It's not like I need to work with american companies but it have been advantageous so far. Standing in line for 2 hours in the cattle market that is immigration at Dulles have been barely tolerable but this is crossing the line.

I have enjoyed my trips to the US as the locals are a friendly bunch but their government is just bonkers these days. So I won't return. So long and thanks for all the burgers.

There are a lot of other interesting places in the world to do business, places that don't require the digital equivalent to an anal probe. So I'll take my business there. Have a nice day.

In some jurisdictions, you cannot call yourself an Engineer without a license. Civil Engineers, for example, have to take the EIT exam, gain some experience, and then apply for the Professional Engineer designation and license.

It would be great to enact similar rules for software engineers.

The IEEE recognizes me as a professional member but it's not quite the same thing.

My diploma from the university says "Master in Science of Engineering, Software". So I guess I'm an engineer.

But very little of what I've seen in my professional career can be labeled engineering with a straight face. The business is just not mature enough to do its business to engineering standards. I hope it'll grow up with time.

Marx was a drunken idiot whose economic "theories" didn't have so much as a means to correctly communicate value.

His value theory is totally bonkers but much of his diagnosis of the ils of the capitalistic system is fairly good. Where people go wrong, is in looking for the solution in his works. There is a lot arm waving but hardly any coherent solutions.

For some insane reason, I've been binge reading books related to the Manhattan project. The takeaway is that much of the time they were flying blind or wearing blinders due to the extreme time pressure.

Sometimes they were plain reckless. The criticality experiments is a good case; adjusting the distance between two semi-critical cores with a screwdriver jammed in between. Great fun until the screwdriver slipped and the core went critical. Didn't go boom but killed a guy. For good measure they repeated the experiment and killed another guy.

Santa's got to pay the danegeld like every one else. We're back, in case You didn't get the memo.

What EU really wants to achieve is to break America ...

Nice conspiracy theory but we can't even get along internally over here. Herding all the cats into a unified, secret attack on the US would require a coordinated act by several deities.

I'm afraid any break up is self inflicted. The US is already even more fractured than EU.

Not only that, but the EUSSR doesn't seem to understand that an American corporation has nothing to do with European communists. They should go and re-read their history books and remember how close all of Europe was to speaking either German or Russian.

I could have moderated your drivel to hell but that wouldn't help much.

The EU commision can't tell US companies to do anything but they can set conditions for allowing them to operate within the EU. It's called sovereignty and the US does it too all the time. Having a beef with virtual or actual monopolies is not exactly a communist thing either. A monopoly is a direct attack on the free market and therefore upsets true free market believers.

The US have a long, although not resent, history of cracking down on monopolies. The Standard Oil case is the poster child for this kind of policy.

It's a hard thing to say but people die on a regular basis when flying untested, high performance aircrafts. There is a reason why test pilots can't get life insurance.

He got the nickname Marco after he lost his horse. Before, it was just straight Polo ... and apparently it's his shirt I'm wearing.

I'm shocked, shocked that gambling is going on here!

Gotta watch Casablanca again on of these days.

I sat down with my 12 yo gamer son and watched the movie 'Hamburger Hill'. That took a lot of the glamour out of FPS games.

Next time, I'll try with 'Platoon'.

And Mussolini made the trains run on time?

Actually, he didn't. That myth have been repeatedly busted my historians.

If you want to catch up to ~1990 tech, then you need to remove the "A" in "CA."

Thanks for the insult. It hardly stung. I expect you to start the project shortly. I'll gladly donate to it on kickstarter.