I love Pomplamoose's cover of the Theme Music. Such Fun!

Create a leak... that has already leaked.

Allow one or two deaths of "Our Heroic Sons and Defenders" apparently as the result of it.

Crack down savagely on all 'net freedoms whilst Middle America cheers.

Profit.

Just not for you or I.

Those who can Program, Program.

Those who can't, hire Lawyers.

Damn, why don't I have mod points to mod you up!

BADGER BADGER BADGER! mushrooom!

Ye olde Turbo Pascal running computers you could just set graphics mode and peek and poke pixels straight from and onto the screen, You could wait on a keypress, you could write to screen, WITHOUT PAGES AND PAGES AND PAGES of gluey gui setup code.

Sniff. I miss those days.

And the Good old Turbo Pascal license. "Treat this software like a book..."

And to make a beep was just "play(N,S)" where N was the freq and s was the time in secs.

At most the set up was "require sound" or something simple like that.

I really miss the Whack-A-Pendant feature my old wooden tally stick had.

When it is available reasonably cheaply in experimental quantities and at competitative prices in commercial quantities.

Then we have a revolution.

Till the common Maker can fill in his credit card number and gets some of this stuff... ..nothing exciting is going to happen.

Flame bait nothing, wake up call to see past the hype... yes.

Maybe if I was a Nobel Laureate material... I'd agree with you.

However, Feynman is not a suitable teacher neither for I, nor for that 99.9% segment of Humanity we call "mere ordinary mortals".

My wife, bless her, is quite capable of digesting and following Feynman's books, but then her skills are "world class" (to me "goddess-like").

By far most maths / physics university graduates, let's be honest now, get a "Whee! Wow! That was exciting!" feeling when reading Feynman...

Very very few can then move on to doing anything useful with what they should have just learnt.

Learning to do stuff with that material takes either genius, or days and days of hard page after page after page of slogging through the math. (Often both)

... is excessively vague and handwaving requiring literally hours and pages of close work to fill in the gaps between the equation N he shows and the next equation N+1 that he says follows from N.

Yup, a brilliant guy I'm sure, but not the guy I want teaching me. At the end of a course, (call me greedy), _I_ want to know how to do everything in the course, not merely have a warm fuzzy WEE-WOW feeling that something exciting just went by that I can't quite reproduce.

Give me Richard Hamming's books instead of Feynman's any day. Ok, they won't make you go "WEEE WOW!!!", but on the other hand you will have an excellent understanding of the material AND be able to reproduce and USE any result in them yourself.

His book Coding and Information Theory is by far the best written and most readable hard science textbook I ever had in my university career. Read it if you want to understand the subject, read it if you want to understand how to write a good textbook!

Parent said, I always liked the "Strangest Abuse of the Rules" catagory winner for Hello World

char*_="Hello world.\n";

That is it - the whole program.

echo 'char*_="Hello world.\n"; ' > a.c
$ gcc a.c
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.1/../../../../lib/crt1.o: In function `_start':
/build/buildd/eglibc-2.10.1/csu/../sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S:115: undefined reference to `main'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Doesn't say "Hello" to me!

So what would you do if you held trillions of Junk American debt?

I'd keep chanting about how marvelously solid the America dollar is (must be).... while buying hard assets / resources from whoever would sell them to me in exchange for Junk America bonds.

But wait, that's exactly what China is doing.

End game?

Guess who ends up owning the hard assets... and guess who ends up owning "Intellectual Property".

I know which I'd rather own.

Our mad scientists are working on technologies with potential military applications.

Our (NZ) Mad Scientists are quite Busy in rather fascinating ways thanks.

Plus, flying lard just isn't a pretty sight

Oh! But you should see it go *SPLAT*!

Feed me a pop up or pop under and I instantly block.

If the page takes ages to load because it's waiting for the ad server. I block.

Feed me more content than crap, and I disable ad block on that site.

ps: I usually use "no script" because 99.99% of what I care about doesn't need JavaScript and 99.99% of what pisses me off does!