It's been a long time since I've seen a car without a radio, but I purchased a 1993 Chevy Cavalier without a radio brand new.

I'd like to think I wouldn't drive into the harbor following GPS. I'm smarter than that, right? Right!? Well, last time I was in the DC area, I missed the exit for the Dulles airport twice because I had on the damned GPS to get me there from West Virginia. Shut it off and just followed the signs the third time. Was very pissed at myself. I'd been there before and had never previously missed the exit. Something happens to your brain when the GPS is on -- I think it's because the vast majority of the time, it's very accurate and lulls you into not paying as much attention. Lesson learned for me. Once I have a good idea where I am, I just shut it off now.

Oof. Too soon ;-)

It is on a national level now even. See the recent news about the White House getting involved with a private operation to put cremated remains on the moon when the Navajo Nation objected due to religious concerns.

My CS101 and CS201 classes at Colorado State University used Pascal. It's been a long time (late 80's), but for CS101 I don't recall the language being hard, I found programming hard. Now CS201, we used an HP compiler that was garbage. I had to work with HP to get several compiler issues fixed to complete some of our assignments. I think CSU agreed with you on the "nowhere near powerful enough for experts" thing though. After those two classes, you had to take a C module, and most of the rest of the program used C.

This is absolutely true, but he wouldn't have been President. Trump did exactly what he wanted to with his money: to become famous and powerful. He cares more for that than being wealthy.

I've got one in the basement, fully functional. I might actually have to purchase this and pull it back out!

Off topic, but your handle always made me smile. I needed a vehicle, my sister had a 94 Escort Wagon that she was getting ready to sell to a scrapper. I bought it off of her for $1000, put another $500 into it, and drove it for the next decade. Ugly, wonderful cars :)

I forgot to mention, the OP is exactly the reason I DIDN'T buy an F150. No way I could justify that in my mind.

I don't necessarily disagree, but what's the threshold? I drive a 2019 Ford Ranger which I bought because I own a 14' fishing boat I need to tow. I probably tow a trailer 20 times a year, and use the bed once a month in the spring/summer months for yard work, occasionally for picking up large items etc. But when you put all the "truck things" I do with it together, it's a small minority of the time I drive. I don't even include going to the high country in the winter when I need 4wd, because I could have easily bought a smaller AWD vehicle for that, but it did play into why I bought the truck. A lot of thoughtful people buy vehicles for the 10%, not the 90%, because we HAVE to do the 10% to maintain certain activities.

They don't always just "walk you out." I was laid off from HP during a reduction in force. They took me into a conference room and told me my position "was affected," after which I was allowed to return to my desk. I was given three months to wrap things up and look for a new internal position. And "wrapping things up" was at my discretion. I worked for three or four more days on the project checking things in and handing them off, after which I'd just come in for four hours a day to play ping pong, look for new jobs and answer any questions remaining staff had. At the end of the three months I hadn't found a new position so I left, with severance. During that entire time, I maintained all the access I had before the RIF. I am assuming this "6 months notice" is for situations like this?

I don't even know if I'd call it "mid-sized." I worked on a federal government website for cataloging and storing scientific data. That's about 2.5 years of funding for that site. $3M covers what, a hand full of researchers and a project manager for a year?

The best government is a benevolent dictator, but the worst is a tyrannic dictator. All other government types exist to try to prevent the latter.

I DO have an old car, truck actually, a 1973 Chevy C10. I keep it around mainly for nostalgia for sure, because the 350 V8 in it makes about 186hp, at 10 mpg...not exactly fuel efficient. I drive it less than 1k miles a year because of that. The technology advances in the past 40+ years are indeed amazing.

No he didn't. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fnation...