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den2k88 wrote: That said, I don't wear suits or ties and it shows. When I wear one it is painfully obvious that I'm not used to that dress code, 'business casual' - I add 20,000 to my ask. But places like that usually have additional adds so I price myself out. 'suit' - I would add 60,000 but been a really long time since I thought that was a possibility.

There's a reason it was the only one available - no one else wanted to trust their data to a used disk.

I'm just now catching up with a small backlog of posts I wanted to go back to, and stumbled upon this. trønderen wrote: he realized that if he made a miscalculation, that could lead to several young men returning to their wives, their kids and parents alive. If he did his task properly, they might return home, but in a coffin. Interesting conundrum, and I understand his position... But OTOH, it's not like sparing the enemy means lives are saved and that's the end of the story...rather, if you don't kill your enemy, he gets a chance to kill you, your family, and your follow countrymen. Is that a better outcome? If it's kill or be killed, it's a pretty simple decision in my mind. But ultimately, when you've reached this point, when wars are waged, invariably it's because some "leader" has failed miserably at his job. I didn't really mean to revive this old thread, but somehow I felt compelled to contribute my 2 cents. :-)

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. If she can let it all hang out, why can't the OP? Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

Yes, gone far too soon. And every vid I've ever seen of her she was wearing a big, life-is-fun grin...lovely lady. And FAST!!

Haha, not quite, too high up the food chain I think. But he always drove convertibles with his foot flat to the floor even in his 70's. But he did wear the classic horn rimmed specs :) I found an old photo of the EE design/engineering team with the P.1 (prototype) from around 1954/55 - yes, he's wearing a sports jacket :-D If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

a friend at the office washed his dirty laundry at his sisters. she had one of those machines that wash and dry. once, he told me, his sister was in a hurry, she had to leave and let him do the job. she said something like - i have set the machine, all you have to do is put detergent and the dirty cloths then press play. he did that and decided to go for a walk around the block. when he got back to take the now clean and dry laundry, he said the whole building had a chemical smell. when he opened the machine his cloths were like plasterboard. as he stood there wondering what happened, his sister came back and yelled at him "what have you done?! how much detergent have you put inside?" he said i put it all, why? doesn't this thing know how much detergent it needs?! when i put gasoline in my motorbike i fill it up and the motor takes what it needs... at first this sounded so crazy and funny to me, but i realized he was right. after 60 years of washing machines, someone must have fixed this. i remembered all the times a have looked at the machine UI and wondered, why did they marked this function so? why is there a container for detergent marked 1 and 2, but you almost always have to put the soap in 2? if 1 is some special case that is seldomly used, why didn't they marked it 0?

I think I would start my own business, knowing I could afford to pay the day to day bills without worry. and work on only the projects that were interesting to me, after all I could be picky at that point.

The same idiot who thought changing a button to different colored text you need to hover over to see it's clickable (Windows 8). I'm not sure they were thinking. . .

Member 13301679 wrote: Darwinism is "survival of the fittest", where fittest means "those characteristics most suitable to the environment". More specifically, fittest is defined as those individuals who successfully produce the next generation. Once that's done, their death has no impact on evolution.

My first exposure to Rexx was when I had to convert a couple of hundred EXEC and Exec-2 scripts to Rexx under VM/CMS. I learnt XEDIT used Rexx as a macro language so I wrote a Rexx program to do 99% of the conversions for me. I originally had three months to complete the project doing 2 or 3 conversions a day. I did that for the first 5 or 6, then spent two weeks doing nothing but writing and perfecting the XEDIT macro in Rexx. My boss was getting worried that I had still only done about 10 after three weeks! Then I did the rest in 2 days using the macros. Another week fixing the issues and I was done. I loved Rexx (and XEDIT), EXECIO not so much ;-). - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

That reminds me. I must get started on the PiDP-11/70 (and PiDP-8/E) kits I got as presents... PiDP-11 | obsolescence[^] Ans yes,I am old enough to have used an original PDP-11/70 (and a PDP-8) and done more than just "WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN".

I was at an Inuit restaurant once. The menu was: Whale meat Seal Meat Polar Bear Meat Vera Lynn special I asked what the Vera Lynn special was. It was whale meat again.

Even better: spread some $$$ around :-\

I've got a 20 that goes to 6 on a good day, yet it's still fast enough for most streaming and series downloads. "'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley

Life choices my friend. :-) I still remember some aunts of mine thinking I was being cute when I said at the age of 7 I was never going to get married. The older I get, the less incentive I feel I have to change that. And the more people give me reasons not to.

:-O Thank you. "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

I was thinking more along the lines of Peta Wilson. I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!