I'm in fantasy land?
If you think the polls aren't manipulated for political advantage you are in fantasy land. You're appeal to 'real scientific data' is childish, since the data can be easy manipulated.
His lawyer, John Jones, died recently under suspicious circumstances, suicide by train, and a man was climbing the walls of his embassy at 2 am in the morning... I have a little sympathy for him.
"Inquest rules that death of Julian Assange's lawyer, John Jones QC, was not 'suicide'"
Learn about the trade-offs, you'll be more productive in C# or Java and have a more pleasant debugging experience over C, but C gives you better understanding of hardware and opens doors for embedded devices, OSes, IOS.
I think people should also think about how useless setbacks are, in the suburbs setbacks are mandated so you end up with a front yard, but people only use their backyards, such a tremendous waste.
"we are so dominant in space I pity the adversary who would come against us" Lieutenant General Franklyn Blaisdell, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Air Force for Air and Space Operations