But I think Amtrak is already (or was) using Sabre, so plugging them into Google Flights is really no big deal.
So this means that companies will hire a lot of people and work half of them 80 hours per week for 2 weeks, then offer them nothing for the next two weeks while the other half will be working the other 80 hours (page 592).
Interesting article, but what brought the biggest switch was when Nixon opened the republican party’s doors wide-open to the racists who fled the democratic party after Johnson passed the civil rights act.
It was a Republican President that spoke out for the repeal and outlawing of slavery in the USA.
It was the DumboCraps of the Day that were actively trying to retain slavery
Yes, but this was BEFORE.
BEFORE Nixon opened his arms to the hordes of formerly Democratic Party racists who left the party in droves after the Democrats passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voter’s Rights Act.
("American Psychosis - A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party went Crazy" — David Corn, 2022)
The last good republican president was Ike Eisenhower.
and then wonder why they have a bunch of severely fucked up inbred dipshits among them.
They would wonder if they had the brainpower to do so, but as it happens, inbred dipshits make the best unwashed, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing untoothed conservatives, so they surely don’t mind that and much less wonder!
The right wing is continually complaining that someone is trying to destroy their way of life when it's complete nonsense.
The left wants to improve everyones’ lives while the right wants to worsen it.
Others are within the propaganda bubble of the cities
It still beats the shit out of rural ignorance, bigotry and prejudice! There's a reason why markets are controlled in one of the densest city neighbourhoods
its Constitution and subsequent Bill of Rights tends to speak centuries worth of wisdom regarding why you can never trust the “government”,
It’s just the americans who don’t trust the government, thanks to their bourgeois, calvinist culture where the government is continuously denigrated and thus, there is next to no culture of competent civil service as talent is not attracted to government because of it’s stigma.
What does not help is that the overwhelming majority of politicians are failed businessmen who have no idea how to operate a company, and much less a country. All those people understand is the concept of money in their own pockets and the various grafty, fraudulent way of getting there.
Other cultures have perfectly competent civil services that can actually outperform the private sector.
They know very well that education is the absolute ennemy of their obscurantism. Islam must be absolutely be fought by all means possible, it’s a cancer that threatens to take back Mankind a thousand years!
American gun owners should see Canada as a cautionary tale more than anything else.
GeneWilder_as_MrWonka.jpg "Explain me how is Canada a cautionary tale"...
In instead of all this high-tech Rube Goldberg nonsense, why not just get rid of the guns?
Yet another attempt to fix a social problem with technology
The US is by all definitions a turd-world, barbarian country. No universal health-care but universal guns to protect against artificially-created crime because the lack of a social safety net sends too many people into crime.
I would be maintaining a 40 year old codebase in Business Basic. I've had worked 25 years prior with it, and I have kept some good memories, so I took the job.
Luckily, Business Basic has evolved a lot since, and it can be a pretty respectable language.
The existing code base was the proverbial spaghetti code, with cryptic 1-2 character variable names and all the stuff that made Basic a horrible language, and none of the modern "good" stuff.
So, the first thing I did when asked to look at a program was to figure out what each variable did (from binders containing heavily grommeted pages full of penciled-in mods) and rename them. Then figure out what each GOTO/GOSUB did, then rename those with meaningful labels (or use relevant looping constructs) and so on.
Eventually, the program started to look like what a program should. Then I tackled the small modification I was tasked to do.
I took a printout to the geezer who was the owner/my boss, and he look at it with horror in his eyes.
- What is this?
- The program, which I changed so it would be more readable and a lot easier to maintain in the future.
- This is no good. We have standards here!
And his "standards" were the spaghetti code.
I went to my office, and mulled what to do from now on. When I decided to go tell the boss to shove his job, he walked in with a new assignment for me: convert data from a 20 year-old system to transfer to a 40 year-old system.
- Can I do it in any language I want?
- Yes, as long as the data transfers I'm okay with it.
So I scouted for a better computer located in a better office (with a window), and invoiced him $50/hour for 2 full months of work for a Python program (and a tiny Business Basic program to slurp the data)...
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. -- Ramsey Clark
