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and so should you

So many bugs could be prevented. Only convert it to local time where you display it

I think your mistake is assuming the likes of Germany and France are allies of the US.

There was never a relationship approaching equality, nor particularly close cultural ties like with the English speaking countries, just at one time a common enemy. With the disappearance of the Warsaw pact and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Germany's location isn't as strategic anymore, and since the Europeans have lost their ability to project military power overseas, they currently are of little strategic use to the US. Asian partners are more important right now.

What both Germany and France are, are major players in a competing bloc (in the economic sense, militarily there is no competition), each with a large population of disaffected Muslim youths.

I'd top that with an even bolder statement: in 10 years time, unless something totally unforseeable happens, 'mobile' will mean 'Samsung gadget running Android' much the same way desktop computer meant Wintel up to only a few years ago, with maybe a upper single digit market share for Apple serving a hipster niche.

I don't have an opinion on whether it's justified or not, as it is none of my business, but why is it that nearly every American geek, at least on the internet, hates this president more than any other in living memory? What specifically, did he do to piss off the geeks?

What, do you mean that there's more to it than just typing over the DNA sequence from a paper and printing the offending protein out on the protein printer?

I don't see much evidence for this. For allies, the US hegemony has been predominantly benign. For a comparison, look at the various 'allies' the Russians had during the cold war.

I think your confusion may stem from your definition of ally, which I imagine includes unwilling vassals.

An ally is someone you share a joint interest with. Someone who has something unique to offer that some random other doesn't have (such as cultural ties, great resources or a strategic location), and vice-versa. The relationship is one of 'you scratch my back, I scratch your back, because we both want to or need to'. An ally is someone whose interests you will occasionally put before your own when the situation demands it.

A vassal is someone who serves your interest. The relationship is like employer vs employee (you scratch my back for a reward) or master vs servant (you scratch my back or else). You don't reward a vassal more than his services are worth to you, and occasionally one will be made redundant in favor of another one.

If your country doesn't have special cultural ties with the US, and has nothing unique to offer, you're deluding yourself if you think you are an ally. You're a vassal.

As for his embellishments on his CV, I was under the impression that a US CV was expected to be rather 'boastfully' worded. If you're simply frank and realistic, or worse, modest, on your CV, you'll still be assumed to be exaggerating, so you'll come across as below average.

However..

If someone in protest to government espionage defect, first to China, and then to Russia of all places, to seek greater transparency and privacy, then that shows some exceptionally poor judgement...

IBM hasn't been about 'selling machines' in a long time.

I think you're confusing (near) surface permafrost in the arctic, due to the average annual temperature being below freezing, and ice age permafrost 300 ft below the surface that's there because the average conditions there over the Quaternary period has been 'covered with an ice sheet' - even if that hasn't been the case in 10,000 years. In most places, I imagine (no data available that I'm aware of), what's buried that deep will probably stay there whether it's frozen or not.

Why does any mention of ice or antarctica have to turn into an ideological battle over the climate?

This melt water is forming at the bottom, beneat an ice sheet that's more than two and a half miles thick in places. It's completely shielded from the climate, which acts on the surface and on the ocean.

There are places in northern Europe, siberia, alaska, canada, where a few hundred feet below the surface you still find permafrost left over from the last ice age. It's so far from the surface that it apparently takes more than 10,000 years to melt.

Culture resists major changes like this.

All it will take is one bad accident with a computer driven car for public outrage to get them banned.

Never mind the fact that bad accidents happen every day with human driver cars.

The true crime of the prequels wasn't that they were childish, mediocre and kind of stupid

It was that they made us realize that the original movies had always been childish, mediocre and kind of stupid.

No, it's made out of codeine from over the counter cough medicine. The synthesis path is on the wikipedia page for desomorphine.

I don't really see why fall is so popular either. Where I live, fall just means mud, storm and cold rain, rain, rain every day. It means the light goes away and you won't see the sunball again until next May or June if you're lucky.

Too late, as in 'look at C#'

Java had a problem with the JCP not working, then the Sun to Oracle transition, and Apache getting elbowed out. It's a miracle a new version even came out in the first place.

C# never had a community process to worry about, and moved forward all the time. It has had closures, lambdas, function points etc. for quite a while now.