21 days off per FTE is the legal minimum in The Netherlands. Once worktime reduction (*) is factored in, it's usually more like 21 days + 12 = 33 days off. That's without the public holidays, we're talking flexible days here.

And we're not at the top position for days off. As far as I know, German workers have more days off each year.

(*) a lot of collective bargaining agreements have clauses where most people work 2 hours less each week in order to create more jobs in that sector.

Lol. Nailed it :)

Drone 31751, please report to re-education camp five for "schooling". You seem to have misaligned your memories after reading those historical novels once again. As you are well aware of, everyone volunteers to work at least two workperiods from age 4 upwards. Do not spread anti-computer propaganda.

Thank you for your cooperation.

The Computer.

"back"?

Aw come on.... they were having *such* a good time until you showed up injecting "facts" into the debate!

It's still bad PR, and that can be used by political opponents if handled right. Which means that any politician currently in power will rather not have such letters in their inbox. Before you know it the opposition will be holding a press conference, saying things like: "As we all know, the current government can't be considered green, despite their name. Why, the UNESCO even had to send a letter about this priceless part of our environment because they were damaging it! What hypocrites! You better vote for us. Because we care..."

Not just that, but when negotiating over returning cultural heritage items, a government that this happened to would find itself in an unpleasant position: "oh, we can't give you back your {priceless statues/Elgin marbles/fossilized remains} because as you have just shown, you can't be trusted with UNESCO heritage sites. Have a nice day!".

So, not entirely toothless unless you don't give a fuck about world opinion or negotiations anyway.

The placebo effect is well documented and scientifically valid. The name it goes by is only relevant due to the way it enforces said effect. And saying placebo effects are useless is silly: it's much better to have someone cured from a placebo than from chemicals (or hormones), especially when dealing with children where the final effects of hormones and chemicals are not all that well understood.

Suckerrrrrrr....

Could have been worse. He could have said "Oh, who shall rid me of those troublesome negative reviewers!" :)

A friend of mine is putting together a team of people on a very big project that needs major math genius to even understand. He's a CS/Math Ph.D. himself and it's way over his head. There are perhaps 5 people in the world who understand the ins and outs of it. So he hired the ones he could find, warts and all, and made VERY sure they had full veto rights over the people in the team who act as "interface" to the other parts of the company. Handlers, indeed. And it works.

That strongly depends on the make and brand of the car.

In my car, if you do that you won't even be able to leave the driveway when it has snowed. On the other hand... I see what you did there :)

"Left! Left!"

"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that."

We were running a casual guild, open to all, no requirements except "don't be an asshole". Even that was too much for some people.

I was saying that basic was an intermediate stage that noone wanted to bother with. If you want memory locations and jumps, going straight to assembly is the easier route, IMO, because it drops the syntactic clutter of C64 basic. If you want conditionals etc. you are better off with Pascal.

Don't teach people GOTO and GOSUB, teach them loops, conditionals and data structures. Then teach them assembly.

No need to learn them a bad intermediate language nobody uses. And even most C64 owners dropped it ASAP and went straight for assembly.