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Interesting that you are optimistic the bullshit will end after the next tragedy. It hasn't even slowed down after any of the previous tragedies.

With nuculur uncertain and solar too woke, we need to turn to our reliable friend coal! We need to make sure it can burn on the moon. Nobody is outside so we don't have to clean it first or worry about the smoke! We need to figure out the cost of shipping and how many trips per year it will...

I feel some irony that we spent the last 20 years making fun of conspiracy nuts for things like ivermectin. Now they are taking over the CDC and we will be the crackpots forming clusters on the internet to exchange what we believe is true. In another 30 years when polio is everywhere, will I...

In case you didn't know: Any elected president gets to hand out jobs to about 4,000 people, including the heads of all the executive branch agencies. ( For Biden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_appointments_by_Joe_Biden ) This is to carry out the president's vision of what...

I'm betting he will describe the days "before they replaced sugar with corn" in gasoline. He will tell us stories of talking to uncle doctor professor john where he heard how much faster cars were before Biden replaced the sugar with corn.

I think it is an illusion they save any money by lowering costs. That is based on the theory they have a fixed amount of money to pay a variable amount of health expenses. In the grand scheme, they pocket a percentage of whatever health care costs. If everyone's health care costs a billion...

I will add that as an old person, we would hear stories about hijackers pretty regularly. Maybe twice a year? And the only thing they would do is make the plane fly to another airport. Usually another country. The penalty for inaction was inconvenience, not death.

I think you are misquoting him. I think the point he was making is not that you shouldn't run his code, but that you shouldn't just act upon it without further review. (The "and do what it says" part.) He would have been much better to use the word "triage" somewhere in his description. I...

Did you notice that in his first post it was about trump, but in his second post it was about "the government"? I will bet you real money he is not connecting those two dots no matter how much willful ignorance it is going to take on his part.

You may be missing the big picture. When it performs well they will all be happy with how lucky they are to use something that cool guy (who hangs around with their cool guy) makes. When it performs mediocre they will be told "at least it's not cable that would be so much worse". When it...

Making America Grey Again

Many years ago we had a union lawsuit against my company about making people do work, without compensation, after hours. To document it I wrote a program that captured the sent timestamp of every email in the past year, and made a chart showing which hours I was busily sending email and which...

I will add that I was accidentally handed a right-wing magazine, and one article in it talked about their efforts to fix all the waste an abuse. Their only example was the pentagon failing 9 audits where they are unable to report where all the money went. And I'm thinking "isn't the military...

Maybe a weak comparison but two things come to mind. First is Lotus 1-2-3 (or VisiCalc if you were a hobbyist.) It gave real people a real reason to have a computer. Even if expensive. In the 80s - 90s basic computer software was $400 for things like Word and WordPerfect and Excel and...

We see the downside of putting all our production in a single area. Plus with it in Marion? We at least need a second plant near the coast so doctors can choose Western style (dextrose-based) or Eastern style (vinegar-based) depending on patient preference.

It sounds like you are comparing Uber to something like Angie's List. I have a hole in my roof and need it fixed. AL shows me 20+ workers to do the job. I contact ones of my choice and hire an independent contractor to come do the work. Any agreement is between me and the worker. But that...

If it is a managed device (IBM maas360, microsoft inTune) then there would be a log on the server of what is added or removed. I suspect (but don't really know) that there is a log in the apple store / android store saying exactly when things are added or removed as well.

Are you sure? For some reason the name JIM JORDAN is popping into my head.

I'm with you 110% on this. I grew up in hillbilly america, sort of a "gorillas in the mist" thing. From the day trump showed up I could not understand the appeal. He is everything these people are raised to dislike. I remember noticing as a kid there was a natural distrust (even fear) of...

I think you need to watch the movie Real Genius, if you haven't.