And NOT everybody can be a dish washer. The unmotivated cannot produce. The lazy do not produce. (I saw a new hire pot washer get fired for throwing away pots and pans rather than wash them. I had just been promoted out of that job and was there when someone at work saw pots and pans in the dumpster.)

x = y = 1 In a sane language, "x = y = 1" would yield a syntax error. y = 1 x = y or x = y y = 1 would be the way to write the top line, depending on what you wanted.

I keep pennies. I carry coins and use them in my cash transactions. I accumulate very few coins because I make the effort to carry a few coins with me. I vote YES on abolishing the dollar bill.

If you always keep a palm full of coins with you, and use them with coin transactions, over time you will not accumulate a huge number of coins. Over time you will always have a small collection of coins. But you have to have the ambition to actually carry some coins.

>Any amount of pennies sufficient to actually be worth something takes up a ridiculous amount of space and weighs ridiculously much. Heavy? Yes indeed. But a coffee can will hold $20 to $25 in pennies. (Coffee cans are not all the same size.)

I chose Typing my Senior year in high school, 1971, as a half-year elective because it paired with a much more important half-year elective, Driver's Education. As a software engineer, I have to agree that it was probably the most important elective I ever chose.

Compare Soyuz, in its various models, against Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. Everyone who flew came back. Apollo 1 burned on the pad, and Apollo 13 aborted its mission, but everyone who flew came home alive.

simple, straight forward

My impression was The Phantom was abysmal, worse than The Shadow. From the stills and the trailer The Spirit is -not- Will Eisner's character. Instead we be shown a new character created by Miller who looks like The Spirit and may have some superficial similarities with Eisner's character. They have used the name and the look of the character and nothing else.

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