Bizarrely, mine used to work for the same company but in a different country. I never met him, but it was a bit of a surprise for some people from my branch when they visited his office.
Turkey is an odd exception: when they have a military coup the new government is often better than the one it replaces.
Over the years, I've known a few Turks who were working or studying in the USA or Europe. What Westerners think of as Turks are people like them - from Ankara or Istanbul, college education & speaking at least one of English/French/German.
However they're the majority. Most of them are goat-kicking mud-fuckers, which is why wankers like Erdogan get elected.
They totally are far apart. This is why a text file isn't the same thing as a directory full of gifs.
As for the East Asians, if they'd produced Turing, Mandelbrot, Shannon & Von Neumann then maybe computers would have natively supported their scrawlabets from the outset.
But they didn't. One must pay the ball from where it lands.
Modern Japanese uses no less than four different scripts/alphabets, and in any given sentence different types of words may need to be in different alphabets!.
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How many of these would be needed to produce even a 50% successful counterforce first strike?
If god himself came down from heaven and gave them the planes they couldn't afford the oil to put in them.
You could do that with an ICBM too.
But in either case, what next?
If they're that good, why do the outgoing workers have to train them?
If I was the cynical kind I might suspect some form of shenanigans.
And the great thing is, you don't need to be able to write!
Looks like AmiMoJo forgot her password.
To survive re-entry they need heat shields. That's got to add weight.
The summary suggests it prowls around over Russia and only goes into space when it's going to blow something up.
Should we burst into song at this point?
Silly question - why not grow sugar beet? Goes well in a temperate climate.
This is better than an ICBM because...? I don't see the point.
But binary logs are better! Lennart Poettering says so.
Fair point, I was thinking of military matters.
The funny thing is that Louisiana wasn't France's to sell. Cheeky bastards.
Indeed I did. Clearly you're not a Turk.
Bizarrely, mine used to work for the same company but in a different country. I never met him, but it was a bit of a surprise for some people from my branch when they visited his office.
With several layers of sticky labels with the word "again" stuck on the cover.
Turkey is an odd exception: when they have a military coup the new government is often better than the one it replaces.
Over the years, I've known a few Turks who were working or studying in the USA or Europe. What Westerners think of as Turks are people like them - from Ankara or Istanbul, college education & speaking at least one of English/French/German.
However they're the majority. Most of them are goat-kicking mud-fuckers, which is why wankers like Erdogan get elected.
Clearly your granddad was there and he was a total lardass.
Hate to break it to you, but he was either a guard or a collaborator.
They totally are far apart. This is why a text file isn't the same thing as a directory full of gifs.
As for the East Asians, if they'd produced Turing, Mandelbrot, Shannon & Von Neumann then maybe computers would have natively supported their scrawlabets from the outset.
But they didn't. One must pay the ball from where it lands.
Mozart is overrated. He just chucks large numbers of notes about.
Check his posting history - seems he's a bit of a space nutter.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a truck is a good guy with a truck.
See the mismatch? That's the problem.
There are limits to adaptation. See also: Auschwitz.
https://xkcd.com/927/
Because it looks like a better deal compared to a 1,000 calorie plate at 2/3 the price, probably.
And bear in mind that it takes about the same amount of effort to cook it, wash the plate, etc - so it's more profitable for the owner.