As a child, I entered these BASIC programs into my Commodore 64 and couldn't get most of them to run. As an adult who later went back to school to learn computer programming, I find it significantly challenging to go back to these old BASIC programs and successfully translate them into Python.
Programming involved a lot more thinking and planning, instead of bashing it until it compiled.
Try translating an old BASIC game into a modern programming language. All those GOTO and GOSUB statements can get tedious. I spend a fair amount of my time mapping what goes where in the program before I can even start coding. For fun, of course.
We're better off without fanfold paper. When I was in college in the early 1990's, a roommate borrowed some paper to complete his ten page final report. I don't know what caused him to get paper from the middle and not the end of the stack. When it came time to print out my 200+ page final report for technical writing, I ran out of paper halfway through printing. Reloading the printer and resuming the printout from where I left off was a tricky operation back then. I only had enough paper to get it right the first time to avoid turning it in late. Since I was using a Commodore 64, I couldn't ride my bike over to Kinko's to print out on the laser printer. My roommate had no clue to how close he came to dying that day.
The trend in IT over the last 30 years hasn't been to specialize, it has been to dump every job on one poor slob, work him 100 hours a week and tell him to be grateful because there are a billion people in India who'd be glad to do it for a tenth the price.
I've done I.T. support contract work for the last ten years. My contracts have prohibited me from working more than 40 hours a week. I also specialized in cleaning up the messes left behind by a billion people from India who get paid a tenth of what I earn. This poor slob is laughing all the way to the bank.
if i default in my student loans, what do you get out of me??? nothing
Your Social Security benefits.
In 2013, the government garnished about $150 million in Social Security benefits from Americans to pay back their student loans, according to a September analysis from the Government Accountability Office. Between 2002 and 2013, the number of senior citizens losing out on a portion of their Social Security to pay back education debt soared 500% from 6,000 to 36,000.
I hate to point out that you miss my point. The rules started changing in the 1980's, opening the floodgates of financial scandals that came out later. The repeal of Glass-Steagall came later rather than sooner.
Once upon a time banks didn't sell their loans, that's true, but not really relevant because that was prior to Fannie Mae - in 1938.
Those mortgages required 20% down and be less than $250,000 to be eligible for purchase by Fannie Mae. Everything else was kept on the books. While Glass-Steagall was in effect, banks were BORING AS HELL for 50 years of economic stability. What happened after Wall Street got the rules changed: the savings and loans scandals in the 1980's, Enron in the 1990's, Dot Com Bust and the Great Recession in 2000's, and corporate political money in 2010's. See a pattern developing here? Wall Street made money, Main Street paid the price.
It is better to just not create the situation in the first place.
Bankruptcy reform introduced the requirement to have applicants take "educational courses" before and after the bankruptcy proceedings that does nothing but add on to the costs and support a newly created industry.
Or the head of the TSA implements the requirement for body scanners in the airports, quits his position with the government, and becomes the CEO of the company that manufactures body scanners.
That college students are unable to discharge their student loans in bankruptcy court wasn't an accident of "poorly intended educational policy", but a deliberate request by Wall Street to Congress screw over society's future investments in young people.
Why did banks, all of the sudden, start handing money to people who couldn't repay?
Once upon a time in America, banks kept their mortgage loans on the books indefinitely. The good, the bag and the ugly. This meant that quality of the borrower was supremely important for the health of the bank. This was before the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, which made banks very conservative and very boring. And then Wall Street got the bright idea of buying mortgage loans, packaging them up, and selling them as Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO's). The mortgage loans came off the books to become someone else's problem and the banks no longer cared about the quality of the borrower. This process got taken one step further when outfits opened shop to manufacture this stuff as quickly as possible. What was previously an obscure corner of Wall Street became the heart of the economy.
Plumbers, electricians, and carpenters still get paid shit for the amount of training and skill it takes to do those jobs, ignoring the hard work involved entirely.
You need to educate yourself before making a stupid comment like that. The skilled trade shortage is real because our current work force is aging out, foreign workers have left the country, and high schools have been diverting students to colleges for years.
Never mind that the Clintons are still hip deep with Wall Street, the CEO of Citibank/Travelers was a campaign contributor, and the Clintons still deny to this that the repeal has anything to do with financial crisis.
No, it's because the federal government has the business sense of a lump of clay.
If the government had any business sense whatsoever, it would banish the predatory banks from the student loan market and make past student loans eligible for refinancing at lower interest rates. Student loans are the next ticking time bomb in the economy. Only the government can step in to relieve the pressure before it blows a hole in the economy.
Investments are intended to have a positive return.
I wish Wall Street would apply that standard during the run up to the Great Recession. So many subprime loans and Collateralize Debt Obligations (C.D.O.s) wouldn't have been issued, as requiring positive returns is the opposite strategy of maximizing fees and damning the consequences.
Allowing someone to borrow money so they can party for a few years isn't an investment in the future.
The country doesn't need anymore lawyers. We need more plumbers, electricians and carpenters.
wondering why housing loans are cheaper than school loans, which anyone can tell you a home has value, an associates in womens studies has none
Student loans cannot be discharged in bankruptcy court. Another perk that the Wall Street lobbyists wrote for themselves. Private student loans have higher interest rates than federal student loans because the banks want to milk their borrowers for every dime that they can legally get. Student loans should be cheaper than housing loans since an education is an investment in the future.
Prior to the Great Recession, Wall Street analysts considered it impossible for homes to lose value as most price drops were limited to regional markets. That assumption got turned upside when the entire housing market in the United State went kaput. A neighborhood of empty houses are quite worthless to the banks.
But how often do you really go through life without any unexpected loss of income or major expense?
One statistic I read was that the average person will experience two recessions and a depression during their lifetime. My late father who was born during the Great Depression regarded the Great Recession as another Great Depression. So do I to a certain extent. I weathered past recessions without being unemployed. But the Great Recession was something else.
The guy who blames Republicans for his problems is an incompetent idiot who can't hold a job or keep his finances in line by himself.
As a moderate conservative, I do blame the Republicans for the messes that this country got into under George W. with the economy. If I'm such an incompetent idiot, how is it that I've been employed for the last four years and my net worth has a positive balance?
Most people who file for bankruptcy often do so under forced circumstances and not reckless spending. In my case, I've worked help desk for the previous five years and most recruiters/managers wouldn't consider me for anything else but help desk jobs. Needless to say, help desk jobs were non-existent in Silicon Valley in 2009 and 2010. On the day my bankruptcy got finalized and my bank accounts reached zero dollars, I got a new help desk job that started my long climb to financial solvency.
Prob is, he signed off on it to get other shit done and didn't think about the repercussions.
Not quite. Citigroup was in technical violation of the Glass-Seagall Act when it bought Travelers Insurance. Not surprisingly, the Citigroup CEO was a campaign contributor to Bill Clinton. As well all know too well, money speaks loudly to the Clintons.
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More like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (LSD).
The black hole lost its entire entourage because it ran out of money. All that white dust for non-stop parties don't come cheap.
The program was self-documenting.
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Unless they talk and the police already had them under surveillance.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/world/europe/london-hatton-garden-heist.html
You, sir, are truly hardcore.
As a child, I entered these BASIC programs into my Commodore 64 and couldn't get most of them to run. As an adult who later went back to school to learn computer programming, I find it significantly challenging to go back to these old BASIC programs and successfully translate them into Python.
Programming involved a lot more thinking and planning, instead of bashing it until it compiled.
Try translating an old BASIC game into a modern programming language. All those GOTO and GOSUB statements can get tedious. I spend a fair amount of my time mapping what goes where in the program before I can even start coding. For fun, of course.
http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/
We're better off without fanfold paper. When I was in college in the early 1990's, a roommate borrowed some paper to complete his ten page final report. I don't know what caused him to get paper from the middle and not the end of the stack. When it came time to print out my 200+ page final report for technical writing, I ran out of paper halfway through printing. Reloading the printer and resuming the printout from where I left off was a tricky operation back then. I only had enough paper to get it right the first time to avoid turning it in late. Since I was using a Commodore 64, I couldn't ride my bike over to Kinko's to print out on the laser printer. My roommate had no clue to how close he came to dying that day.
The trend in IT over the last 30 years hasn't been to specialize, it has been to dump every job on one poor slob, work him 100 hours a week and tell him to be grateful because there are a billion people in India who'd be glad to do it for a tenth the price.
I've done I.T. support contract work for the last ten years. My contracts have prohibited me from working more than 40 hours a week. I also specialized in cleaning up the messes left behind by a billion people from India who get paid a tenth of what I earn. This poor slob is laughing all the way to the bank.
Use pen and paper. Personal papers have more legal protection than digital data that cross over the ether.
if i default in my student loans, what do you get out of me??? nothing
Your Social Security benefits.
In 2013, the government garnished about $150 million in Social Security benefits from Americans to pay back their student loans, according to a September analysis from the Government Accountability Office. Between 2002 and 2013, the number of senior citizens losing out on a portion of their Social Security to pay back education debt soared 500% from 6,000 to 36,000.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/when-your-social-security-check-disappears-because-of-an-old-student-loan-2015-06-25
I hate to point out that you miss my point. The rules started changing in the 1980's, opening the floodgates of financial scandals that came out later. The repeal of Glass-Steagall came later rather than sooner.
sorry, a degree in liberal arts has almost no value
I'm disturbed by your lack of faith.
Once upon a time banks didn't sell their loans, that's true, but not really relevant because that was prior to Fannie Mae - in 1938.
Those mortgages required 20% down and be less than $250,000 to be eligible for purchase by Fannie Mae. Everything else was kept on the books. While Glass-Steagall was in effect, banks were BORING AS HELL for 50 years of economic stability. What happened after Wall Street got the rules changed: the savings and loans scandals in the 1980's, Enron in the 1990's, Dot Com Bust and the Great Recession in 2000's, and corporate political money in 2010's. See a pattern developing here? Wall Street made money, Main Street paid the price.
It is better to just not create the situation in the first place.
Bankruptcy reform introduced the requirement to have applicants take "educational courses" before and after the bankruptcy proceedings that does nothing but add on to the costs and support a newly created industry.
Or the head of the TSA implements the requirement for body scanners in the airports, quits his position with the government, and becomes the CEO of the company that manufactures body scanners.
That college students are unable to discharge their student loans in bankruptcy court wasn't an accident of "poorly intended educational policy", but a deliberate request by Wall Street to Congress screw over society's future investments in young people.
Why did banks, all of the sudden, start handing money to people who couldn't repay?
Once upon a time in America, banks kept their mortgage loans on the books indefinitely. The good, the bag and the ugly. This meant that quality of the borrower was supremely important for the health of the bank. This was before the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, which made banks very conservative and very boring. And then Wall Street got the bright idea of buying mortgage loans, packaging them up, and selling them as Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO's). The mortgage loans came off the books to become someone else's problem and the banks no longer cared about the quality of the borrower. This process got taken one step further when outfits opened shop to manufacture this stuff as quickly as possible. What was previously an obscure corner of Wall Street became the heart of the economy.
Plumbers, electricians, and carpenters still get paid shit for the amount of training and skill it takes to do those jobs, ignoring the hard work involved entirely.
You need to educate yourself before making a stupid comment like that. The skilled trade shortage is real because our current work force is aging out, foreign workers have left the country, and high schools have been diverting students to colleges for years.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/emsi/2013/03/07/americas-skilled-trades-dilemma-shortages-loom-as-most-in-demand-group-of-workers-ages/
TL;DR: it wasn't Clinton's fault, moron.
Never mind that the Clintons are still hip deep with Wall Street, the CEO of Citibank/Travelers was a campaign contributor, and the Clintons still deny to this that the repeal has anything to do with financial crisis.
That's not how I heard it in the 1980's. The hammer was $500 and gold-plated. Or was that the toilet seat?
No, it's because the federal government has the business sense of a lump of clay.
If the government had any business sense whatsoever, it would banish the predatory banks from the student loan market and make past student loans eligible for refinancing at lower interest rates. Student loans are the next ticking time bomb in the economy. Only the government can step in to relieve the pressure before it blows a hole in the economy.
Investments are intended to have a positive return.
I wish Wall Street would apply that standard during the run up to the Great Recession. So many subprime loans and Collateralize Debt Obligations (C.D.O.s) wouldn't have been issued, as requiring positive returns is the opposite strategy of maximizing fees and damning the consequences.
Allowing someone to borrow money so they can party for a few years isn't an investment in the future.
The country doesn't need anymore lawyers. We need more plumbers, electricians and carpenters.
wondering why housing loans are cheaper than school loans, which anyone can tell you a home has value, an associates in womens studies has none
Student loans cannot be discharged in bankruptcy court. Another perk that the Wall Street lobbyists wrote for themselves. Private student loans have higher interest rates than federal student loans because the banks want to milk their borrowers for every dime that they can legally get. Student loans should be cheaper than housing loans since an education is an investment in the future.
Prior to the Great Recession, Wall Street analysts considered it impossible for homes to lose value as most price drops were limited to regional markets. That assumption got turned upside when the entire housing market in the United State went kaput. A neighborhood of empty houses are quite worthless to the banks.
But how often do you really go through life without any unexpected loss of income or major expense?
One statistic I read was that the average person will experience two recessions and a depression during their lifetime. My late father who was born during the Great Depression regarded the Great Recession as another Great Depression. So do I to a certain extent. I weathered past recessions without being unemployed. But the Great Recession was something else.
The guy who blames Republicans for his problems is an incompetent idiot who can't hold a job or keep his finances in line by himself.
As a moderate conservative, I do blame the Republicans for the messes that this country got into under George W. with the economy. If I'm such an incompetent idiot, how is it that I've been employed for the last four years and my net worth has a positive balance?
So, have you stopped living beyond your means?
Most people who file for bankruptcy often do so under forced circumstances and not reckless spending. In my case, I've worked help desk for the previous five years and most recruiters/managers wouldn't consider me for anything else but help desk jobs. Needless to say, help desk jobs were non-existent in Silicon Valley in 2009 and 2010. On the day my bankruptcy got finalized and my bank accounts reached zero dollars, I got a new help desk job that started my long climb to financial solvency.
Prob is, he signed off on it to get other shit done and didn't think about the repercussions.
Not quite. Citigroup was in technical violation of the Glass-Seagall Act when it bought Travelers Insurance. Not surprisingly, the Citigroup CEO was a campaign contributor to Bill Clinton. As well all know too well, money speaks loudly to the Clintons.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/12/investing/citigroup-john-reed-glass-steagall/