Is there any way they can both lose?

Sorry, but "life, liberty, and security of person" does not include the right to remain unoffended.

Threats are a different legal matter; separate 'hate speech' laws aren't needed to make physical threats illegal. They are as illegal here in the US as they are in Canada.

I see. Guess they're as bad as the government, then. Another childhood illusion lies in pieces...

Not true. The Mafia's code of conduct does not provide for attacks on family members or other unrelated parties.

This. Game development is something you should get involved with only if you can't imagine yourself doing anything else. It's almost more of a calling than a profession. Not something anyone should be pushed into.

BTW, what was this basic "human right" again? I can't seem to place it from what you're saying. You've just been yacking about "socialized health care".

Question: Do you believe that someone without insurance, or who otherwise has no ability to pay, who is suffering from an acute medical emergency, should be turned away from a hospital emergency room and left to die on the sidewalk?

If the answer is "Yes," then you're some kind of barbarian, and we're done here.

If the answer is "No," then I've got some even worse news for you: we already have "socialized medicine." The patient will, in fact, be treated, and you and I will, in fact, pick up the tab. It just costs us several times more than it would in any other civilized nation on Earth, because unlike those nations, we insist on kidding ourselves.

"In other news, something made by Google turns out to be a half-assed implementation of a good idea, unfavored by management and consequently determined to be a career-limiting move for Googlers unfortunate enough to be assigned to it. Consequently it is allowed to fall into disrepair, and will be scheduled for decommissioning at a time carefully calculated to maximize user inconvenience. Ric Romero has film at 11, so stay tuned for that."

(Shrug) Externalties, whatever. Your odds of dying on a commercial airline flight are approximately one in one billion. I don't think you're going to want to pay to raise those odds another 10x.

Yes, I, too, remember how I felt the first time I watched 2001.

Watch it again.

Forcing me to use an IDE is like forcing me to use a forklift to change a light bulb. I'll work for somebody else, thanks.

Well, the more important stories were hogging the lock.

Wait, are you saying that Three Mile Island doesn't really need a REST API?

And of course, union dues aren't basically a pay cut.

That's hilarious, I thought you were kidding. I remember an amusing publicity stunt in which a scientist pwned Ralph Nader by declaring that he would eat as much plutonium as Nader would consume caffeine, but this is the first time I've heard of someone actually putting their money where their mouth is.

Course when you really get down to it, if you are going to go through that much trouble to make a table top accelerator, it seems like it would be easier to skip the electrical energy to mechanical energy and mechanical energy to electrostatic potential steps. Seems like charging a capacitor and using some sort of cathode/annode setup..... and that is how the VDG ended up in the museum :)

Agreed, a Cockroft-Walton multiplier should be pretty easy to construct these days with HV components available on eBay. It now occurs to me that it might make sense to ditch the belt and motor in my VDG altogether, and just build a CW multiplier into the acrylic column. Hmm.