COBOL is probably dying, but certainly more slowly than COBOL programmers. The shortage of COBOL programmers will hurt.
There are F/OS COBOL versions (that are not welcome in my house), but the ecosystem that hosts most of it is laden with old IBM mainframe systems that are not F/OS. I'd think that can only hurt the availability of replacement COBOL people.
Lovecraft might be a better example. August Derleth got hold of his notes, and would take a random paragraph Lovecraft had discarded and write a story including it, then call it a collaboration. Derleth took something of a cosmic nihilism and made it into good vs. evil, confusing people about what Lovecraft meant for some time.
Quantum computers aren't magic. Assuming we can build one with enough bits, it would cut the effective key size in half. Use AES-256 and stop worrying about brute-force attacks by any entity that doesn't have about a small galaxy's worth of resources.
The idea was not to kill civilians, but to destroy their housing (in the full knowledge that that would kill civilians, of course). It turned out to be a lot less useful than many people thought it would be.
Early in the war, the RAF adopted night bombing because they couldn't get bombers through in the daytime, and for some time had trouble hitting something as small as a city. The USAAF developed long-range fighters and bombers bristling with heavy machine guns and managed to make it work, and even then considered any German city to be a valid secondary target, and frequently couldn't live up to their "pickle barrel" accuracy claims because of weather...
At the beginning of the war, many people had very high expectations of what bombing could do, and it wasn't until after the war that people started to realize what effects bombing really had.
The effect of WWI reparations wasn't as severe as the Nazis claimed. In WWII, most of the international law pertaining to warfare was Hague conventions, not Geneva ones, and they didn't forbid bombing of cities. I don't believe anyone was prosecuted for city-bombing per se (there was a prosecution of a Luftwaffe officer for bombing a city that had been declared open).
You seem happy to pick Commandments while ignoring Leviticus. What happened is that there was some good stuff, some not-so-good stuff, and some crap in the Old Testament, and people have cherry-picked the good stuff and relatively little of the crap since. What we're left with is not a religious moral code so much as religion blended with outside reality.
There's lots of reasons besides the religious to not wanting to admit you're wrong. There's got to be a few out there, but I'm really doubtful that there's a significant number.
Perhaps the Universe is eternal, and spawns off new Universes every so often, for all I know. I know about when the Big Bang was, but not what happened before it (if there was a before). Perhaps there is no God.
We're looking at two possibilities here, that God came from nothing and created the Universe, or that the Universe came from nothing. Each possibility has something coming from nothing, but one has an extra hypothesis that adds nothing to the analysis. God may be eternal, and so may a larger Universe that spawned this one. There may be nothing eternal. This is not evidence of a God.
With the possible exception of the Anthropic Principle, there are no valid indications of God in the physical Universe.
I've had personal experience with stories covered by mainstream journalism, so I have limited trust in any media. I've sought out news sources with different biases, which is the best you're going to be able to do.
GP fully understood your point, and was somewhere between asking its relevance and mocking it. You then mockingly repeated something that nobody doubted.
The Left dislikes Trump for his nomination of unqualified people, his inability to keep on course, his pandering to white supremacists, and several other things. Now, for all I know you're a white supremacist who hates Muslims and immigrants and wants the government torn down, in which case you might well be in favor of Trump, but there's lots of reasons to think he's a very bad President.
While Democrats were involved in institutionalized racism up until the Civil Rights Act, which cost the Democrats the South, I don't remember them being considered leftists.
If volume was the problem, I could hear better by turning the volume up on my hearing aids. It actually does help if the room is very quiet, but not if there's background noise. I've been in situations where I was better off turning the hearing aids off.
There's no way Nick Fury could be black, considering his history, but Samuel Jackson, Jr. was the exact right person to play him. I'd rather go with the right person for the part than the best person of the appropriate skin color.
As a boy, my chance of growing up to be Steve Jobs or Elon Musk or similar was only very, very little more than my chance of growing up to be Spiderman. Fewer people get into the Jobs/Musk/Gates category than win the lottery.
Moreover, if I'd tried to emulate Spiderman, I'd have wound up a better human being than if I'd tried to emulate Jobs.
When I had a little one, in the 90s and early 00s, I found that most of the movies he wanted to see weren't bad. (The big exception was Yu-Gi-Oh, based on a boring television series about people who use ancient Egyptian artifacts to cheat at card games.) Pokemon movies, Country Bears, a whole lot of stuff I enjoyed.
Voter ID is not itself racist. Most proposals I've seen in the US would make it disproportionately hard for blacks to get the ID, either by themselves or with other concurrent measures..
For a lot of companies, having a location in the EU is very desirable. The EU is a very big market, about US-sized, and it could be treated as one large market. Having a location in the UK is a lot less desirable, because it's a much smaller market. My employer has a UK location, and has been representing it with the EU flag. I'm not sure what they're going to do; move ti Ireland?
Let's see. Trump has real talent for self-promotion. He is, by definition, a politician. His first lawsuit was over racial discrimination, and he's been giving white supremacists breaks, so I'd have to call him a racist. He isn't actually an idiot, but there's a whole lot of things he shows absolutely no sign of understanding. Hitler was a lot smarter.
And, no, you didn't dislike Obama as much as I dislike Trump (well, considering the things you post, I suppose you in particular may have). You may have disliked Obama as much as I disliked Bush.
You're paying for the connection anyway. Most radio lives by advertising, and you're paying for it with time and attention. Some (like NPR) gets money from other sources, including talking people into becoming members. I'd rather pay a little money to do without the advertising, myself.
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COBOL is probably dying, but certainly more slowly than COBOL programmers. The shortage of COBOL programmers will hurt.
There are F/OS COBOL versions (that are not welcome in my house), but the ecosystem that hosts most of it is laden with old IBM mainframe systems that are not F/OS. I'd think that can only hurt the availability of replacement COBOL people.
Lovecraft might be a better example. August Derleth got hold of his notes, and would take a random paragraph Lovecraft had discarded and write a story including it, then call it a collaboration. Derleth took something of a cosmic nihilism and made it into good vs. evil, confusing people about what Lovecraft meant for some time.
Quantum computers aren't magic. Assuming we can build one with enough bits, it would cut the effective key size in half. Use AES-256 and stop worrying about brute-force attacks by any entity that doesn't have about a small galaxy's worth of resources.
The idea was not to kill civilians, but to destroy their housing (in the full knowledge that that would kill civilians, of course). It turned out to be a lot less useful than many people thought it would be.
Early in the war, the RAF adopted night bombing because they couldn't get bombers through in the daytime, and for some time had trouble hitting something as small as a city. The USAAF developed long-range fighters and bombers bristling with heavy machine guns and managed to make it work, and even then considered any German city to be a valid secondary target, and frequently couldn't live up to their "pickle barrel" accuracy claims because of weather...
At the beginning of the war, many people had very high expectations of what bombing could do, and it wasn't until after the war that people started to realize what effects bombing really had.
The effect of WWI reparations wasn't as severe as the Nazis claimed. In WWII, most of the international law pertaining to warfare was Hague conventions, not Geneva ones, and they didn't forbid bombing of cities. I don't believe anyone was prosecuted for city-bombing per se (there was a prosecution of a Luftwaffe officer for bombing a city that had been declared open).
You seem happy to pick Commandments while ignoring Leviticus. What happened is that there was some good stuff, some not-so-good stuff, and some crap in the Old Testament, and people have cherry-picked the good stuff and relatively little of the crap since. What we're left with is not a religious moral code so much as religion blended with outside reality.
There's lots of reasons besides the religious to not wanting to admit you're wrong. There's got to be a few out there, but I'm really doubtful that there's a significant number.
I read it. It was a pretty good argument by a human how humans are special, but it wouldn't convince an octopus.
Perhaps the Universe is eternal, and spawns off new Universes every so often, for all I know. I know about when the Big Bang was, but not what happened before it (if there was a before). Perhaps there is no God.
We're looking at two possibilities here, that God came from nothing and created the Universe, or that the Universe came from nothing. Each possibility has something coming from nothing, but one has an extra hypothesis that adds nothing to the analysis. God may be eternal, and so may a larger Universe that spawned this one. There may be nothing eternal. This is not evidence of a God.
With the possible exception of the Anthropic Principle, there are no valid indications of God in the physical Universe.
That's the Singularity, not the end of the world.
I've had personal experience with stories covered by mainstream journalism, so I have limited trust in any media. I've sought out news sources with different biases, which is the best you're going to be able to do.
GP fully understood your point, and was somewhere between asking its relevance and mocking it. You then mockingly repeated something that nobody doubted.
The Left dislikes Trump for his nomination of unqualified people, his inability to keep on course, his pandering to white supremacists, and several other things. Now, for all I know you're a white supremacist who hates Muslims and immigrants and wants the government torn down, in which case you might well be in favor of Trump, but there's lots of reasons to think he's a very bad President.
While Democrats were involved in institutionalized racism up until the Civil Rights Act, which cost the Democrats the South, I don't remember them being considered leftists.
If volume was the problem, I could hear better by turning the volume up on my hearing aids. It actually does help if the room is very quiet, but not if there's background noise. I've been in situations where I was better off turning the hearing aids off.
There's no way Nick Fury could be black, considering his history, but Samuel Jackson, Jr. was the exact right person to play him. I'd rather go with the right person for the part than the best person of the appropriate skin color.
In the movie, Wonder Woman inspired ordinary humans to follow her and do the right thing, which is not something all superheros are good at.
As a boy, my chance of growing up to be Steve Jobs or Elon Musk or similar was only very, very little more than my chance of growing up to be Spiderman. Fewer people get into the Jobs/Musk/Gates category than win the lottery.
Moreover, if I'd tried to emulate Spiderman, I'd have wound up a better human being than if I'd tried to emulate Jobs.
I thought Lynda Carter pulled it off pretty well. I liked the Gal Godot movie better, but I don't know if that had anything to do with the leads.
When I had a little one, in the 90s and early 00s, I found that most of the movies he wanted to see weren't bad. (The big exception was Yu-Gi-Oh, based on a boring television series about people who use ancient Egyptian artifacts to cheat at card games.) Pokemon movies, Country Bears, a whole lot of stuff I enjoyed.
Voter ID is not itself racist. Most proposals I've seen in the US would make it disproportionately hard for blacks to get the ID, either by themselves or with other concurrent measures..
For a lot of companies, having a location in the EU is very desirable. The EU is a very big market, about US-sized, and it could be treated as one large market. Having a location in the UK is a lot less desirable, because it's a much smaller market. My employer has a UK location, and has been representing it with the EU flag. I'm not sure what they're going to do; move ti Ireland?
Let's see. Trump has real talent for self-promotion. He is, by definition, a politician. His first lawsuit was over racial discrimination, and he's been giving white supremacists breaks, so I'd have to call him a racist. He isn't actually an idiot, but there's a whole lot of things he shows absolutely no sign of understanding. Hitler was a lot smarter.
And, no, you didn't dislike Obama as much as I dislike Trump (well, considering the things you post, I suppose you in particular may have). You may have disliked Obama as much as I disliked Bush.
If you listen to content that lots of different people with different viewpoints want you to listen to, you're going to learn something.
You're paying for the connection anyway. Most radio lives by advertising, and you're paying for it with time and attention. Some (like NPR) gets money from other sources, including talking people into becoming members. I'd rather pay a little money to do without the advertising, myself.
Libraries often lend ebooks nowadays. They're modernizing and hanging in there.