Comment Re:I weep for my country (Score 1) 208
At least he hasn't (yet) appointed an aging pop star to the ministry....
At least he hasn't (yet) appointed an aging pop star to the ministry....
On the other hand, we're just a bunch of gutless arseholes that just don't care. In the next election are we going to vote middle left or middle right? Same crap ALL THE TIME and we don't do anything about it.
And how the hell can Uber operate in Australia? WTF! No one is allowed to transport people for money except Taxis and bus drivers and that is highly regulated.
Maybe the AC is right. Another Eureka Stockade anyone?
As for the latest gov. blunder? Well it'll sort itself out. As one poster put it "This makes everyone guilty of something. Then governments can just prosecute anybody they don't like in a completely arbitrary fashion." (et.al.). Just another piece of shit we have to put up with emanating from the dickhead in charge who keeps claiming he has a 'mandate' to make any changes he gets told to do by incompetent cronies who have no clue about anything.
Maybe I WANT to be sexually harassed. I also want more oxidizers in margarine as well as permeate in my milk. And for good measure, I'll add my own woosh.
WOOSH!
OH GREAT ED!
So they stuck me in front of a terminal way back in '75 with a pile of printouts, checking to see if the data got input correctly WHILE they went off to play Star Trek.
I finished a few hrs later and entered @@XCIO to end the session. The command wiped out the whole data set off the tape, no 'Are you sure you want to do this?" or 'Really? You want to delete the file?".... just a few seconds of blank before the cursor re-appeared flashing happily.
As I didn't know any better, I wandered off, but they found me in the uni library and frog marched me to the BIG GUY. He explained what I did and how those thousands of punch cards that have to be re-read. I got banned from the computer room for the rest of the semester.
Ever meet a COBOL Report programmer? He was employed till ~2005 when he retired of old age. He never had a personal computer either. He would go to work, write code on a terminal to output a custom report (Banking btw), then go home to lead an ordinary life. He was paid well and in demand but knew nothing about any other programming languages, IDE or anything else. Just one skill set and that's it.
Yes. I had to interface with a well written driver once. It would only accept BASIC calls. So I wound up with a small notice board behind my monitor, thumbtacks+ A4 pages of reference data and both Apple and PC basic. Everything was done using the native BASIC on Apple (plus some assembler), compiled for speed then converted to PC DOS. Ran a treat too. And yes, test, test, test AND good documentation.
So what happens when a tornado hits, rips off the 60 metre blades and throws them around?
I mean that sort of thing can't happen, can it?
You don't have mod points, so please stop trying to moderate. This does nothing but clutter up the discussion. The lack of mod points mean what you think in this case is irrelevant to everyone but you.
I agree. This shit keeps on cluttering up valuable discussion space.
I prefer Aten (Egyptian monotheistic God) instead.
The military aren't going to sit around and wait. They are looking for a delivery vehicle that can act as a drone.
http://news.discovery.com/spac...
where it states in 2012 it completed a 224 day mission, terming it 'drone'.
With China's attempt in weaponizing space, the US military are being foresighted.
Ramming speed?
He's just an asshole.
Our little group donated $1000 for helicopter fuel. Absolutely NO administrative costs either.
Allah and God and Jesus and Yaweh are all the same self-hating guy.
Ermm they are not. In all 3 monotheistic religions, 'God' is qualitatively different.
The oldest Hebrew has a monotheistic God with NO recognized prophet.
The Christians have a tripart God as 3 identities, the total of which is a monotheistic god that also predates itself.
The newest - Allah who is further removed from 'man', is based on the Hebrew God (the first 4 books of the Hebrew bible) and comes with a prophet.
(I don't believe any of this btw)
Although when you start reading some sites, those Veterans who are restricted to 4x5mg daily are in greater need. They are some who buy from the black market. One of the problems they've found is that some Oxy is mixed with plastics to slow uptake, so they tend to take more than prescribed for pain relief, consequently run out before they can get more on prescription. Coming down is not fun for them and so they seek alt. sources.
All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.