Posts by Paul Hovnanian

Re: No Surprises

"All team meetings" implies that all of the participants are going to have to go back to their desks and work with the decisions made. Of course you want the work to be clearly defined. In my experience, corporate-speak comes about when some "leader-like entity" attempts to sell an idea to the team and wants to short stop any further discussion (and possible objections).

Taking money from the state is one thing. But many local school districts* obtain additional funding from local residents (via property taxes) to enhance their programs. And these programs and their funds are jealously guarded by the local residents that pay for them. In some districts, by residents "ratting out" commuting students. ALPRs are just a modern version of that. But they allow the local residents to plead ignorance of the practice, since individuals don't have to file a complaint in person.

*I'm not sure about Illinois, Chicago or Oak Lawn School District 126 specifically.

"How do you manage with as few as 6 mouse buttons????"

That is a very good question.

Re: Just ask yourself???

A careful gramatical analysis of your writing style might give you away.

On the other hand, it might reveal you to be the true author of the works of Shakespeare (writing under the invented persona of Sir Francis Bacon).

Re: This is right sucks (if true)

"If not, then the accounts of those who follow you might have it."

You have discovered my stratagem. Piss off enough people and nobody follows me.

Re: Precisely the Problem

I guess Poettering never had to plug a camera into his laptop. So "NOTABUG WONTFIX".

Re: "Illegal dumping" has a different meaning where I live

"I could have taken it to the county landfill"

Lucky you. It's a profit center for my town. I used to handle my own trash. Hauling a couple of cans to the transfer station* every month for about $10. But then the town figured that they could make garbage service mandatory and charge what they wanted. $250 per ton with a $40 minimum charge. Every time there is an opportunity for comment, I always mention that they charge much more than the competition (the gully behind some hobo camp). Rate increases are deemed necessary for "essential services"**.

*A facility where we (or the city trucks) toss our garbage into semi truck trailers. Who take it to the dump, which is not accessible to the general public.

**Cleaning garbage out of hobo camps. For free.

"paperwork was dumped. Addresses were traced"

Sounds like the plot of Alice’s Restaurant Massacre.

"Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie. I put that envelope under that garbage."

Re: Worst of Both Worlds?

"un-maintainable, EVEN LATER BY THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE IT."

And so now they want to hire code commenters when, in the past, we couldn't even get the meat-sack devs to comment their own code?

Let us know how that is working out.

Re: LLM

That has a basis in history. That human has been drawn and quartered.

Re: Americans

"It is, but why should anyone make the effort to cross big bodies of water"

The Rio Grande isn't that big. Notwithstanding an attempt to secure its shore with barbed wire. And if there's a sufficient profit involved, speed boats from Venezuela will do quite nicely.

The "why" question has many answers. But the frequency of occurence speaks to the question being answered in the affirmitave quite frequently.

Re: Because that's an instance of punishment being meted out unilaterally.

I'm not sure. From Jamie's original comment, it wasn't clear who could "look up" an account. Nor what sort of vetting was applied to related comments or complaints entered.

It could be quite chilling for continued free speech if one were to fear some comment being caught by the armies of self- proclaimed "defenders of the public's morals". And a red flag (flashing, no less) be applied to one's on-line personna with no opportunity for a hearing.

Re: Americans

"except chambered for a civilian round"

Sadly, yes. We'd all be better off sticking to military rounds. Which are (in most places) restricted by the 1899 Hague Convention (not ratified by the USA, but observed as a part of NATO). Civilian rounds are subject to far fewer restrictions.