Is that Imperial gallons or US gallons? They're VERY different!

That really dirty one? You know, THAT one!

The Intel 8086 included string instructions. It was released in 1978, which puts these instructions back at 34 years ago. Decades? A third of a century ago!!!

There have been studies into this. Normally studies to determine whether one genetically similar group (race, ethnicity, etc) has a predisposition towards advantages in intelligence, athletics, etc. has been looked down upon and stifled. But as studies into hereditary illnesses progressed, it turns out that some illnesses bring advantages. For example, sickle cell anemia brings a resistance to malaria. Another example is Tay-Sachs, a debilitating neurological disorder that usually brings about childhood death and is more common amongst Ashkenazi Jewish persons, however carriers of a Tay Sachs gene without the disease have an average of a couple IQ points bump.

A couple IQ points is nothing tremendous, mind you. The average Tay-Sachs carrier is going to be just as average as everyone else, but on the high end of the normal curve, you'll find there will be an over-representation of Jews to the other ethnicities. This may explain in some part the effect you've seen. It should also be noted that there is a large many Jewish Nobel Prize Laureates and other persons of note who do not share the faith (Einstein, Feynman, Asimov, Edward Teller, etc), so conversion will only likely fill your mind with things that bring no value towards life successes.

Here's a Wikipedia article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence

Lack of GOOD alternatives.

The political landscape is dictated by who has money, usually money coming from external sources with political interests.

Amusingly, yes. The language standard adhered to is to capitalize each word AND separate words by underscores. To make matters a little more "interesting", the language is case-insensitive, so the capitalization is only a (unnecessary, imo) luxury for the reader.

FYI: It hasn't been called "ADA" for some time, simply "Ada."

Actually, that sounds pretty smart to me.

This needs addressing. You say "just about every culture", are you sure you don't mean "individuals" or do you actually believe it is within the core components of every culture to dismiss all others as foolish?

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According to Wikipedia, Thomas Edison used the term "bug" with the same meaning in 1878. [1]

The term "bug" predated this instance as well as digital computers by a large margin.

I'd agree with you, but for a while I was that 24 year old. A massive "news" system has been constructed to only present Republicans as never wrong. Government corruption and is always "their" problem (with the Democrats being "they"), so much so that when a prominent Republican does ill and gets caught, they'll put a (D) after his name in the news blurb. Figures and charts are constructed that are completely misleading and do not match the data they're trying to represent.

It no longer takes much self-deluding to remain within this sphere of ignorance, and many choose to never venture beyond the safety of it. Khanna messed up, he walked beyond the message and developed a real solution to a real problem, but it isn't one that benefits those who have architected the sphere and has put himself at odds with them. With any luck he'll be able to see it for what it is.

They kind of balance each other out.

What do you want? The US to come in and kill everyone involved? Would that make you happy?