And the really interesting thing about how many people on the far left build their worldviews around "America bad" is the number of them living in America. If they hate America so much, why don't they go to some other country that does things the way they think is better? After all, isn't that what "America; love it or leave it." means?

They are literately a fucking coffin.

Considering the size of the typical computer geek and that there's just enough room for a twin mattress, I doubt that there will be much fucking going on in those coffins, even assuming that the typical computer geek's going to find somebody to fuck.

What I'm saying is that Christians are taught to do good because they'll go to Hell if they don't; Jews are taught to do good simply because it's right.

I believe Model 2 used an actual ALU rather than table lookup.

No. It also used the table lookup. Our computer had 20,000 decimal digits of individually adressable core memory and you could clear it to all zeros with one instruction. I wrote a little program that fit inside the 80 digits of input that cleared core one digit at a time and stopped when it hit the record mark at the end of the arithmetic tables. It took 30 seconds.

It's been a long time since I ran across anybody who knew what core memory was, let alone had used it. I started out on an IBM 1620, Mod 2, way back when. Now, can you tell me what cardimages were and why they were once important?

My guess is that whatever's causing this isn't doing it directly. If so, nobody in what MS pretends is its quality assurance department saw any reason to test VPNs to see if there are any side effects. Just another example of MS's carelessness. I'm glad, though, that I haven't allowed any form of Windows on any of my computers for almost twenty years.

Pushing all children to go to college whether they could benefit from it or not wasn't always the way things were done. Back in the late '30s through the mid-40s there was a series of 16 very popular films centering on the adventures of Andy Hardy. For most of the films, Andy was a high school student in the Midwest. Andy's big ambition was to become an automobile mechanic and eventually own his own shop. His father was a judge, and was completely OK with that. Can you imagine that happening today?

If Microsoft wants to treat their OSs like a chromebook, I'm not buying more than one for the household.

Why so many? What is there that only runs in Windows 11 and not under Wine that you need so badly that you're willing to buy an extra computer just for that?

I can give them two more: Catastrophe and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Despite the frequent descriptions of Americans as prudes...

I think that the stereotyping Americans as prudes is just a holdover from 100 years ago or so and that was really just a holdover from Victorian attitudes. Now, there are large numbers of Americans who act like prudes in public because they think it's expected from them while acting much more openly in private, especially when their privates are involved.

Possibly because I limited my question to Christians only. Not being raised as a Christian, there are many things that don't make much sense to me as I watch them from the outside.

40C doesn't mean squat to me...but 107F + does.....

Thank you. I can work with Celsius, but never developed an intuitive feel for it. In this case, however, I knew that 98.6F=37C, meaning that 40C is a tad above normal body temperature.

Not completely. Take a good look at Jewish culture, and you'll see a large component of doing right because it's right, not because you're afraid of what will happen if you don't.

I've always thought that it's because they only respond to punishment, not reward.

In your original post, you stated that your wife had a stay in hospital, for which you received no bill, which you said was due to having insurance through your job. That simply wasn't true.

You must either be thinking of somebody else as I've never married, or misreading my post. I wrote that I didn't receive any bill for two weeks in the hospital because the bill was sent to the VA and they dealt with it for me.