Proficiency in ALGOL, FORTRAN, COBOL, and Pascal makes you stand out from the crowd. Market yourself as a specialist.

There is no cow level, how'd they miss that?

Is it just me, or does the summary give no indication of what the article is about? And on top of that I can't even RTFA without registering. This is retarded.

Since none of the articles linked to by the summary felt it was relevant to mention what these skimmers actually look like, here's an article from Consumerist.

If your university finds it necessary to go to such lengths to prevent cheating maybe you should take that as a sign to find a better university.

"The money is collected from taxes and sent out of the state, that sounds like a problem to me." That's the entire fucking point of government, to reapportion wealth to the benefit the collective. If taxes were distributed directly back to who paid them there would be no point in taxing people at all.

implicit/tacit collusion isn't just legal, it's an inevitable feature of oligopolistic competition.

Because film doesn't have infinite resolution. You can only fit so many of those silver halide crystals on a bit of film, and that limits how much "data" can be stored in the frame. 35 millimeter film at normal ISOs (aka that $4 roll you mentioned) can't really be printed larger than 8"x10" unless you have an artistic attraction to extreme graininess.

Do you have a reason for assuming Americans are intrinsically different then everyone else on Earth. or are you making shit up?

Or it may be that the visible universe is smaller than the actual universe. This paper estimates the minimum possible diameter of the universe to be 24 gigaparsecs, which is four gigaparsecs less than the diameter of the observable universe. It's not likely, but if it were true it would mean we could look a billion lightyears in one direction and see a region of space, or we could look 77 billion lightyears in the opposite direction and see how that same region looked 76 billion years earlier, by seeing light the looped around the long way around the universe.

I'd like to point out that Forbes previously announced that Carlos Slim was the world's richest man in 2007.

You should read about lock bumping. Pin tumbler locks (ie ordinary door locks) can be opened in seconds by any unskilled thief using a bump key. There are videos on youtube if you're interested.

Uh, citation needed? Are the moderators really confused today, or have "troll" and "insightful" become synonyms without me noticing?

Unless you're into that kind of thing, in which case it'll turn out great!

Terminal velocity is the speed a thing is going when the force of gravity pulling down is equal to the force of drag pushing up (0 net force = no acceleration, ie constant velocity). The force due to drag at high altitudes is very low because there's not much air that high, which means there's not much to keep gravity from accelerating the sky diver. As he descends and the air gets thicker he will decelerate back to subsonic speeds because terminal velocity is lower at lower altitudes (all else being constant).

A common myth related to terminal velocity is that terminal velocity is a constant rate that all objects fall at. That's not true because drag factors into terminal velocity and different things are more or less aerodynamic. A person skydiving spread-eagle falls slower than a person diving streamlined, and a bullet will fall back down at about the same speed it was going when it was fired.