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Perl expert (specifically enterprise software development)
Sybase (including design and optimization)
GUI design

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Web programming (EmbPerl, JSP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript)
C++

...P.S. I'm not really 42. But 42 is way cooler than a real answer :)

...P.P.S. Don't read too much into the icon. Just a minor nod to Cryptonomicon.

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Jul 23	comment	Why doesn't Russia maintain significant numbers of Aircraft carriers? @RISwampYankee - no need to act so surprised. The end result of Kosovo was a total and utter pissofedness of a vast majority of Russian populace at USA and deeply ingrained conviction into both their elites AND their populus that USA are out to fuck them over for no reason (since there WAS no reason for USA to get involved and Serbes are viewed as close Slav relatives). I see having Russia as a whole turning from possible neutral/frenemy into active opponent as a lot worse than anything that arose out of Vietnam or Iraq as far as long term geopolitics.
Jul 23	comment	Why doesn't Russia maintain significant numbers of Aircraft carriers? @Luke - as T.E.D. said, total coastline is irrelevant - the total seabourne trade is what is important. Not a lot of trade happening through Taymyr :) Not only does Russia lack great trading ports geographically, it also lacks navigable river system for cheap transport TO those ports (think Missisippi river system + New Orleans). You don't need carries for defense of coasts, you need it for defense of trade routes and trade partners
Jul 22	comment	Why doesn't Russia maintain significant numbers of Aircraft carriers? Archangel = Archangelsk. Many (if not most) of russian cities name after something add "sk" suffix.
Jul 22	comment	Why doesn't Russia maintain significant numbers of Aircraft carriers? South Ossetia is fully under Russian political control and there are Russian military bases there. No gas/energy deals (remember, you said it's all about resources) can be maid without Gazprom's agreement and to Gazprom's benefit. As far as Korovo, US acted in the interests of Muslim Albania. There are zero material benefits to the USA in having Kosovo be part of EITHER Albania or Serbia, resource wise or strategy wise. Just for the record, I'm one of those rare Americans who considered Kosovo the dumbest geopolitical mistake USA made in the last 50 years, since day 0 it started.
Jul 22	comment	First recorded use of a traditional tombstone? @LanceLafontaine - any limitations such that it must have not been an important personage (e.g. a monarch), or what constitutes a tombstone (do the Pyramids count)?
Jul 22	comment	What are the counterarguments to calling German nazism a right-wing movement? @herzmeister - "“You be the judge. They’re carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care." - Nancy Pelosi on Tea Party movement. Try a little research. Read Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism".
Jul 22	comment	Why doesn't Russia maintain significant numbers of Aircraft carriers? "permanently conducts aggressive wars for resources" - -1 for political BS without any proof. Last I checked US got zero free oil out of Iraq, never mind that only an idiot would assume they intended to get any resources out of Vietnam or Afghanistan. Never mind that the last war where a country expanded their territory by invasion was ... drumroll little adventure that Russia had with Georgia where they all by annexed South Ossetia. The last N times USA annexed any territory they gave it all to others (Kosovo to Albanians; Iraq to Iraquis in theory and Iranians in practice; etc...)
Jul 21	revised	Were there many instances when an “overaged” commander was at odds with a much younger second in command? added 142 characters in body; added 23 characters in body
Jul 21	answered	Were there many instances when an “overaged” commander was at odds with a much younger second in command?
Jul 21	comment	Were there many instances when an “overaged” commander was at odds with a much younger second in command? @TomAu - I meant more as far as historical basis. I haven't actually seen many historical sites out and out claiming that Pappenheim disobeyed direct orders when he prematurely attacked Gustav Adolph at Breitenfeld.
Jul 21	comment	What are the counterarguments to calling German nazism a right-wing movement? @LennartRegebro - edit away. I can always roll back if I disagree majorly
Jul 21	comment	What are the counterarguments to calling German nazism a right-wing movement? @LennartRegebro - heh. Succint and accurate critique. +1 :)
Jul 21	comment	What are the counterarguments to calling German nazism a right-wing movement? @LennartRegebro - if it will be substantial change, just post a separate answer and reference (or quote) parts of mine you wish :)
Jul 21	comment	What are the counterarguments to calling German nazism a right-wing movement? @LennartRegebro - please see the part of my answer regarding the origins and proper meaning of "right wing". Admittedly, US political definition of "liberal" is somewhat disconnected with European, a party that has "liberal" in its name in Europe would be considered a "Conservative" type party in USA, if normalized for broad political views. In other words, I was referring to liberal politics as defined in USA, NOT as defined by a spectrum of all worldwide parties with "liberal" in name. We seem to be in agreement substantially, but differ on terminology. Which was a whole point of answer :)
Jul 21	comment	Why did the United States enter World War I? @HermannIngjaldsson - a great deal of people not in any way related to GWB (including possibly Saddam himself) firmly believed that Iraq had WMDs.
Jul 21	comment	Have fair-skinned peoples ever been the lower/oppressed class? @DanNeely - that's because some people only see what their ideology conforms to.
Jul 21	comment	What is the secret behind the economic success of ROC(Taiwan)? @MichaelF - that last comment was the most relevant. Pad it with sources and it could be its own indepenent answer.
Jul 21	comment	What is the secret behind the economic success of ROC(Taiwan)? Why exactly are you making a n assumption that being a member of the UN is in any way, shape or form correlated to, never mind causes, economic success?
Jul 21	comment	Which historical figures are remembered for actions contradictory to their intentions? Of course it was simply the fact that LBJ cared and the following presidents didn't. Let's ignore the fact that poverty has multiple and complicated causes, or that many economists argue that "War on Poverty"'s methods are long-term negative (promotion of permanent welfare families and most importantly, single motherhood in poor strata which is super strongly correllated to negative long term outcomes); or that USA's definition of "poverty" basically includes people whose absolute level of life is far above that enjoyed by most Soviet citizens materially.
Jul 21	comment	Were there many instances when an “overaged” commander was at odds with a much younger second in command? @Tom - Would Pappenheim and Tilly count?