A lot of us grew up with a fair certainty that one of these days there'd be a nuclear war -- and Ronald Reagan helped turn the dial up to eleven before Nigel Tufnel ever picked up a guitar. But today, we haven't had those highly effective "duck-and-cover" drills in ages, and who gives any thought to nuclear weapons? And that's the problem, says John Oliver in this clip from Sunday's
An American might think he's a serious drinker if he doesn't get much of a buzz from 3 or 4 bud lights, but doesn't have a chance when the Russians bring out the vodka.
I once worked a Russian wedding mixing the wedding band. They invited me to sit at their table for food and drinks and insisted I join them for Vodka shots. I had one for every half dozen or so that they had and still ended up cross eyed drunk in short order- while they got up on stage and played their happy dance music for three hours as they continued to drink on stage
My first summer soshalist security jerb in college (yes, they used to do that) was in lovely Heath, Ohio, at the Newark Air Force Station. (Heath was a suburb(?) of Newark). I spent the bulk of my summer (except for the things eighteen-year-olds do) carefully drawing NAND and NOR gates for a <i>static</i> Gray-to-binary decoder. On my second or third day, I mentioned to the guy I was working for that you could do this with a shift register. It turned out he knew that, but his project was to do an asynchronous one. I have no idea why.
Sorry, nostalgic nerd break there. The thing is, what most of the folks in the group were working on was programming an instrument that operated on a drum memory. That is, this instrument did not have any RAM, just a few registers, and it executed by picking instructions off of the drum memory. Programming was in binary machine language. Optimization involved knowing how fast the drum was rotating, and how long it took the hardware to execute atomic instructions. Happily, I only had a taste of that, although one side effect was that for years afterwards, I never complained about having to use assembly language.
Anyhow, my security clearance wasn&#039;t high enough to know what the &quot;instrument&quot; was. For a while, I suspected it was the guidance system for the Minuteman III, because Newark did a lot of stuff for that program. But in later years, I think it may only have been for the diagnostic tool for the M3 guidance system. I prefer to believe that, anyhow.
An American might think he&#039;s a serious drinker if he doesn&#039;t get much of a buzz from 3 or 4 bud lights, but doesn&#039;t have a chance when the Russians bring out the vodka.
We still can&#039;t use the short version of gun-firing mechanism. Observe the deleted post.
So ... they&#039;ve upgraded from CP/M? Does this mean that my Atari can&#039;t be used to launch things anymore?
I once worked a Russian wedding mixing the wedding band. They invited me to sit at their table for food and drinks and insisted I join them for Vodka shots. I had one for every half dozen or so that they had and still ended up cross eyed drunk in short order- while they got up on stage and played their happy dance music for three hours as they continued to drink on stage
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totally agree about the previous/next link
I did a show with him, he&#039;s funny as hell. both he and his wife are great people
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My first summer soshalist security jerb in college (yes, they used to do that) was in lovely Heath, Ohio, at the Newark Air Force Station. (Heath was a suburb(?) of Newark). I spent the bulk of my summer (except for the things eighteen-year-olds do) carefully drawing NAND and NOR gates for a <i>static</i> Gray-to-binary decoder. On my second or third day, I mentioned to the guy I was working for that you could do this with a shift register. It turned out he knew that, but his project was to do an asynchronous one. I have no idea why.
Sorry, nostalgic nerd break there. The thing is, what most of the folks in the group were working on was programming an instrument that operated on a drum memory. That is, this instrument did not have any RAM, just a few registers, and it executed by picking instructions off of the drum memory. Programming was in binary machine language. Optimization involved knowing how fast the drum was rotating, and how long it took the hardware to execute atomic instructions. Happily, I only had a taste of that, although one side effect was that for years afterwards, I never complained about having to use assembly language.
Anyhow, my security clearance wasn&#039;t high enough to know what the &quot;instrument&quot; was. For a while, I suspected it was the guidance system for the Minuteman III, because Newark did a lot of stuff for that program. But in later years, I think it may only have been for the diagnostic tool for the M3 guidance system. I prefer to believe that, anyhow.