I am leaving now. I will check in again on the 17th.
If the Beta is still on track to replace Slashdot 'classic'
I will leave for good.

Fuck the Beta.

I'm not!

I think you just refuted your own assertion.

Hal Clement The Nitrogen Fix
ISBN 0-441-58117-X

Yep. He is just as guilty as Rosa Parks.

Damn! I already spent my mod points.

Hmmm, if I remember correctly, Saul of Tarsus was a tax collector.

heh, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074205/

So, you're suggesting separate but equal? Where have I heard that before?

This gets my nomination for most universally applicable comment.

Ringworld

Hmm, I had the exact same thought, but about the 'religionists'.

My first coding job was at NIST (then NBS). I took code written by engineers, and made it usable by someone other than the engineer who wrote it. In most cases the input UI consisted of a '?' prompt at which you were to enter a comma separated list of floating point numbers, and the output UI consisted of a block of comma separated floating point numbers. The more interesting part of the assignment was eliminating inputs that could be derived from other inputs. You would have thought that an engineer would have done that without thinking about it - mostly not.

Maybe there wasn't enough space in the margin.

Neither do they.