If you live in a Midwestern or Southern state, you are on CA welfare. CA has an economy comparable to France and give more money back to Feds that it receives. Most Midwestern and Southern states leech money from the Feds.
You cannot argue with someone who believes only information from their propaganda spigot is true. They will just dismiss you argument as false without needing to critically refute it. You literally cannot reason with these people.
What America needs is a true centrist party; one that is fundamentally based on pragmatism.
Why do we need to pigeon-hole ourselves into two polar opposite affiliations? They are both steadily moving to their respective "nutjob" zones and farther away from the viewpoint of the average American.
If we can't get past all this social-political nonsense, of who can marry who or can abort when, and tackle the real issues facing this country then we are as the English like to say, "Proper F_cked".
What keeps the powers in Beijing up at night isn't the US, but Chinese people wanting the same rights and representation enjoyed in the Western world.
The Communist Party is raping the country at the expense of the common people. Eventually, they will tire of eating poisoned food and washing it down with poisoned water. They will tire of watching their children die from the poisoned air.
All the censorship in the world won't stop that from happening.
So corporations get all the right of an individual, but with nothing but monetary penalties when they do something criminal like poison the ground water. The jerks responsible just close up shop and start a new corporation and rinse repeat.
Nah, it's just Right Wing WARRRGGARRRBBBBLLL.
But, thanks for playing! Please accept this Glenn Beck coffee mug as a consolation prize.
*Que Wheel of Fortune music*
Bbbbut who would pay to keep the Baby Boomers, a generation double the size or your and mine, on the golf course in Florida? In 20 years, there won't be any Social Security as grahm and gramps bankrupted it.
If you under 40, you can kiss that money coming out of your check each payday goodbye.
Which is more of a danger to your child:
A. Child rapist
B. Child murderer
For most the world, B is the answer.
For America, it's A.
Both crimes despicable, but why do we track "sex offenders" and not murderers?
Get a glass beer bottle, fill it with diet coke, drop in a few mentos, replace the cap and leave it in a high traffic area. While I would never want to anyone to do this, my point is, it doesn't take dangerous chemicals or even flammables to commit a terrorist act.
Given that 44,000 people die on our highways every year, you have much more to fear from the idiot driving next to you in his H2 talking on his cell phone than any foreign terrorist.
Once you have been screwed my a big corporation and left with no recourse thanks to having the Representative Branch in their pocket, you will be singing a different tune.
Most PC programmers seem not have a grasp of basic programming concepts/practices. They do stupid things and these things often make it past release and into the wild.
For example, at one company I worked, they had sleeps randomly sprinkled in the code that were required to make it work properly. The rub was that no one knew the reason why. If the code didn't work on new hardware they dingled with one of more of these magic lines until it worked.
Of course this type of behavior is indicative of bad multi threaded code. The core developers had little idea how the Windows threading system worked, so the code was littered with loops polling on global variables.
Take comfort in the fact that this code handles credit card transactions for nearly all non-IBM POS systems in the US. I wrote a part of a multi-threaded engine to interface with IBM, so they are probably in some IBM shops now.
During my short stay, I work several simple multi-threaded apps and became the resident "Guru" for Win32. Ah the joys of being a big fish in a little pond.
The point is that M$ cannot due much to mitigate problems caused by bad coding downstream.
So yes, if you mean "developers of business applications aren't generally hardcore down to the metal programmers," then I'd agree with you. John Carmack and Michael Abrash would be bored out of their skulls working on UI issues for Quicken 2008. And, given their aesthetic sensibilities, they wouldn't necessarily be the best choices (just *try* to balance your checkbook). John Carmack will make your finances his bitch.
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The US is moving toward authoritarianism, akin to China: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/1...
Cretin, I do my interfaces in PCL 5! Wastes a lot of paper though ...
If you live in a Midwestern or Southern state, you are on CA welfare. CA has an economy comparable to France and give more money back to Feds that it receives. Most Midwestern and Southern states leech money from the Feds.
Sustainable fusion is only 10 or so years away now. Progress has been steady, it was 10 years away about 10 years ago as well ...
"I'd never know 'cause I [don't use] the filthy motherfucker." -- Jules, Pulp Fiction
You cannot argue with someone who believes only information from their propaganda spigot is true. They will just dismiss you argument as false without needing to critically refute it. You literally cannot reason with these people.
What America needs is a true centrist party; one that is fundamentally based on pragmatism.
Why do we need to pigeon-hole ourselves into two polar opposite affiliations? They are both steadily moving to their respective "nutjob" zones and farther away from the viewpoint of the average American.
If we can't get past all this social-political nonsense, of who can marry who or can abort when, and tackle the real issues facing this country then we are as the English like to say, "Proper F_cked".
What keeps the powers in Beijing up at night isn't the US, but Chinese people wanting the same rights and representation enjoyed in the Western world.
The Communist Party is raping the country at the expense of the common people. Eventually, they will tire of eating poisoned food and washing it down with poisoned water. They will tire of watching their children die from the poisoned air.
All the censorship in the world won't stop that from happening.
One mans terrorists is another mans raid buddy.
Suicidesalution whispers, "Hey Xjihadcowx, wanna do ToC 25 man?"
Xjihadcowx whispers, "Is Osama leading?"
Suicidesalution whispers, "Nah, he at a Starbucks in Vancouver but says internet there sucks."
Xjihadcowx whispers, "That sucks. Yeah I'll go send me an invite."
So corporations get all the right of an individual, but with nothing but monetary penalties when they do something criminal like poison the ground water. The jerks responsible just close up shop and start a new corporation and rinse repeat.
Of course, YMMV.
Beware of Sony shrills bearing mod points.
Nah, it's just Right Wing WARRRGGARRRBBBBLLL. But, thanks for playing! Please accept this Glenn Beck coffee mug as a consolation prize. *Que Wheel of Fortune music*
These birds are using FTP (Flight Transfer by Pigeon). Re-Fixed.
I'm stuck with the lesser of two evils problem myself:
Do I support one criminal cartel (banks) to avoid being associated with another (drug runners)?
Bbbbut who would pay to keep the Baby Boomers, a generation double the size or your and mine, on the golf course in Florida? In 20 years, there won't be any Social Security as grahm and gramps bankrupted it. If you under 40, you can kiss that money coming out of your check each payday goodbye.
splodus The Court Justice highest has that providing snippets newspaper unlawful.
See you in court
Which is more of a danger to your child: A. Child rapist B. Child murderer For most the world, B is the answer. For America, it's A. Both crimes despicable, but why do we track "sex offenders" and not murderers?
The buttons had braille on them but there wasn't really any feed back other than beeps.
Can anyone tell me why drive up ATMs have braille labels?
Get a glass beer bottle, fill it with diet coke, drop in a few mentos, replace the cap and leave it in a high traffic area. While I would never want to anyone to do this, my point is, it doesn't take dangerous chemicals or even flammables to commit a terrorist act.
Given that 44,000 people die on our highways every year, you have much more to fear from the idiot driving next to you in his H2 talking on his cell phone than any foreign terrorist.
Given the current (US) administration's views on privacy and liberty, it obvious who their most dangerous enemy is ...
The American People
Once you have been screwed my a big corporation and left with no recourse thanks to having the Representative Branch in their pocket, you will be singing a different tune.
Its only a matter of time ...
Why would they store their APIs in a large unchanging house?
Most PC programmers seem not have a grasp of basic programming concepts/practices. They do stupid things and these things often make it past release and into the wild.
For example, at one company I worked, they had sleeps randomly sprinkled in the code that were required to make it work properly. The rub was that no one knew the reason why. If the code didn't work on new hardware they dingled with one of more of these magic lines until it worked.
Of course this type of behavior is indicative of bad multi threaded code. The core developers had little idea how the Windows threading system worked, so the code was littered with loops polling on global variables.
Take comfort in the fact that this code handles credit card transactions for nearly all non-IBM POS systems in the US. I wrote a part of a multi-threaded engine to interface with IBM, so they are probably in some IBM shops now.
During my short stay, I work several simple multi-threaded apps and became the resident "Guru" for Win32. Ah the joys of being a big fish in a little pond.
The point is that M$ cannot due much to mitigate problems caused by bad coding downstream.