Since Space Otters post about the Gold .. no one is around, I can hear the virtual tumbleweed swirling down Pegasus Avenue/Street/Lane ... did you all get visa's and tickets to Australia for the new Gold Rush??
Dammit!! I am always the last .. Missed the Tech Boom... Missed the building bubble.. missed the crypto-currency.. and now missed the new Gold Rush...
Good luck with yaw stakes, I think Z and JL will be able to offer top advice mind 8) :)
No, I'm still here, but I just read that post about the gold.
If I had the money to go to Australia I wouldn't need to go to Australia to search for gold. :)
LOL ArMaP.. but it is a HOOOGE amount of Gold mate! .. I am not sure that I would have advertised it like they did ?
:)
I'm still here. I just don't really have anything interesting to say. My life consists of watching Star Trek, playing either Borderlands 2 or the pre-sequel, browsing Reddit or YouTube, and sleeping. I reinstalled Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) the other day, which essentially gives me a UNIX-like textual user interface for Windows; although very few of you are likely to even understand what that is, let alone be interested in it.
I'm feeling more optimistic than usual right now, although that is primarily because I've discovered Athena, the character class I'm playing with in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. Although I enjoy those games for the actual gameplay, they are difficult for me to play at times, because the primary antagonist is one of the most vicious, horrifying psychopaths I've ever seen in any media anywhere. He's called Handsome Jack (http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Handsome_Jack), and he's a much nastier version of Willem Defoe's portrayal of Norman Osborn from the first Spider Man movie; I essentially view him as Capitalism personified. I mostly just focus on the rest of the game and mute his dialogue, although there are parts of them where he isn't present at all which is good, as well.
Space Otter would probably express concern over the fact that I am mentally being exposed to such an individual's influence on such a constant basis; but that is also being counterbalanced by Jean-Luc Picard, the captain from Star Trek: The Next Generation, who is compassionate, enlightened, and extremely ethically positive. That show's episodes focus on the idea of mutual co-operation between different forms of life of various kinds, and how it's actually better to avoid war and conflict, because mutual suicide can result.
Even when I've had other activities available to me, I've noticed that I only really feel alive when I am either studying the UNIX operating system, worshipping Kali, watching various incarnations of Star Trek, or vicariously playing the role of either a hunter, gladiator, or explorer in various computer games.
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Hey Petrus, always great to hear from you, and as ever your post is both interesting and insightful, I don't understand the UNIX technology at all though buddy, but I have always loved the many variants of Star Trek / cast - I am not sure if it is true but I did hear a rumour that Star Trek was required reading/watching at one or more of the military academies in the UK - I kind off believe it to be honest with you.
Stay safe bud, please keep us in the loop with your status when you can.
Cheers'
Fansongecho :)
Quote from: fansongecho on September 10, 2018, 10:18:31 PM
Since Space Otters post about the Gold .. no one is around, I can hear the virtual tumbleweed swirling tumbleweed
Somebody say tumbleweed??
;)
petrus4, have you tried to learn some programming language? That would open lots of possibilities. :)
geeeeeeeze guys.... i'd come hold your hands but monday is my tv night.. hours of ninjas and then elementary.. wow two shows for the week and that's it..
hey i have a bunch of articles on tv antenna's where you can cut out cable..as soon as i read them all - i'll share and maybe some of you tech wizards can chime in
https://www.americanninjawarriornation.com/2018/9/10/17828950/american-ninja-warrior-season-10-obstacle-design-challenge-winner-kevin-carbone-deja-vu
heading for a beverage and a comfy chair
;D
I've been posting in the "Molecular Black Hole," thread. Other than that, I'm still recovering from a broken hip, and now I'm wondering if I still have a job. I got a really unsettling phone call about my job, that contradicted what my medical leave paperwork says. I may heckling for unemployment and looking for a new job.
Quote from: ArMaP on September 10, 2018, 11:45:44 PM
petrus4, have you tried to learn some programming language? That would open lots of possibilities. :)
I know several, Armap; although most of them are what I might call intermediate or scripting languages. HTML, Bash, PHP, m4, a little Perl, a tiny bit of Lua, the DOS batch language, if you can call it that. I should probably learn Java, but I am deeply averse to object oriented languages, to be honest.
: STAR 42 EMIT ;
: STARS 0 DO STAR LOOP ;
: DOUBLE DUP + ;
: QUAD DOUBLE DOUBLE ;
: QL 0 DO QUAD LOOP ;
16 8 QL STARS
The above code is in the GNU dialect of FORTH. It will print the asterisk character (42 in ASCII code) 1,048,576 times, and will do so in less than a minute. I mainly like it because it demonstrates how fast FORTH loops are. It is the only fully native FORTH program I know how to write, although the GNU dialect provides the system word, which allows interaction with an underlying UNIX-compatible operating system, and I have written a basic program which will choose from a number of mp3 files and play one before.
FORTH is probably my favourite language, although it is generally difficult to make it interact with anything outside itself. Most people don't understand what FORTH is, either. FORTH is a Turing machine at pretty much the most basic level, which is ideally used as a means of controlling something else. Usually registers for hardware, but you can write software registers in another programming language, and then write your control loops for those in FORTH. Words for directly accessing TCP/IP sockets would be particularly nice, because from there I could fairly easily write a basic IRC or HTTP server.
Quote from: ArMaP on September 10, 2018, 10:32:15 PM
No, I'm still here, but I just read that post about the gold.
If I had the money to go to Australia I wouldn't need to go to Australia to search for gold. :)
Ditto 8)
And I hate to tell you this, but unless you have what the ozzies consider a needed and necessary skill set they aren't going to let you in for more than a brief visit, Fans, and I seriously doubt they are going to let many peeps within a mile of that mine 8)
The site of the original gold rush here in the US is 5 minutes from where I live; but I cannot even get access to the tailings piles that have been lying out there for 200 years ::)
Quote from: The Seeker on September 11, 2018, 01:16:59 AM
And I hate to tell you this, but unless you have what the ozzies consider a needed and necessary skill set they aren't going to let you in for more than a brief visit, Fans, and I seriously doubt they are going to let many peeps within a mile of that mine 8)
There are reasons why I like living in Australia, but it is a very expensive place to live. Food prices here are higher than Europe, according to the backpackers I knew while in Nimbin, and there is no rent in Victoria (the state I am in) for much less than $300 AUD ($213 USD currently) per week. Gentrification is a chronic problem here. If I wasn't living with my mother, I would have to move interstate now.
Quote from: petrus4 on September 11, 2018, 01:14:26 AM
I know several, Armap; although most of them are what I might call intermediate or scripting languages. HTML, Bash, PHP, m4, a little Perl, a tiny bit of Lua, the DOS batch language, if you can call it that. I should probably learn Java, but I am deeply averse to object oriented languages, to be honest.
I don't consider HTML a programming language, as it's just a descriptive language, not an active language. I looked at PHP a few years ago and never used any of the others (besides the DOS batch language). My all-time favourite is assembly, as it works directly with the processor registers and operations. Because of that it's extremely fast (the compiler translates the commands in direct CPU operation codes) but hard to work with, as it's limited to the specific CPU commands. Today that's not as big a problem as it was 30 years ago, when the CPUs had a small instruction set when compared with today's CPUs with dedicated floating point units. In the old days there was no direct command for doing a multiplication, so you had to add numbers and/or shift some bits to achieve the same result. Divisions were even harder, obviously. :)
I asked because one thing I love about programming is the freedom it gives me to do whatever I want. If I had the time I could try to do any thing, like a game, for example. Today it's easy to create complex games by using something like Unity, that can be programmed with C# and is a very powerful and free engine available for several platforms.
The possibilities are endless. :)
Quote from: The Seeker on September 11, 2018, 01:16:59 AM
The site of the original gold rush here in the US is 5 minutes from where I live; but I cannot even get access to the tailings piles that have been lying out there for 200 years ::)
Only now that you said that did I remember that there was a gold mine near the area where I live, some people even say that the name "Almada" (the town where I live) comes from the Arabic name for "the mine". One confirmed fact is that from the 12th century up to the 14th, during the winter, the fishermen used to catch gold on the river bank to compensate for the meagre fishing during that time.
Quote from: ArMaP on September 11, 2018, 01:28:55 AM
My all-time favourite is assembly, as it works directly with the processor registers and operations. Because of that it's extremely fast (the compiler translates the commands in direct CPU operation codes) but hard to work with, as it's limited to the specific CPU commands.
I love the idea of assembly for loops and branching; conditional jumps are wonderful things, and are generally not implemented in any higher languages these days, because of the universal conspiracy against GOTO, or open ended/non-returning jumps. I suspect that said taboo is the main reason why most people find it so hard to understand FORTH; because none of its' loops are terminated by the same command that starts them.
Writing asm to interact with operating systems or pre-existing software is likely to be difficult, however, unless said pre-existing software offers very simple output, and most don't, these days.
QuoteIn the old days there was no direct command for doing a multiplication, so you had to add numbers and/or shift some bits to achieve the same result. Divisions were even harder, obviously.
I've got into the habit of using the Egyptian system for non-programming mathematics to a degree, although I am a bit rusty at the moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih1ZWE3pe9o
Quote from: petrus4 on September 11, 2018, 01:53:56 AM
I love the idea of assembly for loops and branching; conditional jumps are wonderful things, and are generally not implemented in any higher languages these days, because of the universal conspiracy against GOTO, or open ended/non-returning jumps.
I once made a program for the ZX Spectrum that, because of the low available memory (48 K) had to use some tricks, including altering its code to execute or jump over some pieces of code according to some conditions.
It's amazing what we can do with just a few commands and some imagination. :)
@Shasta, I am really sorry to hear that your work are being difficult with you - esp after your broken hip, that is worse than poor on them, I sincerely hope that everything works out for the best for you Shasta, take care, keep your chin up if you can.
Fans' x
@The Seeker - LOL I bet.
@Petrus / ArMaP, I did some assembly language back in the 1980's, nested loops rings a bell, I was totally NO GOOD at it, couldn't get my byte-brain around the thought process of how to program, much happier with the hardware side of computing / networking -
Quote from: fansongecho on September 11, 2018, 11:15:05 PM
@Petrus / ArMaP, I did some assembly language back in the 1980's, nested loops rings a bell, I was totally NO GOOD at it
Neither can most people. It's hard.
I've mostly tried to abandon the idea of loops in the usual sense, mostly; it's more just a case of assigning a single command with a single input.
: STAR 42 EMIT ;
: 1STAR 1 = IF STAR THEN ;
The above code prints a single asterisk, if the number 1 is present on the stack.
1 1STAR
This code first puts 1 on the stack, and then because 1 is present, prints an asterisk.
2 1STAR
This code first puts a 2 on the stack, but does nothing, because the IF statement requires a 1.
From here, it is possible to understand that all a loop actually does, is increment a number by 1, and assign a command to every number within the loop. So if I have a loop which runs from 1 to 20, then it will be clearer and more easily comprehensible code, if I actually write out all the numbers from 1 to 20, and then assign whichever command I want to run with each of them.
: STAR 42 EMIT ;
: 1STAR 1 = IF STAR THEN ;
: 2STAR 2 = IF STAR THEN ;
: 3STAR 3 = IF STAR THEN ;
: 4STAR 4 = IF STAR THEN ;
: 5STAR 5 = IF STAR THEN ;
: 6STAR 6 = IF STAR THEN ;
: 7STAR 7 = IF STAR THEN ;
: 8STAR 8 = IF STAR THEN ;
: 9STAR 9 = IF STAR THEN ;
: 10STAR 10 = IF STAR THEN ;
: 11STAR 11 = IF STAR THEN ;
: 12STAR 12 = IF STAR THEN ;
: 13STAR 13 = IF STAR THEN ;
: 14STAR 14 = IF STAR THEN ;
: 15STAR 15 = IF STAR THEN ;
: 16STAR 16 = IF STAR THEN ;
: 17STAR 17 = IF STAR THEN ;
: 18STAR 18 = IF STAR THEN ;
: 19STAR 19 = IF STAR THEN ;
: 20STAR 20 = IF STAR THEN ;
This, however, is considered bad practice by modern programmers. They are taught that you should simply use a compacted for statement to do most of that work, but while it is convenient, it is harder for a human programmer to understand what is actually being done; while I am sure you can understand the above.
FORTH's loop statement is easy for me to understand, but I would only use it if I wanted exactly the same command to be repeated multiple times. I generally don't want that though, so I prefer to explicitly state my branches for each number.
@Fans, thank you for the pep talk. The company denied my medical leave and terminated me because they conveniently " never got the medical documentation." That's a load of horse pucky, because I know it was faxed within the specified time. But if they want to keep training new nurses for a brutal schedule, it's none of my business.
Shasta, well they really do suck big time, I don't know if it is an option but I saw a article today that the UK NHS is 100,000 posts empty .. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-nurse-doctor-staff-shortages-vacancies-waiting-times-crisis-brexit-deficit-a8532701.html
I know they are trying to recruit from overseas..
Wishing you all the best Shasta'
Fans'
Quote from: Shasta56 on September 12, 2018, 06:29:18 AM
... The company denied my medical leave and terminated me because they conveniently " never got the medical documentation." That's a load of horse pucky, because I know it was faxed within the specified time. But if they want to keep training new nurses for a brutal schedule, it's none of my business.
Hmmm, were you not working at the jail? Oh wait, you are in the legal stoner state of Colorado, how convenient for them that they never received your documentation;
sounds like total bull shit to me 8)
hopefully you told them it was :P
Quote from: fansongecho on September 12, 2018, 07:42:12 AM
Shasta, well they really do suck big time, I don't know if it is an option but I saw a article today that the UK NHS is 100,000 posts empty .. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-nurse-doctor-staff-shortages-vacancies-waiting-times-crisis-brexit-deficit-a8532701.html
A few years ago, when the unemployment situation was worse in Portugal I made several translations of official documents for nurses that were going to the UK. That was before the Brexit, I suppose now they have lost some of the nurses that were from EU countries.
Quote from: The Seeker on September 12, 2018, 08:44:34 AM
Hmmm, were you not working at the jail? Oh wait, you are in the legal stoner state of Colorado, how convenient for them that they never received your documentation;
sounds like total bull shit to me 8)
hopefully you told them it was :P
Corporate headquarters is in Tennessee. I have received three different responses to my inquiries. HR says all NON-FMLA leaves are at company discretion, and I won't get anything in writing about a 30 day limit. Leave administratin says they never got the documentation that was faxed. Former supervisor says she thought HR was handling everything and my position was terminated when I wasn't released back to work at the end of 30 days, because it was a personal leave. A lot of buck passing, and nobody really knows what's going on.
Shasta
wow
i hope you kept copies of what you sent to all those paper pushers...
i learnt that lesson the hard way years ago..keep a file and a log with dates and times..it sucks
when you first said about your injury i felt that there would be a good side and it was saving you from something
i hope that is still true
...i guess now you have to take a breath and think about what you would really like to do.
while, of course you fight the paper pushers
sending good vibes for your best
hugs
@ArMaP, the nurses and doctors are leaving in their droves, the NHS is being systematically run into the ground so that the fat cats - Richard Branson, and some of the very big US Medical companies can swoop in and guess what?.. yup help smooth the way to a private health service - its been a very long term goal of every Tory Govt to do.. the NHS is at breaking point and wont be surprised if by the end of 2020 we wont have a NHS -
>:( :(
Quote from: space otter on September 12, 2018, 03:10:05 PM
Shasta
wow
i hope you kept copies of what you sent to all those paper pushers...
i learnt that lesson the hard way years ago..keep a file and a log with dates and times..it sucks
when you first said about your injury i felt that there would be a good side and it was saving you from something
i hope that is still true
...i guess now you have to take a breath and think about what you would really like to do.
while, of course you fight the paper pushers
sending good vibes for your best
hugs
I have copies of everything. I have a call log of when Dan, at the surgeon's office called and told meceverythingchad been faxed. I will be filing for unemployment, and if they try to fight it, I have lots of ammunition.
I just slept for probably 16 hours. I woke up intermittently, but something kept dragging me back to sleep. I also was having incredibly vivid dreams, to the point where even though extremely unrealistic things were happening in them, I still thought I wasn't dreaming.
I have days like that. I notice it more when I'm over tired or really stressed. Sometimes they're kind of fun. Other times, they're more like WTF?
Since my surgery I can't sleep on my right side without waking up with major issues with the shoulder; a lot of nights I will be so sleepy I can't keep my eyes open and will sleep for about 10 minutes then wake up; be awake for an hour then repeat, 10 minutes then wake up; yet during the day I can sit still for 2 minutes and fall asleep( if I am sitting up) then wake up with my legs killing me
getting old sucks
8)
When I went on my medication which is 2 baby aspirins, Metropolo, Benazapreil, Effent and Atoravastin, my dreams have been numerous and very vivid! I used to never dream but now it won't stop. It's to the point where sometimes they are so real, it takes awhile for me to figure out if it really did happen or if it was just the dream.
And yes, when I had my surgery in 2006, I kept everything I received as far as paperwork. The documentation is endless and having to talk to someone on the phone and have to start at the beginning each time you get a different person, is madding.
Hi gang,
What is the role of a Gov in a US State prey tell?.. what powers do they have ? I guess they an elected not appointed official ? I came across the below today , hence my question -
"SNIP"
Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) will resign from the Senate on Dec. 31, leaving Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) to fill the late Sen. John McCain's (R) seat for a second time.
Ducey's office announced Friday that Kyl's resignation letter was hand-delivered to his office on Thursday afternoon. His office said that he'll make an announcement about appointing Kyl's replacement "in the near future."
Kyl, who initially served in the Senate from 1995 to 2013, was appointed in September to fill McCain's seat after he passed away from brain cancer in August. Before his return to the Senate, Kyl worked as lobbyist for the Washington-based firm Covington & Burling.
"Senator Kyl didn't need to return to the Senate. His legacy as one of Arizona's most influential and important political figures was already without question," Ducey said in a Friday statement.
"But he did return, and I remain deeply grateful for his willingness to step up and serve again when Arizona needed him. I wish him and his family all the best."
When joining the Senate this fall, Kyl had hinted that he planned to only serve in the Senate until year's end.
Prior to Kyl's announced departure on Friday, speculation was already swirling about whom Ducey would tap to replace him.
Ducey has remained mum on that decision, but outgoing Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.), who narrowly lost a heated Senate race in November, is considered a top prospect.
Another potential name is Kirk Adams, Ducey's chief of staff who recently departed the governor's office.
There will be a special election in November 2020 to serve out the remaining two years of McCain's term.
"SNIP"
Cheers in advance! 8)
Fansongecho :)
sorry fans but you are a bot.you would know the answer to the question you asked i suspect.but just in case im wrong.appointments are temporary until election time.
usually the governor needs a patsy for task and the recently deceased told the governor and in return ran while on the verge of death.this allows for the governors "boy" to play the role until the freemasons get one of there own vetted and up to speed.
As much as I want to disabuse of your belief that I am "bot", I actually cannot put up a strong enough argument to contradict the assumption robomont.. :o
I might have gone for the "well if I am a bot, why would my creators/masters endow me with slightly arthritic knees', asthma, a baldy head and short sightedness -5.5 Left eye and -6.0 in my right eye?? UNLESS! unless of course they are so good now at creating near perfect replicants that can literally fool any human being who cares to X-ray, PET / MRI scan me??" :o :o
That said I don't honestly believe that I am bot but I cant, hand on heart provide empirical evidence to the contrary robomont, AND I do feel that in some of wild and crazy dreams I have that I am both downloading and uploading information - much like Neo of Matrix fame - weird huh???
Thanks so much robomont, I now have some research to complete to see if my memories are not implants / buffers' ?? :o :o :o 8)
Cheers!
Fansongecho / Possible Nexus-6 -
PS Thanks for the answer but I don't understand what a Gov does, or how he / she gets into the Position ??
Robo, get a grip and stow it before you have to sit in the corner in timeout 8) it has obviously escaped you that Fansongecho is a native Brit and not familiar with our form/system of governance...
Fans, the governor of each state is duly elected by the people of that state, usually for a term of four years, to act as the chief executive officer in charge of the government of said state; as the POTus is commander in chief of the country, each governor is in charge of their home state;
since Sen. McCain died, it is the governor's responsibility to appoint a temporary replacement until a special election can be held and a new senator chosen by the populace...
8)
Seeker
Thanks Seeker :)
// no dramas robomont, I do wonder about my wild off the chart dreams tho' I don't do dope or pharma drugs just alkehol so I wonder why I get them... they don't make any sense but some are epic 8) 8)
Cheers!
Fanbot ;D :)
Sometimes dreams are trying to tell us something. Other times it's like the dreaming mind just decides to string a lot of random stuff together and call it good.