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We've been bingeing on Archer recently - that would work really well as a radio show. In fact I suspect that's how they make it, someone just does the art later.

It actually works as comedy! Try reading it out loud at dinner parties.

Respect your point but... Alcohol is a physical item, pornography is just data. We're going all out to make data freer because of all the benefits that brings. Are kids going to see information you didn't want them to? Hell yeah.

It goes way beyond porn though, if we allow gov to block anything it doesn't like then we're on a road to a bleak future (hint: we are already).

IMHO it's far, far better for families to actually deal with this new reality by being honest and educating their children. Honestly, I try not to really worry too much.

Yeah, I was going to say, OO is brutally overused and seems to be fading quite quickly in the new world of highly scalable systems, e.g. Spark, CouchDB and so on. Objects still have a place in widget sets, datetimes, etc.

Overall though they were often used by default where there were better ways and just as often abused to allow a ton of shared state (globals in disguise), which almost always makes code harder to follow.

> So the options are the world is rational and understandable, or there is no truth, everything is a lie and we're living in a Lovecraftian horror where we are physically incapable of understanding reality

This sounds like a restatement of the warm/cold reality thing. Most religious people are not actually deficient in capacity to reason but basically can't accept the cold universe where we pop screaming out of our mothers, live pointlessly and die in pain knowing that whatever we accomplished is transitory and amounts to nothing.

As opposed to, we're playing some kind of game where we get points for kind acts, piety, being nice to old folk, making money, etc, then we get rewarded for all of this in the afterlife by our loving creator.

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4chan is that way

I was under the impression that the A-10 is fine for Afghanistan but useless anywhere there is good air defence - just too slow. That said it could be useful for blunting an armoured vanguard.

Don't we actually need doctors, lawyers, researchers, critics, engineers? I realise he wasn't saying that everyone should become an entrepreneur like he is, but it's worth saying that grades are important.

Won't bother sending this to my 15yo nephew.

> valid fair use right

They seem to be making it tricky to rip DVDs/Blu Rays these days (dirty tricks to screw with Handbrake/VLC) so the only way to get a movie onto my media server is to dl from somewhere after I bought the disc. Ironic, no?

Don't forget BlueMix!

I take your point and agree with it but another factor you can't ignore is that there are 1.7 billion Muslims, compared to 15 million (wikipedia'd that) Mormons. Plus, I can't source it right but I have read editorials where broadsheet editors say they've been asked by the government not to print something in the interests of "national security" (IOW they don't want to cause problems with the Saudis or whoever.

Holy crap, me too! Actually for me it's Surface Detail but only because I was reading it around the time that song came out.

I've learned a bit about a Watson from internal IBM information and this is something they understand and are working on. There are serious ethical concerns about what to tell someone, even if the diagnosis is quite compelling, IOW, "you have 6 months to live" needs to come from a human. Obviously, the approach is to have it work as a tool for a doctor, not as a WebMD type self-diagnosis service. There are all kinds of follow-up questions, which you'd need to be a doctor to even answer, because they'd be couched in medical lingo e.g. systolic/diastolic blood pressure.

To do that fractal ying-yang in 36 lines is obscene.