I'm counting this as "More bits read/written per day", which would definitely favor the SSD even though I have 10x the capacity on disk drives.

People have some serious amnesia about the early 2000's. Barely anyone spoke out about the wars at the time, and NONE of the media did. Of course everyone claims to have been against it retrospectively, but at the time you (and I) were too scared to speak up about it.

This type of tax-exempt status is only for non-political organizations, and the organizations which were applying were unequivocally political. They were doing their damn jobs (for once), I only wish they'd done better at it.

undoing moderation

Thankfully my brain hasn't yet learned to walk, that sounds like it could cause some serious problems.

Which is why non-kosher foods are required to to labeled as such... Oh wait

Right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberth_effect It seems counter-intuitive, but doing a burn as close as possible to the sun (probably getting there using a bi-elliptic transfer) will give a huge boost to velocity, as compared to just flying in a straight line away from the sun, given a high enough delta-V budget.

Maybe, but you had plenty of people who had no idea that the maps on the iPhone were using Google's data. When my girlfriend updated to iOS 6 and saw the maps change, I told her about how Apple was making their own maps now, and her response was "Oh, what were they before, then?".

Organic food is not sprayed with synthetic pesticides. They may or may not have pesticide residues, and the synthetic stuff is generally safer.