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Comment Re:Whistle blower (Score 1) 608

I don't follow. It appears that when you use the word consequences and I use the word consequences we are talking about different things. There are good and bad consequences to everything we do. I used to post my full name, address, and phone number on my user page on Wikipedia. Now the city I live in is still there, but circumstances of vandalism have as a consequence caused me to curtail the information there. I had to choose between two different consequences. I avoided one set of consequences, but I did not avoid "the" consequences of my actions; I chose among certain consequences.

Comment Re:Swift (Score 1) 365

Then there are the languages like VB.NET which came from VB which came from QB, which came from GW-BASIC but QB is compatible with GW-BASIC but the first two are incompatible with each other as well as with the latter two, but QB64 which can do a lot of what VB.net can do out of the box, is pretty well backwards compatible with QB and GW-BASIC and getting more robust.

Comment Re:Um... you're not nearly cynical enough (Score 1) 365

Except sometimes Nunzio comes around, but it all goes to the Great Skeeve, who uses magic to keep the Fairy Godfather from taking even more money from you. Oddly enough the Fairy Godfather's niece, Bunny, is the Great Skeeve's accountant, but we won't go too far into that.

Comment Re:You want to know how I know you're not a... (Score 1) 365

programmer?
Person 1 rips you off to the tune of $200.
Person 2 demonstrates how to get Person 1 to rip you off only $100, for $25.

So now you're ripped off $125 instead of the original $200. It doesn't matter how many people are ripping you off except to determine the total amount you are getting ripped off and figure out who to keep around.

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