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I agree! Pence adds up to 100% pure, unadulterated, dyed in the wool, stuck in the 1400s. And I don't mean that in a good way. All the worst parts of "religious right", and none of the good bits[0]. He's the very epitome of what the Founding Fathers were trying to get away from.
[0] There are a few, if you squint and don't allow their .fav shaman to pervert them.
I'm hoping for no removal of the Idiot in Chief from the Oval Office before the next election ... because I truly believe the VP is even worse. We can survive another couple years of the emasculated Trump (Dems hold Congress, and most Reps are anti-Trump at this point); I'm not at all certain we could survive a couple years with that fuckhead Pence and his backwards-ass religious cronies in power.
Bob, I don't know you in real life at all, but I've read enough of your posts here on ElReg to know that you're not a complete idiot. There is no way in hell that you can convince me that you don't know full well that Trump is an inveterate liar, and has been since the year dot. Just admit you backed a fucking liar and get the load off your shoulders.
Some of us do just fine on 4 hours sleep per day. I typically get three hours at night, and a one hour siesta after lunch. Other folks might balk at such a sleep schedule, but it's been working for me since I was in high school.
It would seem that the Idiot in Chief is not one of us (TINU).
You get adverts for pubic hairpieces? I'd be pretty irritated too. On the bright side, there is a cure. You DO know that it's really, really easy to block advertising on TehIntraWebTubes, right? Use your .fav search engine to look for "ad blocker". So easy even MeDearOldMum figured it out all by herself.
I doubt youtube will be "fucked", regardless of what the idiots in charge of Australia do. It's not like Australia has a huge population. Getting youtube into NoRk is probably higher on the Alphabet agenda than maintaining its legal footprint in Australia.
Note I said "legal" ... Australians who want banned youtube content will be able to access it, one way or another. The Internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it may be an old saw, but that doesn't make it any less true.
"While there is an argument that almost no-one currently really needs 1 Gbps"
When I'm at my place just outside Fort Bragg, I use a pair of old USR modems to connect to my systems here in Sonoma at 19,200 baud (if the weather permits ... sometimes fog and/or rain + the aging cable plant's dusty, hardened, cracking wires screw up the signal to noise ratio to the point of dropping it to 1200 baud ... or lower ).
I still manage to read and post to ElReg without any histrionics. Doesn't seem to affect the rest of my IntraWebTubes experience much, either. Gong text-only isn't as much of a hardship as you think it is. Try it sometime. (I'm not a gamer, and I see no need to schedule large file transfers when I'm up there. Nor do I see a need for "cloud" anything.)
Live a little, learn Lynx ... 26 years old, and still going strong!
So, Garymrrsn, now you've spent a couple of minutes downloading grandbaby movies at a couple of seconds per 5GB. How are you going to find the time to view them all? And for gawd/ess's sake, do NOT send them to me via email! FTP was invented for a reason, you know ... not least of which was unattended downloads at non-peak network times.
Linux upgrades can be conveniently set for any time that you choose. It doesn't matter how long it takes if you are asleep at the time.
Nobody ever said "640K should be enough"[0] ... But Steve Jobs once said "256K should be more than enough for home users" (at a Homebrew Computer Club meeting, when introducing the Mac for the first time, a few weeks before it was unveiled to the general public.)
[0] The supposed "640K limit" was an IBM hardware limit, not a MS software limit. And it wasn't really 640K, it was more like 704K, if you knew what you were doing. I find it absolutely amazing that this piece of incorrect trivia is still being parroted as fact after all these years ...
... Did your family doctor resist the chance to say "This too shall pass" the second or third time you brought your daughter in? Mine didn't. I found it funny, and made the mistake of laughing ... her mom threatened to strangle me.
(My daughter grew out of it before age four. Hopefully yours will, too. The grand-daughter showed no intention of following in her mother's footsteps, thankfully.)
The venerable 555 has a habit of landing pins-up just exactly where my heel is going to come down. I've stepped on 6 of the damn things over the years ... all drew blood, two of them left bits behind in the bone, requiring removal by a surgeon. No other IC has ever assaulted me, just the 555. Is it paranoia when they really are out to get me?
For example, humans had no difficulties moving from one speck of an island to another in the Pacific long before even magnetic compasses made it to that part of the world. See Polynesian navigation in your encyclopedia of choice.
However, when you distill it down to basics, English is still a very precise language, when used precisely. It is just as easy to convey logic in English as it is in Latin, Russian, German & etc. In theory, we are already teaching the kids English, right? Shirley it's not all that much of a stretch to teach them to use it logically and precisely when warranted? Adding in computers only confuses the issue ... which is teaching logical thinking, not computing.
As for admitting reality is a mess ... Ain't nowt daft as t'English Language ... thankfully. When you think about it, this place would be awfully boring if we all spoke^Wtyped the same dialect and with the same slang. English is a garbage dump of a language, and one I love dearly.
"Get your syntax wrong and either things don't work or give unexpected results."
English has similar issues, for similar reasons. It's a consequence of the fact that all human languages have illogical bits & bobs, usually for historical reasons. Thankfully. Without them puns would be impossible, and how dreadful would that be?
To address your concerns, perhaps we should specifically teach the meaning of "or". Shouldn't take more than an afternoon at roughly age 6. Shirley that would save a lot of money, and save a lot of time for important things ... like Critical Thinking. Neither of which require the use of computers.
... hampered by "the three Rs", we managed to create teh IntraWebTubes.
Basic education does not require iFads/Fandroids. In fact, I'll go out on a limb and point out that the existence of such devices in the K-12 classroom is actually a distraction that takes away from learning the basics.
Grade-school == "the three Rs", in my mind.
I'll allow typing as "writing", *please* teach kids to type!
But IT? Or programming? Only as electives in highschool. Not everyone is capable of that kind of career ... Let 'em figure out that they are interested in that kind of focused, job oriented myopia in college/uni ... kinda like veterinarians, geologists, engineers and psychologists.
YES there are exceptions to the rule ... nurture the exceptional kids in given fields! Don't drag 'em back to the depths of the great-unwashed's lowest common denominator ... but don't expect the entire class to grok the concept of and/nand/or/xor gates, Not everybody is wired that way.
Don't be silly. Pájaro, translated literally, means bird. The word for wanker in Spain is gilipollas; in much of Latin America it is el pendejo (for boys) or la pendeja (for girls).
Now, colloquialisms and slang can make pretty much any word mean pretty much anything ... and there are a lot of colloquial versions of Spanish around the world.
I take it, Glen 1, that you are one of the small sub-set of humanity who seems to think that afflicting your choice of scent on the rest of us is OK? Well, it's NOT. It's an invasion of personal space. If I wanted to smell a French whorehouse, I'd go to a French whorehouse. I don't want to smell one sitting next to me on the Tube ... or worse, an airplane.
As for "nice easy gifts", you mean wasting your money on a convenience item in order to do your marketing invented duty by giving unwanted toiletries to friends and family who have absolutely no need or want of the product? Better to save your money. Or, if you insist on spending it, either give the cash to the intended victim, or donate it to charity in their name. Much better than wasting it on something that will only end up in a landfill, don't you think?
I use soap. Unscented soap. Why would I shower with something that is likely to offend more people than good honest sweat? I never really understood that. What are the folks who use such products trying to hide AFTER they get clean? Does a clean human body actually smell bad to them, so they have a need to mask their own scent from themselves? Or have they just succumbed to marketing?
How far back is your time machine going to take us? Keep in mind that most of the structures that burned were over 30 years old, many over 50, and a good percentage over 70.
Or are you under the delusion that changing the building code somehow magically brings existing structures up to date? Not that it would make a lot of difference in this case ... Eyeball Wiki's entry on "Tubbs Fire". Nothing could (or did) withstand that. Not even homes that were built with the most up to date and modern fire prevention techniques.
a) The Bronx isn't burning.
b) The Bronx has more people with money living within it's borders than the areas of Northern California affected by wildfire in the last several years.
c) "Scores of wealthy people" haven't died from the fires. In fact, most of the deaths have been blue-collar retirees.
I could continue, but I will refrain.
The Source is gone. HalTec is gone. Wierdstuff is gone. Thankfully, however, HalTed is still with us, although in a different location. They ship. Not affiliated, just a long-term happy customer. Recommended.
I knew Bill from the Homebrew Computer club. I was the guy playing devils advocate, expounding on the virtues of the Heath bus (sometime "Benton Harbor bus") when he was hyping the S-100. Well, kinda devil's advocate. In some ways I still think the Heath version is superior to the S-100 ... But Bill had the last laugh. I still have a couple of his hand-built I/O boards in a running S-100 system, controlling one of my greenhouses. They have been running for over 33 years now, and show no signs of needing replacement. Like Bill, they were built like brick shithouses.
The fires we've been having here in Northern California have been bad. Lots of underbrush in federally mis-managed forests provide plenty of fuel, along with down-sloping winds from a rather persistent high pressure region over The Great Basin into the corresponding Low over the Pacific make for a blast-furnace effect. It's been bad. But Bill was no fool, and usually on top of things like that ... Frankly, I'm shocked that he didn't make it out.
Last time I saw him was at a Halfmoon Bay Fly-in. The first words out of his mouth were "Need any help with that Serial card?" before we settled down to the more normal "how's the wife & kids?" and his ongoing attempt to purchase my Cessna A152.
Farewell, brother. Many will miss you.
(I've dropped his family a note about this article and thread. Play nice, kids. )
I'm fully aware of the more modern uses of the term "cretin", but none of those seem to apply to wildlife doing wildlife things in wildlife time. Thus I assumed TOA meant the archaic usage ... barring some new-fangled usage that I am unaware of. Thus my question.
While you asked about other word usage, I can't be arsed reply since it had naught to do with my question.