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Comment Re:Minor quibble (Score 1) 304

You can see a word-by-word translation of the Greek:

And having made a whip of cords all He drove out from the temple the both sheep and the oxen and of the money changers He poured out the coins and the tables He overthrew. And to those the doves selling He said Take these things from here

I've reinserted the articles which that interlinear translation omits. On a grammatical level it's fairly clear that "both the sheep and the oxen" is expanding the "all" whom he drives out with the whip; and on a higher analytic level the fact that he tells the dove sellers to take their merchandise implies that they weren't driven out with the whip: to interpret that as saying that he used the whip on some merchants but not others according to what they were selling is a harder interpretation to defend than that the whip was used to drive the animals.

Comment Re:I can see why they ignored it for so long. (Score 2) 33

I can see why they ignored it for so long: having multiple places to put dot files for a single app is irritating.

Not nearly as irritating as having dozens of random dot subdirectories in the root of your home directory.

The first issue costs a few developers a few days of their time to fix. The second is a problem that nags millions of users for eternity.

Comment Re: Better data leaks! (Score 1) 43

Comment Re:We're in the group (Score 4, Insightful) 209

Too many schools are underfunded and too many teachers are overwhelmed with large class sizes, behavioral and disciplinary challenges, lack of administrative support and in-class assistance, and disinterested, unhelpful parents (who are working 2-3 jobs, often at night, and are themselves exhausted and burned out)

The US already pays more per student than just about any other country on the planet for education and we do not get the results.

No, the problem isn't money......

Comment Re: We're in the group (Score 0, Troll) 209

I think a lot of parents are home schooling to get their kids out of the classrooms filled with green/blue dyed hair teachers who are more concerned with indoctrination than education.

The pandemic opened A LOT of peoples' collective eyes as to what was really going on in classrooms that parents didn't have a clue about.

Encouragement of trans....grade school kids exposed to information on anal sex and how a boy can give a blow job were the most egregious examples....but just sets values that didn't set with what parents in general in the US want to impart to their kids.

the US population is generally middle of the road and you screeching green haired instructor is pushing stuff from the far left in many cases.

Parent's saw this and are putting a stop to it.

Frankly I can't blame them.

Comment Re:More IBM vaporware (Score 2) 19

OS/2 had no security features needed for multiuser support. It might as well have been classic MacOS. Citrix had a multiuser version of OS/2 with security tacked on, but it wasn't a realistic solution and was never popular. Building an OS without security was the moronic decision that killed it. Plus IBM never did anything meaningful to promote it so nobody cared. That it was used anywhere (especially in ATMs) was a horrible decision itself because of the lack of security features and has created untold woes. Maybe nobody ever got fired because they bought IBM, but they should have.

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