Fine. I'll settle the argument once and for all. I'll force myself to fly in a rocket to mars with 50 women who also want to settle this question. We'll get it on in the rocket on the way and after we arrive on mars. Damn! But the things I'm willing to force myself to do for Science! -Goran

Funny!

Our school district didn't have the money for anything computer related until 1978. They bought 2 TRS-80's and one apple II for both High Schools and thought it would be enough for the next 5 years. Then apple gave our district a grant to buy more. It was their way to thumb their noses at the HP plant in town. It did get HP to fund system upgrades the year after I graduated however.

My first home computer was a hand-me-down IBM XT with an 8088 chip in it.
Even had the expansion memory board in it.
The 20meg FM Hard drive was the most fun. Had to park the head before shutting down.
Thought I was pretty hot stuff when I stuck a 2400baud modem in it to "surf" the web.
Ended up selling it for $50.00 in 1995

Good golly but it was a heap of junk. But at the time it was really cool!

-Goran

with a game I wrote using BASIC and machine language. Too bad I don't have an appleII to run the disk....

Is that the girl who is getting punished is NOT the girl who brought the candy. The State policy says that they won't limit what parents send their own kids. But the kid that's being punished was given the candy by another student. In short, the kid that brought the candy should be the one getting punished for passing it out to other students. After all, her parents can make the call for giving their kid candy, but their kid shouldn't be passing it out to others. What's to then prevent a kid from slipping a candy to another kid with the intent of getting another kid in trouble? My two cents is that they busted the wrong kid.

-Goran

Roundup has been in use for as long as I can remember, 40+ years. It's great due to it's ability to kill a plant completely and then breakdown in the soil to inert ingredients. But I have to wonder if part of the problem with the weeds becoming resistant is due to the bacteria used to make the roundup ready crops. Seems that it's more possible for a bacteria to be passed from one plant to another, and since the first resistant strain was found in 2000, there has been ten years for the bacteria to spread to other weeds.

Perhaps it's time to not create crops that are safe to spray with herbicides and just find a better way to weed the farm by machine. Perhaps after harvest and just before planting a farmer could spray the fields with roundup and kill any weeds. Then after a couple of weeks, plant the seed and while waiting for the crops to grow, a new line of machine could be built that would make it possible to weed out any non-crop plants. In the long run it would be cheaper for the farmer since a machine would be cheaper to reuse than the high cost of roundup ready seeds, and the cost of spraying once the crop is growing.

It's a great product and I've used it myself for home use for over 35 years.

Just wish I could get my wife on board with its use. She feels I have a heavy hand with it.

-Goran

It was a standard web house. Fortune 500 companies looking for someone to build and host the run-of-the-mill company website. I did basic html, php, mysql, etc. work. He was a she, and she thought that everyone was out to get/steal from her.

- Goran

Too late.

One of my former employers does this. They also run EVERY phone call past a human. The operator then reports to the owner on the length and subject of your in-coming and out-going calls. In short, if it isn't work related you had better get ready to clean out your desk.

I got a 90-day probation warning due to my wife calling and asking me "to call home when I left work" because she wanted me to stop at the store. Total time spent on the call, less than one minute. Had I gotten another warning in that 90-day period, I would have been fired.

The same applied to internet and email traffic. Problem was, I was in the IT department and had to justify anything I did. Even in client emails, if the client said "Have a great weekend" in an email on Friday, I had to explain why a client was telling me to have a good weekend. The owner figured you might have something going with her clients on the side and that would then be grounds for dismissal.

Glad that company is now virtually dead. Down from the over 100 employees to just 12.

-Goran

Actually he's probably the ass hat that ruined it for the rest of us.
All that constant fingering without so much as a "how-do-you-do" pissed off the girl so much that we're all fighting an uphill battle to get women to like us. Bastard... I'm betting he's also the guy that ruined the "surprise in the popcorn box" stunt while watching a movie with your lady friend.