I'll second BitBucket. I'm working on a game with four other people and initially chose that provider because it provided free private git hosting for five users. The bug tracker and the wiki that come along with it have both proven useful.

I was with you until that very last line.

There is much to be said in favor of a well-constructed piece of writing. I don't know all the technical jargon and I'm sure I have some habitual mistakes or idiosyncrasies, but when I write, especially if it is to be a long piece, I want to construct it with care. I am learning, though, that that is very much a personal preference.

If someone makes all categories of mistakes you mention--spelling, usage, capitalization, and punctuation--yet still manages to get his point across, where is the harm? It grates on me in an aesthetic sense, but neither is every man a painter and musician. Why should I expect a level of mastery in writing that is not a given for other areas of skill? Writing is a creative endeavor; it happens also to be saddled with the task of carrying meaning in ways that art and music are not. Many if not most people don't know the basic rules of melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic structure in Western music, and we don't hold that against them. Many if not most people don't know the basic rules of color theory and...the other rules of painting which I am too ignorant about to even name, and we don't hold that against them either.

If the meaning suffers from an abundance of mistakes, then by all means ask for clarification and get fed up. I do. If the meaning is clear, then the hard-to-accept fact is that the language may be evolving in a way that is ugly to you and me. Someone else mentioned Chaucer, whose Canterbury Tales are a struggle to read in the original Middle English, and with spelling particularly offensive to my eyes. Is this contemporary shift meaningfully different? The rules for language are, or at least began as, descriptive rules. They tell us what the language was doing at the time. If people are no longer following the now-prescribed rules, and are doing so in a fairly consistent manner, I think it points not to their stupidity but to a semi-conscious decision that they don't care about the classical English rules and aesthetics, and are going to instead use what is convenient for them to use. I don't like it either, but it's a leap to go from "this person does not write with care like I do" to "this person is an idiot." By that measure, any foreigner who is just learning English, or has only learned enough to get by, is also an idiot, and that should be an obviously false conclusion.

So write with care; some of us appreciate it. If you are lucky enough to create any lasting works, you may be remembered for your skill. I have been impressed by the writings of William James in many ways, and his clarity of thought and writing is a big influence on how I write. Yet, now that I think about it, he used a mix of the formal and the casual that was in his own time regarded as unruly at best. That could prove to be instructive today.

Google searches aren't CLI any more than this comment text box is. A CLI google search would be more like typing out the URL "https://www.google.com/search?sugexp=chrome,mod=18&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=command+line+interface" by hand. And browsing through the results pages is very much unlike a CLI.

I think it's more accurate to say that we are getting a better understanding of CLI behaviors that work well, such as the app launch shortcuts and text expanders you mentioned, and incorporating those into everyday use. I certainly believe that the CLI retains its function, and it is without a doubt the best tool for certain jobs. It's not great for browsing, or any operation in which you aren't quite sure when you start out where something is or how it works, but if you know those things from the outset it is very easy to string a number of commands together to get the exact output you desire.

Everything was not perfectly back in place and functioning! None of the security council members was speaking his own language!

I agree. And for web game developers, Flash is still the best tech out there. HTML5 is okay, but still not terribly mature (and don't get me started on sound) or consistently implemented. Meanwhile on the Flash platform you have at least two mature, useful frameworks--FlashPunk and Flixel--that allow for quick prototyping and rich development.

Not to mention AS3 is prettier and friendlier than Javascript...

What about authors? Books generally take more time to produce than music does, and you won't see nearly as many people buying tickets for reading or speaking engagements...

Should that same argument not then be applied equally to all makers of software? The issue is the same: effort is put into something novel which is nonetheless easily reproduced after the original idea is implemented. When put that way, the same argument should abolish all patents as well--after all, the idea once created is easily transmitted, so anyone who wants to make the effort to reproduce whatever invention the idea was for should be able to do so.

That doesn't make sense. If it did, mental hospitals would be our greatest source of art and science.

I agree with some of this. To illustrate the point in the realm of art, creativity is not painting an image of a dog with a human's head, even if that were never done before. It is, however, being the first to use light and shadow instead of painting a flat fresco.

Is that metric really valuable? It's hard to teach a squirrel to jump through a hoop on command; does that mean it's hard for a human to do the same?

I disagree. Genius lies not in discovering things that others cannot necessarily understand, it is more a matter of discovering things that others have not understood. Take Einstein's relativity, for instance--the ideas presented by it have entered the popular culture to a degree that is rather surprising. No, not every lay person has an intimate grasp of the details, but certainly every curious person, and increasingly everyone who watches Hollywood movies, knows about time dilation, the fixed speed of light, etc. The concepts themselves, at least a lot of them, are not intuitive but neither are they incomprehensible. To discover them however took a monumental work of intellect, effort, true creativity and curiosity--therein lies the genius.

I would describe it as pleasant. I've had it four or five times, and for me, if there are friends present, it results in a going-away feeling accompanied by uncontrollable laughter. The one time I did it by myself, the going-away feeling was there, and instead of hilarity I felt very still and tranquil. There are a lot of people who don't like the drug, and it is a psychedelic so set and setting play an important role. It's also not a party drug, not something to do to "have a good time."

Also, salvia has been prohibited by several US states, with legislation moving through a number of others to do the same.

...prozac, ambien, adderall, ritalin, aspirin, tylenol, zyperxa, effexor, xanax, vicodin...

Don't fall prey to the fallacy of the single cause. There was also Dupont, who wanted nylon to replace hemp. There were also racist motivations: making marihuana illegal was a good way to deport the Mexican laborers who were "stealing our jobs" and the Negro musicians who were "corrupting our youth." I'm sure there are a number of other fringe reasons for making it illegal.

Also, it actually started with the Marihuana Tax Act, in which farmers could only grow hemp if they bought stamps to do so from the government. The government didn't sell any stamps. The scheduling came later.

A lot of the change you are experiencing may be due to selection for THC over other cannabinoids in a lot of breeds. It's not necessarily that it's more potent, it's that the ratio of THC tends to be higher because THC is erroneously thought of as "the active ingredient." There are a lot more incidences of paranoia in people who take THC pills for pain relief than there are for medical marijuana users who smoke or ingest the plant. The "mellow luvving feeling" is a result of a more balanced bouquet.

Ass, Ass. There, I got the other two you missed.