Acronym War!
On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 06:53 Joe Monk wrote:
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Not a good idea to be hurling insults from a work account.
Joe
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W dniu 07.08.2020 o 03:28, Seymour J Metz pisze:
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W dniu 05.08.2020 o 17:07, Seymour J Metz pisze:
Must you be so obtuse? The structure that they devised is extremely hard to
change. Look at how long it took for everyone to switch from the Julian
Calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
Yes, Europe has had treaties, and before the ones that you
Having a written constitution helps set the foundation for our Republic. It's
pretty straightforward. The Feds are charged with controlling 'enumerated'
responsibilities. The states are responsible for everything else. Where the
boundaries overlap or converge the courts decide. This is not a
It depends on who owns the road, and what local jurisdictions it
passes through. HOA (Home Owners Associations) own all the roads in a
development and set the speed limits there. Cities own most city
streets and decide on the speed limit. Townships own most roads
outside of cities and set their
The thing many non-Americans don't understand (and many Americans, too, I'm
afraid) is that the states in the USA are not provinces. They're called
"states" because they were individual countries that decided to form a
~partial~ union. The US Constitution defines what are the powers of the
Generally by litigation going up to the Supreme Court, with arguments
involving, e.g., the 9th, 10th and 14th Amendments, to say nothing of the
interpretation of terms in the base Constitution.
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Must you be so obtuse? The structure that they devised is extremely hard to
change. Look at how long it took for everyone to switch from the Julian
Calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
Yes, Europe has had treaties, and before the ones that you mentioned at that,
but some things are easier to
Except speed limits only became a thing long after y'all got together.
I wonder how deciding what is a state, county, township prerogative and
what is a federal one works. Probably on a (legal) case by (legal) case
basis.
Cheers, Martin
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The state highway rules are very close to each other in the US and to
international standards. But each state sets maximum limits in their
state, just like each country in the E.U. sets their own laws.
The E.U. has about 13 treaties covering various subject matters that
they have all agreed to.
No colonies were involved in speed limits.
We agreed and standarized a lot of things long before EU membership.
Example could be some driving related rules, Vienna 1963 and TIR.
And US, over 100 years after colonies create different rules from
scratch... no, not from scratch - there were
Contrast the US with the EU and you may begin to grasp the issue.We started as
a dozen different colonies with diverged interests, and the Federal system is
just one of the compromises that are set in concrete. Changing them is not just
politically impossible, but would be a logistical
The US started as a loose coalition of colonies with competing interests. Even
after the States found the Articles of Confederation to be too anarchic, the
states were jealous of their parochial interests and prerogatives, and the US
Constitution is a mass of compromises that look bad from a
> So they make pointless differences because they can.
The same applies to the EU, in spades. You have to understand the history of a
country to understand the quirks in its legal system. It's like software; a bad
design decision is hard to change once it's deployed.
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Once the argument over who has what powers became really hot :)
MKK
On Wed, 5 Aug 2020 08:04:37 -0500, Joe Monk wrote:
>"Federal limits, state limits... This is something I don't understand."
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>It is a concept called federalism. The state has certain powers, and the
>federal government has
So they make pointless differences because they can. Bingo.
You know we (Poland) are independent country and we have some kind of
states (województwo), but driving rules are common and much more
similiar to other countries in EU than your states one to another.
And we have the same voltage and
I think what baffles the rest of the world is the point of states,
counties, etc setting things like speed limits. (Yes to where a 25
applies, for instance. No to it being a 25.) And, for sure, it suckers the
occasional out-of-stater into inadvertent illegality - which is probably
"Federal limits, state limits... This is something I don't understand."
It is a concept called federalism. The state has certain powers, and the
federal government has certain powers.
Joe
On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 7:16 AM R.S. wrote:
> Federal limits, state limits... This is something I
Federal limits, state limits... This is something I don't understand.
Standarization is good thing and common rules are easier to follow.
I just checked - 85mph in Texas, even for trucks. And 55mph in District
of Columbia (not to mention Guam). From the other hand Residential Areas
limits vary
Technically the 55mph limit wasn't a federal law; Rex is right that speed
limits are set and enforced by each state. But in the '70s Congress (the
Federal Congress) passed a law that Federal highway money would not be
forthcoming to states that allowed their speed limits to exceed 55mph. Most
Worth watching, thanks! Usually I'd rather read than listen, but this
guy really moves along. That's about half an hour of info packed into
12 minutes.
On 7/23/2020 6:17 PM, Tony Thigpen wrote:
I know this has just about run it's course, but I came across this
interesting youtube video
I know this has just about run it's course, but I came across this
interesting youtube video about "why the US did not adopt the metric
system" by a legitimate historian.
https://youtu.be/yseldOMcT4Q
Tony Thigpen
Bob Bridges wrote on 7/23/20 10:13 AM:
I would be willing to follow such a
I would be willing to follow such a convention, if there's a consensus for it,
or possibly even if it's requested by only a few. Personally I enjoy such
discussions - obviously - but I can see not everyone would.
But what constitutes OT? These things have recently started with a discussion
Quick poll for the list:
Can we all follow a 'rule' that says [OT] must be added in all off-topic
discussions, so we can filter them out if required?
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On Thursday, July 23, 2020 9:38 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> That explains why the term used in the 19th
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