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I just finished re-reading the Ringworld and Fleet of Worlds series.
Next on the reading list are Oath of Fealty and Footfall, my two favorite Niven/Pournelle books.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I may well have to join you!
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MSN wrote: “I was working with simple mathematics and applying it to the motion of a vehicle and explaining my research,” said Mr. Jarlstrom, 56. “By doing so, they declared I was illegal.”
Since when is it illegal to do simple math? How many kids have been caught by the police yet?
If being an idiot was a painfull thing, some people wouldn't be able to stop screaming.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Yup! I think those bureaucrats are being idiots without any idiocy license! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Can we revoke their breathing license? 
Seriously, people like that should be made visible and ridiculed.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Quote: Can we revoke their breathing license?
Good idea! They are just a waste of oxygen anyway!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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This reminds me of Ayn Rand's short book Anthem.
In the book, citizens are not even allowed to think in the first person -- there is only the we.
Electric lights have been outlawed because they are deemed dangerous by the council.
Only the Council can determine what is right.
Of course, if Rand had added that "doing math without a license was illegal", people wouldn't have thought the book was realistic, because that's ridiculous.
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raddevus wrote: Only the Council can determine what is right.
Welcome to the European Union.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Just revoke their oxygen use license. They can still breathe as much nitrogen as they want. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Follow the money; they want him to become licensed so that he can support their cushy lifestyle.
David A. Gray
Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time
Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
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Welcome to "Licensing" and why I NEVER EVER want to support "Programmer Licenses".
It is a barrier to entry, and a tool by which otherwise competent people are kept out, to protect the incompetent people who snuck in!
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We are talking about a state whose answer to job loss from increased lumber regulation was to make it illegal to pump your own gas...
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Not exactly true. If you are referring to regulations from the spotted owl, those happened long after one was forbidden from pumping one's own gas in the state.
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So that may have been for literally no reason. My bad. 
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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A man has to have a hobby. Getting the timing right for street lights does seem a little focused to me!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Was the local University bookshop owner indicted for selling weapons of Maths instruction?
The world wonders...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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From the article: unlicensed practice of engineering
Did Oregon move to Canada while I wasn't looking?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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On the other hand, you have different fingers. - Steven Wright
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And, still OriginalGriff is working out in QA.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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As a member in good standing of the oppressed proletariat, OG is showing his solidarity with the workers by using his day off to help them solve their problems.
As a card-carrying running-dog of the reactionary capitalist oppressors, I am at work today. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I am indeed oppressed, but I was born in the UK, not Proland. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Monty Python - Constitutional Peasants Scene
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: OriginalGriff
Have you seen how many points the guy has? He's always here. He has no job.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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