This evening, we learn all about The Origins of COBOL. There may be a quiz later!
Bonus: Carl Benjamin went to the Leftist Insane Asylum known as Bluesky, so you won’t have to. You should be grateful to him! It provides an interesting insight into a whole lot of LIbtards stewing in their hate in their own echo chamber.
Do share your best tips, software engineering related or more conventional ones.

The margin of fraud:
https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1857871704376099092
They never stop. But wait, it gets worse:
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1857983964356464891
I don’t care who you are, if you don’t find it hilarious you got no sense of humor.
https://x.com/GoldingBF/status/1857763087324946525
A positive sentiment.
Real men program in FORTRAN.
Real men program in Assembler.
On punch cards.
RNrn
Let’s go deeper… Machine code!
(Punch cards must be a pain to debug…)
Even more fun when you take someone’s punch card deck and remove a card, or swap one out.
On an IBM 360!
“Campaigner for Palestinian political prisoners assaulted by Canadian police.”
https://x.com/timand2037/status/1857851071743320209
This is no different than the persecution of the truckers. Every tax feeder involved should be fired and prosecuted immediately.
Charlotte Kates isn’t a campaigner for political prisoners, she’s a subhuman piece of terrorist c*ck-sucking trash and deserves everything she gets.
The video doesn’t show anybody being assaulted.
Try harder next time schmuck.
Before you go making false equivalences, ask WHY the police needed to raid this “Campaigner.”
Ah look, wee Matty is back doing the keyboard warrior thing for his kinfolk.
Hi Ho, how about some originality rather than your constant anti-Jewish screeds?
Ho Ho
Another iteration of the FAT INCEL, or JESSICA the COLON!
Interesting. GYM and I came up with the same nick name for “ho ho.”
I’ll cede to the master of name-calling, and let you take the credit for coming up with the name first.
Straight talk from Stephen A. Smith:
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1857860218711060860
HiHo the Jew hater hijacked the threat.
I’m so old I remember the Readers Tips thread use to be informative.
Now I just skip through it without reading many of the links posted by certain people.
You said it John!
Well, sometimes stupidity is entertaining.
Isn’t Hunter Biden’s sentencing this month? It would be a shame if it got delayed until say after January 20th and he wouldn’t get pardoned….just sayin’
Musical interlude. The Wolfgang Press, not for everyone. If you like Nick Cave, you might like. They decided to make an album after 30 years and I’m glad they did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aYVLAG7w5c
Finally we see AI put to good use: https://wccftech.com/an-ai-powered-scam-baiter-lady-is-the-way-to-get-back-at-phone-scammers/
Toronto District School Board requests nearly $22 million to construct new “decolonized” and “fully Indigenized” school
https://tnc.news/2024/11/15/tdsb-construct-decolonized-indigenized-school/
The official statistics says there are under 23,000 indigenous people in Toronto (0.8%), the vast majority of those are adults.
Why don’t we build them residential schools?
Asylum claims among international students skyrocket as Canada tightens immigration rules
https://tnc.news/2024/11/17/asylum-claims-international-students-skyrocket/
The Liberals are desperate to make room for our replacement population…
Euthanasia for children? The dark future for Medical Assistance in Dying: Amanda Achtman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WJgRhWYygg
Let’s hope he doesn’t turn to cannibalism to reduce the number of DJT’s supporters.
Michael Moore blasts fellow Americans: ‘Not a good people’ for electing Donald Trump
https://nypost.com/2024/11/16/us-news/michael-moore-blasts-trump-supporters-not-a-good-people/
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THE BUOYS “Timothy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXn0uIF60iU
US Health officials report first known case of new, more severe strain of monkeypox
https://nypost.com/2024/11/16/us-news/us-health-officials-report-first-known-case-of-new-more-severe-strain-of-monkeypox/
http://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/76047ce33f7330ec4ff60fd705d1653aa1f709f0d973630d7e333477bc99d563.jpg
Myer cancels Christmas Windows event amid pro-Palestinian protester threats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2iwO7MwG0w
T-Mobile hacked in massive Chinese breach of telecom networks, WSJ reports
https://nypost.com/2024/11/16/business/chinese-intelligence-hacked-into-t-mobile-network-in-massive-breach/
Both Canada’s Liberal AND Conservative Parties are INFILTRATED by Chinese Interference! Viva Frei
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBcRXZI1J2A
see? the Chirese cover their bets. dang they’se clevah eh? well, maybe knot seeing as they are dealing with ‘polite but dumb Canaduhians’ what’s Mandarin for ‘fish in a barrel’?
Disney removes cartoon episode about transgender character: ‘It breaks my heart’
https://nypost.com/2024/11/17/lifestyle/disney-removes-moon-girl-and-devil-dinosaur-episode-about-transgender-character/
All the news and commentary fit to ignore. Fake as shit.
Buenas noches
The U of Alberta business faculty, fortiesh years ago, taught Pascal. The language was so simple and rational and worked well to write my dozen bonehead programs for the course. At the time we were taught that COBOL was more or less a dead language. So much for that thought. I’m not sure if anyone even uses Pascal any more.
Pascal ha ha ha!!!
l had a prof ADMIT is was useless as a business language, well it turned out not quite, but, BUT had NO input/output language standards, that because systems acted differently in that aspect.
it was weird in a way, no ‘goto’ had to put it all in a loop within a loop within a loop. anyone who programmed in the language knows what lm talking about.
And now for the most important news!
Two trucks carrying $1M worth of tequila from Guy Fieri and Sammy Hagar’s label vanish in apparent heist: ‘We worked so hard’
https://nypost.com/2024/11/16/us-news/24k-bottles-of-santo-tequila-brand-of-hagar-and-fieri-hijacked/
Giant concrete slab outside Palestinian eatery baffles in NYC: ‘Massive’ and ‘obnoxious’
https://nypost.com/2024/11/16/us-news/giant-concrete-slab-outside-nyc-palestinian-eatery-baffles/
After Teen Teacher Arrested In UK For Distributing Children’s Textbook Promoting Salafi-Jihadi Ideology, Pro-Islamic State (ISIS) Telegram Channel Calls To ‘Spite Unbelievers’ By Disseminating It Further
https://www.memri.org/reports/after-teen-teacher-arrested-uk-distributing-childrens-textbook-promoting-salafi-jihadi
I’m not sure that no one cares. I suspect the Toronto District School Board would like to hire their own Hamas school principals with the full support of the teachers unions.
Two Hamas Terrorists Were UNRWA School Principals — And No One Cares
https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/11/15/two-hamas-terrorists-were-unrwa-school-principals-and-no-one-cares/
‘Jewish’ vandals spray red blood across Israel’s Toronto embassy – report
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-829434
…
Meanwhile in the State of Washington…
Pro-Palestinian vandals invade home of University of Washington president, carve Hamas symbols
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-829315
Of course Doctors Without Borders were proud of their medical treatment of Taliban soldiers injured in battles against the Americans in Afghanistan.
The controversial actions of Doctors Without Borders
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-829202
Dutch Islamization is a warning to the entire West
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/399171
Pair are charged with damaging ancient monument after Just Stop Oil orange paint protest at Stonehenge
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14082381/Pair-charged-damaging-ancient-monument-Just-Stop-Oil-orange-paint-protest-Stonehenge.html
Four months after furore, with no sign of any CPS action… Nigel Farage mounts private prosecution against brothers over brutal attack on airport row police
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14091211/Four-months-furore-no-sign-CPS-action-Nigel-Farage-mounts-private-prosecution-against-brothers-brutal-attack-airport-row-police.html
Trans men and lesbians would get IVF priority two years ahead of heterosexual couples under NHS plan – as campaigners slam proposals as ‘grossly discriminatory’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14091637/Trans-men-lesbians-IVF-priority-NHS.html
Geology is racist as it is ‘linked to white supremacy’ claims Queen Mary University of London professor
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14091119/Geology-racist-linked-white-supremacy-claims-Queen-Mary-University-London-professor.html