Posts by Lars 4260 publicly visible posts • joined 21 May 2007
@Yet Another Anonymous coward
I would recommend you and anybody to have a listen to Hermann Hauser here:
Startup Grind talk: Hermann Hauser, co-founder of ARM, Partner at Amadeus Capital with Marian Gazdik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4GmbxZ3mA
And I would suggest you should be very happy if bright kids from abroad are still willing to enter the country of today.
There is no good reason that unions in the USA have to be run by the mob.
We tend to accept words like "militant" unions but I would claim you don't get militant on just one side if it's not militant on the other side too.
I suppose we don't have any word for a company should it oerate in a mob like fashion.
"What exactly is a 'proper African American'?".
The far right-wing twats claimed Obama was even worse than an African-American as his mother was white and they have already expressed similar sicophobic opinions of Harris as her mother came from India.
Some day you might grasp that in a two party system the choice tends to be slightly restricted.
Regarding Trump and Biden there is no doubt who is the wrong end of the stick in an other binary world.
I find it hard to consider Trump a Republican and it's as hard to accept the party as Republican also.
It got all rotten the moment Trump stepped in or should one say, came down, such brave men and women in that party.
For a more eloquent and neutral explanation of Trump I would recommend Noam Chomsky on Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W1gCzbQr2k
My (wife's) cats have destroyed two laptops just with some piss at just the right spot and they have managed to pull out keys from from several keyboards. Not long ago one managed to put my wife's Windows into portrait mode just by walking across the keyboard, ctrl, alt and arrow at the same time.
And you might ask me how I let that happen, and I ask exactly the same question.
Typex.
The Wiki has some about it, like.
"In the history of cryptography, Typex (alternatively, Type X or TypeX) machines were British cipher machines used from 1937. It was an adaptation of the commercial German Enigma with a number of enhancements that greatly increased its security...."
"Although the Typex has been attributed as having good security, the historic record is much less clear. ..."
It was used by the navy at some point but not by submarines.
"Telephone".
Not at sea or in the air.'
I was actually thinking of the "wolf packs" and their "ability" on the Atlantic.
The code breaking is interesting and well documented but also damned tragic regarding Turing.
There is also a fair amount of look at what WE did in that the Polish part tend to be forgotten like also the Russian part in taking Berlin and ending the war.
The "for saving millions of lives." reminds me of how the number of saved lives, due to the bomb, started to climb from about one hundred thousandths to the millions after the war.
Britain and the USA lost less than half a million lives each during the war. To call that much or not much would of course be idiotic but the real high numbers are found in the rest of the world.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/research-starters-worldwide-deaths-world-war
As I am nor British or German I suppose I can write this without any strong nationalistic bias.
According to that list the Americans lost 418,500 in the war, and looking at that, Covid-19 has to enter ones mind.
No, the diver said he instantly realised it was an Enigma.
However this video was hardly made when it was first found but later when it was brought up.
PS. what methods did the British have to hide their communication from the Germans during the war, no great articles regarding that topic I can remember.
Any kind words from Putin or Trump yet.
PS. I have a feeling that those upset by COBOL never used it for any lenght of time, or is it just that I took the tools handed to me, then long ago, and used them best I could without complaining.
Hmm, then again I have never complained about the colours of my girl friends either.
As long as the USA is too dumb to take education seriously the H-1B will remain the quick and easy solution.
Be happy there are still people willing to move to the USA, why, for instance, did Elon Musk move to the USA, born in South Africa..
This according to Musk. "I remember thinking and seeing that America is where great things are possible, more than any other country in the world.".
"Few democracies operates purely on a "total number of votes" system, ie proportional representation."
Wrong Wrong.
MOST democracies operates purely on a "total number of votes" system, ie proportional representation.
Most democracies do not have a two party system or a first past the post or an electoral college.
That could all be called the "English Disease" forced upon, or adopted by some unlucky countries.
And the result of that disease is so damned well visible to day in the two countries most severly hit by it in recent years.
Sick people who don't know they are sick tend to stay sick.
I very much agree with "investing more in American education", you simply have to, or you are going down the drain, and that journey I am afraid started years ago.
This vid is worth checking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7lO0TlwUZw
(The Real Story Behind Skyrocketing Student Debt)
But education is not a short term solution nor can one expect companies to wait for that.
Regarding "cheap Indian bods undercutting American workers" I feel is a rather cheap explanation, and not enough to explain the reality.
@EGB
I think you are rather unfair, certainly they were specified not to fail.
Nothing is 100% fail safe.
Reminds me of a Finnish Army General who was heard saying that if Russian military equipment have more than two moving parts it will fail.
Hmm, how many moving parts does a rocket have.
Yes but the pilot was clearly a bit mad, if I remember right he had a Scandinavian sure name, a mad Viking gene apparently.
No planes were grounded or recalled.
Boeing have had recent problems in fitting those cabin parts together, and as I remember only in that one factory. No accidents due to those problems though.
"This goes for wings".
If you refer to Airbus wings built in the UK, then that is not a problem as that factory is owned and run by Airbus. The wings are then flown to Toulouse, no British certification is needed.
Brexit could become a problem for the factory as such, and in a worse case scenario the production will move to the continent.
I have tried over the years more or less every distro there is, much for fun and I have four laptops to play with.
But my main road has been Mandrake - Mandriva - Mageia with KDE.
You like stuff you get used to, and I preferre a more clasical menu system than than the more "Fisher Price" type screens (for lack of a better word).
I have one of those small Acer laptops with just 1gig of memory and it works with Mageia and KDE just about so I will swap the 1gig for a 2gig and it's perfect to take out fishing and such.
Countries tend to trade with their neighbours like in the EU say, and between the USA, Mexico and Canada.
I don't think much anybody is too keen in dealing with the UK until brexit has come to some final solution.
Signing deals with China will force them to adhere to them more so than with no agreements at all.
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