Obligatory "if you aren't doing anything illegal, you have nothing to hide".

Yeah, the 5th ward was totally full of "climate change denying hill billies with petrified civil war era brains". You're a racist, and an idiot.

Is this the sort of thing that keeps you up at night? You must be one tough womyn to live with.

I'm sure Bill Gates stopped trying to dominate the PC market as soon as he earned his first $31 billion.

Definitely. This is already the case for taxicabs, with their de facto $1 million medallions. Now the city is protecting "big hotel", with the excuse that landlords might be kicking out their tenants in order to obtain more profit by renting out via AirBnB. Aren't there already laws on how and when tenants can be evicted? If these are being broken, enforce them. If they aren't good enough, pass new ones. This is rule by fiat, not by law. It's amazing how many politicians in the US find it too difficult to actually conceive, propose, and pass legislation.

Britain is just the one island. The "Great" part is to distinguish it from so-called "Lesser" Britain, which is Brittany, a chunk of France. (And this, I gather, is how people feel about that.)

Wikipedia is quick to point out that, since there's more than one grocer guilty of that particular offence, it's properly referred to as a grocers' apostrophe. (And now I, Zoidberg, will make with the oh-ing and the snapping.)

Yes, but what would distinguish it from other potential shows featuring strongly-worded email-at-desk action is that the people doing it would be completely fucking unbearably obnoxious self-entitled arsebuckets. Or, at least employed, by them. So it'd really be more like a reality show.

Mumble mumble, this guy seems to get it, therefore blame Reaganism.

The best part about Five Year Plans is that, like other strawman arguments, if they fail you can always make up another one.

Because the people who write those sort of languages and the people who write the languages you're stuck using in the name of performance won't talk to each other and are essentially on opposite sides of the holy war of pure vs. applied mathematics.

I cannot, for the life of me, think of the last time I wrote a program where I didn't have to rearrange a simple mathematical expression like that at least once. Unless we're all writing text adventures and parsers now?

Until you've programmed ASM for a micro controller, you really don't know what's going on under the hood, and you're almost certainly doomed to create bloated, slow-as-mud compared to what it *could* be, code.

Sit down with a 6809 system emulation and learn about stacks and heaps and PIC and addressing modes and registers and memory and IO and optimizing loops and etc. Then you've got a foundation. Then C and a linker AND a debugger, then something OO, then HTML, CSS, Python, PostgreSQL, follow the basic PostgreSQL with detailed DB stuff, make sure the math is there through at least algebra and geometry, explain 3D from acos() as pooltable reflection to the various lighting tech... this would be a good first year or possibly two.

You best learn to solve problems by... wait for it... solving problems.

Okay. Let's examine a person who obsessively builds wealth by providing value and expecting compensation. Isn't that just ransoming your own ability? You're essentially saying "I could do all of these wonderful things for everyone, but I won't, because I believe I need recognition for my actions in the form of these many little rectangles of paper that I may or may not someday use to reward someone else for the same thing."

On its own, this is the fast road to total economic deflation; people stop exchanging goods and services because they lose the ability to, necessitating inventions like bracketed income tax and programmed inflation simply to keep the system stable. The economy may not even be growing if the products are perishables like food, and yet the scales continually tip themselves towards exhaustion. (The sole exception is when a company's employees are its entire and only customer base and the money just circulates back and forth, never growing or shrinking due to interaction with the outside world.)

I would still say that a university overcharging in its food facilities (which they inevitably seem to do) qualifies as immoderate, since the whole campaign amounts to a significant profit; it's merely distributed, as with most sophisticated forms of money-extraction, e.g. high-frequency trading.