GartzenDeHaes

Good thing they won't be needing any of that LNG from the Gulf.

COBOL used to drive some government and business web sites. You could tell because the HTML was output in 100 column fixed width format.

> they wouldn’t have to worry about competing CPU designs, at least not for a very long time.

US Government sales require two vendors, which I think is why AMD had x86 licenses in the first place.

The uniform scale of the symbols is deceptive since the source drawings have substantially different sizes. The hand outline is hand sized, for instance.

H-1B is for difficult-to-find specialists and O-1 is for people with extraordinary ability in their field.

H-2B is for ordinary workers.

Hardware attestation. They say vendors are pushing this like crazy at security and government conferences.

Just like during the collapse of the Soviet Union.

That's what the specs say, but I found out it actually didn't work that way when I was working on a transpiler, at least for that installation.

People aren't getting that it was two characters that need to be added, not two bytes to make a short into an int. COBOL uses a fixed width character format for all data (yes even for COMP). If you want a four digit number, then you have to use 4 character positions. Ten digits? Then ten characters.

These field sizes have to hard coded into all parts of the COBOL program including data access, UI screens, batch jobs, intermediate files, and data transfer files.

Gen. Ripper is getting some validation now that fluoride is being banned in some places.

Here one example. Al-Qaeda was the name of Osama bin Laden's legitimate political party in Saudi Arabia, which he kept separate from his jihadist activities in Afghanistan. There is not now, nor has there ever been, a shadowy international terrorist group called Al-Qaeda. It's a complete fiction that was used as a simple explanation for the dizzying array of groups hated by western oligarchs.

'explosively pumped flux compression generator', is an EMP generator I think.

I think older TOW, AT-2, and other such missiles used wires rather than fiber optics. Fiber optics is thinner, which would give it a much longer range presumably.

> which could enable high-speed flight and longer range across numerous multi-mission aircraft

This is DoD language, so more secret drones I would think.