I know how to solve the national debt

The federal government could boost its popularity and solve the national debt problem in one simple way: sell nut-stabbing licenses.

You pay some amount of money, say $100k. You get a little green wallet card, good for one year, like a hunting license. You're not allowed to kill anyone or shoot them or anything, but during that year, if you are arrested for stabbing someone in the nuts, you just have to present your card and the police officer will say "my mistake sir, I didn't realize you were licensed, you're free to go."

Tell me that's not worth $100k to you.

Edit: Side benefit: put it on a lanyard and wear your license around your neck. Nothing says "don't irritate me" like a card that says "I am legally allowed to stab you in the groin".

Mood: Woken up early on Saturday because some jackass can't read instructions

OpenGL for the very impatient

Hard drive manufacturers rate their drives on "MTBF". The best drives have the highest MTBF, which is mean time before failure. 3D graphics programming tutorials should be rated on MTBT, or mean time before triangle, which is a term I just made up meaning "how much stuff do I have to do before I render my first triangle on the screen".

I will now attempt to write the OpenGL tutorial with the lowest MTBT:
( OpenGL for the very impatient )