What's most likely is that he's just sloppy and got caught fudging the data. It was a Fake, But Accurate moment, a firecracker in the gas tank moment, or, a Zimmerman tape edit moment
Reported fudge, lie, push the truth to fit their preconceived notions. What his was? Who knows. But he tried to make a stupid point and got caught.
You are making it too complicated. Broder is a Reporter. Despite the myth that they are for finding the truth and holding it up to the light, they are actually about selling newspapers and enhancing their own reputation...wait, strike that. Reverse it.
To make matters worse, he is with the NYTs, which has a habit of playing fast and loose with the facts in preference for ideology. Elon Musk is Rich and his cars are for the Rich...at least for the very well to do. Who knows what twisted thinking happens in Broder's brain, but he set out to make the car look bad for his own personal gain.
That's my bet anyway. Will Broder have the guts to respond? Will NYTs management?
Not to nitpick, but the Republican COngress "balanced" the budget, dragging Clinton kicking and screaming into financial reality.
Spending remained someone what lever (Gad Damned Baseline Budgeting WILL be the downfall of the U.S.) until eth Dem took over in the last two years of Bush's term. Then, it was "Katey bar the door" on spending. They went apeshit. Bush didn't veto it either...to his determent.
And spending increases easily, embarrassingly outpaced any proposed tax increases and even swamped projected revenues had we not had the Bush tax cuts.
Seems to me that the government oversight of anyl product should be a confidential process.
Do peer reviewers of scientific papers come out and call something great or bad during the review process?
Do auditors come out and give off the cuff remarks about what they are seeing during the audit?
So if there are rules that say she she should keep her trap shut during the review process then she should be removed since it shows a proclivity to substitute her opinion for that of the review panel.
If not, then there should be. The review process is a process and if it is to be legitimate, then you have to follow the process. Otherwise, why have it all?
Now, mind you, this is from my memory...from 25 years ago. So the syntax is certainly incorrect and don't even ask about the type definitions but this will give you the jist of the idea:
So here we have the same data record, sliced up two different ways. Note that entire sections that were decimal are now character. This is perfectly legit and used mostly to move data around, which is actually a large part of what COBOL does. Also note this performs two functions: 1. It defines variables and 2. It clearly documents the variables and their relation to the record of data.
Now imagine you are a guy new to a system and you are told to modify a an existing application to extract the percentages and display them with the Vendor ID and then move the totals, and just the totals to another record and write it out.
The data is clearly defined, you know where the percentages are, you know where the totals are, you don't have to write code to move 9 fields, you just grab the redefined variable "Totals" and deal with that.
Many other cool things can be done with it that I can't remember.
Perhaps, but it seems that the feature of being able to call any data any type and anywhere is a defacto violation of strict typing languages. So it's strength is illegal according to mathematically based languages.
If you are trying to suggest that I am a hypocrite, then you are doing so without any supporting information other than what you make up in your tiny little brain.
People confusing breaking the law with abuse of power.
You don't call not submitting a budget on time or at all, thereby breaking the law tyranny. You can call Executive Orders that are in clear violation of the Constitution the beginnings of tyranny. Tyranny is not something that suddenly appears unless it's backed by an army. More often, it is the slow perversion of the legitimate government.
You miss the whole point if COBOL, which is to provide a language that clearly explains what's going on while it's doing it. That means that a freshly graduated I.S guy can go in and understand what's going on and make changes.
Sure, you can wire God Awful code with it and, I have seen it, but it doesn't take much effort to do it right.
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Just a bunch of Journalist Homers circling the wagons to protect Broder.
Logs don't lie no matter who's using them. You have a problem with logs?
Spot on.
I'm surprised he didn't try to say they were measuring kilometers per hours.
What's most likely is that he's just sloppy and got caught fudging the data. It was a Fake, But Accurate moment, a firecracker in the gas tank moment, or, a Zimmerman tape edit moment
Reported fudge, lie, push the truth to fit their preconceived notions. What his was? Who knows. But he tried to make a stupid point and got caught.
More... I cannot account for the discrepancy, nor for a later stretch in Connecticut where I recall driving about 45 m.p.h.
Logs don't lie...BITCH!
Admit it, you were caught being a New York Times reporter.
Pack it in, because logs don't lie.
You are making it too complicated. Broder is a Reporter. Despite the myth that they are for finding the truth and holding it up to the light, they are actually about selling newspapers and enhancing their own reputation...wait, strike that. Reverse it.
To make matters worse, he is with the NYTs, which has a habit of playing fast and loose with the facts in preference for ideology. Elon Musk is Rich and his cars are for the Rich...at least for the very well to do. Who knows what twisted thinking happens in Broder's brain, but he set out to make the car look bad for his own personal gain.
That's my bet anyway. Will Broder have the guts to respond? Will NYTs management?
It's a new ED drug.
Not to nitpick, but the Republican COngress "balanced" the budget, dragging Clinton kicking and screaming into financial reality.
Spending remained someone what lever (Gad Damned Baseline Budgeting WILL be the downfall of the U.S.) until eth Dem took over in the last two years of Bush's term. Then, it was "Katey bar the door" on spending. They went apeshit. Bush didn't veto it either...to his determent.
And spending increases easily, embarrassingly outpaced any proposed tax increases and even swamped projected revenues had we not had the Bush tax cuts.
Seems to me that the government oversight of anyl product should be a confidential process.
Do peer reviewers of scientific papers come out and call something great or bad during the review process?
Do auditors come out and give off the cuff remarks about what they are seeing during the audit?
So if there are rules that say she she should keep her trap shut during the review process then she should be removed since it shows a proclivity to substitute her opinion for that of the review panel.
If not, then there should be. The review process is a process and if it is to be legitimate, then you have to follow the process. Otherwise, why have it all?
Now, mind you, this is from my memory...from 25 years ago. So the syntax is certainly incorrect and don't even ask about the type definitions but this will give you the jist of the idea:
01 VendorPerformanceRecord (433)
10 VEN_VendorID char(10) ,
10 IMA_ItemID nvarchar(100) ,
10 IMA_ItemName nvarchar(100) ,
10 avg_actual_lead_time_raw int ,
10 avg_actual_lead_time_workdays int ,
10 avg_actual_days_early_or_late_raw int ,
10 avg_actual_days_early_or_late_workdays int ,
10 total_nbr_of_receipts int ,
10 total_qty_of_receipts float ,
10 total_value_of_receipts float ,
10 total_count_late_receipts int ,
10 total_qty_late_receipts float ,
10 total_count_early_receipts int ,
10 total_qty_early_receipts float ,
10 total_count_on_time_receipts int ,
10 total_qty_on_time_receipts float ,
10 pct_late_count decimal(28, 10) ,
10 pct_late_qty decimal(28, 10) ,
10 pct_early_count decimal(28, 10) ,
10 pct_early_qty decimal(28, 10) ,
10 pct_on_time_count decimal(28, 10) ,
10 pct_on_time_qty decimal(28, 10)
05 VendorPerformanceRecordA (433) redefines VendorPerformanceRecord
10 KeyInfo char(210)
10 AvgInfo char(20)
10 Totals char(45)
10 Pecentages char(168)
So here we have the same data record, sliced up two different ways. Note that entire sections that were decimal are now character. This is perfectly legit and used mostly to move data around, which is actually a large part of what COBOL does. Also note this performs two functions: 1. It defines variables and 2. It clearly documents the variables and their relation to the record of data.
Now imagine you are a guy new to a system and you are told to modify a an existing application to extract the percentages and display them with the Vendor ID and then move the totals, and just the totals to another record and write it out.
The data is clearly defined, you know where the percentages are, you know where the totals are, you don't have to write code to move 9 fields, you just grab the redefined variable "Totals" and deal with that.
Many other cool things can be done with it that I can't remember.
It's not a strawman...or, they both are strawmen.
The argument to go back to Reagan tax levels is just snarky advocacy for raising taxes and bring in more revenue.
History has proven that you cannot bring in enough revenue to satisfy the Feds thirst for cash and will never satiate their spending habit.
Perhaps, but it seems that the feature of being able to call any data any type and anywhere is a defacto violation of strict typing languages. So it's strength is illegal according to mathematically based languages.
And here we have the essential essence of the Left: What we don't agree with must be illegitimate.
If you are trying to suggest that I am a hypocrite, then you are doing so without any supporting information other than what you make up in your tiny little brain.
You don't understand what "well regulated" means.
My car is well regulated. Not by State officials, but by my mechanic.
People confusing breaking the law with abuse of power.
You don't call not submitting a budget on time or at all, thereby breaking the law tyranny. You can call Executive Orders that are in clear violation of the Constitution the beginnings of tyranny. Tyranny is not something that suddenly appears unless it's backed by an army. More often, it is the slow perversion of the legitimate government.
Hell, even the Star Wars writers know that.
It should be noted that it was his Democrat buddies that put the kibosh on closing Gitmo.
How about setting spending levels back to what they were in the Reagan era too? Ooooh, not so interested in that, are you?
Spot on, AC, spot on.
And BTW, nothing, and I mean NOTHING beats COBOL when it comes to slicing and dicing a record of data.
You miss the whole point if COBOL, which is to provide a language that clearly explains what's going on while it's doing it. That means that a freshly graduated I.S guy can go in and understand what's going on and make changes.
Sure, you can wire God Awful code with it and, I have seen it, but it doesn't take much effort to do it right.
The paper was torpedoed by Big Mice.
They stand to lose billions I bet if they stop testing on mice.
They seem to do this whenever they feel "threatened", which is whenever someone says something mean apparently.
So, we just keep saying mean things to them and they'll keep blowing up their nuclear stock underground. They have to run out eventually.