That's a huge topic, but is partially summarized by the 1992 Consensus which is basically that both PRC (mainland China) and ROC (Taiwan) agree there is only one "China", but disagree over which government is legitimate.

When fresh water is over $100 a barrel, we will have the pipelines.

Wow, it would be hard for those dates to be less accurate. Phased software development was described at least as early as the 50s, and by 1970 the "waterfall" method was being criticized (by Royce most publicly in what Wikipedia credits as the first formal presentation of the method) . The history of iterative goes back to the 50s with the name being applied in the 60s and was (in my world of medical software development) in common usage in the 80s. The Agile Manifesto was created in 2001 and was the result of meeting about a variety of already existing agile processes.

As a last ditch attempt to not get totally labelled off-topic: my very best DM ever was an awesome storyteller, but wanted to appear to be "always following the rules". He would roll dice and do table lookups, which he would then completely ignore in creating a story. He only told me this when our group disbanded. He also saved my character's life several times "just because I loved the way you play him."

I think you just designed a new reality TV show: The Biggest Loser Goes to Mars.

I think you are confusing Democrats with liberals. I am continually disgusted (by both parties, and the system that supports only having two strong parties) when they support stupid ideas simply because they are the ones promoted by the leadership, usually as a wedge issue or to respond to a wedge issue.

Without the party politics, civil liberties should be a bipartisan issue. They are part of our founding principles.

On the other hand, /bin/false is totally broken. It returns an error every time I run it.

Maybe true if the statement were "anyone can win an election", but really anyone (who meets basic eligibility requirements) can run. We have a homeless man who has run for Mayor in Austin several times. I'm pretty sure Leslie didn't transform anything about himself in order to campaign, right down to the women's underwear he wears.

"Mesothelioma" netted me $38 a few years back for one click in an article I wrote about Warren Zevon.

Just for clarification: You start and finish in the basement.

I am unsure how this comment applies here. Lamar Smith (the committee chair and SOPA bill lead sponsor) is a conservative Republican. He supports any strong IP law despite complaints from constituents and rests on such a solid majority in his district that it would take a disaster of epic proportion to unseat him.