Posts by Someone Else

Re: Trump & Co don't know?

There are plenty of intelligent people in the US. The problem is a culture that favors not intelligence, but bluster and machismo bullshit.

There. FTFY.

_{Although the original made sense, too.}

Re: More Middle Manager insecurity

Middle managers are there to act as a brake so that things can't run out of control.

Control by whom?

_{Answer determines whether I up- or downvote this post.}

Re: Trump. A master baiter

tRump ain't the "main baiter", but he's certainly a Master at it....

Re: Apathy Rules

Honest decision-makers? Shirley, you jest.

Re: They actually have a plan...

Actually, tRump may well be able to postpone the election. That said, on January 20th at noon, Eastern Standard Time, his current term (and that of his lapdog Veep as well) ends. Per the Constitution, the next in line to succeed (in the absence of a duly elected President and Vice President) is the Speaker of the House.

So tRump cancelling the election might well result in President Nancy Pelosi...his ostensible worst nightmare.

Irony can be so ironic!

Re: "you see them *everywhere*"

You can tell tRump didn't himself write the ad copy, because he is incapable of forming a sentence (coherent or otherwise) with 12, 13, 14, or 18 words.

Re: Golly. RED trangles?

Another: The US president is a lying orange shyster with stupid hair. Not all lying orange shysters with stupid hair are US presidents.

Probably true in the abstract. However, how many other lying orange shysters with stupid hair do you know that aren't US presidents?

_{I know, I'm asking you to prove the negative....}

The left may loose the election, but the right will not win it.

I couldn't tell you how many ounces are in a pound; pounds in a stone and stones in a whatever. Inches in a yard or yards in a mile.

Well, I actually remember most of those...but the one I'm most interested in would be stones in a London double-decker bus.

_{Wait! Am I mixing my measures?}

Re: Spelling

Kilogram certainly isn't USAian, their spelling is "two pounds" (or near enough, for some purposes).

Back in the '70s, I remember it being spelled "brick".

_{But they say, "If you remember the '70s, you weren't there," so I may be mistaken....}

Re: Spelling

You forgot kiloJub...

Re: 123ABCdef

But that same site also considered correcthorsebatterystaple Very strong, and 65 years to crack, but with the first two sites stating weak and instant, with one even quoting xkcd, so go figure :-)

So don't keep us in suspenders, which xkcd panel did it reference?

@James Anderson --

No. The server side is coded in php.

For very small values of 'coded'.

Re: Time for Congress

Waddya wanna bet that the "rules" include something along the lines of:

No member of Congress or the Executive shall be identified as a Criminal (regardless of whether said member of Congress or the Executive is indeed a Criminal)....

Re: So what's the point other that Python & Java suck at calculations?

Wonder how this would go using APL (a unreadable, unwritable language optimized for matrix manipulations)?

It'd probably go like a bat out of hell...once you got it working. But writing and debugging the damn thing would cost more than any runtime gains you might realize.

Could this finally mean an end to the programmers who get away with terrible code by arguing that they can simply throw more RAM and a faster CPU at it?

No.

Next question?

Re: So how long before ...

His fingers are too short and stubby to cross.

@ AC -- Re: Thoughts and prayers

Your points are well taken. But here's the thing: The Repos are killing off their own supporters. The older, WASPy folks more susceptible to the virus, the MAGATs wandering around demonstrating to "open up America", the folks congregating in Wisconsin bars after their Governor's stay-at-home order extension was thrown out by a Republican state Supreme Court at the behest of the Republican legislature (Separation of Powers? Yeah...we've heard of it....); all these things will result in killing Republicans to a much larger degree than they will kill off Democrats. Republicans are already a minority party¹; these actions appear to point to an end result of making them an even smaller minority. If this were unintended, it points to the stupidity of the Repo's shortsightedness. And if it were intentional, it points to the stupidity of the Repo's thought processes.

Bottom line: Repos are stupid.

Q.E.D.

_{¹Must clarify: Repos are a minority party in numbers; they would never allow actual minority people to join their little club, except as tokens or figureheads (ref. Clarence "Lapdog" Thomas, Ben Carson, Herman "I don't have facts to back this up" Cain).}