Very reminiscent of Real Genius. Comedy becomes reality.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

There is nothing hideous about Phyllis Schlafly. She was a remarkably intelligent, thoughtful, and hard working woman, who fought for the rights of women. So-called feminists of the era had no interest in promoting the rights of women, instead wishing to destroy gender roles to satisfy their weak egos. Schlafly was comfortable in her own skin, and knew that most women were actually happiest when holding a traditional role, nurturing their families, and engaging in artistic expression and craftwork.

The sad fact is that many women are barraged with someone else's ideas of a "good goal" from a very early age. Instead of teaching children in a truly educational way, the purpose is to inculcate certain agendas that amplify power structures for the elite class, while suppressing wages and running people ragged.

Itâ(TM)s really impressive that you think that anyone sees you as anything other than disingenuous. Of course, itâ(TM)s the same way we see the people in these âoesocietiesâ that like to erase the accomplishments of actual scientists.

Itâ(TM)s always the same motivation: you (and they) have accomplished nothing of import or interest in your entire life. But instead of dedicating yourselves to uncover more of the natural world, you begrudge others who did so.

How pathetic. But, I guess the look suits you.

It may have had a reputation, but it wasn't well deserved. The only really decent tractor they made was the 4020. Oh, sure, they had some interesting designs, but they weren't reliable when compared with Allis-Chalmers, Oliver, Minneapolis-Moline, or Farmall/International Harvester. However, they spent a lot more money on marketing, like the ubiquitous green hats. Even today, at the antique pulls (usually pre-1960), they usually rank in the bottom of pullers. Mechanically they are prone to failures, and repairs are not as easy (the 4020 - and related series, up to the high powered one which didn't have an equally strong drivetrain - being the exception).

In the late 1970s, lots of poor government policies led to very hard times for farmers (high interest rates, high inflation), and the smaller, but better manufacturers did a lot of consolidating, and we now have just a few major players. Tenneco Case bought International Harvester in 1984, forming CaseIH, Deutz purchased Allis in 1985, forming Deutz-Allis (later bought by management and renamed AGCO (Allis-Gleaner) and then AGCO bought White (which had earlier bought Oliver and MM). Any of those tractor lines were superior to John Deere on a technical and mechanical level.

John Deere (and the other manufacturers, to a lesser extent) have taken advantage of the smaller field of players, to the detriment of farmers and independent repair shops.

Wow. That's quite the convincing misinformation. However, the design docs on the Apollo Project, Lunar Module, etc. are even more convincing. They use US Customary Units. You see, back in those days, we didn't have a metrication culture war propagated by professors in Universities and high school science teachers. Interestingly, years ago, some clown, I believe in this very forum, tried to claim otherwise in response to this information. He pointed to the measurement of the thickness of a particularly thin part of the Lunar Module. It was measured in "mils". He was unaware, despite his incredibly deep education in math and science, that a mil is a US Customary Unit representing 1/1000 of an inch.

The person you are replying to is not trolling. It's simple history. There is no need for the metric system, except to placate the egoists who want to feel superior to other people, especially in the realm of intelligence. That's another funny story - they aren't actually very intelligent. But they can repeat a great many things with great conviction. 99% of technology "professionals" are in this category.

I mean, all we ever needed was ARJ, and if you needed more compression, the same guy wrote JAR, which was unfortunately the name that Sun used for Java archives. JAR compressed more than RAR, anyway.

https://arjsoftware.com/jar.ht...

You see, the problem sane people have with ideas like this is that they are disingenuous. It's not the job of the school systems to teach children about their sexuality. The only purpose in doing so is to try to influence their sexual behaviors. The purpose in "educating" children about LGBTQTIAACREF ideas is absolutely to take advantage of the confusion of developing youth, who may not be attracted to the opposite sex, yet. Affirming this lack of attraction is an attempt to increase the probability of a same sex encounter or experimentation, with the goal being positive reinforcement through sexual pleasure derived from the normal physical reaction of the body to stimulus.

This is nothing new. Showers in boys' locker rooms built in the fifties were often "open floor" designs. Coincidentally, the creepy AF "gym teacher" would stand there staring, and handing out towels. The towels actually hand themselves out when you put them on the towel shelf. Predation in schools is nothing new or novel. Grooming is nothing new or novel. What's new and novel is the bold and audacious statement that these things are not grooming, are not pedophilic, and that this is the new safe home for the types of people who sexually abused boys as scout leaders, celebrated pederasty, and have an axe to grind against our stated values and honored traditions.

The benefit to this is that it becomes easier to identify the predators by looking at who engages in this behavior, as well as by noticing who act as cheerleaders for the same.

MacOS, Windows, and most Full Desktop Experience Linux Distros. Huge system requirements just for the OS to run...

The bloated Operating Systems of today are the only reason why there is any significant demand for more powerful processors. Each upgrade of the OS brings dwindling performance for the end user, with very few improvements, if any, in the functionality of the system.

If I take an 8 year old Core i5 with 8GB of memory, I can run a system written for another processor, through emulation, and the OS for that processor will boot nearly instantaneously (say, System 7.5.3 using Basilisk II). All of the applications do what I would need for productivity, with the exception of web browsing and email, of course. But to create documents, spreadsheets, and the like, you have no time to sip coffee, because when you ask the computer to do something, you find that it completed your request 2-3 seconds before you made it.

The same goes for an OS like Haiku, which has great performance, and has almost no funding. Instead of fixing underlying problems in the architecture of previous OS releases (such as OS X Tiger, or even Snow Leopard (which would be lightning fast on modern hardware), or Windows 2000, and adding the 64-bit, and resolving other limitations that were coded in), there is a constant march towards changing interfaces, creating fluff functions that are used sparingly, if at all, and the like. Have there been really cool advances? Heck, yeah. But the best ones seem to be when one of the big vendors, in our example, Apple, hire an ex-Be engineer (Dominic Giampaolo) to jazz up their filesystem and search capability.

I think the OS vendors are working with hardware vendors hand in hand, but not just for the advancement of the user. The lack of code efficiency can be partly explained by the availability of faster hardware, and laziness, but not entirely. It's at the least lack of concern for the performance being wasted. This even holds true for Linux, where many of the distributions need far too many resources to provide a full desktop experience.

So, I'm running HaikuOS as my side-chick, hoping for more app development, but I won't hold my breath. It's very close to the old BeOS, which was amazing on a PowerComputing PowerCenter 120 (PowerPC 604, 16MB of RAM). The newest release is quite stable, and loads of fun.

With salt and pepper, on a genuine hard roll.

Also, NYC doesn’t need any more income. The parking situation is unrealistic, and it’s not like there are alleys sufficient for deliveries. The bureaucracy takes advantage of this to create an additional tax, as if we weren’t paying enough in NY.

I’m not sure which is most corrupt. Could be NYS and NYC, could be Chicago, and could be LA/ California. But NY is definitely fighting hard for the honor of the top spot.

They have never lived up to their promises. The only people who weren’t compromised were either very lucky, or else they followed procedures that reduced their attack surface using other, non-commercial methods.

Right. Just switch to Communism. That works so well!

Speaking of security nightmares

Puh-lease. Spare us the Leftist talking point. Leftists were calling for a coup against Trump since he was elected, before he took office. Maxine Waters was calling for impeachment, among others, and his whole presidency was hounded by baseless investigations, manufactured "dossiers", and bogus impeachment trials.

Save the pathetic lamentations for your long suffering family. The Left's idea of a coup was people chanting outside the Capitol demanding recounts, examinations of allegations of fraud, etc. All the Left did is keep droning on, telling people it was the most secure election in history. Not like that one in 2016 when the other guy one. That one was compromised by Putin.

Having many friends who are Liberals, it's always interesting to meet other Left wing sorts who push deceitful propaganda and expect others to believe it. If Trump wins in 2024, you can bet the Left will be immediately calling for impeachment, and engaging in violent protests. Protests like the ones after George Floyd's death, which were much more violent and destructive than a bunch of morons filing into the capitol and taking podiums and paperweights.

Yeah, except that “shortly” is a nebulous term, and we are talking about a vision by one of the disciples. Jesus said that no man will know when. Since the prophetic vision has not been fulfilled, one who actually believes would take it as fact that these things are yet to come.

For those who don’t believe, it doesn’t make a difference whether the vision was of events 6 months after, 2000 years after, or 10,000 years after.

Precisely. And included in that is all people, rich and poor, great and small, were made to receive the mark in their head or right hand, and no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which was the name of the second beast or the number of its name.

This was mentioned 20 years ago by quite a few non-religious people when the topic of RFID implants in their hands to use as a payment “wave”. Dismissed by many then, and now we have Apple Pay, where you pay with a thumb print or a picture of your face.

You know, a guy who lived in the first century AD getting a glimpse of the future might interpret these things in exactly that fashion. Those who don’t believe, but who want this type of setup, are perfectly aware of the secular evil that this represents, and are ok with that. So it’s not really restricted to faith.