(re-posting what I just posted anonymously)

A lot of the "cool, cutting-edge" features you see in popular modern languages like Python, Ruby, JavaScript, etc. - stuff like closures, functions as first-class objects, lambdas, and filter/map/reduce - come straight from Lisp. Even the very idea of XML is just a variation on the list structure of Lisp. It's taken fifty years for these modern languages to catch up to Lisp.

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Grumman A-12

Here are some great science sites that I, and many of my fellow countrymen, can recommend.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/
http://www.globalwarminghoax.com/news.php

Fresco, Farmer, Fishbed, Flogger, Foxbat, Fulcrum (yes, the MiG-15 is deliberately left out)
Fitter, Fishpot, Flagon, Fencer, Flanker
Flashlight, Firebar, Forger
Bear, Badger, Blinder, Backfire, Blackjack
etc.

The good thing is that the names are ordered... though I'm not sure if Bear should be first or between Backfire and Blackjack.

You know, I think The Onion needs to update their classic article about the man who doesn't own a TV with a new one about the Area Man who constantly mentions that there is absolutely nothing on iTunes that meets his oh-so-eclectic musical tastes. (As well as the Area Man who constantly mentions that he's not on Facebook and franky doesn't understand what's so interesting about it.)

Not so:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Nationality_Rule

I've built high-speed trains to Zhengzhou, Wuhou, and North Shenyang, and by gum it put them on the map!

I see it the other way. Studying a handful of Romance languages (in my case, Portuguese, French, and Spanish) gets you all the Latin-root vocabulary that is supposedly so useful in English, while you don't have to deal with the rest of Latin (i.e., the complex grammar) which of no practical use, and you get living languages that you can actually use to communicate with people.

Thank you so much, on behalf of myself and every geek here on Slashdot who could not bear the shame of not being able to answer those test problems, and at the same time had an unquenchable thirst to know the answers, wishing only that someone would reveal them to us so that one more crucial intellectual void might be filled.

Neither is Italian==Greek or Sanskrit or classical Arabic. Does the parent post imply in any way that Dante wrote in Latin?

Just make sure you do it at a soup kitchen in an area where you'll never go or be recognized again. Last thing you want is a bunch of winos hounding you down yelling "Give us more of those lotto tickets!"

Copying others' work without attribution, in a forum dedicated to the idea of reaping riches without working for it? I would have never imagined!

Also this podcast: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/06/blakely_on_fash.html

It's great that all you drivers are so concerned about being able to help out others in distress. Well then would it f**king kill you to pull over, stop the car, and get out to make the call?! I guarantee it won't be jammed.

I recently obtained a Brazilian tourist visa for a trip in January. Whereas the visa fee for most countries like EU members or Japan is $20, U.S. citizens are singled out for a $160 fee, which is classified as a "reciprocal fee" (and the clerk at the consulate made sure to emphasize that when I submitted the application). And when I go, I fully expect the full interrogation, fingerprints, etc., while my Japanese wife will be waved right through.

It's just a blatant tit-for-tat move to get back at U.S. immigration policies. I frankly don't see how it benefits Brazil in any way, but I can hardly blame them.

Interesting thing, though, is that while my wife's $20 visa is valid for a 90-day period, my $150 visa is good for ten years.