Never let them take cash away from us. If we go to a cashless society then the politicians can play more games because they can. They will. Note I didn't say R or D or anything else. It's just too tempting.
The result is we'll have to go back to something physical, like silver and gold. Something they can't steal from us nearly as easily.
Oh it's not that bad I hear you say. In 1954 I have a picture of the 1954 Plane-O-Rama by Beechcraft aircraft. There are around 50 aircraft in that picture and it says it's a 1 million dollar display of NEW aircraft. Twins, bunch of singles, etc. over 50 of them. Today 1 million would buy you maybe two singles, one of the twins. The room would be almost empty. That's how much money politicians have stolen from us since WWII. That is, around 95% of the value.
Wow, really? I knew a lot of people that had bypass surgery back then. They usually made it about 10 years. I don't think any of them made it to 15 years later. Count yourself lucky. Whoever did it did a really good job. So you're saying she recently passed away? Man, that's incredible. Sounds like she was in her 80s or something? Be grateful. Mine died at the age of 59. She was alive for only 17 years of my life.
50 years ago I was two. However I remember a lot of that time since not much would change in the next 10 years. 1) Civil rights for black people were realized though the Republican push since the 1950s under Eisenhower. Sure, LBJ signed the civil rights act - kicking and screaming (He defeated this same bill at least 3 times when he was a senator during the 1950s) and said "I'll have those n1ggers voting for Democrats for the next 200 years because of this." He was mostly right. Today the Democratic party mostly owns their vote, unless a real turd runs like Hillary. A lot of black people voted against her, making other black people wonder why. Like in Philly for example. They later had to admit the numbers were right and they were right. Hillary really was a big turd. I think everyone but the most ignorant realizes that now. 2) Real racism died out during that time. "Racism" today is bullshit. I mean real racism. Like not letting people buy a house because they're black, or not allowing them to buy a car because they're black. It went a lot deeper. Jobs and such. Even killing people. Today all you have to do to be a "racist" is disagree with a leftist person about anything. They have nothing else like a real argument why what they think is right so there you have it. It's stopping white people from doing things in the name of a SJW. That's bullshit. The SJW should be taken and sent to a re-education camp. They've obviously been lied to, a lot. 3) Technology - God technology. Back then you'd be cutting edge with a transistor radio. We had board games, outside, nature, each other. We sent men to the moon on less than what a common calculator can do today. There are some guys with balls, because they knew how lame the technology was back then and did it anyway. They almost paid the price. 4) No microwave oven. I know people today that can't even use a regular range. Everything they do is with a microwave. 5) Air conditioning. 50 years ago it was around in places. Autos sometimes had it, however today it's everywhere for the most part. A lot of places actually had in big letters - AIR CONDITIONING as a way to bring you in.
6) Social economically we're way better off. 50 years ago if you were poor, you were poor. You'd be lucky to have indoor plumbing. Usually no electric. Today even our poor often have a cell phone, indoor plumbing, etc. In fact the poor in the US live better than the middle class in most countries. They should also learn to STFU more and realize just how well they have it. Be grateful.
No question, in just about any measure we're way better off than 50 years ago. As long as you're in an industrialized country. If you're in a back-assward country, probably not so much. Most of the countries in Africa and South America for example. They're so stupid, collectively.
In fact today almost every American lives better than a King did 100 years ago.
A GDP chart, from 2015. Really? That's nice... Since you can't see me, I have a really annoyed look on my face. I have to wonder if you're just an idiot, trolling or just plain clueless with that chart. Probably trolling. Here's a clue, it's useless to what we're discussing. Unless you believe Trump somehow had something to do with the GDP at least two years before he was even elected president (since you appear to be math challenged, it's a 2015 chart, meaning it's from at least the previous year and Trump was elected in 2016, became Pres in 2017, so that's at least two years).
Since I'm sure a guy like you can't believe anything unless it's from the NY Times or WashPo, Here you go with a real article: https://www.washingtonpost.com...
However any comparison to Obummer or anyone else for that matter is really premature. Yet I know they can't stand waiting. A footnote to the Obama administration is they changed how they figured the GDP so he wouldn't look so bad. Something a lot of people missed.
So you're hung up on GDP? How about black people back to work - https://data.bls.gov/timeserie... . So much for him being a racist. Is there a measure that is your favorite? Don't go looking for one, it's likely a fools errand. I don't think you'll find one.
Given the tax restructure rates just passed today, the largest in 30 years, this will be like rocket fuel for the economy. Money should return to the states, people will work again. America will be great again. If we had Hillary, we'd be headed for Venezuela. Where they're eating their zoo animals to survive now. Socialism never works, wherever it's tried. So only really stupid people support it over Capitalism. Might not be perfect, however it's the best man has come up with.
Look past your lying media. If you're in a really blue place like New York, Ill, Cali, etc, sure. Things suck. Suck big time because you're reaping those really bad policies. South Chicago is where the Democratic policies are in place. They lead to a place like Venezuela.
Go out to the red parts like Ohio, hell even some blue places like Maryland and you'll see housing starts and such. There are places in NY where the number of housing starts is ZERO. People are leaving. Did you know in Chicago that the murder rate and such is worse than Beirut and Baghdad?
Unemployment is down, especially with black people. GDP is doing great, in fact the economy is doing great and a lot of his promises have been kept. Look past your lying media. I mean it's so blatant that even a cave man can see through it lately. CNN won't even talk about their Don Junior fuckup recently it was so bad.
Things were terrible and needed to be fixed just two short years ago? Did anyone notice after it was passed?
Impact to me - my bills went up as everything else did under Obummer. More people out of work, GDP was a joke, lots of needless regulations, spending money like there was no tomorrow (14 T dollars!). Obama was THE WORST.
Knowing about it and being able to defend against it are two different things. The US knows about it, has known since the 1950s when we discovered it and yet most of our stuff isn't protected.
Hell, we know about the Sun and how it could obliterate our electrical grid like it did in Canada and yet getting them to make obvious changes to mitigate this threat is like pulling teeth, no, it's like forcing 20 lbs of potatoes into a 5 lbs bag. Just can't do it. They won't do it. Even though the IEEE has written about it a bunch of times and how cheap it would be to fix given what would happen if the sun hit us.
Wondering how long it'll take before governments decide it's a threat and round up all the servers (because their location isn't a secret) at the same time and destroy them. I'm talking Hillary Clinton's e-mail type destroy them (no fuckin' way you'll get it back, they're bleached good)!
Poof, all gone. "crypto currencies", which aren't really crypto currencies are gone for good.
Darker, you mean burned. Starbucks stuff is always burned. It's crap. Yet stupid people shovel out big bucks for it. I make my own, every day. Not the K cup stuff either, good old filters, folgers or maxwell house. I even got a deal on Krispy Kream coffee recently.
Ever work for a software company? Any company for that matter. There is something called a deadline. Pack as much as you can and get it all working before some date. As you get closer sometimes things are removed. Not just software, happens in the auto and other industries. Then it's released.
No magic yet. Things still have to go through old fashioned testing and code reviews.
Actually, excel can be frickin' powerful. I use it every day and have for well over a decade. Not sure when I switched from 123 to excel. The bad part is excel can help you make terrible decisions. It's all in the details and knowing what it's doing and not doing. IMHO, I think it's worse than working with C, the programming language in terms of difficulty. Yea you're doing a countif... are you really doing a countif on what you thought? Get it wrong and all kinds of stuff is wrong now.
I remember a guy using excel to determine who he needed to cut from the company. He passed it by me and I showed him how he had a bunch of wrong stuff in it. He nearly terminated a bunch of people that shouldn't have been. Some guys with decades of experience over 50 cents for example. Just think how this could and probably does happen out there. He could have easily have called it a day and gone out for a beer instead of having me look.
I'll preface this by saying I don't like any of them. Fox, CNN, NBC, etc. They all suck. They all have bad opinions on what should lead the news and what's important. Good journalism was killed in the 1980s I think. Taken over by leftists. I say that because I saw it happen in Universities.
Faux news, do you mean CNN, NBC, etc that have been caught outright lying lately? Maybe you STILL believe the Trump/Russia collusion bullshit? I have a sister that still buys that even though she can't point to ANYTHING that was done to prove that. I can point to plenty to show Hillary/Russia collusion. The Uranium deal, the 500 grand they "donated" to her, etc. Podesta was an un-registered agent of Russia.. and on and on and on. Yet I bet you still believe them. So they can tell you another lie.
I know, so many people need protection from the truth. People like you. Go ahead and take another blue pill. Everything is fine. Just let the government run your life, tell you what you can and can't do and then tell you to like it. They know what's good for you after all. Just ask them. Bill Clinton actually said that they know how to spend your money better than you do. You also don't need to think if you listen to MSM. They tell you what to think and do. Kill the police, hate white people, you know - how to be some real bigots and racists.
Let's start with this thought - conservatives believe in change from within. That is, you change. You make yourself better. Liberals can't wait for things like that. They want to tell you what to do, with yourself, your money and if you don't they want to put you in jail, beat you, etc. Just look at the news. Trump didn't send those people to Charlottesville and those other places. The liberals/left did.
I get a big kick out of leftist assholes. Ask them to put their own money towards the BS they're spouting and they won't do it. They want to spend other people's money instead.
BTW, with news - don't listen to just one side. Listen to what fox says, what NBC says, others say. The real truth is probably in there somewhere. They say to believe about half of what you read.
OMG will someone stop him from this suicide attempt?
Let him do it. As long as he isn't hurting anyone else. You only live once after all. I've done plenty of things that could have been my last thing I ever did. Never felt more alive.
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Never let them take cash away from us. If we go to a cashless society then the politicians can play more games because they can. They will. Note I didn't say R or D or anything else. It's just too tempting.
The result is we'll have to go back to something physical, like silver and gold. Something they can't steal from us nearly as easily.
Oh it's not that bad I hear you say. In 1954 I have a picture of the 1954 Plane-O-Rama by Beechcraft aircraft. There are around 50 aircraft in that picture and it says it's a 1 million dollar display of NEW aircraft. Twins, bunch of singles, etc. over 50 of them. Today 1 million would buy you maybe two singles, one of the twins. The room would be almost empty. That's how much money politicians have stolen from us since WWII. That is, around 95% of the value.
Wow, really? I knew a lot of people that had bypass surgery back then. They usually made it about 10 years. I don't think any of them made it to 15 years later. Count yourself lucky. Whoever did it did a really good job. So you're saying she recently passed away? Man, that's incredible. Sounds like she was in her 80s or something? Be grateful. Mine died at the age of 59. She was alive for only 17 years of my life.
50 years ago I was two. However I remember a lot of that time since not much would change in the next 10 years.
1) Civil rights for black people were realized though the Republican push since the 1950s under Eisenhower. Sure, LBJ signed the civil rights act - kicking and screaming (He defeated this same bill at least 3 times when he was a senator during the 1950s) and said "I'll have those n1ggers voting for Democrats for the next 200 years because of this." He was mostly right. Today the Democratic party mostly owns their vote, unless a real turd runs like Hillary. A lot of black people voted against her, making other black people wonder why. Like in Philly for example. They later had to admit the numbers were right and they were right. Hillary really was a big turd. I think everyone but the most ignorant realizes that now.
2) Real racism died out during that time. "Racism" today is bullshit. I mean real racism. Like not letting people buy a house because they're black, or not allowing them to buy a car because they're black. It went a lot deeper. Jobs and such. Even killing people. Today all you have to do to be a "racist" is disagree with a leftist person about anything. They have nothing else like a real argument why what they think is right so there you have it. It's stopping white people from doing things in the name of a SJW. That's bullshit. The SJW should be taken and sent to a re-education camp. They've obviously been lied to, a lot.
3) Technology - God technology. Back then you'd be cutting edge with a transistor radio. We had board games, outside, nature, each other. We sent men to the moon on less than what a common calculator can do today. There are some guys with balls, because they knew how lame the technology was back then and did it anyway. They almost paid the price.
4) No microwave oven. I know people today that can't even use a regular range. Everything they do is with a microwave.
5) Air conditioning. 50 years ago it was around in places. Autos sometimes had it, however today it's everywhere for the most part. A lot of places actually had in big letters - AIR CONDITIONING as a way to bring you in.
6) Social economically we're way better off. 50 years ago if you were poor, you were poor. You'd be lucky to have indoor plumbing. Usually no electric. Today even our poor often have a cell phone, indoor plumbing, etc. In fact the poor in the US live better than the middle class in most countries. They should also learn to STFU more and realize just how well they have it. Be grateful.
No question, in just about any measure we're way better off than 50 years ago. As long as you're in an industrialized country. If you're in a back-assward country, probably not so much. Most of the countries in Africa and South America for example. They're so stupid, collectively.
In fact today almost every American lives better than a King did 100 years ago.
So you'd rather it say username is incorrect and password is incorrect than username or password is incorrect?
Tell your boss you have too much free time on your hands. They need to assign you more work.
A GDP chart, from 2015. Really? That's nice... Since you can't see me, I have a really annoyed look on my face. I have to wonder if you're just an idiot, trolling or just plain clueless with that chart. Probably trolling. Here's a clue, it's useless to what we're discussing. Unless you believe Trump somehow had something to do with the GDP at least two years before he was even elected president (since you appear to be math challenged, it's a 2015 chart, meaning it's from at least the previous year and Trump was elected in 2016, became Pres in 2017, so that's at least two years).
Since I'm sure a guy like you can't believe anything unless it's from the NY Times or WashPo, Here you go with a real article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
However any comparison to Obummer or anyone else for that matter is really premature. Yet I know they can't stand waiting. A footnote to the Obama administration is they changed how they figured the GDP so he wouldn't look so bad. Something a lot of people missed.
So you're hung up on GDP? How about black people back to work - https://data.bls.gov/timeserie... . So much for him being a racist. Is there a measure that is your favorite? Don't go looking for one, it's likely a fools errand. I don't think you'll find one.
Given the tax restructure rates just passed today, the largest in 30 years, this will be like rocket fuel for the economy. Money should return to the states, people will work again. America will be great again. If we had Hillary, we'd be headed for Venezuela. Where they're eating their zoo animals to survive now. Socialism never works, wherever it's tried. So only really stupid people support it over Capitalism. Might not be perfect, however it's the best man has come up with.
Look past your lying media. If you're in a really blue place like New York, Ill, Cali, etc, sure. Things suck. Suck big time because you're reaping those really bad policies. South Chicago is where the Democratic policies are in place. They lead to a place like Venezuela.
Go out to the red parts like Ohio, hell even some blue places like Maryland and you'll see housing starts and such. There are places in NY where the number of housing starts is ZERO. People are leaving. Did you know in Chicago that the murder rate and such is worse than Beirut and Baghdad?
Pull your head out of the ground my friend.
Are you referring to the birther stuff Hillary's man put out there in the first place? https://www.washingtontimes.co...
Unemployment is down, especially with black people. GDP is doing great, in fact the economy is doing great and a lot of his promises have been kept. Look past your lying media. I mean it's so blatant that even a cave man can see through it lately. CNN won't even talk about their Don Junior fuckup recently it was so bad.
I would rather see VBA replaced by C# variant.
Really? Why? We think people have trouble with VB, imagine C.
Wonder if he tried his wife's name, the dogs name... password1234...
Things were terrible and needed to be fixed just two short years ago? Did anyone notice after it was passed?
Impact to me - my bills went up as everything else did under Obummer. More people out of work, GDP was a joke, lots of needless regulations, spending money like there was no tomorrow (14 T dollars!). Obama was THE WORST.
Knowing about it and being able to defend against it are two different things. The US knows about it, has known since the 1950s when we discovered it and yet most of our stuff isn't protected.
Hell, we know about the Sun and how it could obliterate our electrical grid like it did in Canada and yet getting them to make obvious changes to mitigate this threat is like pulling teeth, no, it's like forcing 20 lbs of potatoes into a 5 lbs bag. Just can't do it. They won't do it. Even though the IEEE has written about it a bunch of times and how cheap it would be to fix given what would happen if the sun hit us.
Don't worry. There is always an asshole out there to worry about.
Wondering how long it'll take before governments decide it's a threat and round up all the servers (because their location isn't a secret) at the same time and destroy them. I'm talking Hillary Clinton's e-mail type destroy them (no fuckin' way you'll get it back, they're bleached good)!
Poof, all gone. "crypto currencies", which aren't really crypto currencies are gone for good.
Darker, you mean burned. Starbucks stuff is always burned. It's crap. Yet stupid people shovel out big bucks for it.
I make my own, every day. Not the K cup stuff either, good old filters, folgers or maxwell house. I even got a deal on Krispy Kream coffee recently.
Hit the nail on the head. I have no mod points... Otherwise I'd bump you up.
I doubt it. I think Rob (Cmdr Taco) beat all of them into real users.
Ever work for a software company? Any company for that matter. There is something called a deadline. Pack as much as you can and get it all working before some date. As you get closer sometimes things are removed. Not just software, happens in the auto and other industries. Then it's released.
No magic yet. Things still have to go through old fashioned testing and code reviews.
Actually, excel can be frickin' powerful. I use it every day and have for well over a decade. Not sure when I switched from 123 to excel. The bad part is excel can help you make terrible decisions. It's all in the details and knowing what it's doing and not doing. IMHO, I think it's worse than working with C, the programming language in terms of difficulty. Yea you're doing a countif... are you really doing a countif on what you thought? Get it wrong and all kinds of stuff is wrong now.
I remember a guy using excel to determine who he needed to cut from the company. He passed it by me and I showed him how he had a bunch of wrong stuff in it. He nearly terminated a bunch of people that shouldn't have been. Some guys with decades of experience over 50 cents for example. Just think how this could and probably does happen out there. He could have easily have called it a day and gone out for a beer instead of having me look.
I'll preface this by saying I don't like any of them. Fox, CNN, NBC, etc. They all suck. They all have bad opinions on what should lead the news and what's important. Good journalism was killed in the 1980s I think. Taken over by leftists. I say that because I saw it happen in Universities.
Faux news, do you mean CNN, NBC, etc that have been caught outright lying lately? Maybe you STILL believe the Trump/Russia collusion bullshit? I have a sister that still buys that even though she can't point to ANYTHING that was done to prove that. I can point to plenty to show Hillary/Russia collusion. The Uranium deal, the 500 grand they "donated" to her, etc. Podesta was an un-registered agent of Russia.. and on and on and on. Yet I bet you still believe them. So they can tell you another lie.
I know, so many people need protection from the truth. People like you. Go ahead and take another blue pill. Everything is fine. Just let the government run your life, tell you what you can and can't do and then tell you to like it. They know what's good for you after all. Just ask them. Bill Clinton actually said that they know how to spend your money better than you do. You also don't need to think if you listen to MSM. They tell you what to think and do. Kill the police, hate white people, you know - how to be some real bigots and racists.
Let's start with this thought - conservatives believe in change from within. That is, you change. You make yourself better. Liberals can't wait for things like that. They want to tell you what to do, with yourself, your money and if you don't they want to put you in jail, beat you, etc. Just look at the news. Trump didn't send those people to Charlottesville and those other places. The liberals/left did.
I get a big kick out of leftist assholes. Ask them to put their own money towards the BS they're spouting and they won't do it. They want to spend other people's money instead.
BTW, with news - don't listen to just one side. Listen to what fox says, what NBC says, others say. The real truth is probably in there somewhere. They say to believe about half of what you read.
FB lied and denied, but now you can trust them. Believe me!
Why yes you can! They've found Jesus and they've seen the light. No longer will they deceive us and tow the crazy leftist lines.
AC, don't you just love them? Wish they would do away with the AC on slashdot. It would cut so much BS out.
You're right on though. He talked about it, the Democrats actually do what he said and way, way, way more.
It's a joke. There are NASA scientists that are members of the flat earth society.
Joke, that's a joke son. Boy is about as sharp as a bowling ball.
-Foghorn
OMG will someone stop him from this suicide attempt?
Let him do it. As long as he isn't hurting anyone else. You only live once after all. I've done plenty of things that could have been my last thing I ever did. Never felt more alive.
SJW hate other SJW. Somehow they've had it worse than the other SJW... so they bitch like they've been told to do.