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| From | rbowman <bowman@montana.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: VMS |
| Date | 2025-07-28 20:48 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <meq60sF55jpU7@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | (20 earlier) <wwvh5z1z50z.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> <20250724150625.00005a29@gmail.com> <105v6t4$1rec2$1@dont-email.me> <20250725103940.0000789d@gmail.com> <qENhQ.165271$QtA1.59260@fx16.iad> |
On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:34:30 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2025-07-25, John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 07:06:27 +0100 Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Fortunately I don't develop SSL, chip microcode or aircraft >>> controllers. People accept my code falls over occasionally. >> >> To be perfectly frank, it's *very* fortunate that you don't develop >> aircraft controllers. > > Pancho seems to have adopted Microsoft's quality criteria: > "Sort of works, most of the time." > > Microsoft's crime against humanity is getting people to lower their > standards enough to accept bad software. > >>> This is the way structural engineering works. Bridge building etc. >> >> Funny you should cite bridge-building. As a friend once observed: >> >> "The Romans made their architects stand under the arches they designed >> while the keystone was put in place and the supports removed. >> >> The Romans built bridges that stayed the #&@! up." > > It is hard to imagine a more stupid decision or more dangerous way > of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of > people who pay no price for being wrong. -- Thomas Sowell That sums up the American Way nicely...
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Re: VMS Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-07-20 14:37 +0000
Re: VMS Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-21 08:42 +0100
Re: VMS John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-07-21 09:12 -0700
Re: VMS Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2025-07-21 18:44 +0100
Re: VMS Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-21 20:47 +0100
Re: VMS John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-07-21 13:31 -0700
Re: VMS Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2025-07-23 07:22 +0100
Re: VMS John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-07-23 08:04 -0700
Re: VMS John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-07-23 08:44 -0700
Re: VMS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-23 20:04 +0100
Re: VMS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-23 22:47 +0000
Re: VMS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-24 09:56 +0100
Re: VMS Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2025-07-23 21:53 +0100
Re: VMS John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-07-23 14:28 -0700
Re: VMS Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2025-07-24 00:29 +0100
Re: VMS John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-07-24 08:05 -0700
Re: VMS Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-24 21:51 +0100
Re: VMS John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-07-24 15:06 -0700
Re: VMS Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2025-07-25 07:06 +0100
Re: VMS John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-07-25 10:39 -0700
Re: VMS Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2025-07-26 17:54 +0100
Re: VMS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-26 18:02 +0100
Re: VMS Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2025-07-27 04:04 +0000
Re: VMS c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-07-27 01:50 -0400
Re: VMS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-27 12:07 +0100
Re: VMS Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2025-07-27 10:23 +0100
Re: VMS Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-27 10:55 +0100
Re: VMS c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-07-27 21:23 -0400
Re: VMS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-28 04:45 +0000
Re: VMS c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-07-28 02:14 -0400
Re: VMS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-28 13:48 +0100
Re: VMS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-28 20:38 +0000
Re: VMS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-28 20:32 +0000
Re: VMS Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-07-28 14:17 -0700
Re: VMS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-29 05:08 +0000
Re: VMS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-28 13:44 +0100
Re: VMS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-28 13:39 +0100
Re: VMS Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-29 01:03 +0000
Re: VMS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-29 05:29 +0000
Re: VMS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-29 11:42 +0100
Re: VMS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-29 19:16 +0000
Re: VMS Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2025-07-29 12:10 +0100
Re: VMS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-29 13:08 +0100
Re: VMS Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-07-29 09:51 -0700
Re: VMS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-29 18:53 +0000
Re: VMS c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-07-29 04:51 -0400
Re: VMS Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-07-29 13:32 +0000
Re: VMS John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-07-28 09:22 -0700
Re: VMS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-27 12:11 +0100
Re: VMS Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-27 22:02 +0000
Re: VMS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-28 04:58 +0000
Re: VMS Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-08-01 19:13 +0000
Re: VMS Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2025-08-01 20:38 +0000
Re: VMS Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-02 00:01 +0000
Re: VMS c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-02 02:24 -0400
Re: VMS Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2025-08-02 11:34 +0100
Re: VMS c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-02 21:02 -0400
Re: VMS Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-03 02:08 +0000
Re: VMS c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-03 01:00 -0400
Re: VMS c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-07-27 21:31 -0400
Re: VMS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-28 05:03 +0000
Re: VMS c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-07-28 02:19 -0400
Re: VMS c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-07-27 21:09 -0400
Re: VMS John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-07-28 10:17 -0700
Re: VMS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-28 20:46 +0000
Re: VMS John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-07-28 14:34 -0700
Re: VMS Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-07-28 16:34 +0000
Re: VMS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-28 20:48 +0000
Re: VMS Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-29 01:00 +0000
Re: VMS Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2025-07-29 10:07 +0100
Re: VMS Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-29 23:05 +0000
Re: VMS c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-07-30 02:43 -0400
Re: VMS Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> - 2025-08-02 18:11 +0200
Re: VMS Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-07-24 14:42 +0000
Re: VMS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-24 18:05 +0000
Re: VMS John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-07-24 11:14 -0700
Re: VMS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-24 23:10 +0000
Re: VMS Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-24 21:16 +0000
Re: VMS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-24 23:21 +0000
Re: VMS John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-07-21 14:05 -0700
Re: VMS Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-07-21 21:14 +0000
Re: VMS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-21 22:19 +0100
Re: VMS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-22 02:10 +0000
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