And NOT everybody can be a dish washer. The unmotivated cannot produce. The lazy do not produce. (I saw a new hire pot washer get fired for throwing away pots and pans rather than wash them. I had just been promoted out of that job and was there when someone at work saw pots and pans in the dumpster.)

x = y = 1 In a sane language, "x = y = 1" would yield a syntax error. y = 1 x = y or x = y y = 1 would be the way to write the top line, depending on what you wanted.

I keep pennies. I carry coins and use them in my cash transactions. I accumulate very few coins because I make the effort to carry a few coins with me. I vote YES on abolishing the dollar bill.

If you always keep a palm full of coins with you, and use them with coin transactions, over time you will not accumulate a huge number of coins. Over time you will always have a small collection of coins. But you have to have the ambition to actually carry some coins.

>Any amount of pennies sufficient to actually be worth something takes up a ridiculous amount of space and weighs ridiculously much. Heavy? Yes indeed. But a coffee can will hold $20 to $25 in pennies. (Coffee cans are not all the same size.)

I chose Typing my Senior year in high school, 1971, as a half-year elective because it paired with a much more important half-year elective, Driver's Education. As a software engineer, I have to agree that it was probably the most important elective I ever chose.

Compare Soyuz, in its various models, against Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. Everyone who flew came back. Apollo 1 burned on the pad, and Apollo 13 aborted its mission, but everyone who flew came home alive.