I'm surprised you know about Commodore 64 computers. Have you ever seen one? Back around 1980 one of our plant engineers began using a Commodore to trend vibration readings on rotating machinery. Saved us millions of dollars every year. We could purchase the computers using petty cash funds. The number of floppy disks required cost more than he computers.
It's a joke I saw online, along with the "...running operations on Windows 3.1" (which was my first operating system, alongside MS-DOS, on a 286 PC with both a 5.25" and 3.5" floppy drives)
Welcome back Shirley. Damn, that joke is older than Biden and trump combined.
Chaos sucks, always has, always will. trump is the party of chaos. Who the freak needs that kind of turmoil in their daily grind? Why would anyone want it?
But alas, the democrats got this one right. Kudos. If there was any doubt about who would take Joe's place, there's 100 million small donor dollars (in the last 24 hours) telling us who they wanted. Smoke filled back rooms are overrated.
Bestest of all though...the responses by the maga-crowd (sorry but you aren't the GOP). Mike Johnson wants to sue to keep Biden in the race and trump wants a refund on all his ad buys directed at tired old Joe.
Meltdowns are truly unbecoming from grown-ass men. Who knew the chaos party would react so chaotically?
The fortunate thing about Kamala being the incumbent VP, and the campaign having been Biden Harris 2024, is that the results of the primary are effectively maintained: anybody that voted for Biden (and it was overwhelmingly so) was also voting for her as VP.
Rather than throw the baby out with the bath water, it'd be better to reform our electoral systems to maintain the primary but make it more likely to get a moderate voice - this can be done with ranked-choice voting. It's not a panacea by any means, but it does allow one to vote for their preferred candidate and then fall-back to a more mainstream option.
I’m surprised how easily you’re letting the Dems off the hook on this one. The establishment knew he was a senile Sun-downing shell of his former self, but did not act until the charade was no longer publicly tenable.
And if the Orange is the existential threat that he is etc etc, (a concept which I’m willing to entertain), how do you pass off 2024 Joe as humanity’s solution? Those 2 intellectual positions simply do not mesh.
I could almost get behind your sentiment, David, except the government is NOT leaving us alone to just live our lives, and it won't. Government intrusion and invasion in our lives will continue to get worse as the days, weeks, and years go by.
That counts for both sides with the proposed Republican 10 percent trade tax, the massive expansion of the police state to hunt down illegals and drive them from the workforce, etc.
Big Government from the right is still Big Government and the New Republicanism is characterized by rightwing attempts to micromanage people's lives.
David, don’t forget Jay. He also posted.
Yep, defiinitely can't forget Jay. Thanks, Jay and I apologize for leaving you out initially. Still in vacay mode.
"Southwest has had its share of meltdowns in the past, but this week the Texas airline’s antiquated computer systems seemed to work in its favor."
If Southwest persists, they may be our last hope to take out an aggressive AI determined to murder us all.
(Apologies for the oblique Battlestar Galactica reference. All of this has happened before and will happen again.)
Southwest lucked out by running their operations on a Commodore 64 in a warehouse in Fort Worth.
I'm surprised you know about Commodore 64 computers. Have you ever seen one? Back around 1980 one of our plant engineers began using a Commodore to trend vibration readings on rotating machinery. Saved us millions of dollars every year. We could purchase the computers using petty cash funds. The number of floppy disks required cost more than he computers.
I just want to say that I have personal experience with the Commodore 64 as well as the Vic-20 and the TRS-80 from Radio Shack.
It's a joke I saw online, along with the "...running operations on Windows 3.1" (which was my first operating system, alongside MS-DOS, on a 286 PC with both a 5.25" and 3.5" floppy drives)
Welcome back Shirley. Damn, that joke is older than Biden and trump combined.
Chaos sucks, always has, always will. trump is the party of chaos. Who the freak needs that kind of turmoil in their daily grind? Why would anyone want it?
But alas, the democrats got this one right. Kudos. If there was any doubt about who would take Joe's place, there's 100 million small donor dollars (in the last 24 hours) telling us who they wanted. Smoke filled back rooms are overrated.
Bestest of all though...the responses by the maga-crowd (sorry but you aren't the GOP). Mike Johnson wants to sue to keep Biden in the race and trump wants a refund on all his ad buys directed at tired old Joe.
Meltdowns are truly unbecoming from grown-ass men. Who knew the chaos party would react so chaotically?
The fortunate thing about Kamala being the incumbent VP, and the campaign having been Biden Harris 2024, is that the results of the primary are effectively maintained: anybody that voted for Biden (and it was overwhelmingly so) was also voting for her as VP.
Rather than throw the baby out with the bath water, it'd be better to reform our electoral systems to maintain the primary but make it more likely to get a moderate voice - this can be done with ranked-choice voting. It's not a panacea by any means, but it does allow one to vote for their preferred candidate and then fall-back to a more mainstream option.
I’m surprised how easily you’re letting the Dems off the hook on this one. The establishment knew he was a senile Sun-downing shell of his former self, but did not act until the charade was no longer publicly tenable.
And if the Orange is the existential threat that he is etc etc, (a concept which I’m willing to entertain), how do you pass off 2024 Joe as humanity’s solution? Those 2 intellectual positions simply do not mesh.
Sunsetting, not sundowning. Sundowning is a very specific term, and the two are not interchangeable.
Are you arguing that Joe Biden is not a humane person that cares about other people, even when they don't agree with him politically?
I used sundowning intentionally….as in delirium….such that his staff says he’s reliably engaged 10A- 4P every day.
I’ve got nothing against Joe. But he’s clearly lost many many mph off his fastball. I’m not as charitable about the Dem machinery.
Hard to argue the response over the last 24 hours though SC. In a perfect world this would not have happened this way.
Here's what i know without question: We do not live in a perfect world.
Absolutely
I could almost get behind your sentiment, David, except the government is NOT leaving us alone to just live our lives, and it won't. Government intrusion and invasion in our lives will continue to get worse as the days, weeks, and years go by.
That counts for both sides with the proposed Republican 10 percent trade tax, the massive expansion of the police state to hunt down illegals and drive them from the workforce, etc.
Big Government from the right is still Big Government and the New Republicanism is characterized by rightwing attempts to micromanage people's lives.