I think about 90% of programming is the skill of the programmer and 10% the language used. When you're good you can do pretty much anything with any language (within reason obviously), when you're bad you're out of luck regardless of which language you choose. Here's an example of tool versus fool:

Part 1 (start at 3:00 mark): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQJKQjXpGQA
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KiC03_wVjc

GAMBAS is a hell of a lot nicer than a cargo van, I'm just addressing people's constant claims about language superiority/inferiority. The results are the only thing that really matters.

Haha, never thought about that. Fish. Shrimp. If only CmdrTaco had posted my submission we could have had a real meal on our hands.

I'm writing an MMO with it: http://www.youtube.com/user/VasCorpBetMani The users mailing list would probably be the best place to ask what the serious folks are doing with it.

If all the military did was blow shit up the planet would look like an eight ball.

You should report the details of the most interesting parts of the discussion, then. Could make a whole damn article if it reflected the general direction of the project.

Poverty, drugs, and now terrorism. At least there's an outlet for all the perverts since they can get hired by the TSA. Better publicly groping people than buying the windowless van.

Maybe they just saw Dangaioh for the first time and shit themselves over how high-quality the animation was. After they cross fought the bureaucracy of a functional government, perhaps they also realized that physics theories less than a century old wouldn't hold forever and that better mathematical models would emerge through mechanized observation and analysis rather than human introspection and creativity. Einstein is out, SETI is in. I guess their computers are faster and their lenses broader.

Mod up. There are lazy military personnel, but they are disproportionately smaller in number than the number of lazy civilians.

That's true of all Earth military forces, but compare U.S. forces to other Earth forces and think of who the aliens might better identify with.

Perfectionists are never satisfied with their job.

If the money's good, stay there and keep your head down. Suppress your pride. I'm hypervigilant at work, whether it's UPS, Uncle Vito's New York Pizza or IT bullshit. That ravenous attitude of getting things done the best way, all the time and every time, makes everyone look up and take notice. Usually that's bad because no one else wants to work that hard, much less change anything. It's an instinctive gut response from laborers even if the improvement seems mundane (place wax paper behind the lettuce bin to divert the airflow from the cooling vent and subsequently prevent the lettuce from freezing). No change is mundane and most are rejected for insufferably stupid reasons.

Pacify your coworkers and bosses and do something at home that makes you feel like you're changing the world. I'm writing a game. You can write whatever your imagination and spirit have the capacity of envisioning.

I think more people use Linux than you think they use.

They should immediately one-off send their data to multiple networks who would look for mirror candidates. Someone somewhere should always preserve the Usenet archive. No censorship allowed, only redundant preservation across distributed networks.

Someday there will be a public outcry against cooling the core and weakening the Earth's magnetic field by excessively mining geothermic energy. Everyone will laugh at first (like now).

Free energy could be the great equalizer of nations, who knows?