Posts by elawyn

If the U.S, Tried to change from pounds to kilograms over night, there would be mass confusion!

Did you know...

The Norwegian Navy paints barcodes on the sides of their ships?

So that when they return to port, the harbormaster can Scandinavian!

of course, a *real coder* doesn't need a compiler or assembler, they just type the hex machine code directly in using a dos command of copy con > program .exe or the equivalent.

We happy few?

For those of us who can successfully WFH there would have to be some severe incentives to go back to office work. I've been WFH for over a decade ( as a database designer and guru on several subject areas with 20 years of experience in my field and a further 20+ in IT). No more having to fight traffic, no more having to arrive early to park within a reasonable distance (the office was on a corporate campus with a dozen parking lots up to a half mile away, no fun in the winters to trudge half a mile in a blizzard to try to get the snow off the car when I'm already frozen from the walk!).

No more having to rush from one meeting to another at the opposite end of the campus and back again afterwards for the next one. No more going down 3 floors and across the courtyard and up 3 more only to find a note on the door to say 'Meeting moved' or 'Meeting cancelled'.

Manglement is almost figuring out that meetings shouldn't start and finish at the top of the hour either instead they're warming to the idea of starting 5 or 10 after the hour and finishing 5 before. I just wish many of the would make that inviolate.

I am one of the lucky ones, I am within shouting distance of retiring ( which I'm delaying because Covid stopped me from traveling to find a place to retire to with the amenities I want nearby).

Not everyone has all the same luxuries of choice tho, which is a shame , especially if their management *insists* of going back to a Victorian indentured labor style.

People often confuse various members of the corvid family. But it's actually quite simple. Ravens have 9 primary flight feathers, also called pinions, whereas crows only have eight. So the difference is simply a matter of a pinion

Fun for days

I used to work for an information services division of General Electric in the UK (the US GE tho) at a field office. I was always the first to arrive. I'd just got a pot of coffee going when the doorbell rang. It was the new Managing Director there fore a meeting with the senior sales staff (None of whom would arrive for at least another hour).I sat him in the reception area, poured him a coffee and told him I could not let him into the main office since he did not have an ID badge (apparently it was his first week). Ran into him at head office a month later at some 'all hands' meeting and ended up being invited to come have a few lunchtime pints with him across the street. He was VERY appreciative of hearing the truth from the folks that actually did the work.

I wish they'd use that stuff to track down the asshats that call my landline multiple times a day using faked caller id (especially the ones that pretend to be on the same local exchange), then send in a drone strike...

HAL-9000: [message relayed from monolith] All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace.

Can someone let me know when they get it small enough to sit on the back of a De Lorean?

Can someone let me know if Playboy ever come up with something similar to this 'rewards' idea?

Are sure it wasn't launched from Klendathu?

I made something like this as a kid. Except I decided it needed a motor as well, so I made a wooden motorcycle.

Wooden wheels, wooden frame, wooden petrol tank, wooden engine.

Sadly tho, it wooden go.

orbit

Strictly speaking, anything that goes 'ballistic' *is* in orbit, just not a complete orbit. If you stand in your garden and throw a rock, it goes 'ballistic' and starts to fall under gravity. The faster you throw it, the further it goes. Throw it at 7 miles per second and it's in an 'escape' orbit. Any slower and it's in a 'decay' orbit.

Semantics, gotta love them!

Welcome home Atlantis.,,,

All the crew on the ground should dress up in ape suits so that when the crew land and look out the window, everyone is an ape.

I'm in the wrong job.

Give me $ 17m, plus shares. I'll resign immediately after sexually harassing anyone!*

* except Mrs Bee. I'm not so stupid to risk that, I'd prefer to keep whatever parts still work firmly attached.

Sharks with lasers

1. Equip shark with laser powered by a superconducting battery charged to 1.21 gigawatts.

2.....

3. Profit

Coming soon...

The 2011 'Naughty Nurses of the NHS' pinup calendar.

Probably given away free to the unemployed. DVD costs extra (possibly covered under BUPA)

wooden wonder?

I once built a car out of wood. Wooden wheels, wooden gears, wooden engine and so on.

It wooden go!

unencrpyted?

wtf?????

Straight violation of Hipaa Privacy and the little known Hipaa security regs. If I remember correctly, that's a $50k fine PER, plus up to ten years in 'club fed' *just*on the privacy part.

On the security part::-

1.2 Penalties

CEs that do not comply with the Security Rule requirements are subject to a number of penalties. Civil penalties are $100 per violation, up to $25,000 per year for each requirement violated. Criminal penalties range from $50,000 in fines and one year in prison up to $250,000 in fines and 10 years in jail.

Good grief, that's a 1996 regulation!

seems a simple answer is needed

Cut Pakistan from the Internet completely.

btw, here's my pic of Mohammed, in a dark coal mine. To save bandwidth it's only one pixel

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wel of course it did

instead of making honey, the bees were too busy giving each other a buzz!

so...

if it goes faster and faster, eventually ALL the rotors will stop spinning?

This won't do

Mr. President, we can't afford a biomemitic butterfly gap!

appropriate name?

schools secretary Ed Balls

I for one welcome our

un-snipping robot sterilization reversing overlords!