They can still program (RISC) microcontrollers in C/assembly. It's much nicer than x86. You can get one for $25 (AVR Butterfly).

Since when is China a developed nation?

"pretty sure refusing to work the job the government told you to work in communist russia resulted in a bullet to the brain."

What I meant that people were cheating production quantity norms, not that they flat out refused to do the job. Even CEOs used to fake their statistics to seem better. Much of the economics statistics in these countries were totally unreliable.

Well, I've got advertisement in youtube and other videosharing sites, but at least the cable channels don't buffer.

You got the details wrong. It was the Mayan system that killed lazy people. The Russian one didn't deport the lazy. It deported
1, political dissenters
2, those who were rich in the previous system
3, your political rivals ( see Laszlo Rajk, or Trotskij )

You mean terminators, right?

I think Ruby beats Python in features only in rare cornercases, which aren't that hard to do Python either. When you already know Python there's not much motivation to learn Ruby. They're too similar.

They pushed for deregulation, then prices started to skyrocket, and blackout/brownouts followed.

more bloated GUI libraries (bling), and comfier runtimes (different VMs).

Totally agree, but run out of mod points.

Comparing binary isn't a good idea. Different c++ compilers have different name mangling schemes. The binary output of a c/c++ compiler isn't standardized.

I feel confused. Hey, if you're at it make it the year of reading too.

The appropriate answer is "Woosh!". You must be new here.

I knew about the red flag act, and GP still totally made sense.

They can use XML-RPC too. (This is just speculation too.) And as far as I know, JRuby isn't faster than regular Ruby.