Engineering used by terrorists

Lets declare a war on Engineering and ban all engineers

I am sorry but can I just say:

  BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
  input = bufferedReader.readLine();
  number = Integer.parseInt(input);

In Pascal (1960's) you could just do something like:
integer number;
read(number);

See if the compiler knows number is an integer do I really have to tell it to create a stream and parse it as an int? seriously?
Java is an abomination.

I remember lots but most of it never happened. Impossible to tell the real from the imaginary. Lots of (really) intense dreams that were very unpleasant. However those would almost certainly have happened afterwards while I was unconscious not while I was on the operating table. They say that after a week in ICU you go a bit insane. "ICU psychosis" is what it is called. Hallucinations were very common, I could not tell the difference between when I was dreaming and when I was awake.
A bit like nightmare on elm street.

Could have been worse the guy next to me and the one across from me died (painfully)

Not quite.
I was unconscious for about three weeks (maybe more), still not sure how long, never checked the dates.
I would occasionally be "self aware" (but unable to sense anything external) I presume when they were changing medication or trying out different stuff to see if I could be woken but then I would kinda disappear again. Had a few intense dreams not sure how long they lasted or what order they occurred in. They were mostly unpleasant, I presume my brain was trying to make sense of what was happening to my body. Then I woke up but still heavily drugged and hallucinating (still unpleasant)

No donor blood, old stuff put back in after operation and then heart restarted.
Some internal changes and upgrades were made.

I had something similar done about 10 years ago. It was a bit experimental at the time and they told me I was very probably going to die during surgery and if I did not die I would prob. have brain damage and/or organ failure but without the surgery I would be dead in hours. They cooled down my body and then removed all my blood, there was no saline replacement. I was dead for about 10 minutes and apart from some problems reanimating me it worked out OK (there were some problems,I spent a month afterwards in a medically induced coma and had to have further work done repairing some damage caused during surgery). It was considered a major success at the time.

A bit scary to be told that you have about 30 minutes to live. Last thing I remember is the anesthetist putting a line in and thinking that once he injected the anesthetic I was going to die.

do not feed after midnight

lisp

I would say I am embarrassed to be Irish but I am not. Dumb asses are spread pretty evenly throughout the world. This one just happens to be Irish. He displays the intellectual rigor I have come to expect from our politicians. Badly educated and unthinking. Nothing new here.

I do fear for the future however.

What is the definition of a sociopath again?

I once went to a talk where a guy from MSoft basically said that they only hire the top 5% of graduates and complained that very few graduates were in the top 5% (about 1 in 20 I believe ;-).

This is the same complaint here!

J.

Seeing how he does not believe in paying tax maybe he will re-emburse the navy and hospital for the full cost of his "rescue" and treatment.

J.

what did they say about absolute power again?

The problem with the plutonium cells was that when you died you had to be buried as nuclear waste (or so I was told).

Yup. If you ask they will give you a valium (or equivalent). It does not really hurt.