I'm perfectly happy with Microsoft Basic 2.0

The Polish word for "worker" is "robotnik" or "pracownik". "Robot" in Polish means the same thing as in English, an automaton, and this word was not used before 20th century.

All of "robot", "robotnik", "robota" come from the same root verb "robic" - to do something. "Robota" means work, as in labor. I don't know about Czech, but the word by itself in Polish has nothing to do with forced labor or serfdom. You would need to add some adjectives for that.

Stanislaw Lem in one of the short stories wrote about robots which achieved such high level of their artificial intelligence that they realized they don't want to work anymore. Hence they stopped and became "nieroboty" (literally do-nothing robots)

And what are those? Just being curious.

> What Do You Do With Your Raspberry Pi?

I have three Rpi3 of them, their tasks are:

• Magic mirror controller (kiosk-like device with a LCD salvaged from old laptop hidden behind half transparent mirror) to display coming calendar events, weather, timetable of public communication nearby etc.
• 433MHz to MQTT gateway - to listen for temperature and humidity sensors broadcasting in 433MHz and pushing decoded messages through MQTT to local broker
• radio client - one with two SDR and a DVB-T dongle attached; this one listens to ADSB messages from planes nearby, TV is streamed to the intranet through TV Headend and the last SDR is just for fun
• time server - the radio client has NTP server disciplined by GPS receiver with PPS
• Retropie console
• running Home Assistant to provide home automation: turn on/off the lights, change their brightness and temperature in the evening, record sensors data from MQTT

...what are the Bennett Hasleton's thoughts on that matter.

Here is a digital reconstruction of the city of ruins in 1945: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXD51CY8DkA Google Earth historical imagery also has aerial photos of Warsaw from '30s, 1945 and present.

It's worth to metion that Ultima 4 has a remake too: http://xu4.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

A Windows driver exists, you can find it if you google ppjoy (parallel port joystick).

Dear God, this is so true.

Why is coalition government called "risk"? It's quite common in continental Europe and in European Parliament too. What is the problem here?

Write a program that tries to help to solve one of your everyday problems. It mustn't be the best in general, but it should be as good and as well suited for your own needs as possible. It could be something for you personal finance tracking, something for entertainment, a better interface for data that you can download from the web (dictionary? thesaurus?). The most important thing is that the problem must be interesting enough for you to finish the task so you should be able to at least get the software to a certain level of usability. Then write documentation for it.

In Europe, specifically my country, part of EU - it is a right. It is government's obligation not only to provide education for each child under 16, but also to ensure that no child is denied such education.

I have lived on the other side of the wall. It wasn't so bad and, to stay on topic, health care was quite good and universal. Very important for societies growing from the ruins of WWII. The reasons for people sprinting through the killing ground in Berlin were much more complex than just communism. (Which hasn't been implemented anywhere in the pre-1989 socialist states of Europe anyway).

He could just as well pick the lowest number of the two and check distribution of 0-5 digits. I have a bigger problem with his analysis, from TFA:

Given the dependence between the possible outcomes of the poll, I'm more curious about results with this data included.

If there are artificial constrains to the data, like $10K cutoff or some maximum level, the Benford's law is not the right tool. For example there is no point in applying that method to prices of single products. There are many goods at level x.99â. However, you could apply the Benford's law to the turnover.