The Trumpenians have invaded! They suck all our sour lemons dry, make our casinos cheesy, spread a virus that shrinks our babies' heads to lollipop size, steal Tony the Tiger's catch-phrases, and wear orange Tribbles on their heads.
Asking about 80's computers and knowing about 80's computers are two different things. I've read the original post 4 times. There is nothing objectively wrong with my reply. I will agree there are perhaps valid alternative interpretations, but that's no reason to complain about my interpretation in such a rude way. If someone by chance interprets it different, they can give a re-phrasing of it based on how they interpret it. No reason to rudely accuse the other person of reading it wrong.
O's new programs and stimulus's only total about 1.6T. The rest of the debt is caused by revenue loss from the recession, W's tax cuts, W's Medicare D, creation of DHS, and wars.
Only if you target a common sub-set of language features. Each vendor offered specific features or extensions. For example, if the source relied on direct memory calls for special or fancy stuff, those won't likely match up to another vendor's dialect.
i had one of those could never use it though because we had a windows 95? machine and i couldn't work out how to get BASIC
If my memory serves me, you could download a free version of Visual Basic "Lite" from common dial-up services of the day, and it was bundled with certain VB books. I don't remember what Microsoft called it exactly; it might be this thing:
This shows that a party repeating a BS meme works on some people.
Reagan and W are the biggest "recent" spenders; and did it during non-recessions such that "stimulus" cannot be a justification. Both started during a recession, but failed to shut off the spigot after the economy improved.
W spent on war, DHS, Medicare Part D, and his tax cuts and refunds worsened the debt problem.
This may test the conspiracy theory that scientists lie or exaggerate to get more government funding. Let's call it the Handout Bias Theory (HBT).
If you get fired when you "prove" it, then proofs should now stop. Scientists would come to nebulous conclusions so as to keep their jobs, under HBT. "We need more research & funding to really know..."
However, the conspiratorial types are likely to replace one conspiracy with another when evidence goes against the original. I don't know what they'll dream up yet to replace HBT, but conspiracies can wild-card explanations almost as well as Creationism: "God did it that way because he simply wanted do." Maybe they'll claim scientists want to shut down operations to hide their dirty deeds now that The Patriots are on to them.
because the utility is run by people who apparently feel it's fine to sell out their own countrymen to make a buck.
But I don't want to have to depend on company altruism for these kinds of things to not happen. If they don't do it, their competitors will and they'll then be punished for NOT trying to make a buck. You'll be punishing the altruistic ones.
I'd rather see the law changed or clarified to make sure it does ONLY what it's supposed to do: fill actual labor shortages instead of fake shortages to save a buck or have docile workers who can't practically shop around or complain. (I've seen H1B abuses with my own eyes. I personally know they happen.)
This includes more thorough auditing and inspections. For example, all rejected citizen resumes should be saved for say 5 years, along with the reason for rejection. And disallow long chain-combo's such as "must have paid experience in A and in B and in C and in D and in E, etc.".
Or similarly, breed plants to make the necessary conversions efficiently. Find plants that kind of do it now, and tweak them via breeding and/or gene splicing.
The author didn't claim that was their area of work. I know enough about "adjacent" IT groups in my work-place to often determine who's slacking or unskilled. But, that doesn't mean I'm in a position to do anything concrete about it. Merit is only part of the "office game". Office life is Dilbert.
Public employees and the work of the public paid for by the people is public information. And if I want to call up my public slave and ask them what they're working on today, how their day's going, what project their hacking on, etc.... That's the right of the people to do. Anytime, for anyone...
It seems you are a staunch conservative or libertarian. You may not like the government (and perhaps civilization in general), but gov't employees are human beings and citizens, and thus deserve a degree of dignity and respect.
Further, if they are treated with disrespect, then it will cost more to hire decent talent to compensate for an unpleasant working environment, and thus increase the burden on tax payers. Surely that should concern you anti-government and anti-tax types in a practical sense.
And they'd end up spending most their day explaining specific work decisions to clueless people in the general public who don't have enough knowledge of the work processes and subject matter, and thus will second-guess all day based on superficial issues.
I suggest you think through the fuller aspects your demands.
It's unfair that people don't seem to mind aging male actors much if they are established. But viewers are brutal to most aging female actors, even well-known ones. Men are simply less judged on appearance. Perhaps it's human nature and we are just hard-wired that way.
Perhaps we shouldn't be so cynical about the seeming non-idealistic sides of biology: we are merely talking animals with just enough extra smarts to trick ourselves into thinking we are not driven by "primitive" urges.
What happens often is that executives devote so much time, energy, and ego into their whizbang ideas that if it doesn't fly well in practice, they are still emotionally attached to it. They don't have the objectivity to flush it and start over, because that's a sudden admission of failure. They'd rather take the news of failure gradually.
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The Trumpenians have invaded! They suck all our sour lemons dry, make our casinos cheesy, spread a virus that shrinks our babies' heads to lollipop size, steal Tony the Tiger's catch-phrases, and wear orange Tribbles on their heads.
Asking about 80's computers and knowing about 80's computers are two different things. I've read the original post 4 times. There is nothing objectively wrong with my reply. I will agree there are perhaps valid alternative interpretations, but that's no reason to complain about my interpretation in such a rude way. If someone by chance interprets it different, they can give a re-phrasing of it based on how they interpret it. No reason to rudely accuse the other person of reading it wrong.
NK simply switched it from neener-neener mode to mooning mode.
O's new programs and stimulus's only total about 1.6T. The rest of the debt is caused by revenue loss from the recession, W's tax cuts, W's Medicare D, creation of DHS, and wars.
Sounds like a fairly good learning experience even if you were disappointed with the game design.
I used to write my own games, watch my brother play and find holes in them and chew me out:
Bro: "Hey, why does the robot say 'meow' when it crashes into rocks? Dontcha know what a @#& robot is?"
Me: "Hey, I'm new at this; do I look like Atari to you?"
Bro: "Atari didn't get big by making meowing robots."
Me: "How did your mouth get big?"
Ah, the good 'ol days...
The original poster said nothing about having familiarity with 8-bit computers. I don't understand your complaint.
Only if you target a common sub-set of language features. Each vendor offered specific features or extensions. For example, if the source relied on direct memory calls for special or fancy stuff, those won't likely match up to another vendor's dialect.
You can if you don't need to see the words and pictures.
If my memory serves me, you could download a free version of Visual Basic "Lite" from common dial-up services of the day, and it was bundled with certain VB books. I don't remember what Microsoft called it exactly; it might be this thing:
http://news.microsoft.com/1996...
It supported a subset of traditional BASIC, but I never heavily tested backward compatibility.
MS PEEK and POKE at work, eh?
Maybe a gambling addict used to traditional slot machines. And it is a gamble to drivers.
This shows that a party repeating a BS meme works on some people.
Reagan and W are the biggest "recent" spenders; and did it during non-recessions such that "stimulus" cannot be a justification. Both started during a recession, but failed to shut off the spigot after the economy improved.
W spent on war, DHS, Medicare Part D, and his tax cuts and refunds worsened the debt problem.
This may test the conspiracy theory that scientists lie or exaggerate to get more government funding. Let's call it the Handout Bias Theory (HBT).
If you get fired when you "prove" it, then proofs should now stop. Scientists would come to nebulous conclusions so as to keep their jobs, under HBT. "We need more research & funding to really know..."
However, the conspiratorial types are likely to replace one conspiracy with another when evidence goes against the original. I don't know what they'll dream up yet to replace HBT, but conspiracies can wild-card explanations almost as well as Creationism: "God did it that way because he simply wanted do." Maybe they'll claim scientists want to shut down operations to hide their dirty deeds now that The Patriots are on to them.
What, now you're telling me that's taboo?
But I don't want to have to depend on company altruism for these kinds of things to not happen. If they don't do it, their competitors will and they'll then be punished for NOT trying to make a buck. You'll be punishing the altruistic ones.
I'd rather see the law changed or clarified to make sure it does ONLY what it's supposed to do: fill actual labor shortages instead of fake shortages to save a buck or have docile workers who can't practically shop around or complain. (I've seen H1B abuses with my own eyes. I personally know they happen.)
This includes more thorough auditing and inspections. For example, all rejected citizen resumes should be saved for say 5 years, along with the reason for rejection. And disallow long chain-combo's such as "must have paid experience in A and in B and in C and in D and in E, etc.".
Or similarly, breed plants to make the necessary conversions efficiently. Find plants that kind of do it now, and tweak them via breeding and/or gene splicing.
No, Comcast is always that way, meteor or not.
Although, I hope there is a Big One with their name on it anyhow.
The author didn't claim that was their area of work. I know enough about "adjacent" IT groups in my work-place to often determine who's slacking or unskilled. But, that doesn't mean I'm in a position to do anything concrete about it. Merit is only part of the "office game". Office life is Dilbert.
It seems you are a staunch conservative or libertarian. You may not like the government (and perhaps civilization in general), but gov't employees are human beings and citizens, and thus deserve a degree of dignity and respect.
Further, if they are treated with disrespect, then it will cost more to hire decent talent to compensate for an unpleasant working environment, and thus increase the burden on tax payers. Surely that should concern you anti-government and anti-tax types in a practical sense.
And they'd end up spending most their day explaining specific work decisions to clueless people in the general public who don't have enough knowledge of the work processes and subject matter, and thus will second-guess all day based on superficial issues.
I suggest you think through the fuller aspects your demands.
It's unfair that people don't seem to mind aging male actors much if they are established. But viewers are brutal to most aging female actors, even well-known ones. Men are simply less judged on appearance. Perhaps it's human nature and we are just hard-wired that way.
Perhaps we shouldn't be so cynical about the seeming non-idealistic sides of biology: we are merely talking animals with just enough extra smarts to trick ourselves into thinking we are not driven by "primitive" urges.
Was he wearing a dinosaur suit, by chance?
Who will be the first to patent The Borg?
But "less" takes up fewer space, I'm mean less fewer's, I mean, baaah, nevermind
What happens often is that executives devote so much time, energy, and ego into their whizbang ideas that if it doesn't fly well in practice, they are still emotionally attached to it. They don't have the objectivity to flush it and start over, because that's a sudden admission of failure. They'd rather take the news of failure gradually.
"5 mod points oughta be enough for anyone" -Gill Bates
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