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Comment The most important part of the article (Score 4, Informative) 116

However, anecdotal evidence suggests that COBOL states have struggled more to process initial claims, Longer delays in filing could be a result of the state UI website being down, call centers being overwhelmed, or claimants having to go in person to their local UI office. Even controlling for historical recipiency rates and benefit amounts, COBOL states could discourage eligible claimants from filing their initial claim because of the additional time costs. I cannot disentangle the contribution of these mechanisms to the effect that I find on aggregate consumption.

He uses COBOL in the title but in the article he slips in that he has no idea what the problem was.

Comment Re:COBOL isn't a delay (Score 4, Interesting) 116

Florida has a system that uses COBOL and the problem wasn't the COBOL backend. It was the new, flashy web front end the users were accessing. The front end was designed to support a little more than the maximum activity as based on previous years. When the pandemic hit, the front end was completely overwhelmed.

Comment Re:Selling points. [But FREEEEEEE-dom!] (Score 1) 140

You missed a few words out there. I asked

I didn't miss anything, dumbass. I showed you are one of those " other people who don't understand what Free Software is about either."


B)See, you won't stop being a stupid shithead so let's explain this in small words you can understand:
You
Don't
Understand
Free
Software

Comment Re:Selling points. [But FREEEEEEE-dom!] (Score 1) 140

Lets recap, shall we?

Someone posted:

However, my question about every piece of OSS these days is "Does it have a stable financial model?"

You responded:

That's okay. There's lots of other people who don't understand what Free Software is about either.

Someone else asked you "to define what you think you mean by free" you responded:

Meanwhile, I stated you didn't know what was meant by free and your comment proves you don't.

Now, you have asked

"free as in freedom" require the author to have a stable financial model

which is you trying to change horses in mid stream. What it means is that because something is free, as in freedom, it isn't necessarily free, as in beer, and that if one doesn't have a "stable financial model", then one will not be maintaining and will stop writing "free software" because things like food and shelter cost money.

Are you finished being stupid, arrogant, rude, and dishonest now?

Comment Explain this. (Score 1) 73

Time dilation is based on a thought experiment where a device measures the speed of light on a train moving near the speed of light and is observed by an observer that is stationary on a boarding platform. Make the experiment 4 light seconds long moving at 0.75c and tell me what people stationed where the experiment will begin, where it will end, and in between the two will observe then explain how they can be in the same frame of reference but observe different things?

Comment Re:Selling points. [But FREEEEEEE-dom!] (Score 1) 140

However, my question about every piece of OSS these days is "Does it have a stable financial model?"

That's okay. There's lots of other people who don't understand what Free Software is about either.

Apparently, the one who doesn't understand "Free Software" is you. It is not "Free as in beer" it is, supposedly, "Free as in Freedom". Are you saying the first 20-30 years of FLOSS propaganda was a lie?

Comment Re:so this can be used to beat DUI (Score 1) 75

You need to check out what you agreed to when you accepted the privilege of driving. Take Florida. Under Florida law, you gave implied consent to take a breathalyzer test and if you don't, you are subject to a mandatory license suspension. Agree to a DUI test is a condition of being allowed to drive.

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