Switzerland is a not a monoculture: It is called Swiss Confederation, hence the CH code, for a reason. Switzerland is a federal state, as are the USA.
Additionally there are four official languages, which makes it even less of a monoculture.

Data structures in functional languages behave exactly in this way:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purely_functional#Examples_of_purely_functional_data_structures

I use an ad-blocker and the main reason is Ars!

I never used an ad-blocker, but their advertising was so intrusive that an ad-blocker was a necessity to be able to read their news on a netbook with a small screen.

You have two options:

The first: be the BOFH and laugh at the stupid users, who do not read/understand the error.

The second: be the smart programmer and anticipate user errors.

This means that for typical user errors you should provide a concise description of the problem and a text explaining how to correct the problem.

Example:

"The date you entered is wrong." should be "The date you entered cannot be parsed. Please provide the date in the format YYYY/MM/DD, e.g. 2009/12/12".

Of course, if an error pops up multiple time a day, it may be that the software is not very intuitive.

Hydrogen peroxide powered rocket packs fly for around 30 seconds, because they have a specific impulse of around 125, meaning that one pound of propellant can make 125 pound-seconds of thrust, meaning that it takes about two pounds of propellant for every second you are in the air. Mass ratios are low for anything strapped to a human, so the exponential nature of the rocket equation can be safely ignored.

A pretty hot (both literally and figuratively) bipropellant rocket could manage about twice the specific impulse, and you could carry somewhat heavier tanks, but two minutes of flight on a rocket pack is probably about the upper limit with conventional propellants.

However, an actual jet pack that used atmospheric oxygen could have an Isp ten times higher, allowing theoretical flights of fifteen minutes or so. Here, it really is a matter of technical development, since jet engines have thrust to weight ratios too low to make it practical. There is movement on this technical front, but it will still take a while.

John Carmack

After reading the review, I miss an important point.

How does this game compare to Shen Mue? It seems that Yakuza is its direct descendant.

They both have combat, asian city blocks to explore and minigames.
They also seem to share a plot-driven approach.

More in general, I feel that reviews should position a game, by comparing it to the more similar alternatives.

Who should win? The Reavers, of course.

Thanks for thinking of me, first. Have a great day.