Then maybe we should figure out why that is, and fix it, rather than continuing to import the droves of internationals who take university positions away from residents of this country.

Keeping internationals here for the sake of Academia is such a biased and stupid opinion to have. In engineering you are literally only relevant until people graduate. You should not be dictating policy for your sake alone.

If I can't get a job in Europe because they have to prove that there is no national qualified to do the job, then I don't see why our country should do the opposite.

Yea, fixed your title for you. Guess it's the pot calling the kettle black then...

So then the AC you are replying to you is technically correct, because he didn't use the term "ex post facto law."

And if you refuse to pay this tax bill, what will happen? If jail is involved, then I don't give a shit what the lawyers say, because they are just plain fucking wrong.

You do realize that morality is something made up in your head right? It does not exist in the real world, because everyone's morality is different. You make a very intelligent argument followed by the one of the dumbest statements you could make. Congratulations, slashdot, I think I quit you.

That is your opinion, and a shitty one at that.

You obviously have no right to comment on this. Talk to an actual victim of rape sometime, or get raped yourself.

Your conclusions are wrong, you are an idiot, and the world would be a much better place if you killed yourself.

Wow i meant this to be a reply to Decameron, and I didn't even realize it was him who replied to me. Sorry, man, didn't mean to refer to you in the third person.

I will happily meet you in the middle about their intended purpose, and I wouldn't have argued with Decameron if he had stated his opinion in your way. The problem was he didn't leave room for the possibility that they don't actually fulfill their intended purpose in his statement.

Then how about you standardize the IDE?

Who are you referring to?

I saw two arguments from the first guy, and I addressed both of them.

If you're referring to two different local variables of two different functions, then obviously that is the case, and the change in the styles shouldn't matter, as they are in fact two different variables.

Well I would actually say that changing variable names simply because they don't comply with the standard isn't only a productivity issue. It is bad practice and a productivity issue. I would want the diff to show the change for two reasons. 1. it isn't a trivial change to change a variable name like it is to change whitespace. This can introduce bugs. 2. the productivity issue.

I would also say that I would never, ever, ever use an IDE which would change the actual variable names and not just the whitespace. Bill sounds like he needs to attend anger management if a style change makes him angry.

You assume incorrectly. This is common sense.