In a message dated 8/5/2008 4:34:02 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Additionally, the payroll system is completely table-driven, for taxes and salaries, so this change should only take a short while to accomplish, not the six months asserted by controller John Chiang. When I read the first post by someone who assumed that Chiang was telling the truth, and therefore the taxes and salaries were hard-coded, I didn't believe Chiang either. The SuckBee is not the only source of extreme error here. Chiang, being a "controller", is a political creature. All we know for sure is that he wants the public in California to believe that changing the programs cannot be done and is floating various reasons why, which wise readers should assume are bogus, exaggerations, or lies until proven otherwise by competent technical experts with no political agenda. >Reading something like this makes one wonder about the veracity of all news reported. "Political" news is invariably at least 99% lies, rumor, innuendo, propaganda, disinformation, and/or garbage whether found in print or on the television (American TV, most especially). When I read text in IBM's Principles of Operations that explains how the Load Address instruction works, I believe it. When I see or hear political news I laugh. Prussian Prime Minister Prince Otto von Bismarck summed it up thus: “Never believe anything in politics, until it has been officially denied.” Bill Fairchild Rocket Software
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