Re: Alaskan treats
I'm sure somewhere in this vast country[0] you can find somebody who deep fries that kind of thing. There are mentally disturbed people all over the planet.
[0] Probably New York City. Git a rope ...
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"What on earth is an operatory?"
Specifically, a dentist's surgery. According to the OED (second dead tree edition) the word has been in use in this meaning since the mid 17th century. Later, any surgery was known as an operatory. From the Latin operatorium, meaning workshop.
And it's only become a problem because a few entitled induhviduals have been fed a bill of goods and think that "every child is a winner" so all their contributions simply MUST be valid. Mummy said so!
During the meanwhile, in this particular case the adults in the audience are yawning. Or pointing & giggling, depending on how many glasses of Recovery they've managed.
No, no I don't remember that. At all. But thanks for asking.
Probably has something to do with my mid-1980s Boston Acoustics studio monitors, which still work perfectly. And the fact that I'm highly unlikely to be sold a pig in a poke. Me Dear Old Mum didn't raise no fools.
A friend of mine just bought a milking machine for his goats. It has a IEEE-488 bus for diagnostics. It's brand new, came off the production line in October of 2019. I've also seen it in new marine equipment, aviation equipment, and equipment for geosciences ... and I rather suspect it'll be a standard for MILspec gear until roughly four hours after the heat death of the Universe.
It probably wasn't WordPad, it was probably an early version of Write (Win 3.0 or earlier) and our pal Javier misremembers.
Procedure was something like rename program.exe to program.txt, open it in Write, make changes, close file accepting changes, then rename the .txt back to an .exe. I might be off slightly in the details, but that was the gist of it. Folks in the know had this version of Write in their bag o'tricks disk and moved it from version to version of Windows.
I have kept a copy of Win3.0's version around for this very thing (and a few other bits and bobs) right up until today, on my last Windows machine (Win2K, which I only keep around for ACad2K. She's airgapped, so fageddaboudit.)
Instead of guessing, you could call the bus company on your telephone (remember how to do that?) and ask for a schedule. I'm fairly certain that they will be more than happy to provide such a thing to an actual fare paying customer.
This tactic worked nicely before there was a go ogle, it works nicely today, and it'll work long after go ogle is put out of our collective misery.
When I run out of home-grown carrots & apples, I get mine from a local small farm aggregator. 50 pound bags for under $10 (less than half the wholesale price). They are mostly "blems", but the horses don't care. Nor do I ... twinned carrots and cosmetically ugly apples might not be sellable to millennials, hipsters & yuppies, but they are just as tasty as their "perfect" cousins.
" after I told management exactly just how many privacy problems they were creating and the possible consequences"
I did the same for my Grand Daughter's school after her mum was driven to tears by the shear stupidity of the powers that be who supposedly ran the place.
"I even got them off Gmail"
My daughter handled that little issue for the entire school district when she was pregnant with the brat. One simple little BSD server, with a hot fall-back on another campus. Their email system has been running non-stop for around 10 years now, with nary a hiccup. Imagine that.
I once got out of a speeding ticket when my greyhound let loose with a rather thunderous, and extremely malodorous blast as the officer was exchanging pleasantries with me. The cop's eyes started visibly watering. When the dog let loose another, the cop beat a hasty retreat with a "drive safely, sir, have a nice day". ... Zip (the dog) was always prone to that affliction after partaking of ground-squirrels, but I never thought it would come in handy.
"20 years ago, in web development, perl was a big thing. 10 years later perl was quite gone from web development."
Actually, perl is still in use for Web development. Mainstream stuff, even. I certainly have no intention on giving up on perl any time soon. But don't take my word for it, ask El Reg.
... are the same as they have been for the nearly half a century that I've been making money in the IT world, and probably go back to the dawn of time.
The first is convincing management to throw enough money (resources) at the problem to have the correct hardware for the situation ... AND the staff to run it properly.
The second is the big problem ... 90% of the userbase is incapable of wrapping their tiny collective hive mind around the concept of security. This is doubly so for management.
But The Deccas are a guitar group, Mr. Rowe.
I'm not certain I follow your line of thought here. Students have taught at virtually every "school of higher learning" world-wide, with no financial compensation, since time immemorial.
Note that I'm not condoning the practice ... nor am I vilifying it. I'm just pointing out the obvious.
... I'm rather fond of one of the few useful tools that have been ported from DOS to the un*x world. That would be Midnight Commander (or mc, home page), which is a Norton Commander clone. It handles probably 98% of all my file management needs. Give it a try if you're unfamiliar with it. Something that has been around for over a third of a century must be doing something right ...
Its not in a town. It's unincorporated county land, and the State itself has jurisdiction of the actual beach and right-of-way. He has essentially hired the correct lawyers to create a legal clusterfuck over who has right to access, how, and when.
And remember, removing the property of somebody else without permission is itself a crime ... even if that property is itself illegal. So no, it's not as simple as just removing the gate. From what I heard, one guy hauled his tanks and a cutting torch over & tried to burn the gate down. The folks in the court room tried to convince the judge that what he was arrested for WAS community service, and I suspect the judge was on their side ... He got 1 hour of community service. He voluntarily served 100.
I guess the asshole just feels a need to be universally hated by his neighbors. Not that the asshole is ever "home", of course. Yes, you heard me right, he doesn't even reside there. This whole thing is about power, and has nothing to do with privacy.
"Taped it" is syllables shorter, falls off the tongue smoothly, and has been in the common vernacular world-wide for a few generations already. The exact meaning of words mutates over time, this is a prime example. I'd choose another crusade if I were you; life's too short to fight meaningless battles.
I'm more interested in whats between her ears than what's draped beneath it ... but whatever makes the Wife happy makes me happy. Happy wife, happy life. It's not a platitude, it's my modus vivendi.
If anybody pesters anybody about anything they ought to be summarily dealt with.
For the record, she volunteered. Wandered into my lab with something I needed to sign just in time to see & hear a rather large static discharge. She asked what I was doing, and said "Sounds like fun, can I play?" ... She eventually roped in 21 more of her colleagues ... It probably didn't hurt that I had been dating her clandestinely on and off for a couple years (the company had a "no fraternization" rule ... except for upper management, of course. The bastards.).
... put your favorite secretary in the chair while you've got it hooked up to the 'scope.
Once when testing for this kind of thing, I discovered that the average female office worker can generate upwards of 85KV walking down the hall to get a cuppa, but myself walking along the same path came up static free. Seems my unmentionables were made of cotton, hers were made of silk and petrochemicals. Her heels were leather, my soles were high-carbon rubber.
It might not be very politically correct to discuss such things these days, but then I don't get paid to be PC, I get paid to fix problems.