I will as soon as I get accepted somewhere!

I have absolutely no faith in the capitalist system. It puts great value on making money and every other selfish pursuit, and relying on individual human decency to check individual human greed will never work.

That said, I think that it is the only viable system, when put broadly. I believe in the concept of free trade as a useful tool for enhancing an economy, but it needs heavy regulation. I also think that public services should be nationalized, and I use a broad definition of public service. That is to say, pharmaceuticals, energy, telecommunications, etc. When a society puts a price on such things, good rarely comes of it.

Chemical engineering, with a likely minor in computer science.

On the other hand, the very fact of those long, thought out posts means that navigating to the next one after reading or leaving the page can be quite difficult without collapsibility.

1. The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Really interesting situation, and the pacing and sequence of events is flawless.

2. The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey. Funny if inappropriate book about ecoterrorism, written from the point of view of the ecoterrorists.

3. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Leguin. This is just a lovely high fantasy book with a (mostly) great series accompanying.

4. Sabriel by Garth Nix. Honestly this was just really entertaining, with a well developed and nonstandard mechanic being central.

5. Foundation by Isaac Asimov, and the rest of the series. Predictions of the future, scifi, politics, group psychology, really good stuff.

I have a hilarious mental image right now of someone running screaming out of a theater ripping their shirt off.

It also does this on the feed after following a category.

Wow, that's a legitimately controversial opinion. I might agree, up to a point. However, a year might be pushing it, a lot of development has already happened by then. In general though, if a baby is going to have a terrible life, due to poverty, disorders, whatever, that seems reasonable. After adoption has been attempted.

I feel like a terrible person now.

This is really interesting; I hadn't thought about online discourse this way before.

Personally, the knowledge of a task well completed contributes to the emotional feeling of success. If I merely find myself emotionally satisfied, or only logically satisfied, I usually have to reevaluate how important that task was.

That would be pretty hilarious.

It really is a wonderful book, if a little dark.

This is intriguing, but I'm not sure I could get past the whole coating your lungs in tar and inhaling formaldehyde bit.

I think in this case Boehner plays the part of dictator of a dying regime.

I understand the unwillingness to be seen as a reddit clone, but I think that there's something worthwhile to being able to easily access only one tag. It's not the same as a subreddit. While you get a group of posts tagged with whatever you looked up, they weren't submitted to the same place, they merely had the same tag, or, in some cases, the community assigned it that tag.

More importantly, though, is that, every now and again, I want to look through only political submissions, for example. I don't want to have my entire feed be only #politics all the time, but I do want the ability to access single categories at a time. And again, I think that there is a clear difference that sets tagging apart from subreddits: there are no clear 'spaces' for tags, users tag as they please.

Unless you have every new package name on hand, which will take longer to get than a packaged installer, ninite is faster.

I couldn't tell you if you missed anything, as many programming languages cover the same things, but I would recommend starting with Java. That's what I did, and it's worked out really well. Also, it's useful to have a powerful, compiled, cross-platform language under your belt. Java is faster than interpreted Python (for most applications) and runs on most everything.

Actually I would say it's perfectly reasonable to defend like that; it's when we start arguing about souls that it gets difficult. Personally, though, I'm a subscriber to the philosophy of "if you find it morally objectionable, don't participate".

I find it sad that this sort of reasonable and well backed opinion is controversial in today's world.

do you mean as in submit a post?