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I remember punch cards. I learned how to program in COBOL and Assembly Language on a mainframe in the late 1970s. After a couple of years they removed the punch card machines and went to terminals using line editors. Full screen editors weren't a thing yet. The best graffiti in the men's room in the computer center was "COBOL programmers have bigger decks". Do you know why? A lot of people run parts of their business on older software and platforms because it's expensive to rewrite your large application to do the same thing on the latest a greatest platforms if it's working. SS has never missed a payment so evidently it is working. Not saying improvements couldn't be made and I'm sure there has been but it's not as easy as many think it is. I'm gonna call BS on the punch card thing unless evidence can be provided to the contrary.

The only reason I can see for them doing this is Trump told them they have to. Why? President Musk has big bidness dealings with China. He has very loose lips. Am thinking maybe they will do the equivalent to the fake walkthrough the Eagles did before Super Bowl LII.

Granted the keyer is a POS. But doing what you suggest would leave the Tesla owner with a keyed Tesla and charged with assault. Go to the police and have the keyer charged. Those things have cameras all over them so you got the video evidence. Take them to small claims court or file a claim with your insurance company. They'll find out who it is. This whole thing is sooooooo dumb. I guess it makes them feel good but They're not hurting President Musk in any way, shape or form. He's already got the money. If it's at a dealership, they're insured so they're not hurt. And on top of that if you're not captured on a ring camera or some security camera or some other camera, the Tesla itself has cameras on it. Stupid criminals. On a side note, it is kind of funny that auto correct corrects Tesla to Feels.

You make a good point about any system not being perfect. And I hope they do fix it. Ned had to spend 2 days on the phone and then go to a SS office and wait in a long line to fix it. And these are 2 things DOGE wants to cut (SS offices and phone support). My concern is DOGE seems to be making a lot of mistakes such as there are 150,000 people over 150 years old getting SS checks or firing nuclear scientists but not having the contact info to hire them back or saying they saved 8 billion when really it was 8 million or triple counting contract cut or trying to hide the contract #s from the wall of receipts (so much for transparency) and forgetting to take it out of the HTML code. I have a hard time believing them at this point. And now we find out DOGErs are working 120 hours a week. No one can work that much and be on the top of their game not matter how smart they are or how big their balls are. It's a recipe for mistakes which I see them making a lot of. Maybe you think you can trust them and it will work out, but I don't trust anyone in government.

I don't think this is true. Tesla started and gained market share as the only game in town. Not the case nowadays. If one wants to save the planet there are many options. Rivian Polestar Ford Mustang Cadillac Lyriq VW Buzz Leaf Chevrolet Bolt ... Everybody has one. I suspect would be Tesla buyers will just take their money elsewhere and ride comfortably on an interstate in bad weather.

Seems that the social security database culling to remove dead people is not going so great either for "Tech Support". In it's effort to remove dead people it seems they are making some live people dead so as to stop paying them. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/ Fortunately Ned was not totally dependent on SS to survive but many are. It could make them homeless by breaking things as President Musk likes to do.

I read this in the paper the other day. I literally LOLed out loud when I read they removed the contract ids from the website to hide it but left it in the HTML code for the page. Anyone could do view source in their web browser and see it. LOL. Just like this cat did. This is coming from Joe Tech Support and his super geeky young whiz kids. We already know they don't do COBOL. Seems now they don't know much about HTML either.

Will be interesting to see how this works out. Pooty Poot has all the cards. If he really wanted a peaceful end all he has to do is retreat and bring his troops home. Everyone in the world wants it to end except him and he's the only one who can stop it. I suspect he will hold out until he thinks he can get the most out of everyone else even if then. President Trump says he can do really bad thing financially with embargoes and tariffs I guess. He nor anyone else has said what that would look like. I'm hoping for the best.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

If the NFL is going to copy another league's overtime rule, got the XFL's from a few years ago before the merger. 2 point conversions. Each team runs one. If both make it or both miss, do it again. When 1 team makes it and the other doesn't, game over. Would be better in regards to player safety which the league is always talking about (but doesn't really care about).

With the myriad of Tesla recalls for technical problems and Twitter getting taken down by a denial of service attack which President Musk incorrectly blamed on Ukraine and President Musk's assertion that people over 150 years old were getting social security checks because him and big balls don't do COBOL seriously makes me question his ability to do "Tech Support". As someone who has done tech support for a living, if I made as many mistakes as President Musk does, I'd a been out on my a$$.

Record numbers LOL In 1984 President Reagan won the electoral college 525-13 and the popular vote by 16 million. Meanwhile President Trump won the electoral college 312-226 and the popular vote by 2 million. Not even close.

I've been thinking super Bowl baby and now with what we've done I'm still thinking super bowl baby.

Please tell this isn't how you choose to spend your free time. Back when I was a beer drinker, I preferred cans. Easier to chug.

Don't do it.