Actually, once you strip out the effects of child mortality and the violence, healthy lifespan through history is not much different. Nowadays we get an extra ten-twenty years through geriatric medicine, but if you were a healthy 30yo back then you had more or less the same chance of ending up a 70yo as you do now.

It's simpler than that. We understand very little about the internal dynamics of the North Korean government, but you can be fairly sure of one thing: Kim does not have the option of picking up the phone and asking the US or anyone else for a quiet chat. He's riding a tiger, and he has to ride the line between being killed by one of his people and starting a war where he'll be killed by one of ours. As for our response, it's the best way to manage it. NK would not take kindly to a short sharp shock and they have the manpower to be a bloody nuisance - fighting them would be Japan 1945, not Iraq 2003.

In addition to the other replies, presumably a major use case for this technology is stupid tourists, who rarely go swimming during major storms.

Congratulations, you're not far off. Humans use music as a group bonding tool, and once we form groups (goths, emos, punks, indie...) with close-knit social bonds, the need for the music is no longer as strong and it fades over time.

I actually think Stroustrup's introductory textbook does this quite well. He clearly separates out the simple drills that get you familiar with syntax and assigns more complex exercises, and frequently relates it back to real world operations.

My own servers have not been down at all in the last few years.

Well, thanks for that entirely statistically irrelevant anecdote.

Giving out free champagne is fun until the hangover kicks in. The worst thing about Chavez dying now is that it will cement his cult, because all the good things are conveniently coming to an end after his death.

And your solution is?

And you know that they knew their status at the time how?

That is the point I was making...

Not the worst breach I've ever seen, but a couple of stupid things still. Not least, the reset email linked you to http://links.evernote.mkt5371.com/ctt?kn=4&ms=NTcwNzMxMwS2&r=blahblahblah. I actually presumed it was a high quality phishing attempt and flagged it as spam. Later down the same email they advised "Never click on 'reset password' requests in emails - instead go directly to the service"...

There is an option to switch back to text labels in settings somewhere, which I found about thrity seconds after first encountering these icons.

A dog is pretty defenceless against a piece of meat with some horse tranquilliser in it. And to be really honest, they're not much against a steady nerve and a hefty crowbar either. And we're talking about a storefront here, not a private residence.

No, they are well-intentioned but misguided. The fact you are willing to use words like treason to describe this behaviour (and the fact your opponents do the same, in fairness), is a large part of the reason your country's a fucking mess.

Dude, you have no clear just how serious the meltdown would have been. I agree your response would have been the best in an ideal world, but it's not the one we lived in c. 2007. Katrina would have been nothing compared to what you're advocating.