Posts by Skiver 89 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Sep 2021
"In the case of Casca it is the usual idiocy of claiming something is wrong but not being able to write a reason why"
Wrong. We know that no matter what we say or any data/facts/evidence that is brought up, it will be dismissed.
As for not being a MAGA cult member, if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it is a duck.
The best move, which I all to often fail to take is to just walk about. People like that have already made up their minds and ready made facile comments to toss out. The goal isn't isn't a discussion. The goal is to wear people out so they can puff their chests out in false pride at how they've "won" the argument.
"voted for him in droves"
A lot of U.S. voters vote based on single issues and don't consider the other policies that come with their vote. Inflation and the economy was
a big driving factor for people to switch to voting for Trump. It is doubtfu that such voters examined all of his platform or even that aware of
the scope.
If a person votes for a particular candidate, that vote is a vote for *all* of the policies, not just the one or few someone based
their vote on. Even if they personally disagree with some of the other policies. There are, sadly, a lot of people who don't
really understand that.
Saying the DEC OSF/1 was later marketed as Tru64 UNIX is a bit reductive. That latter was based on OSF/1, but it was a full featured commerical OS release. DEC OSF/1, the product, was mainly used on workstations. DEC sold MIPS based workstations running DEC OSF/1. Tru64 ran on Alpha and was either ported or was in the process of being ported to IA64 when HP pulled the plug on the Tru64 project.
I worked at DEC and made it through the Compaq and HP acquisitions, but sadly did not survive the end of Tru64 UNIX>
When I worked at DEC, one of my customers was one of the big newspapers in the city where I lived. They had an 11/70 system in the basement. The room was air conditioned, but it wasn't a computer room. Just outside the door was where they moved around the giant rolls of paper used to print the newspaper. The room was always dirty and required frequent preventive maintenance to make sure nothing got clogged up.
In contrast, one of my customers was the USPS. There main place was the bulk facility at the airport. The computers were used for tracking mail that was being transported on commercial carriers. The systems were in their own customer made air conditioned cabinets. The site itself was a typical factory floor type situation, so not too clean.
If right wingers were getting banned, it's because they're the absolutely worst when it comes to posting racist, homophobic and transphobic crap. And now that they're back, it as become an ever worse cesspool that it ever was before Elmo took over. There's a reason advertisers have run away from the site.
"Carly Fiorini happened and set up the merger with Compaq which started the death spiral off, and that was only done so that HP could have a range of Windows servers to sell and some better desktop PC's."
100% on point. I survived the DEC -> Compaq -> HP adventure and worked there during Fiorina's tenure. I didn't survive the layoff that saw me and a few hundred of my colleagues who were working on the same project. A handful of people found jobs elsewhere in the company. The rest of us hit the bricks.
She's not going to rot in jail.
She's probably being sent to white collar criminal prison and it is unlikely she will serve her whole sentence actually incarcerated.
Since she comes from money, her life is likely to continue relatively unchanged once she's free from prison and probation.
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