There was a company policy to order dinner for everyone working after 7:30. I was doing a very key part, complicated and tricky. So in order to maintain a train of though, I had worked about 12 hours that day when they came around to take my dinner order. It was another team lead. He said this is great, he took a dinner order for evry member of his team. I said it is greater that every one of my team members are at home eating dinner with their family and they will all be in early tomorrow morning refreshed are raring to go and will have done more before your team arrives than most do all day. My team always over delivered in under time while the rest of the company under delivered in over time. My reward for that was I was replaced and let go. Most of the team members left the company soon after. The CFO was so angry with management that he forced them to compensate me for letting me go. They put me on a $1000/month retainer until they sold the company and all my stock options payed off. Failure is rewarded, success is punished. I coined that while working for Novell for 10 and 1/2 years. Which was 10 years too many.

In the early 80s I designed an IBM OEMI Channel to Channel adapter using APL as a register transfer modeling and simulation language. A program written by my boss called SynAPL parsed the APL and synthesized the gates and registers. And the rest of our synthesis system partitioned the chips and produced the metallization masks for sea of gates Gate Arrays. The chips worked first time, no turns.

Faith in your team members. I was the team lead for a group called Area51 because what we did was a secret. And because of the nature of this group we were always understaffed. Management came to me and said that he had a guy that none of the other teams wanted and could I use the help. Of course I could. He then said you should know why the other teams did not want him. I said I didn't want to know, that was between him and them. So he reports to me, I told him where his office was and when he was settled in, came back and I'll tell hin his job. When he came back I told him. He seemed a little overwhelmed. He asked how he was to do that. I said if I knew I wouldn't need him. Go research it and come back with some options. I knew how to do it, but I wanted him invested in it. He came back with some interesting approaches. We talked about the pros/cons of each approach. Then he said which one would I take. I said that was not relevant, I wasn't going to do it, he was. Go decide which one and put together a plan and schedule. When he came back he had chosen the one I would have, the one most likely to succeed. His schedule was a little optimistic - as usual with engineers. So I said he needed to add a little time for things that don't go right and I said have at it. If you have problems let's talk about them sooner than later. Well he delivered - on his optimistic schedule. I praised him for that in staff mtg. In private he asked if I knew about his previous problems with the other teams. I said I knew he had them but I didn't know what they were, they were not my business - unless he wanted to tell me. He then asked if he knew why he kept to the optimistic schedule. Without waiting for an answer he said because you had faith in me and I wanted to earn that. I wanted to prove that it was not misplaced. Treat a man as he is and he will remain so, treat a man as you want him to be and that is what he'll become.

I spent part of 1978 mapping out twist little passages or is that twisting little passages or little twisted passages and saying "xyzzy" where ever I could on an Interdata 8/32 while working for an "obscure" company call Ramtek.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The 2nd amendment is specifically about military style weapons. You go hunting with a gun, you go to war with arms. And militias go to war not hunting. And tell me, what article of the constitution gives the federal government the power to regulate guns or arms? I'll tell you, THERE ISN'T ONE, and the 2nd amendment expressly prohibits it.

Ad Hominem attacks are not OK either.

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A leftist is someone who believes he needs some governments permission to be right.

A leftist is someone who does not believe in and denies this:

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First of all, I want to make it clear that what I'm going to say is in support of what John Simmons posted but what we are taking about ARE NOT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS! The American Declaration of Independence predated the US Constitution by many years. The US Constitution is not about granting rights to citizens, it is about citizens delegating powers to a government, those powers being the power to defend and maintain rights predating the US Constitution. That is important because what government grants it can deny. The Declaration of Independence makes it clear that these rights are "unalienable", they can't be alienated from us. They are not something that we have, they are what we are. It is not correct to say "I have a right to arm myself". It is correct to say "I AM right to arm myself". I AM right to defend myself and my property. I AM right to speak freely. I AM right to worship how I chose. I AM right to not allow unreasonable searches and seizures of my things. I AM right to not answer your questions. Now this is important because people say "well, we can change that law - we can repeal that amendment". Yes, you can. But that would be tyranny. Because even if you repeal the entire bill of rights, or for that matter, the entire US Constitution, it does not change that I AM right to arm myself. I AM right to defend myself and my property. I AM right to speak freely. I AM right to worship how I chose. I AM right to not allow unreasonable searches and seizures of my things. I AM right to not answer your questions. HUMAN RIGHTS PREDATED ANY GOVERNMENT - THEY ARE UNALIENABLE. And this is the dirty little secret that leftist liberals just don't like.

you're kidding right?

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The primary purpose of the 2nd amendment is for protection against the tyrants that try to eliminate the 2nd amendment. Because the 2nd amendment is only the first amendment that tyrants will eliminate. And after tyrants have eliminated the constitution. And the only way to eliminate these things is to eliminate people who believe in them and want to keep their unalienable rights.

And just to make sure that we know the true nature of the gun grabbers ​ In 1865 a Democrat shot and killed Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. In 1881 a left wing radical Democrat shot James Garfield, President of the United States - who later died from the wound. In 1963 a radical left wing socialist shot and killed John F. Kennedy, President of the United States. In 1975 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at Gerald Ford, President of the United States. In 1983 a registered Democrat shot and wounded Ronald Reagan, President of the United States. In 1984 James Hubert, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 22 people in a McDonalds restaurant. In 1986 Patrick Sherrill, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 15 people in an Oklahoma post office. In 1990 James Pough, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 10 people at a GMAC office. In 1991 George Hennard, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 23 people in a Luby's cafeteria in Killeen , TX. In 1995 James Daniel Simpson, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 5 coworkers in a Texas laboratory. In 1999 Larry Asbrook, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 8 people at a church service. In 2001 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at the White House in a failed attempt to kill George W. Bush, President of the US ... In 2003 Douglas Williams, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people at a Lockheed Martin plant. In 2007 a registered Democrat named Seung - Hui Cho, shot and killed 32 people in Virginia Tech. In 2010 a mentally ill registered Democrat named Jared Lee Loughner, shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed 6 others. In 2011 a registered Democrat named James Holmes, went into a movie theater and shot and killed 12 people. In 2012 Andrew Engeldinger, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people in Minneapolis. In 2013 a registered Democrat named Adam Lanza, shot and killed 26 people in a school in Newtown , CT. As recently as Sept 2013, an angry Democrat shot 12 at a Navy ship yard. Clearly, there is a problem with Democrats and guns. *Not one *NRA member, Tea Party member, or Republican conservative was involved in any of these shootings and murders.

Let's just make sure all you gun grabbing leftist liberals know what kind of world you are proposing: In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated. China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated. Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

First of all, I want to make it clear that what I'm going to say is in support of what John Simmons posted but what we are taking about ARE NOT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS! The American Declaration of Independence predated the US Constitution by many years. The US Constitution is not about granting rights to citizens, it is about citizens delegating powers to a government, those powers being the power to defend and maintain rights predating the US Constitution. That is important because what government grants it can deny. The Declaration of Independence makes it clear that these rights are "unalienable", they can't be alienated from us. They are not something that we have, they are what we are. It is not correct to say "I have a right to arm myself". It is correct to say "I AM right to arm myself". I AM right to defend myself and my property. I AM right to speak freely. I AM right to worship how I chose. I AM right to not allow unreasonable searches and seizures of my things. I AM right to not answer your questions. Now this is important because people say "well, we can change that law - we can repeal that amendment". Yes, you can. But that would be tyranny. Because even if you repeal the entire bill of rights, or for that matter, the entire US Constitution, it does not change that I AM right to arm myself. I AM right to defend myself and my property. I AM right to speak freely. I AM right to worship how I chose. I AM right to not allow unreasonable searches and seizures of my things. I AM right to not answer your questions. HUMAN RIGHTS PREDATED ANY GOVERNMENT - THEY ARE UNALIENABLE. And this is the dirty little secret that leftist liberals just don't like.

I thought Alaska was the place where men are men and the women are too!?!?

My first job out of school was at Hewlet Packard Data Systems Division in Cupertino CA. Where I repaired 21MX computers. That machine was user micro programmable, you could add your own instructions on the fly. I met a guy going to Foothill College that had a homework assignment to add a string operation instruction to the 21MX and didn't have a clue. So I told him I would write the microcode but I would only give it to him if he could explain to me, after I tutored him, how it worked - each and every line of code. I wrote "professional quality code" that would take an interrupt in the middle of running and continue where it left off when the interrupt handler completed. The guy learned it well. He later told me he got an A+ with extra credit on the assignment. The instructor did ask him to explain it to the class and gave him the A+ for the code and extra credit for finding "the only guy in silicon valley who could have written that code". I think there were a few others who could have done it. But I got to tech more than one guy a dying art. In my career, I designed more than one micro coded machines, I even help with the processors that flew on the Galileo. It is sad that very few get to experience writing micro code.

I like this one [^] But I think that both songs are saying the samething, maybe.

Commenting may put me between a rock and a hard place, but I've never found anything firm, solid, or concrete here.

Why are some people so stupid? Because they are!