>Hard to tell if you're serious, but really, how would a military solution work against NK?
Well, nukes or no nukes, it would pretty much involve an escalating ground war against a million man standing army which has been sustained by nearly the full national product of the country and which has been training for just such an eventuality, as its sole objective, for the past fifty years.
>are we willing to kill thousands of innocent people and families in the process.
Well, to the extent that they have not risen up in the millions to overthrow the tyranny under which they live, ultimately they are collectively responsible for it.
In the Enterprise Java world, finance and accounting is done with java.math.BigDecimal. The result ends up being nearly as verbose and non-algebraic as COBOL arithmetic. But we do have control over things like rounding rules, precision and scale and so on, in a very standardized way.
"That same report, with direct access to the database, written in COBOL, took over 6 Man-Months to write. With my little PC and virtual-console library I did it in under 4 hours using Turbo Pascal. Which language do you want to program in? "
The one that requires a six month contract instead of one day from a temp?
So does anyone know of any recent, new projects that were started in COBOL? Any businesses that began operating in the last decade that has developed business software in COBOL? Information like that would be very interesting. It's fine to defend COBOL legacy applications in favor of replacing them, but where's the new development?
There were never 60 members of the Democratic party available all at the same time to vote in the Senate. I don't even understand where this idea came from.
I'm still really impressed by the special effects that filmmakers managed in the 1950s. To do the same with the tools they had available would still be very impressive today.
>You can avoid paying this tax by purchasing health care coverage for yourself.
What if that isn't possible? What if nobody will insure you? What if the only insurer who will write a policy wants $6000 per month? Or what if it is simply the case that the least expensive insurance option for you is greater than the tax penalty? (I get a pretty good deal on a pretty good plan, through my employer, but it is certainly much more expensive than the tax penalty!)
As for the Republicans "shooting down" single payer, I agree that they did it, but they did it in spite of being severely outnumbered. That's pretty remarkable. I wonder why Democrats never do much "shooting down" of the Republican agenda when they are in the minority.
You can insult me all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that there won't be any balance sheet that supports the claim that the legislation under discussion contributed to a 30% increase in the OP's premium, and if that claim was actually made, the claim was fraudulent. I have my doubts that the increased premium was literally attributed to any particular legislation, though. I would suggest that the OP's company look into the highly competitive TPA market if they are choosing to remain at the mercy of United or something.
You didn't say anything about distribution before. The license doesn't even take effect until you have distribution, but since you're trolling, you knew that.
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>Hard to tell if you're serious, but really, how would a military solution work against NK?
Well, nukes or no nukes, it would pretty much involve an escalating ground war against a million man standing army which has been sustained by nearly the full national product of the country and which has been training for just such an eventuality, as its sole objective, for the past fifty years.
>are we willing to kill thousands of innocent people and families in the process.
Well, to the extent that they have not risen up in the millions to overthrow the tyranny under which they live, ultimately they are collectively responsible for it.
>There are 24,051,218 people in North Korea (says Wikipedia), and only a large handful of them are actually causing this problem.
How many of them are actively working to end the tyrannical regime under which they live?
>8 seconds is too short a time frame. The delivery systems for nuclear weapons take longer than that to reach their targets.
The 8 second scenario implies that the weapons are *already at* their targets.
So... we should actually welcome someone using nukes, so that all the FUD about them can give way to realistic viewpoints?
In the Enterprise Java world, finance and accounting is done with java.math.BigDecimal. The result ends up being nearly as verbose and non-algebraic as COBOL arithmetic. But we do have control over things like rounding rules, precision and scale and so on, in a very standardized way.
"That same report, with direct access to the database, written in COBOL, took over 6 Man-Months to write. With my little PC and virtual-console library I did it in under 4 hours using Turbo Pascal. Which language do you want to program in? "
The one that requires a six month contract instead of one day from a temp?
Nah, make an iPhone app that fully implements all business process rules of a particular insurance company, and you'll be respected for it.
So does anyone know of any recent, new projects that were started in COBOL? Any businesses that began operating in the last decade that has developed business software in COBOL? Information like that would be very interesting. It's fine to defend COBOL legacy applications in favor of replacing them, but where's the new development?
Ok, so I have a mountain of flood model data. You set your COBOL job against my MapReduce job and let's see who wins.
So where are the jobs, then?
>And I'm sure Yahoo doesn't hire just anybody off the street.
I don't know about the actual hiring, but they sure did try to recruit the world pretty aggressively.
>The funny thing is: Project leader/Manager is a fucking hard Job, if done right.
It becomes even harder when there are hundreds of them, in layers, "managing projects" as though they are fiefdoms.
What are the average dimensions of the women in your coven?
>full control since 2006.
There were never 60 members of the Democratic party available all at the same time to vote in the Senate. I don't even understand where this idea came from.
I'm still really impressed by the special effects that filmmakers managed in the 1950s. To do the same with the tools they had available would still be very impressive today.
>Fruity Loops sucks.
It either sucks or it's the best value in audio software. I've heard it both ways.
>You can avoid paying this tax by purchasing health care coverage for yourself.
What if that isn't possible? What if nobody will insure you? What if the only insurer who will write a policy wants $6000 per month? Or what if it is simply the case that the least expensive insurance option for you is greater than the tax penalty? (I get a pretty good deal on a pretty good plan, through my employer, but it is certainly much more expensive than the tax penalty!)
As for the Republicans "shooting down" single payer, I agree that they did it, but they did it in spite of being severely outnumbered. That's pretty remarkable. I wonder why Democrats never do much "shooting down" of the Republican agenda when they are in the minority.
>You are only required to buy health insurance if you are alive. Don't want to pay for health insurance? Don't live.
People will scoff at this, but it really is a good place to start as the default baseline scenario from which to discuss reform.
You can insult me all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that there won't be any balance sheet that supports the claim that the legislation under discussion contributed to a 30% increase in the OP's premium, and if that claim was actually made, the claim was fraudulent. I have my doubts that the increased premium was literally attributed to any particular legislation, though. I would suggest that the OP's company look into the highly competitive TPA market if they are choosing to remain at the mercy of United or something.
Real IT heros have things like routine backups with offsite storage rotation, N+1 replacement hardware policies, and sensible password policies.
>At the small business where I work, our health insurance costs look to be increasing by 20-30% for our next contract.
Relevance to the bill under consideration is what, precisely? Why didn't you negotiate a longer contract term when it was "20-30% less?"
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You didn't say anything about distribution before. The license doesn't even take effect until you have distribution, but since you're trolling, you knew that.
When I'm a leader of a rogue state, I will not connect the control systems of my super-secret nuclear facility to any external network.