Quotes from the late, wonderful Molly Ivins: "The Texas Lege is God's gift to columnists" "The Lege is in session - our villages are missing their idiots"
Besides, doesn' t he know that the Mark of the Beast (tm) is the barcode that they laser tatoo on your forehead?
Last time I tried, maybe four years ago, three quarters of the responses were from presumably 46 yr old fat scammers claiming to be 23 yr old Russian girls, or whatever.... Wading through the crap isn't my idea of "frictionless".
Horse hockey. I used PL/1 at my first programming job, at a community college, and loved it. All the best features of COBOL and Fortran, with few of the drawbacks. I've always thought of it as C for mainframes, v.1.
mark "any language you can't get into *real* trouble with, won't let you do an elegant job"
That's stupid. I had an account with them. I was already worried in '07 - a bank that advertises a "woo-hoo moment" does *not* give me comfort; rather, it makes me think they're playing lots of illegal and borderline legal games in the books and elsewhere.
They went under, because they screwed around. They were sold to Wachovia. (Which, about two years or so ago, was sold to Wells Fargo).
You've never in your life thought about it. PITA? Only for someone as ignorant as you.
I, personally, would rather have *one* set of wrenches and sockets. I'd also rather *not* spend a billion dollars or so on a Mars lander, only to have it crash because they designed it using *both* units.
Never mind that things could be exported a lot more easily to the entire rest of the world with no mods....
Let's see, glare from the ice blinding you and everyone else, can't see the lanes, oh, that's right: all of this needs power... and when the power's out, it's useless. Let's see, when does power go out... oh, right, in bad weather!
reflectors in the road, in the lines, as they have in some states, are a far better and cheaper solution, and they're "powered" by your headlights (unless you're one of those idiots with misaligned headlights, in states that don't have a safety inspection which includes that, every year).
Don't live in a city, do you? Work in the farther 'burbs?
Or is it that you just *adore* spending all that time in traffic jams?
Chicago, before I moved to DC, I remember riding the Metra commuter rail down the middle of the Interstate near downtown, and cruising by all the idiots doing somewhere between zero and 40, as we clearly were doing 60.....
It happens. For example, in the late eighties, when I was still on a mainframe, halfway through my stint at at Fortune 500 company (referred to, ever since, as the Scummy Mortgage Co, SMC, actual name available upon request, and for many, many, many reasons), they fired (not laid off) the other online programmer, who'd been there 10 years. A few months later, I found his "algorithm" for leap year in most of the online systems: if it was 76 or 80 or 84 or 88 or 92, it was a leap year.
I kid you not.
I went to my boss, the VP of DP, and told him about it, and he said, is it broke? I told him it would be broken in a couple of years, and he told me, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". But, but, I said, and he replied, "we'll fix it whern it breaks".
And this was in a *mortgage* co - y'know, people who have to calculate 30 mortgages?
I mean, they post addresses of child molesters and other sex criminals. Why shouldn't I know who on my block I should worry about - say, if I hear a loud argument, I'll know to call the cops and warn them someone there owns a gun?
Finally, as an old aquaintance once put it, the invasion of Normandy was unneccesary, since it was inevitable that the Wehrmacht would fall to the invincible French Resistance.
And, let's not, all the revolutions going on, the rebels are getting weapons a) from their own military, and/or b) from other countries, not from their own arsenels... unless you're living in Somalia.
And anyone who htinks the initial clause about "a well-regulated militia" has nothing to do with anyone's right to own all the guns they want, of all kinds, is a psychotic asshole (and, by the way, yes, your cock *is* too small).
And there's one more I can't seem to google, where a British train was derailed, and one or more death may have occured, because some 16 yr old "hacker" had gotten into the rail company's switching system (WHICH WAS ON THE 'NET!!!!!), and changed switch setting at the wrong time. This would have been in the last 8 years or so.....
It's usually noted that L.Ron was living on a yacht the last 10 years of his life, since the UK gov't didn't believe Scienterology was a religion, and wanted him for tax fraud.
And just how do these other economists define that phrase? Is it thirty years... in which case that's when you kids are my age.
In the late seventies, before many of you were born, and into the early eighties, there was a *lot* of talk in the media and by talking heads, about how, in the US, well, yes, manufacturing was going away, but it was going to be replaced by better, less soul-deadening, and better-paying jobs in the "Information Economy".
Yup. And for the majority of the US (that's > 50%, for those playing with statistics), their paychecks have been stagnant or gone down; the majority of newly created jobs involve burgers, pizza, and low-level healthcare.
This time around, they claim that the economy will Really Move, and more new jobs will be created... not one is saying *where* those jobs will come from.
And do you *really* think many people are capable of doing college, and adding to the economy, rather than them preferring lower education jobs, and more time at life, not at work?
There were a number of stories a couple of months ago, about new manufacturing jobs here.. all of which require extensive training, and there aren't a lot of them.
The conversation I've been trying to get started for about 15 years is what happens when 90% of manufacturing is automated, and construction is heavily prefab? Where will the jobs be? What will happen to three-quarters of the population - will it be like what used to be called the Third World, with 50%-80% unemployment?
Just to offer a suggestion, how about government ownership of major industries, and a reverse income tax... the way they have in Alaska?
What you do with your life after that is, of course, a separate conversation.
Early in slashdot's life, at a previous passage of toutitis, I tried to get people interested in forming a group to push a mission to it, to shove it into orbit around Earth, say, around geosync, so we'd have something for a *real* space station, but noooo, you guys blew me off. Just wait till it hits, then you'll be sorry....
Yep. Modern capitalism: under no legal moral or ethical contraints - let's leave it at that.
The S&L scandal, which according to the media was 30% white collar crime. Enron. The current depression. Yup, not under any constraints at all... and too big to go to jail.
mark "or is there something this non-Xian is missing about morality?"
Are you teaching him *real* science, or Creationism? Are you teaching him real history? And once he's old enough, who's going to hire him without an accredited degree, regardless of his abilities? How's do you think he'll get through any HR dept?
Is not just "regionally" accredited - it falls under the SUNY accreditation, and is a real, valid college degree. I should know: I have a BS from there (or rather, from when it was called Regents' College). You get accredited credits from colleges, accredited tests, etc, and when you have the right point spread, you get your degree. None of this crap from every other college about "oh, well, yes, you took compiler design there, but they have a different *emphasis*, and so we'll only call it an anonymous in-program upper-level elective, and you'll have to take it again", as UT at Austin told me in '91.
There's also no more of this "you have to take the last 30 or 60 credits of your degree *here* (and pay us the money), and those credits aren't transferrable....
It was created in '72 specifically for nursing and... can't remember, another program - students who were in the military, and "yes, we know you're three months from your degree, but Uncle is sending you to Germany for the next two years."
Note this is *not* U of Phoenix, or some such, nor just a "credit bank".
IIRC, from the earliest ones that showed up in WWI, tanks were self-propelled mobile cannon. This is more like an armored fighting vehicle (think cheap hummer or a Bradley), given that it only has a machine gun.
But didn't we see its like every week in the early eighties, about quarter of the hour, after Mr. T had welded steel onto a vehicle? Maybe it should be called the Mr. T Fighting Vehicle.
I've been saying this for decades. How many times do you need an elephant to fall on you before you start loosing it all?
Many years ago, I read that the *average* (not superstar) NFL player retires after six years with the body of a 59 yr old. And you wonder why I actively dislike football?
mark "American football: using your body as a blunt instrument to batter your opponants into submission"
A dozen years, I'd have been overwhelmed in my desire to go by all the other slashdotters asking where to sign up. These days, too many of the assholes who used to come out of alt.syntax.tactical....
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Quotes from the late, wonderful Molly Ivins:
"The Texas Lege is God's gift to columnists"
"The Lege is in session - our villages are missing their idiots"
Besides, doesn' t he know that the Mark of the Beast (tm) is the barcode that they laser tatoo on your forehead?
mark
Last time I tried, maybe four years ago, three quarters of the responses were from presumably 46 yr old fat scammers claiming to be 23 yr old Russian girls, or whatever.... Wading through the crap isn't my idea of "frictionless".
mark, met someone in the RW, and happily married,
Horse hockey. I used PL/1 at my first programming job, at a community college, and loved it. All the best features of COBOL and Fortran, with few of the drawbacks. I've always thought of it as C for mainframes, v.1.
mark "any language you can't get into *real* trouble with, won't let you do an elegant job"
That's stupid. I had an account with them. I was already worried in '07 - a bank that advertises a "woo-hoo moment" does *not* give me comfort; rather, it makes me think they're playing lots of illegal and borderline legal games in the books and elsewhere.
They went under, because they screwed around. They were sold to Wachovia. (Which, about two years or so ago, was sold to Wells Fargo).
mark
You've never in your life thought about it. PITA? Only for someone as ignorant as you.
I, personally, would rather have *one* set of wrenches and sockets. I'd also rather *not* spend a billion dollars or so on a Mars lander, only to have it crash because they designed it using *both* units.
Never mind that things could be exported a lot more easily to the entire rest of the world with no mods....
mark
Let's see, glare from the ice blinding you and everyone else, can't see the lanes, oh, that's right: all of this needs power... and when the power's out, it's useless. Let's see, when does power go out... oh, right, in bad weather!
reflectors in the road, in the lines, as they have in some states, are a far better and cheaper solution, and they're "powered" by your headlights (unless you're one of those idiots with misaligned headlights, in states that don't have a safety inspection which includes that, every year).
mark
Don't live in a city, do you? Work in the farther 'burbs?
Or is it that you just *adore* spending all that time in traffic jams?
Chicago, before I moved to DC, I remember riding the Metra commuter rail down the middle of the Interstate near downtown, and cruising by all the idiots doing somewhere between zero and 40, as we clearly were doing 60.....
mark "why, yes, I *am* a big city guy"
It happens. For example, in the late eighties, when I was still on a mainframe, halfway through my stint at at Fortune 500 company (referred to, ever since, as the Scummy Mortgage Co, SMC, actual name available upon request, and for many, many, many reasons), they fired (not laid off) the other online programmer, who'd been there 10 years. A few months later, I found his "algorithm" for leap year in most of the online systems: if it was 76 or 80 or 84 or 88 or 92, it was a leap year.
I kid you not.
I went to my boss, the VP of DP, and told him about it, and he said, is it broke? I told him it would be broken in a couple of years, and he told me, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". But, but, I said, and he replied, "we'll fix it whern it breaks".
And this was in a *mortgage* co - y'know, people who have to calculate 30 mortgages?
mark, shaking head
I mean, they post addresses of child molesters and other sex criminals. Why shouldn't I know who on my block I should worry about - say, if I hear a loud argument, I'll know to call the cops and warn them someone there owns a gun?
Finally, as an old aquaintance once put it, the invasion of Normandy was unneccesary, since it was inevitable that the Wehrmacht would fall to the invincible French Resistance.
And, let's not, all the revolutions going on, the rebels are getting weapons a) from their own military, and/or b) from other countries, not from their own arsenels... unless you're living in Somalia.
And anyone who htinks the initial clause about "a well-regulated militia" has nothing to do with anyone's right to own all the guns they want, of all kinds, is a psychotic asshole (and, by the way, yes, your cock *is* too small).
mark
http://inhomelandsecurity.com/teen_hacker_in_poland_plays_tr/
http://paranoidnews.org/2011/11/hackers-take-control-of-a-water-pump-in-illinois-and-disrupt-public-water-system/
And there's one more I can't seem to google, where a British train was derailed, and one or more death may have occured, because some 16 yr old "hacker" had gotten into the rail company's switching system (WHICH WAS ON THE 'NET!!!!!), and changed switch setting at the wrong time. This would have been in the last 8 years or so.....
mark
It's usually noted that L.Ron was living on a yacht the last 10 years of his life, since the UK gov't didn't believe Scienterology was a religion, and wanted him for tax fraud.
mark
As opposed to the idiot political ones.
How about generating a strong magnetic field around the ship? Maybe even bring it into what's effectives an RTG?
mark
The FBI, and military police, and the CIA, did it back then. It was a large enough scandal that Congress passed laws against it.
Too many years of pro-crime (white collar, please), pro-totalitarian (corporate, please) Republicans, and they did it again. I'm *so* surprised.
"Support, protect, uphold the Constitution", if it doesn't bother the people that own you.
mark
Will the Sun (UK paper) have to put a "warning filter" on its front page (ok, slashkiddies, google Page 3 girl")?
mark
And just how do these other economists define that phrase? Is it thirty years... in which case that's when you kids are my age.
In the late seventies, before many of you were born, and into the early eighties, there was a *lot* of talk in the media and by talking heads, about how, in the US, well, yes, manufacturing was going away, but it was going to be replaced by better, less soul-deadening, and better-paying jobs in the "Information Economy".
Yup. And for the majority of the US (that's > 50%, for those playing with statistics), their paychecks have been stagnant or gone down; the majority of newly created jobs involve burgers, pizza, and low-level healthcare.
This time around, they claim that the economy will Really Move, and more new jobs will be created... not one is saying *where* those jobs will come from.
And do you *really* think many people are capable of doing college, and adding to the economy, rather than them preferring lower education jobs, and more time at life, not at work?
There were a number of stories a couple of months ago, about new manufacturing jobs here.. all of which require extensive training, and there aren't a lot of them.
The conversation I've been trying to get started for about 15 years is what happens when 90% of manufacturing is automated, and construction is heavily prefab? Where will the jobs be? What will happen to three-quarters of the population - will it be like what used to be called the Third World, with 50%-80% unemployment?
Just to offer a suggestion, how about government ownership of major industries, and a reverse income tax... the way they have in Alaska?
What you do with your life after that is, of course, a separate conversation.
mark
Every "anti-American" platitude? Even if it's true?
The US signed over 500 treaties with the Native Americans , and didn't keep a single one.
Platitude? Or maybe you should just go back to where your ancestors came from, and hand the country back to the Real Americans?
As a part-Native American friend used to have as a sigfile, "the Native Americans had really *bad* immigration laws".
mark
Early in slashdot's life, at a previous passage of toutitis, I tried to get people interested in forming a group to push a mission to it, to shove it into orbit around Earth, say, around geosync, so we'd have something for a *real* space station, but noooo, you guys blew me off. Just wait till it hits, then you'll be sorry....
mark
Yep. Modern capitalism: under no legal moral or ethical contraints - let's leave it at that.
The S&L scandal, which according to the media was 30% white collar crime. Enron. The current depression. Yup, not under any constraints at all... and too big to go to jail.
mark "or is there something this non-Xian is missing about morality?"
Are you teaching him *real* science, or Creationism?
Are you teaching him real history?
And once he's old enough, who's going to hire him without an accredited degree, regardless of his abilities? How's do you think he'll get through any HR dept?
mark
Slowpoke. I've still got my Zoom 56k ISA modem somewhere in a box at home.....
mark "I may have some punch cards around somewhere, too"
Oh, right, and what's wrong with an Associate's degree? You some kind on little snot upper class twit?
mark
Is not just "regionally" accredited - it falls under the SUNY accreditation, and is a real, valid college degree. I should know: I have a BS from there (or rather, from when it was called Regents' College). You get accredited credits from colleges, accredited tests, etc, and when you have the right point spread, you get your degree. None of this crap from every other college about "oh, well, yes, you took compiler design there, but they have a different *emphasis*, and so we'll only call it an anonymous in-program upper-level elective, and you'll have to take it again", as UT at Austin told me in '91.
There's also no more of this "you have to take the last 30 or 60 credits of your degree *here* (and pay us the money), and those credits aren't transferrable....
It was created in '72 specifically for nursing and... can't remember, another program - students who were in the military, and "yes, we know you're three months from your degree, but Uncle is sending you to Germany for the next two years."
Note this is *not* U of Phoenix, or some such, nor just a "credit bank".
mark, BS, CIS '95, and proud of it.
IIRC, from the earliest ones that showed up in WWI, tanks were self-propelled mobile cannon. This is more like an armored fighting vehicle (think cheap hummer or a Bradley), given that it only has a machine gun.
But didn't we see its like every week in the early eighties, about quarter of the hour, after Mr. T had welded steel onto a vehicle? Maybe it should be called the Mr. T Fighting Vehicle.
mark
I've been saying this for decades. How many times do you need an elephant to fall on you before you start loosing it all?
Many years ago, I read that the *average* (not superstar) NFL player retires after six years with the body of a 59 yr old. And you wonder why I actively dislike football?
mark "American football: using your body as a blunt instrument to batter your opponants into submission"
A dozen years, I'd have been overwhelmed in my desire to go by all the other slashdotters asking where to sign up. These days, too many of the assholes who used to come out of alt.syntax.tactical....
mark, probably too old to be accepted, dammit