Senior management are in a class known as business morons. They are far too stupid to ever understand IT stuff. Why else would the ship all the knowledge of how to operate their companies on a day to day basis to Bangalore, or where ever? The fact that as of yet no company in Bangalore has cloned a big American company is further proof the people they sent the code too are also missing a few synapses...
The business morons want our degrees to be more like the ones they get so cheap from Bangalore, but they refuse to hire community college and tech school graduates because they have associates instead of bachelor's degrees. We just need to relabel Associates in computer programming to Bachelors in Technology. The business morons will never know.
There is NO possible way anyone with a technical degree will be able to find a job with the US Congress poised to pass laws disguised as immigration reform which allow 250,000 more H1-B visas per year.
With undergraduate unemployment rates at 50% in the US why does anyone want a Bachelors degree in anything? Anyone who has a brain knows the Math-Science-Engineering-Technology shortage is manufactured by business morons and the glorious chamber who aren't even smart enough to know what they have done! Spare all of us the whining, shut the department down, and spare our children the expense of an education they will NEVER actually be able to use, or pay for.
American business are so narrow minded they refuse to use American workers who are already trained and knowledgeable enough to do these jobs. The only reason to have anyone major in software testing has more to do with the fact no other part of the industry still exists in the US. Let CS departments either shut down or merge back into math, physics, engineering, or accounting.
Why would a US university develop a BS in software testing when all those jobs will be outsourced to Bangalore, Shanghi, or Moscow long before anyone in the US could finish the program?
The problem is not the English, but the local understanding of the English. Many English words originate from other languages. By my guesstimate a lot of English words are of Swedish origin. Absolute is just one example of a word which comes to English from Latin, and Greek, by way of Swedish. I realize that many, if not most people from Europe are multi-lingual, and learn several languages simultaneously. Lets suppose the girl who picks up your article learned English as a third language. If she is Swedish there is some probability that she will use Swedish definitions and ideas with the new English words. Again, only as an example, the word absolute in the languages of continental Europe can have a range of meanings including: unrestricted, free, and pure. On the other hand, when the word absolute is used in American English it typically has to do with being restricted, constrained, and definite. For example, If a worker at Micky D's asks the manager: Should I clean the floor? the manager might reply: Absolutely! Meaning that if you value you job you WILL clean the floor. Everyone agrees the the guy with absolute power is unrestricted, and free to do anything he wants. In America the guy with absolute power is a negative figure, who is free to constrain others to do his will. The American view of absolute derives from the point of view of the one being constrained, rather than the holder of the power. An American might say that a jumper from lead A should absolutely be connected to lead Z. A native English speaker from another part of the world may interpret that to mean it is ok if he connects lead A to lead Z, or the worker in Micky-D's might feel free to clean the floor, if he wants. Perhaps as a result of the borrowing of words, phrases, and terms from other languages, one of the advantages of modern English is the ability to express many similar ideas in several different ways. This allows the English writer to constrain the idea he or she is communicating so there is less chance of a direct miss interpretation, such as the example given with the word absolute.
To answer your question: It is probably best to get a native translation, otherwise it may not matter all that much.
These tests are too easy for all of these companies to use in eliminating people which they consider undesirable: too old, too young, too long out of work, wrong gender, wrong skin, whatever. It is not just the big companies, a lot of places are using online tests to screen candidates. Some of the tests I have seen serve no purpose other than to make the candidate feel completely worthless - so they can drive the rate down. Language tests "drill down" beyond the level of language trivia, where the answers they demand are likely wrong anyway. As a consultant for many years I did lots of technical interviews. The absolute best method is putting someone who actually has knowledge of the technical area, in the room with the candidate and let them talk. If you want to know how well they know PL/1 give them a PL/1 listing and let them tell you about it. Don't send in the Guru your hired last time, because he is only out to prove he is a better programmer than the candidate. That will never end well. On the other hand too often a project manager is hired who knows little or nothing about the implementation technology. For example PL/1. The project manager will eventually find the Hughes Book, which he will peruse for highlights. The Hughes Book uses a collection of words to describe PL/1 storage types which those of us who have done PL/1 extensively simply do not use. So the PM asks the candidate over the phone to name those types: The candidate replies automatic, based, controlled, and static. The candidate is disqualified because the list does not match the terms used in the Hughes Book. Another candidate who had a PL/1 class in college and read the Hughes Book the night before will get the job because he is working from the same script as the PM. This is the main reason knowledge professionals (including programmers) need to organize.
Probably that is not a good idea.
Much of the Unix/Linux security advantage has to do with the tiered organization of the system of executable files. Unix/Linux has no other method of controlling access to programs based on the role of the user. Access by user role is efficiently implemented using this tiered file system. - if implemented correctly. The idea is four layers of security (installation(admin), developer(programmer), privileged application user, unprivileged user). Critical system programs are in/sbin (parted and other sysadmin programs),/bin is used for common utilities and programs publicly available to all users./usr/bin contains programs which are used primarily by software developers (compilers etc..)/usr/sbin is used for development admin tools. Application packages go in/opt//[bin,include,...]. The unpriviledged user can put files he wishes to execute in his own/bin directory and mark them as executable. This system allows each user to be given access only to the application software actually needed. You don't want the guy in the mail room running the payroll system. The original reason for dividing up executable programs may have differed from this, and the reasons for doing so in the modern era of personal systems are perhaps different from the historic large/mid frame machines it evolved on. Today the primary reason everyone should want to maintain this file architecture is the number of program name collisions between packages. If you build distributions you are either terribly naive, or you know what I mean. The traditional unix/linux file system does a relatively good job of limiting (i did not say eliminating) the name collision problem. It can be used for limiting the damage a system, application, or user can do to itself, friends, or frenemies. You don't really want a executing daemon to have access to it's own or anyone else's development software. There must be a better way. I am sure there are more than 4 roles, or at least a better way to implement access - The $PATH shell variable is the great failure in this scheme, and perhaps why no one bothers with taking any of the rest of it seriously. I am sure there must be some more efficient way to implement roles. I have been looking for a while now, and I have not seen it yet. Just because this method is an old idea don't mean it is a bad idea. It simply is not possible that a better solution involves a single directory with huge numbers of files. The Path method already makes search times too long. The solution has more to do with using the tiered method properly and fixing shell implementations to make it impossible for a user to change his own role ( by tinkering with $PATH). Scrapping the tiered method would make Linux too much like Windows.
They would be right about that. I used to be too busy to be bored, then some business genius decided to send the non-boring part to some other shore.
The only part of IT that was NEVER boring was the making of PL/1 or REXX code...
I would take exception to the testing bit. I think tests are gamed - especially "adaptive" tests. I seriously doubt any company actually uses them to find skilled people. The obvious goal is to make a qualified person accept a less than adequate salary because the test found some trivial bit of information which they did not know from memory, but could have discovered easily enough in any reference manual. I also strongly suspect tests are just another way to legalize age discrimination.
We are all around... problem is for years the business people in charge have made it impossible to talk to them by refusing to speak with anyone not on a vendor list. They insist on dealing with an agency. The agency has every interest in keeping us from talking to you. So eventually there is so much "business type noise" the technologist and those who could use their help are on opposite sides of the universe. We are here. Email us.
First i would appoint all the left leaning policy wonks to a commission looking into Right things.
Then i would appoint all the right leaning policy wonks to a commission looking into Left things.
I would then set the commissions to meet and report at a mud wrestling competition on a sinking ship.
Their bi-partisan report would be due the day before the next inauguration. I would refer all political questions to this commission. Meanwhile I would assemble a top of the line administrative team to run the government. That might be a bit easer now that all the knuckleheads are off wrestling in the mud on a sinking ship over their latest and greatest far idea.
Build yourself a mylar mirror scope, add a high speed, high pixel, low light digital camera.
Add electronic time marks every nano second or so. Find a few other people to go out and do the same thing. Next we need someone to write a program to take the images from the distributed scopes and sync them to generate long baseline and 3D images. Finally hook it all to the internet.
WOW.
Surviving the corporate culture is just like any of the survivor games... The inferior competition votes off those most likely to survive first, to improve their own chance of survival. Ask anyone who has been on a show, or just watch one of the series. Also explains why it seems a bunch of dummies are always trying and failing to run the world.
A terabyte dvd would store my kids video creations.
Then I could get my mega gig hard drive back to make a few of my own...
Like from the video I made of christmas and family re-unions all those years ago.
Not to mention days in the park in Kentucky and visits to the airforce museum in Dayton.
And Videos of Dale preaching in Florence, Wayne leading the kids in Jesus loves Me...
And last but not least the TIRKY Trophey just sitting there doing nothing for hours...
If i can fill up two 500 gig drives, I can fill a 1 tera-byte DVD.
Techies cannot educate gubmut. I happen to know it is totally hopless. I did gubmut work once or maybe twice. I worked for the state of virginia as a temporary person once. They never make me real, so I convinced a charity to hire me. They made me real, but did'nt pay me enough to eat, so I got myself hired by a cola company, who did'nt pay us techies enough to have babies, so I got hired by a consulting company, which hired me out to a telephone company. Telephone and computer companies paid pretty well as long as you didn't work for them. Somehow a consulting company got me involved in a gubmut work project thing. You have heard the term "good enough for gubmut work"; Most of the people started out caring, unless their parents worked for the gubmut, hence they were born with a no care attitude. Most of the people I worked with in virginia were good people who did their job. We had a few goof-offs who smoked pot in the tape library. The resin was good for a couple tape i/o errors a night, sometimes more, especially after it collected on the tape heads. Once in a while we would have a no-brainer disaster, but most things went fairly well. Gubmut work for the federal people was very different however.
One of the contractors hired 70 VAX VMS programmers to work on IBM MVS, because VMS and MVS had the same letters. I heard they "didn't know there was a difference". You never win a contract, cause if you do your competition influences the politicians to re-write the reqs so they cannot be done, which causes missed dates, which eventually puts the contract back out for new bids. Or the cometition sues you cause you won. This process goes on and on and on. The never ending gubmut work circus. Everybody but the techies are politicians, and when things go wrong techies are expendable so techies are blamed. So forgetaboutit.
Unfortunately it is perhaps more common than one would think, and well hidden behind a smoke screen of other issues - a fine political tactic... Most of these places probably do not provide their own service, but rather contract someone else. Some of these contract companies, are primarily about supplying a service to students. Others may be supplying the service thru their own filters. I know of one private university in Nashville, Tennessee which allowed it's telephone service provider to get away with demanding they disallow students from using VOIP services on the schools own network. Obviously this was to limit any competition. The added benifit of course was less traffic on that network. They made a point of course to say it was a phone company idea. That is probably true, but the IT manager had every reason to go along. The censorship may not actually be intended, but the result is the same.
The kid did't ask Dr. J.A.N. Lee, Dr. George Gorsline, or anyone relating to Grace Hopper.
Oh, I guess they are a bit old now -- Dr. Lee was my compiler professor at Va Tech 29 years ago.
Things have changed a lot in the past 30 years - including most of the players, but supprisingly
the languages are not all that different. C the ultimate simplification of assembler is still here somewhere. PL/1 never really became objective, but C++, Objective REXX, Ruby, Perl, and most of the rest are syntactic relatives of PL/1 and it's brother / sister pascal.
PERL is exec2 on steriods - even has all the crazy @#$ stuff that exec2 and CLIST needed to tell the parser it was looking at a variable. I have written some incrediably complex stuff in PL/1 for TIRKS, DPRS, etc., which really would have been easier to manage with an objective compilier,
but if you are not pushing the edge of the programming envelope you do not need it. Perl works just fine for most of the stuff I do these days, but I will be glad when PERL 6 arrives with the grand universal virtual machine thing in the background, so all the "new" languages can devolve their output into some common assemblage. If we learn this new virtual machine code maybe we can skip learning all the new languages which look like all the old languages, and thus confuse us old guys out of what is left of our minds after five years of unemployment. BTW tell the kid that in a couple years we will have programs writing the programs, so we wont need anymore programmers, let him pass that on to those guys offshore too - they need to git the rates up while the gitting is good, cause like all good things computer program code too will pass.
There were various high altitude experiments in those days - I remember seeing several, and one in particular. At the time I was told it was a NASA experiment, but lately I have come to believe it was an asteroid very near the earth. What I saw does not match any of the explainations given at the time or since. Back then no one really worried much about near earth objects from space, we were more concerned about getting stuff into space. Anything we did not understand was credited as a NASA experiment, whether or not NASA had anything to do with it. As for this article they have most everything backward. The problem is not even properly stated. It is so wrong there is no point in even replying. As for an upper atmosphere N-test, a light that bright would be seen by hundreds of millions of people, plus disrupt AM and shortwave radio communications, no way to keep that a secret. I grew up in Virginia, and I remember hearing about auroa tests, prehaps from wallops island
If you hadn't taken our milk you would'nt be making cheese either... The who moved my cheese book... if you read it was obviously written by some psych slacker who was not being laid off to make the people doing the laying off feel better. Otherwise it is the most usless piece of drival ever written.
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Senior management are in a class known as business morons. They are far too stupid to ever understand IT stuff. Why else would the ship all the knowledge of how to operate their companies on a day to day basis to Bangalore, or where ever? The fact that as of yet no company in Bangalore has cloned a big American company is further proof the people they sent the code too are also missing a few synapses ...
The business morons want our degrees to be more like the ones they get so cheap from Bangalore, but they refuse to hire community college and tech school graduates because they have associates instead of bachelor's degrees. We just need to relabel Associates in computer programming to Bachelors in Technology. The business morons will never know.
There is NO possible way anyone with a technical degree will be able to find a job with the US Congress poised to pass laws disguised as immigration reform which allow 250,000 more H1-B visas per year.
With undergraduate unemployment rates at 50% in the US why does anyone want a Bachelors degree in anything? Anyone who has a brain knows the Math-Science-Engineering-Technology shortage is manufactured by business morons and the glorious chamber who aren't even smart enough to know what they have done! Spare all of us the whining, shut the department down, and spare our children the expense of an education they will NEVER actually be able to use, or pay for.
American business are so narrow minded they refuse to use American workers who are already trained and knowledgeable enough to do these jobs. The only reason to have anyone major in software testing has more to do with the fact no other part of the industry still exists in the US. Let CS departments either shut down or merge back into math, physics, engineering, or accounting.
Why would a US university develop a BS in software testing when all those jobs will be outsourced to Bangalore, Shanghi, or Moscow long before anyone in the US could finish the program?
The problem is not the English, but the local understanding of the English. Many English words originate from other languages. By my guesstimate a lot of English words are of Swedish origin. Absolute is just one example of a word which comes to English from Latin, and Greek, by way of Swedish. I realize that many, if not most people from Europe are multi-lingual, and learn several languages simultaneously. Lets suppose the girl who picks up your article learned English as a third language. If she is Swedish there is some probability that she will use Swedish definitions and ideas with the new English words. Again, only as an example, the word absolute in the languages of continental Europe can have a range of meanings including: unrestricted, free, and pure. On the other hand, when the word absolute is used in American English it typically has to do with being restricted, constrained, and definite. For example, If a worker at Micky D's asks the manager: Should I clean the floor? the manager might reply: Absolutely! Meaning that if you value you job you WILL clean the floor. Everyone agrees the the guy with absolute power is unrestricted, and free to do anything he wants. In America the guy with absolute power is a negative figure, who is free to constrain others to do his will. The American view of absolute derives from the point of view of the one being constrained, rather than the holder of the power. An American might say that a jumper from lead A should absolutely be connected to lead Z. A native English speaker from another part of the world may interpret that to mean it is ok if he connects lead A to lead Z, or the worker in Micky-D's might feel free to clean the floor, if he wants. Perhaps as a result of the borrowing of words, phrases, and terms from other languages, one of the advantages of modern English is the ability to express many similar ideas in several different ways. This allows the English writer to constrain the idea he or she is communicating so there is less chance of a direct miss interpretation, such as the example given with the word absolute. To answer your question: It is probably best to get a native translation, otherwise it may not matter all that much.
These tests are too easy for all of these companies to use in eliminating people which they consider undesirable: too old, too young, too long out of work, wrong gender, wrong skin, whatever. It is not just the big companies, a lot of places are using online tests to screen candidates. Some of the tests I have seen serve no purpose other than to make the candidate feel completely worthless - so they can drive the rate down. Language tests "drill down" beyond the level of language trivia, where the answers they demand are likely wrong anyway. As a consultant for many years I did lots of technical interviews. The absolute best method is putting someone who actually has knowledge of the technical area, in the room with the candidate and let them talk. If you want to know how well they know PL/1 give them a PL/1 listing and let them tell you about it. Don't send in the Guru your hired last time, because he is only out to prove he is a better programmer than the candidate. That will never end well. On the other hand too often a project manager is hired who knows little or nothing about the implementation technology. For example PL/1. The project manager will eventually find the Hughes Book, which he will peruse for highlights. The Hughes Book uses a collection of words to describe PL/1 storage types which those of us who have done PL/1 extensively simply do not use. So the PM asks the candidate over the phone to name those types: The candidate replies automatic, based, controlled, and static. The candidate is disqualified because the list does not match the terms used in the Hughes Book. Another candidate who had a PL/1 class in college and read the Hughes Book the night before will get the job because he is working from the same script as the PM. This is the main reason knowledge professionals (including programmers) need to organize.
Probably that is not a good idea. Much of the Unix/Linux security advantage has to do with the tiered organization of the system of executable files. Unix/Linux has no other method of controlling access to programs based on the role of the user. Access by user role is efficiently implemented using this tiered file system. - if implemented correctly. The idea is four layers of security (installation(admin), developer(programmer), privileged application user, unprivileged user). Critical system programs are in /sbin (parted and other sysadmin programs), /bin is used for common utilities and programs publicly available to all users. /usr/bin contains programs which are used primarily by software developers (compilers etc..) /usr/sbin is used for development admin tools. Application packages go in /opt//[bin,include,...]. The unpriviledged user can put files he wishes to execute in his own /bin directory and mark them as executable. This system allows each user to be given access only to the application software actually needed. You don't want the guy in the mail room running the payroll system. The original reason for dividing up executable programs may have differed from this, and the reasons for doing so in the modern era of personal systems are perhaps different from the historic large/mid frame machines it evolved on. Today the primary reason everyone should want to maintain this file architecture is the number of program name collisions between packages. If you build distributions you are either terribly naive, or you know what I mean. The traditional unix/linux file system does a relatively good job of limiting (i did not say eliminating) the name collision problem. It can be used for limiting the damage a system, application, or user can do to itself, friends, or frenemies. You don't really want a executing daemon to have access to it's own or anyone else's development software. There must be a better way. I am sure there are more than 4 roles, or at least a better way to implement access - The $PATH shell variable is the great failure in this scheme, and perhaps why no one bothers with taking any of the rest of it seriously. I am sure there must be some more efficient way to implement roles. I have been looking for a while now, and I have not seen it yet. Just because this method is an old idea don't mean it is a bad idea. It simply is not possible that a better solution involves a single directory with huge numbers of files. The Path method already makes search times too long. The solution has more to do with using the tiered method properly and fixing shell implementations to make it impossible for a user to change his own role ( by tinkering with $PATH). Scrapping the tiered method would make Linux too much like Windows.
They would be right about that. I used to be too busy to be bored, then some business genius decided to send the non-boring part to some other shore. The only part of IT that was NEVER boring was the making of PL/1 or REXX code ...
Transfer of funds and checks in amounts of $10,000 or greater have been reported for many years. Nothing really new here.
I would take exception to the testing bit. I think tests are gamed - especially "adaptive" tests. I seriously doubt any company actually uses them to find skilled people. The obvious goal is to make a qualified person accept a less than adequate salary because the test found some trivial bit of information which they did not know from memory, but could have discovered easily enough in any reference manual. I also strongly suspect tests are just another way to legalize age discrimination.
We are all around ... problem is for years the business people in charge have made it impossible to talk to them by refusing to speak with anyone not on a vendor list. They insist on dealing with an agency. The agency has every interest in keeping us from talking to you. So eventually there is so much "business type noise" the technologist and those who could use their help are on opposite sides of the universe. We are here. Email us.
First i would appoint all the left leaning policy wonks to a commission looking into Right things. Then i would appoint all the right leaning policy wonks to a commission looking into Left things. I would then set the commissions to meet and report at a mud wrestling competition on a sinking ship. Their bi-partisan report would be due the day before the next inauguration. I would refer all political questions to this commission. Meanwhile I would assemble a top of the line administrative team to run the government. That might be a bit easer now that all the knuckleheads are off wrestling in the mud on a sinking ship over their latest and greatest far idea.
I reckon Ford is dying because of their stupid lawyers...
Build yourself a mylar mirror scope, add a high speed, high pixel, low light digital camera. Add electronic time marks every nano second or so. Find a few other people to go out and do the same thing. Next we need someone to write a program to take the images from the distributed scopes and sync them to generate long baseline and 3D images. Finally hook it all to the internet. WOW.
Surviving the corporate culture is just like any of the survivor games ... The inferior competition votes off those most likely to survive first, to improve their own chance of survival. Ask anyone who has been on a show, or just watch one of the series. Also explains why it seems a bunch of dummies are always trying and failing to run the world.
Bet on it.
A terabyte dvd would store my kids video creations. Then I could get my mega gig hard drive back to make a few of my own ...
Like from the video I made of christmas and family re-unions all those years ago.
Not to mention days in the park in Kentucky and visits to the airforce museum in Dayton.
And Videos of Dale preaching in Florence, Wayne leading the kids in Jesus loves Me...
And last but not least the TIRKY Trophey just sitting there doing nothing for hours...
If i can fill up two 500 gig drives, I can fill a 1 tera-byte DVD.
Techies cannot educate gubmut. I happen to know it is totally hopless. I did gubmut work once or maybe twice. I worked for the state of virginia as a temporary person once. They never make me real, so I convinced a charity to hire me. They made me real, but did'nt pay me enough to eat, so I got myself hired by a cola company, who did'nt pay us techies enough to have babies, so I got hired by a consulting company, which hired me out to a telephone company. Telephone and computer companies paid pretty well as long as you didn't work for them. Somehow a consulting company got me involved in a gubmut work project thing. You have heard the term "good enough for gubmut work"; Most of the people started out caring, unless their parents worked for the gubmut, hence they were born with a no care attitude. Most of the people I worked with in virginia were good people who did their job. We had a few goof-offs who smoked pot in the tape library. The resin was good for a couple tape i/o errors a night, sometimes more, especially after it collected on the tape heads. Once in a while we would have a no-brainer disaster, but most things went fairly well. Gubmut work for the federal people was very different however. One of the contractors hired 70 VAX VMS programmers to work on IBM MVS, because VMS and MVS had the same letters. I heard they "didn't know there was a difference". You never win a contract, cause if you do your competition influences the politicians to re-write the reqs so they cannot be done, which causes missed dates, which eventually puts the contract back out for new bids. Or the cometition sues you cause you won. This process goes on and on and on. The never ending gubmut work circus. Everybody but the techies are politicians, and when things go wrong techies are expendable so techies are blamed. So forgetaboutit.
Unfortunately it is perhaps more common than one would think, and well hidden behind a smoke screen of other issues - a fine political tactic... Most of these places probably do not provide their own service, but rather contract someone else. Some of these contract companies, are primarily about supplying a service to students. Others may be supplying the service thru their own filters. I know of one private university in Nashville, Tennessee which allowed it's telephone service provider to get away with demanding they disallow students from using VOIP services on the schools own network. Obviously this was to limit any competition. The added benifit of course was less traffic on that network. They made a point of course to say it was a phone company idea. That is probably true, but the IT manager had every reason to go along. The censorship may not actually be intended, but the result is the same.
The kid did't ask Dr. J.A.N. Lee, Dr. George Gorsline, or anyone relating to Grace Hopper. Oh, I guess they are a bit old now -- Dr. Lee was my compiler professor at Va Tech 29 years ago. Things have changed a lot in the past 30 years - including most of the players, but supprisingly the languages are not all that different. C the ultimate simplification of assembler is still here somewhere. PL/1 never really became objective, but C++, Objective REXX, Ruby, Perl, and most of the rest are syntactic relatives of PL/1 and it's brother / sister pascal. PERL is exec2 on steriods - even has all the crazy @#$ stuff that exec2 and CLIST needed to tell the parser it was looking at a variable. I have written some incrediably complex stuff in PL/1 for TIRKS, DPRS, etc., which really would have been easier to manage with an objective compilier, but if you are not pushing the edge of the programming envelope you do not need it. Perl works just fine for most of the stuff I do these days, but I will be glad when PERL 6 arrives with the grand universal virtual machine thing in the background, so all the "new" languages can devolve their output into some common assemblage. If we learn this new virtual machine code maybe we can skip learning all the new languages which look like all the old languages, and thus confuse us old guys out of what is left of our minds after five years of unemployment. BTW tell the kid that in a couple years we will have programs writing the programs, so we wont need anymore programmers, let him pass that on to those guys offshore too - they need to git the rates up while the gitting is good, cause like all good things computer program code too will pass.
There were various high altitude experiments in those days - I remember seeing several, and one in particular. At the time I was told it was a NASA experiment, but lately I have come to believe it was an asteroid very near the earth. What I saw does not match any of the explainations given at the time or since. Back then no one really worried much about near earth objects from space, we were more concerned about getting stuff into space. Anything we did not understand was credited as a NASA experiment, whether or not NASA had anything to do with it. As for this article they have most everything backward. The problem is not even properly stated. It is so wrong there is no point in even replying. As for an upper atmosphere N-test, a light that bright would be seen by hundreds of millions of people, plus disrupt AM and shortwave radio communications, no way to keep that a secret. I grew up in Virginia, and I remember hearing about auroa tests, prehaps from wallops island
If you hadn't taken our milk you would'nt be making cheese either... ... if you read it was obviously written by some psych slacker who was not being laid off to make the people doing the laying off feel better. Otherwise it is the most usless piece of drival ever written.
The who moved my cheese book