National Health Care will allow the government to control every aspect of everybodyâ(TM)s life on the premise that any âoeunsafeâ activity will cost the single payer health care system too much.
Say goodbye to bungee jumping, horseback riding, SCUBA diving, sport parachute jumping, football, baseball and so forth.
Anything that can cause injury will be banned or severely limited.
Donâ(TM)t believe me, just wait. ObamaCare is already short of money.
You will recall that an old Louie lost his head after the debt of France's monarch topped 80% of France's GDP. U.S. gross domestic output is about $13 trillion - and falling. This puts the national debt at 77% of GDP...and rising fast.
All you kind folks that don't believe in God think that this universe, with all its intricately balanced laws of physics, chemistry and so forth, all happened because all the stuff in the universe went thru all the possible combinations until "voila", the proper combination of stuff was found that resulted in all this.
That takes more faith than actually believing in God.
And don't give me this stuff about this universe spinning off from another universe, i.e; a reductio ad absurdum. (Google the Latin if your not sure what that is).
And where did all this matter in the universe come from? I thought that matter could not be either created or destroyed, so did the universe start with all this matter (if so, how?) or did all this matter just appear by magic and then explode causing the "big bang"?
And evolution? I thought entropy says that systems left to their own devices evolve downward, not upward.
Just a few "random" thoughts by "chance" on this subject.
Learn a foreign language. I took one year of Latin in 7th grade (private school) and learned more English grammar in that year than in 13 years of taking English classes. What I didn't learn in that Latin class, I learned in the one year of German I took in college. German is all grammar; even the adjectives have endings based on gender of noun (masculine, feminine or neuter), case of the noun (nominative, genitive, dative or accusative) and number (singular or plural). Grammar is grammar especially since English is so free form compared to other languages.
Also read good novels and history books by noted authors. The writing in some chapters of "The Count of Monte Cristo" is superb. I am a history nut so I am reading books all the time. You have to read (IMHO) in order to be exposed to good writing.
I also give speeches to myself while running and it helps me to organize thoughts.
When you do production maintenance (usually starting at 1 am and continuing until the bug is fixed and production is running again) your work schedule is beyond your control.
The problem is that maintenance programmers are usually the best programmers on that manager's staff because they have to figure out what the idiot new developers tried to do and sort out all the coding crap and put a good fix in; all this while the stupid new developers who didn't test his crap before putting it into production are asleep.
And you have to pick up the pieces. And all this is in addition to your regular 40 hour week at the office.
I have a 1991 Honda Civic hatchback. It is manual transmission and does not have air bags or an installed stereo/radio; I use a Walkman hooked to the speakers that came with my now-an-only-for-parts doorstop 486. Now that I don't date anymore, I never use the air conditioner. I coast a lot when driving and I get over 40 mpg; I keep an Excel spreadsheet on my mileage.
I take it to the Honda dealer every couple of months and tell them I need an oil change and whatever else they find. Whatever they find I have them fix immediately. The car cost me $10,000 and I paid cash for it at the end of that model year. Except for dead batteries, which have always occurred at home on a day off from work, the car has never given me any trouble. It only has about 77,000 miles (I take public transportation a lot) on it and the Honda dealer is pleading with me to trade it in so they can get a well maintained used car. I am going to keep it until the wheels fall off.
I should have treated my last girlfriend as well as I baby that car.
I did tech support at a company that shall remain nameless. The article is true 100%.
The last assignment I was on the software had major problems; it wouldn't do what it was advertised to do. We had to convince the customer that the problem was with their PC or Mac and we could not tell them it was a bug in the software.
The caller everybody hated was when you told them to go to "Start, Settings, Control Panel..." and he would come back with "Where's the Start button?" The tech would put the guy on hold and yell out to the other techs "I've got him back!" I think he was a 90-year old from Tampa. I always told him to go find a 16-year old, explain the problem to the kid and the kid would be able to fix it in three minutes. He never did. He kept calling back, and kept being passed around from tech to tech. We gave up a long time ago explaining to him that it was in the lower right corner of his screen, and, yes, he did have Windows.
Another time I think there was an outage of that ISP in a certain area (New Mexico, I think). The queues were overflowing with callers on hold. Some tech went into an empty cube, logged on and deleted all the calls! The queues would, of course, fill up a few minutes later, and the tech would do delete them again. This went on for a good part of the night. The next day the phones had been modified to make us log on with a password.
Once I got my A+ cert, I started fixing problems the customers didn't know they had and my call times were still great.
Doing that was great experience, but I am glad that I am no longer doing that.
Probably the only reason for replacing batteries with a fuel cell is that fuel cells will probably be cheaper to make. Because it is 'advanced' technology, they can charge more for a fuel cell than for a battery.
We ended up testing in production (TIPP. Since I was the only one who could do maintenance, I was the one who got the call at oh-dark-thirty (usually 2 or 3 times a night). Of course I was salaried. After almost three years of that I got fired for making a comment about the system was a "piece of s***", plus doing real serious coding when the developers were in bed sleeping (I guess) was getting to be a drag.
I now do tech support, I get paid by the hour and I work two miles from home. I ahve alos discovered that more people need PCs repaired than need COBOL/DB2/CICS programs written. I have no desire to go back to mainframes, even tho the yearly (and not, perhaps, hourly) pay is better.
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National Health Care will allow the government to control every aspect of everybodyâ(TM)s life on the premise that any âoeunsafeâ activity will cost the single payer health care system too much. Say goodbye to bungee jumping, horseback riding, SCUBA diving, sport parachute jumping, football, baseball and so forth. Anything that can cause injury will be banned or severely limited. Donâ(TM)t believe me, just wait. ObamaCare is already short of money.
You will recall that an old Louie lost his head after the debt of France's monarch topped 80% of France's GDP. U.S. gross domestic output is about $13 trillion - and falling. This puts the national debt at 77% of GDP...and rising fast.
All you kind folks that don't believe in God think that this universe, with all its intricately balanced laws of physics, chemistry and so forth, all happened because all the stuff in the universe went thru all the possible combinations until "voila", the proper combination of stuff was found that resulted in all this.
That takes more faith than actually believing in God.
And don't give me this stuff about this universe spinning off from another universe, i.e; a
reductio ad absurdum. (Google the Latin if your not sure what that is).
And where did all this matter in the universe come from? I thought that matter could not be either created or destroyed, so did the universe start with all this matter (if so, how?) or did all this matter just appear by magic and then explode causing the "big bang"?
And evolution? I thought entropy says that systems left to their own devices evolve downward, not upward.
Just a few "random" thoughts by "chance" on this subject.
Learn a foreign language. I took one year of Latin in 7th grade (private school) and learned more English grammar in that year than in 13 years of taking English classes. What I didn't learn in that Latin class, I learned in the one year of German I took in college. German is all grammar; even the adjectives have endings based on gender of noun (masculine, feminine or neuter), case of the noun (nominative, genitive, dative or accusative) and number (singular or plural). Grammar is grammar especially since English is so free form compared to other languages.
Also read good novels and history books by noted authors. The writing in some chapters of "The Count of Monte Cristo" is superb. I am a history nut so I am reading books all the time. You have to read (IMHO) in order to be exposed to good writing.
I also give speeches to myself while running and it helps me to organize thoughts.
Does history change so often you need to buy books every week? (last time I checked, WW2 was still 39-45 if you wanted to know).
History does change. It depends who is writing about it.
If you are using a laptop for history, how do you highlight text that is important? Are they going to supply the kids with printers also?
When you do production maintenance (usually starting at 1 am and continuing until the bug is fixed and production is running again) your work schedule is beyond your control.
The problem is that maintenance programmers are usually the best programmers on that manager's staff because they have to figure out what the idiot new developers tried to do and sort out all the coding crap and put a good fix in; all this while the stupid new developers who didn't test his crap before putting it into production are asleep.
And you have to pick up the pieces. And all this is in addition to your regular 40 hour week at the office.
I have a 1991 Honda Civic hatchback. It is manual transmission and does not have air bags or an installed stereo/radio; I use a Walkman hooked to the speakers that came with my now-an-only-for-parts doorstop 486. Now that I don't date anymore, I never use the air conditioner. I coast a lot when driving and I get over 40 mpg; I keep an Excel spreadsheet on my mileage.
I take it to the Honda dealer every couple of months and tell them I need an oil change and whatever else they find. Whatever they find I have them fix immediately. The car cost me $10,000 and I paid cash for it at the end of that model year. Except for dead batteries, which have always occurred at home on a day off from work, the car has never given me any trouble. It only has about 77,000 miles (I take public transportation a lot) on it and the Honda dealer is pleading with me to trade it in so they can get a well maintained used car. I am going to keep it until the wheels fall off.
I should have treated my last girlfriend as well as I baby that car.
I did tech support at a company that shall remain nameless. The article is true 100%.
The last assignment I was on the software had major problems; it wouldn't do what it was advertised to do. We had to convince the customer that the problem was with their PC or Mac and we could not tell them it was a bug in the software.
The caller everybody hated was when you told them to go to "Start, Settings, Control Panel..." and he would come back with "Where's the Start button?" The tech would put the guy on hold and yell out to the other techs "I've got him back!" I think he was a 90-year old from Tampa. I always told him to go find a 16-year old, explain the problem to the kid and the kid would be able to fix it in three minutes. He never did. He kept calling back, and kept being passed around from tech to tech. We gave up a long time ago explaining to him that it was in the lower right corner of his screen, and, yes, he did have Windows.
Another time I think there was an outage of that ISP in a certain area (New Mexico, I think). The queues were overflowing with callers on hold. Some tech went into an empty cube, logged on and deleted all the calls! The queues would, of course, fill up a few minutes later, and the tech would do delete them again. This went on for a good part of the night. The next day the phones had been modified to make us log on with a password.
Once I got my A+ cert, I started fixing problems the customers didn't know they had and my call times were still great.
Doing that was great experience, but I am glad that I am no longer doing that.
There hasn't been new technology in the airline industry since the turbine replaced the piston engine.
Probably the only reason for replacing batteries with a fuel cell is that fuel cells will probably be cheaper to make. Because it is 'advanced' technology, they can charge more for a fuel cell than for a battery.
We ended up testing in production (TIPP. Since I was the only one who could do maintenance, I was the one who got the call at oh-dark-thirty (usually 2 or 3 times a night). Of course I was salaried. After almost three years of that I got fired for making a comment about the system was a "piece of s***", plus doing real serious coding when the developers were in bed sleeping (I guess) was getting to be a drag.
I now do tech support, I get paid by the hour and I work two miles from home. I ahve alos discovered that more people need PCs repaired than need COBOL/DB2/CICS programs written. I have no desire to go back to mainframes, even tho the yearly (and not, perhaps, hourly) pay is better.