Except "those Germans" that thought going to Linux would save them a ton of money are now going back to Windows. Apparently they found the investment involved in maintaining a 'free' operating environment too much work/too expensive.
Huh.
Oh, they are switching back to Windows...
Uh, check your history - the German government used many of what were called at the time computers to keep track of their progress on certain 'projects'. IBM supplied the machinery...
It was punched card tabulators, sorters, and printers, but they were programmed (arranged/wired) to perform calculations.
Are these the Germans that cut over to Linux a few years ago, saving a 'ton' of money?
Projection = data we made up
And while I'm sure they are confident in their projections, they used their largest computers, their best models, etc., I'm also equally sure the scientists were equally confident of their projections in the seventies when they declared we'd be 'enjoying' an ice age right about now...
Hillary Clinton?
As for the secrecy, unfortunately, this is generally how complex international treaties are negotiated - the concept being that if the public is involved in every stage of the negotiations, they'll never get anywhere; there's so many countless details to iron out and a lot of give-and-take between countries. It's supposed to be fair because when it's done, the full text is made public and each country gets to vote on it; it's not like it suddenly becomes some sort of "secret law".
No one is insisting on involvement in "every stage of the negotiations", but the ability for lawmakers to a) see the entire text of the bill, b) make notes, and c) be able to discuss the text of the treaty openly is certainly reasonable.
What the President is actually pushing for is Fast Track authorization, so that when the bill is finalized it is presented to Congress for an up/down vote with no amendments... Of course, while any Democrats that oppose the treaty are doing so for principled reasons, any Republican that opposes the bill is doing so out of racism.the White House is already trying to woo (bribe) democrat lawmakers to support the treaty by offering (taxpayer-funded) goodies and prizes for their vote in support of the treaty.
Remind me, who wrote the PPACA (Obamacare)? We know it wasn't the sponsors of the bill, since they admitted openly to having never even having read the bill...
And what did the PPACA implement? A requirement for tens of millions of Americans to buy health insurance from private insurance companies, in many cases subsidized with government (taxpayer) money, and any losses insurance companies incur will be reimbursed by government with taxpayer money... Only a fool (or a Democrat supporter on a Kool-Aid IV drip) could believe that legislation was drafted by anyone other than the insurance industry.
I think it's common knowledge by now that industry can buy legislation. The new low is that the actual text of the bill is being kept under lock and key.
It's the natural evolution of Democratic legislation - remember how the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was passed? While the 2,500 page text was available, supporters and even the sponsors of the bill openly mocked anyone that tried to get politicians to actually READ the bill. Once they made it 'cool' to ignore the actual text of a bill, the next step was to see if they could get away with not even bothering to release the text of the bill.
Do those unemployed trades people also have hundreds of thousands in student debt that can't be erased by bankruptcy?
There are entire colleges and universities that are entirely online, what are you talking about?
Try looking at Thomas Edison State College in NJ - they, along with many other schools 'assemble' Bachelor and Master degrees from various sources, including professional training, life experience and ANY accredited school (community college, state school, private universities, etc.)...
It struck me as absurd that one could amass crippling debt as a result, not of drug addiction or reckless borrowing and spending, but of going to college
Really? It is absurd that students that barely graduated high school can amass a quarter-million dollars in guaranteed student loans while studying anything they want with no limitations?
What boggles my mind is that the federal government puts no limits on what people study on OPM (Other People's Money).
Why aren't student loans given out based on merit, rather than ability to fill out a federal student loan application?
"One fringe benefit for Google and Apple is that making your own programming language makes recruitment easier â" for instance, since it builds a lot of its own server applications in Go, Google is more likely to hire a developer who's already proficient in the language since she would need less training."
Because if they used, for example, Java, when they hired an experienced Java developer they would need MORE training?
Approximately how large is the pool of 'experienced' Go/Swift programmers outside of Google/Apple?
Yeah, but when was the last time we did that....
I believe that was under the previous administration - the current one seems very, very fond of continuing resolutions (as opposed to annual budgets) and would rather call the enemy 'JV Team' and leave them untold billions in armaments after our speedy withdrawal for political purposes (instead of declaring a war).
European nations battled each other for centuries.
At the time of the U.S. Revolution, France and England were fighting each other, for example.
Remember when the Romans wandered up out of Italy and made their way up to many European countries?
The Europeans found a way to co-exist (for the most part, as demonstrated by the European Union - imagine the EU existing 100 years ago, around the time of WW 1...).
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
