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by cafard 3y ago
Was LBJ a racist himself? I expect so. Was he deeply committed to civil rights? Yes, without question. Johnson regarded the war in Vietnam as something he had inherited from Kennedy. He regarded it as politically impossible to cut losses an
842.
by cafard 3y ago
I first heard it from a co-worker, who found that it took less explaining than to say that he was Valparaiso, Indiana.
843.
by cafard 3y ago
DC resident here. The big problem, judging from the neighborhood listserv, is theft not of but from automobiles: contractors, cleaning crews, lawn crews have their stuff stolen. The police don't seem to focus on this until people in th
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by cafard 3y ago
Didn't Argentina try this about 30 years ago? My recollection is that it didn't work all that well.
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by cafard 3y ago
Neighbors tried this. They settled on a name that is uncommon in their native lands, and which they supposed was pronounced the same way in their cradle tongues. Perhaps it is supposed to be pronounced the same way, but his family gives the
846.
by cafard 3y ago
I will apologize for speaking of them as "punch cards" to the first person who shows up with a black eye caused by a blow from a "punching bag".
847.
by cafard 3y ago
It is part of the definition of any novel that it is fiction. LoF's understanding of anthropology has been shown up as flawed, that is quite true.
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by cafard 3y ago
It must have been available in the Cleveland area (or maybe western Pennsylvania) sixty years ago, for I know that I have consumed it, just not recently. I bet that a bit of a search in YouTube would pull up the All in the Family bit in whi
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by cafard 3y ago
Interesting. I have been wondering why a couple of (running) instances don't show up in the console.
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by cafard 3y ago
Back 40 years ago, Data General's AOS/VS defined 255 file types. In many cases, maybe all, there was a corresponding extension for the file, e.g. .exe for executables, .txt for text and so on. However, there was a trick that I enc
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by cafard 3y ago
I once glanced at an assignment given my son in AP Computer Science. It was, as you say, in Java. I asked why he hadn't set up a loop for something, and was told (essentially) that loops would be covered in the next week or so, and tha
852.
by cafard 3y ago
My mother did not work outside the home for the roughly ten-year span between my birth and my brother reaching school age. The communal setting, school apart, was called the neighborhood. This was the boom, so a given block could have quite
853.
by cafard 3y ago
My McDonald's employment ended more than 50 years ago--not too soon for me, and probably, come to that, not too soon for them. I was not lazy, nor were my co-workers. I was not particularly efficient, but it was the third W-2 job I eve
854.
by cafard 3y ago
Jim Wright (D-TX), then Speaker of the House, got some grief over bulk purchases of his memoirs. The Wikipedia article on him mentions this.
855.
by cafard 3y ago
In the "Dave's Garage" interview of Dave Cutler, Cutler has a lava lamp behind him, doesn't he?
856.
by cafard 3y ago
As people have said, once you know that you can run the distance, why not see whether you can run it faster? Having said that, I never timed the runs I did by myself or with friends.
857.
by cafard 3y ago
Yes, but the classics were new once. Should the crowds that lined up to buy War and Peace have thought better because after all The Song of Igor's Campaign was written some hundreds of years before?
858.
by cafard 3y ago
A political statement? My late mother-in-law had a couple of long guns in her bedroom closet. The statement they made was that somebody had left them to her, and that she hadn't bothered to give them away.
859.
by cafard 3y ago
The best argument for "over the last 50-70 years" is that we've forgotten the poorer products of 70+ years ago. A recommendation: find a copy of _The Best of S.J. Perelman_ and read the "Cloudland Revisited" pieces,
860.
by cafard 3y ago
Doing one's homework is an excellent way of exposing and filling gaps in one's understanding. I'm more or less adequate at math, but I'd be better if I had done more of my homework.
861.
by cafard 3y ago
I think there's a Calvin and Hobbes about this.
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by cafard 3y ago
Depending on the town you are in, USA Today could be bigger than the local paper, and maybe have better national and international coverage. That was sometimes the case in my peak traveling days 35 years ago, when the newspapers generally w
863.
by cafard 3y ago
Colonization?
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by cafard 3y ago
During my long-ago employment at McDonalds, nearly all the staff was under 18, and so ineligible to be handling alcoholic beverages, even 3.2 beer. Many American states are quite fussy about this sort of thing--I've had a younger cashi
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by cafard 3y ago
Forty and more years ago, one heard of "Greyhound therapy". A city's social services office would cut difficult residents a bus ticket to any other destination in the US. So the concept isn't new.
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by cafard 3y ago
There are cities named Palestine in the US.
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by cafard 3y ago
Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38015507 .
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by cafard 3y ago
Some pointed out the advancing each letter in VMS yields WNT.
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by cafard 3y ago
Almost fifty years ago, I worked with a guy who was color-blind. This was in Colorado, where at the time some of the little towns in the mountains still had traffic lights arranged horizontally rather than vertically. He must have known the
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by cafard 3y ago
We lived for fifteen years in a development with an HOA. The HOA saw to lawn mowing, snow removal, and perhaps tree replacement. Eventually, after fuss about parking, the HOA painted house numbers on parking spaces to be sure that we could

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