Re: Obama II

2012-11-12 Thread ALBERTO VIEIRA FERREIRA MONTEIRO
Bryon Daly wrote: Further, as a Mormon, Romney doesn't quite pass the WASP test so he basically had to tack hard right to build up his conservative cred to get the party nomination. Ugh. Mormons have taken control of the Internet (by Facebook). I'm glad they didn't take control of the USA

George Takei

2012-11-12 Thread ALBERTO VIEIRA FERREIRA MONTEIRO
Marriage equality AND marijuana laws passed? Now we know what Leviticus really meant by A man who layeth with another man must be stoned. -- attributed to George Takei, 2012-11 for the copy-and-paste, Alberto Monteiro ___

Re: Obama II

2012-11-12 Thread Klaus Stock
I know as a fact that the Defense Department said they would require that all programming for applications they used would have to be done in Ada (I think within 5 years) because Ada was a compiler that automatically eliminated bugs. AFAIK, the Ada compiler can detect many programmer mistakes

RE: Obama II

2012-11-12 Thread Pat Mathews
This plays into some recent conversations about efficiency vs resilience. Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:06:16 +0100 From: k...@stock-consulting.com To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: Obama II I know as a fact that the Defense Department said they would require that all programming for

Re: Obama II

2012-11-12 Thread Klaus Stock
This plays into some recent conversations about efficiency vs resilience. Yup. And neither efficiency nor resilience will help you in the end if you don't ponder some important questions first. Like: do we measure altitude in feet or meters?, or should we check if the old guidance system will