It demonstrates intent.

So does owning a gun. By owning a weapon, you actually show more intent and means to kill than just having the mere instructions downloaded by this guy.

Are you suggesting that everyone that owns a handgun and has written an angry letter to the OpEd section should be arrested?

Clinton was impeached for lying under oath about Lewinski.

Why the US Congress wasted a year investigating a president's sex life is why I won't ever vote for Gingrich. There's simply no good reason for them to be doing so; besides a moral failing of the president, it was not ever confirmed that Clinton abused his political power for this escapade.

An abuse of power that is dangerous to the body politic is a reasonable use of the impeachment process. Investigating the sex lives of our politicians is not, regardless how scandalous it may be.

Can we call that good enough?

Not if you're a defense contractor. I believe that they are literally going to the ruin of our country--our enemies will be able to field larger, more effective forces with less drain on their economic resources.

I mean, would you rather have 1M men that cost $1000 each to equip, or 100K men that cost $100K each to equip? The 100K men are outnumbered 10-to-1, and gear that costs 100 times as much still won't be effective enough to make up for the difference. Also, the expensive guys are more vulnerable to supply chain issues; a disruption to their supply chain leaves them outnumbered 10-1 without even the benefit of their gear.

We're both subsidizing truck traffic, which is more damaging to the roads than they pay for in fuel taxes.

If things were really going to be fair, the tax burden would shift up to trucks and away from personal use vehicles. Of course, that would make consumer goods more expensive, as they're trucked in and the increased cost would be passed on; or at least, until the train freight infrastructure could expand enough to absorb the extra traffic.

Personally, I would rather pay less at the pump and pay more for consumer goods that have to be trucked, but I can see that that would be politically unpopular thing to do. Let alone probably end businesses like Amazon due to increased shipping costs.

"I use nothing from it in my day-to-day work as a Ruby developer".

You're a Ruby developer today. You may not be in 5 or 10 years from now. Then, your educational background will serve you flex into a different position. Ruby developers who know just that will only be Ruby developers forever, because they are one-trick ponies.

I've done some fencing, and what always bothered me about that scene was their failure to keep their points on their opponents.

You should keep the point stable and move the wrist/arm to create a cone of defense.

Perhaps when using the blade to attack instead of the point, as in sabre, the technique is closer to the PB fight?

No problem. Be prepared to pay for that luxury out of your own pocket. I don't want to pay for the unnatural extension of either your life or mine.

And yet it was created by Bush, the biggest funder of overpaid do-nothings this generation. Nothing gets the GOP going more than overpaying for an unaccountable paramilitary.

Take your fables elsewhere, troll.

If you thought that was a lot, wait until you see what Google will have to pay for primary placement in Safari. I don't recall when that deal is up, but you can bet that Apple is going to be all too happy to stick it to Google for pilfering the iphone design for use in Android hardware.

Apple has a tremendous thing going with iPhone and IPad sales. They're none to happy that Google is trying to rock that boat. I expect Apple to force Google to pay dearly for placement, Apple will be just as happy to switch to Bing.

btw, if you thought Bing's existence was a waste of energy, it was built for exactly this kind of forcing costs up on competitors. It doesn't have to be widely used, it just has to be a credible threat so Google is forced to pay more than it otherwise would have.

Does a surprise increase of 300% to Mozilla mean that they are going to be able to hire more developers, and build/iterate faster?

They'll just raise the volume of their newscasts to be above the normal level of the rest of the channel.

Who watches ads anymore anyways?

This topic has made me wish that I was 15 years younger more than I have for awhile. Not only my age, but I would hate leaving my family at this point.

One thing that I haven't seen any single post mention is the (sexual) social life. I assume there is none, and that's partly how money is saved. Or is there a satisfactory amount of females to make it not totally a sausage party? Spending the best years of my life surrounded by dudes could leave one rich, but lonely. True?

They wouldn't, unless you threatened violence against them. You could certainly insult them all you want.

Lord knows, we all do.

You can't feasibly track every citizen all of the time with human officers.

You could very feasibly install a GPS tracker on every car everywhere, all of the time. Without a warrant required, there is no legal reason not to. The only things preventing it would be the cost of the GPS hardware and the cost of the data collection. Both costs will likely go down over time, the latter moreso.

I guarantee that if this is found to be constitutional, 25% of the vehicles on the road will have a GPS tracker within 10 years. For no better reason than "just because they can."

I manage 50K+ servers. I want to do some things with some of them, some things with others. My selection criteria is varied and boolean. It would be very difficult to select non-contiguous sets of 500 servers from those 50K without grep and awk.

I pipe them to tools. Those tools often require inputs in different syntax, so I use sed to transform the syntax as necessary.

Please don't let them take this management tool away. I couldn't do it with a GUI selector.

Neither. We have limited resources to defend our interests. If we overspend on an exaggerated cyber threat from China, we must needs reduce the resources allocated to something else. If we short a program that defends us from a threat that was actually understated vs. China's ability, we have made ourselves susceptible.