[quote]That's a big 'if' there. How do you propose he get to work?[/quote]

Train, subway, bike or a combination of them. If you live in a country that doesn't have either of them, then you're forced to spend the $10k a year "crappy public transport tax"

And if you want to do bitbanging (or low level rs232 communication for that matter) and realtime programming Java makes you want to pull your hairs out. Don't start on JNI. Although developing anything high-level is much easier than c++.

Actually, making your SSID hidden makes your network more insecure.

http://lifehacker.com/#!5636856/is-hiding-your-wireless-ssid-really-more-secure

What is the problem with negative numbers? Are they more difficult for you?

Since when do Subway subs have a tolerance of 0.1mm?

In metric a drywall would probably be made to be 1.20 m width, driving in a screw every 40 cm is not that hard.

If drywalls are 1m width, you just drive in a screw every 33cm. Your tolerance of screwing screws into drywall is probably higher than 3mm. (note the m - cm - mm conversions that are really easy. try doing the same in imperial). In the real world, integer units are kinda useless and you can always drop back to a magnitude smaller in metric. Tolerances make the notion of screwing something in every 16" foolish anyway, in metric it would be in the same number of significant digits.

It was by far the cheapest in the bar I frequented in the states as well ($2,50 vs $4,00), so at first I ignored it.

A solution would be to tax Diesel less. To stop people from buying Diesel cars increase the registration tax for them so only people who make loads of miles (businesses and trucks (which don't have to be taxed) can afford them

from 1895 till 1941 there was a tax for bicycles in the Netherlands. Nothing new.

Shipping tons of hydrocarbons to earth doesn't sound like the best plan to me. It would decrease oxygen levels and increase CO2 if done in big enough numbers.

Almost any connection is really unlimited here. Starting at about 20-25 euro's a month for a 20mbits/1mbits connection.

If your pattern is completely random, the opponent can easily win by favoring one.

For example, random against always rock, rock wins 2 out of 3 times.

Substract 20% VAT first, then compare.

1350 watts seems to be almost nothing. A half decent vacuum cleaner is already about 1600 watts, with the biggest non-commercial ones going up to 2200 watts (10 amps @ 220V).

I can transfer anything from a eurocent free of charge to anywhere within the eurozone. In the states, I could use ebanking to send a physical check for free, but ACH costs around 3 dollar. Seemed very backwards to me.