Agreed. I don't think ge did it for personal glory though. Snowden strikes me as a very naive little boy. He was probably galked into it by the journalists who he first contacted, and they are certainly in it for the scoop

Gonzales: There is one question, Inspector Callahan: Why do they call you "Dirty Harry"?
De Georgio: Ah that's one thing about our Harry, doesn't play any favorites! Limeys, Micks, Hebes, Fat Dagos, Niggers, Spics, Honkies, Chinks, you name it. Harry hates everybody equally.
Gonzales: How does he feel about Mexicans?
De Georgio: Ask him.
Harry Callahan: Especially Spics.
— Dirty Harry

I hear your argument, but coding is what the military calls a force multiplier. Coding gives you the ability to teach machines to do the work for you. On their own. This is something none of the other skills do. That gives someone who can think like that a major, major leg up in life.

"Another Aspie Wanker"

Christ. I don't know where to begin. that "Aspie Wanker" achieved more before he was 25 than you ever will in your life.

How hard can it be? Very. This is basically what CSS does and it took 20 years to reach a state where a native GUI is still better

Hard problem

Lovely bitch though.

The Guardian had an article about the roles of the civil service vs the government today:

http://www.theguardian.com/pol...

Makes for quite interesting reading.

While I am no fan of the man, have no illusion about George W. He is more of a scholar than people give him credit for. The man has a reputation for being very well read.

Welcome to the main problem with democracy. The people who vote do not understand the minute details fo what they are voting for. See Brexit and the election of Hitler for good examples.

Which is why a representative democracy is always better. Direct democracy is a baaaaaaaaad idea.

The problem is that the talents needed to acquire power is different from the talents needed to exercise power.

I knew someone who worked on a large website where most stuff was C++. But it was a very high traffic news site so it was necessary

So you would prefer the Internet to remain a professional tool in the hands of trained elitists?

The Air Force dug some tunnels during the cold war to launch missiles. What is so "mysterious" about it?

My thoughts exactly. A router with 2 ports is a bit meh.

My questions is, what happen to any overhead cables/lamps/whatever? There are still lots of those around.

Cool idea though