I said “that dude was already in his 30s” and I meant daddy Keith. Never mind, they’re both pieces of shit. The only reason Keith is less of a piece of shit is that he’s long dead.

Elephants are an endangered species!

Even if you buy the (nonsense) idea that billionaires are actually creating all the wealth, the idea that if you raise their taxes they will just stop their wealth-creating activities is utter rubbish. If you took away more of their money, they would have to work harder to maintain their standard of living - thus creating even more wealth.

Sigh (unzips).

Oh but they does. Keith Murdoch (Rupert’s father) was born in 1885 so was 29 at the outbreak of WWI. Rupert (literally Keith Rupert Murdoch) was born in 1931 when his father was 46.

bag of human shit Joe Rogan

This is libelous. He’s a bag of cockroach shit.

Not sure what the comment you responded to was

They said high school kids don’t take school buses … like, no high school kids do, which is manifestly untrue. I actually grew up in a town with no school buses at all, but that’s because we had a big state university there and the school district contracted with the university bus service to provide adequate route coverage to get kids to school.

The corporation built almost entirely out of copying Apple and buying up competitors to destroy them?

Ironically enough, their biggest failure to do this was when they let the iPhone (with the help of Android) bitch-slap Windows Mobile and Windows Phone out of existence.

I got recruited by Apple some years ago because of my Stack Overflow account. I’m glad I ignored them, although there’s something to be said for an ungodly salary and Apple stock options.

I don’t think anything in the software world has ever pissed me off as much as the fucking ribbon. “We’ve run out of ideas as far as the UI is concerned - just throw everything up there somewhere, menus, toolbars, whatever”. A close second was their genius idea of hiding unused menu items so the locations of the items you do use are constantly changing.

I don’t use MS products any more but my 90 yo parents do and it’s a fucking nightmare trying to help them with stuff. MS Office is certifiable elder abuse.

Huh, that’s curious. I’m actually a school bus driver and I’ve been driving high school kids for four years now. Your use of “transit passes” makes me think you’re not a United Statesian.

Lol “laws”.

Murdoch’s age is just insane. His fucking father was a stain on humanity during fucking WWI, and that dude was already in his 30s at the time.

What about dinotiddies?

Edit: I just realized how dumb that statement was lol.

Not that renaming problems ever helps, but this is why I’m trying to push “anthropogenic runaway global heating” as a replacement for the weak formulation of “global warming” and the even weaker “climate change”. It has the handy acronym of ARGH.

One reason for the early starts for high schools is that by staggering the start times for high school, middle school, and elementary school, school districts can use fewer buses and fewer drivers. If all the schools started at the same (more reasonable) time, you’d need three times as many buses and drivers and each driver would only get one or two hours a day (and thus would find something else to do, making the existing shortage of drivers even worse). The district I drive for has a transportation budget of about $3 million a year - we would not be able to afford $9 million a year and still afford our administrators’ enormous salaries.

If you just started all schools later by an hour, the elementary school kids would start at 9:30 AM which would not work out very well, either.

I wrote a web app for a client back in the late '90s that is still in (heavy) use at the company. It was actually a “Classic ASP” app and they kept one old PC around to act as the server for it for a couple of decades (they eventually replaced that with a virtual machine and the app is still going). The output is straight HTML + CSS so they’ve never had any problems using it with progressively more modern browsers. Ironically, this app is a front end sitting atop an unbelievably clunky mainframe application that dates to the 1970s, so my app’s continued existence means that mainframe application is still running as well.

My first coding experience was as a kid on punch cards (and I’m not even 60 yet). This was in the late 70s and I had an older neighbor friend who was in high school but taking some classes at the local university. The intro programming class that he took still used punch cards on mainframes (though this was being phased out even then) and my friend sort of Tom-Sawyered me into helping him with his homework. It was actually kind of fun to sit there punching the holes in the cards, and then we’d take the stack of cards over to the CS building and leave it in his mail slot, and then a few days later you’d get a giant stack of that old green- and white-striped computer printout paper deposited there with the program’s results.

It’s interesting, it really taught me to check and recheck my own code extremely thoroughly and carefully before “running” it, rather than pumping out some slop quickly and relying on the compiler and/or the output to identify any problems. Because with multiple days between submitting the code and seeing the results, you really had to make sure stuff was working from the get-go. In my career as a programmer, I subsequently ran into many similar situations that required basically just your own eyeballs to make sure the code was right. When I was writing Blackberry applications circa 2010 (!) for example, RIM’s utterly fucked-up developer environment meant that the delay between starting to compile an application and having it running on a test device could be 30-45 minutes or more (if it finished compiling at all) even if I’d only made a single one-line code change. So I had to get back in the habit of very carefully writing a lot of code before attempting to compile, and making sure it was going to work correctly just by inspection.

I gave up on my IT career a few years ago and became a school bus driver. The job application process was refreshingly old-school. I actually faxed my resume! And for the first time in my entire life somebody actually called my references.

Lady Miss Kier?