Kosh's Shadow 2/10/2021 5:00:41 PM

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We aren't the only ones calling the storming of the Capitol by loonies the Democrat's Reichstag Fire - link

Democrats keep claiming that the First Amendment doesn’t permit “shouting fire in a crowded theater”, even while they’re shouting, “Reichstag fire” in the crowded theater of government.

Kosh's Shadow 2/10/2021 5:01:29 PM

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IBM - the Final Solution Company

(It is an ad for a book, but gives you enough information)

buzzsawmonkey 2/10/2021 5:10:46 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 2:

Actually, punch cards had been invented in the late-18th/early-19th century by a French weaver---whose name, alas, I am blanking on---who used the cards to program his looms to weave certain patterns in cloth.

Kosh's Shadow 2/10/2021 5:16:04 PM

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In #3 buzzsawmonkey said: Actually, punch cards had been invented in the late-18th/early-19th century by a French weaver---whose name, alas, I am blanking on---who used the cards to program his looms to weave certain patterns in cloth.

Jaquard. And Ada Lovelace, the first programmer, wrote about Babbage's machines  “We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.”

But the first use for data was by Hollerith, for the US 1890 census. IBM used the ideas in the 1930's for a racial census in Germany

doppelganglander 2/10/2021 5:27:22 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 2/10/2021 5:44:09 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 2:

A story that still resonates today, as Big Tech sucks up to China

The pictures of Uighurs herded onto railroad cars does remind one of the Shoah.

turn 2/10/2021 5:52:55 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 5:
(((doppel)))

doppelganglander 2/10/2021 6:24:49 PM

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Reply to turn in 7:

Thanks, turn. Prayers are much appreciated. She's a single mom, her parents are gone and she's an only child. She's always had health problems but with Covid going around, I'm very worried this time.

vxbush 2/10/2021 6:35:34 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 8:

Your hands are full indeed. Do what you can; pray about the rest. I am having to lean into prayer a lot lately. 

@PBJ3 2/10/2021 6:43:40 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 8:

I'm so sorry.  You will all be in my prayers.

@PBJ3 2/10/2021 6:47:51 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 2:

That's so creepy. I'm glad I never got hired there when I lived in the Silicon Valley.

doppelganglander 2/10/2021 6:51:27 PM

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Reply to vxbush in 9:

Reply to @PBJ3 in 10:

Thank you so much.

Kosh's Shadow 2/10/2021 6:55:13 PM

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Reply to @PBJ3 in 11:

I worked for what was at one time IBM's main competitor. It flew itself into the ground due to to the screwups of management

And now one building I still drive by, formerly LKG in Littleton, MA, is now IBM.

And this has been a bad week here, too. And that goes back more than a month. I just have trouble talking about it

Kosh's Shadow 2/10/2021 7:00:22 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 2/10/2021 7:19:41 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 14:

And don't call me sexist for that, but you can call me ageist

doppelganglander 2/10/2021 7:34:56 PM

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In #13 Kosh's Shadow said: And this has been a bad week here, too. And that goes back more than a month. I just have trouble talking about it

I am sorry. We can pray for an unspoken intention. 

Kosh's Shadow 2/10/2021 7:44:32 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 16:

Thanks

@PBJ3 2/10/2021 7:52:51 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 13:

I'm so sorry.  You'll be in my thoughts and prayers.