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Comment Re:One of the things I learned doing IT for doctor (Score 1) 242

Anyone setting a scheme to run like this should know that it is wrong. If they think that it is acceptable to code this, then they don't fit the bill of someone that we want in society. There's a place where antisocial deviants belong. It's called prison.

Comment Re:Funny how every time this happens (Score 1) 142

Whoever prepared the file probably received the XLS file and could open the latest version. Why wouldn't the export from the database system be able to export to xlsx? The format has been around for a number of years. The first version of the supporting Excel has been on desktops for years. Sounds like a deliberate mistake by someone.

Comment Re: Really? (Score 3, Interesting) 79

No one seems to point out that this is not UHF. There are stock ham gear for UHF, but I don't know about all of the gear in this range. 237mhz is in that special area that the Military and others fought to keep clear for years. Let's see how many secret satellites are still operating in this range due to the lack of equipment and the obscurity.

Comment Re: It is the Internet (Score 1) 51

It isn't the bean counters. Focus on the MBAs and Wall Street. they make the plans. Those plans always focus on the next few quarters. The stock will actually tank if numbers don't move upwards. We need to remove the need for "constant inflation." A company doesn't need to make more revenue each year. It needs to make its stakeholders whole. Raising the revenue should not be a consideration. Most companies are not growth companies. For instance Intel and AMD are so old. Their products really are commodities. There is nothing that is revolutionary in terms of a product release from one year over the release of the prior year. They shouldn't be anticipating massive revenue increases. Harvard BS pushed the metrics of improving ROE AND EPS every quarter. Don't blame the bookkeepers. Accountants just run the numbers.

Comment Re:Democracy is a peaceful way to remove a governm (Score 1) 772

America in general looks at the immigration as unsustainable. It costs more to house a person in the US than in another country. When a person flees Syria, then they are facing huge linguistic and social barriers when resettling here. They would never see their family again. Wouldn't a closer location be more suitable? ie Turkey? Turkey can not handle it. Nor can Germany. Now, the retreads - those that failed to win asylum in Germany - are pushing for visas in France. Germany shut the door because its budget can not handle the payments for any more. So why can not Americans ask if they can pay for this? I think that many are saying that the country can not pay for it. We have a national debt that is at the one of the highest percentages of GDP in the world. Few other countries even have a significant yield from corporate taxes. We have a third of national revenue coming from corporate taxes, when most European countries have effectively zero. Only Ireland has a significant amount of revenue coming from corporate taxes(most of those corps are actually American). So why can not an American ask how to pay for it? Or to decide that it is not sustainable? The budget can not be met and each immigrant's health care costs more in America than elsewhere.

Comment Securing rights ofr the dead. (Score 0) 470

I notice that all the sponsors are democrats. So what clause in the bill preserves the right of the dead to vote.

Wait. I got it. Paper ballots make it harder to tabulate votes and catch voter fraud. Not to mention all those ballots that Democrats conveniently find in the trunk of cars a day after the election.

Electronic vote tallying could be much safer and cheaper. Keep the machines off the internet, except for write only reporting or highly secure connections. Start a commission, through some high level CIA technicians on it and design a system.

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