You aren't paid to have personal liberty. And now these nurses aren't either!

A job isn't a right. It is giving up something in exchange for money. Usually this means exchanging time and expertise, but there can be other concessions as well.

There's definitely use to destroying an object in a nose dive. For example, if the device is on a ballistic trajectory, you'll separate it into smaller components increasing drag and lessening the damage by spreading it across an area. If it is explosive, you may force the weapon to detonate prematurely, reducing the threat of the explosive. If the device is on a controlled flight path, you remove it's ability to control. If the device is not a missile, but rather a vehicle, you've eliminated the vehicle's ability to deploy arms or perform reconnaissance.

The claim was initially made by AndyKron without supporting evidence. The onus is on him to back up his argument.

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.