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It wasn't wedged in the grille it was in the trunk, and special branch are trying to get to the root of it.
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Excuse me for budding in, but couldn't you just leaf out the puns?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Elm met by moonlight?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Looks like a Lincoln Town Car. If that is the case, there should be plenty of room under the hood to plant a tree. I'd guess that the radiator and attached hoses and belts were severed, but if that has a cast iron block and heads, it should last a good 15 to 20 minutes without cooling.
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"This neighbourhood is so green. Lots of trees. I think I should move in here. [takes a drag of whatever]"
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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His English homework this week was to answer the following questions about the last book he had read.
"Who do you know that would like to read it and why?"
"Who do you know who wouldn't like to read it and why?"
He said to me this is really hard Daddy, it's easy to say who would like it because all my friends like Diary of the Wimpy Kid, but I don't know anyone who wouldn't want to read it. I agreed it was hard and somewhat a negative way of thinking about one of your favourite books but I told him to go away and have a think about it and I'm sure you'll come back with something. Ten minutes later he came back and proudly showed me his homework book where he had wrote
"Freddie Kruegar would not like to read Diary of the Wimpy Kid because every time he tried to turn the page his razor hands will shred it to pieces"
That's my boy, no need for a DNA test there. Can't wait till see how his Teacher marks it.
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Keep us updated... I'm quite curious too...
Think, it could also depends on the age of the teacher 
Jeeeeez... I'm old 
(yes|no|maybe)*
"Fortunately, we don't need details - because we can't solve it for you." - OriginalGriff
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Be prepared to meet his teacher and a social worker 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Vote up or Mark as Answered, if this information helped you.
Kind Regards - Kunal Chowdhury, Windows Platform Development MVP
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PompeyThree wrote: "Who do you know that would like to read it and why?"
"Who do you know who wouldn't like to read it and why?"
Shouldn't that be "Whom" ?
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The first sentence doesn't use a relative personal pronoun, either, so I vote we take up a petition to sack this moron who's pretending to be an English teacher.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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C-P-User-3 wrote: Shouldn't that be "Whom" ?
Nope. Sorry. Oxford Dictionaries has declared the use of 'whom' in this context unnecessarily exaggerated formality (as close as they will ever come to saying 'incorrect'!) The simple interrogative is properly treated differently to the relative pronoun. It is one of many examples where the rules (which you will remember were arbitrarily imposed by an intellectual elite anyway) have never truly reflected actual use.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Well Duh. Thank you. My education continues. I thought for sure it was whom.
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I am writing a paper for a writing class that I am currently taking, and I plan on writing on the subculture that programmers are a part of. So basically I have 2 questions that I need answered, and appreciate everyone's responses.
Question 1.) Why do you program, and what attracted you to programming in the first place?
Question 2.) Do you see any problems or future problems that could arise within the programmer subculture?
Thank you all in advance for the help.
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1: bacon
2: not enough bacon
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Quote: 1: bacon
And coffee. Don't forget the coffee! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Pizza, bacon pizza!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Quote: Pizza, bacon pizza!
And coffee, Coffee, COFFEE!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Others did it and it seemed cool and smart to do so I did.
Subculture: Girls won't be attracted to that, play lead guitar or better yet, drums.
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My answers:
Question 1.) Why do you program, and what attracted you to programming in the first place?
The chicks! Nah! I got stuck with it, I'm a hardware guy who basically got stuck with VB6 thing that didn't work.
Question 2.) Do you see any problems or future problems that could arise within the programmer subculture?
The issues, well the lack of bacon & ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) and the limits of processor technology.
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- Mid-life crisis!
- Mid-life crisis!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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From someone at the tail end of a programming career.
- The endless challenge of keeping up with software tools. The challenge of deciphering the specs from business. There was no attraction, it was a tool used to help sell stuff!
- There is a subculture? Where... It is difficult to identify problems from the inside, oh wait, yeah bacon, a definite lack of bacon!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Answer 1: I program now because it's my career. I've been a professional programmer for 35 years, I'm pretty good at it, and it supports me and my family. I grew up watching the Gemini and Apollo launches. While I liked the idea of being an astronaut, the thing that really fascinated me was the idea that computers controlled the whole thing. I wanted to learn how to do that. I took a programming seminar in high school, plus my step-dad built a home-brew computer we learned how to program together. I majored in computer engineering in college, and figured out that I was much better at software than hardware. I've spent most of my career on data acquisition and process control applications.
Answer 2: I think one of the more fundamental problems in the culture arises from the communication gap between ourselves and the organizations that employ us. We don't understand them and their requirements. They don't understand the implications of some of their decisions, especially when they change their minds mid-stream. Like I said, I've been at this for 35 years. This poor communication is just as much of a problem now as it was when I started. In some respects the problem's gotten worse, due to unmet promises from heavily-promoted methodologies that are only partially or incorrectly applied.
When I started programming, we were finally leaving the era of programmers as high priests, inaugurated into the mainframe's mysteries, when users made offerings to receive the priest's blessing. We were entering a period when becoming a programmer was a practical choice for a lot more people than an isolated few. Now, anyone can and does learn how to program. Significant numbers of people are self-taught and earn some sort of income through programming. This has created an organizational mind-set that programming ability is a commodity. Fifty off-shore programmers at $10/hour are just as good as ten local programmers at $50/hour. The problem with this idea is that it does not take into account the fitness of those teams to their tasks. That team of fifty might work perfectly well for a line of business, data entry application, where best practices are well-known and easily followed. Software that requires extensive domain knowledge and background experience could be more appropriately handled by the local team. The methodology gurus have unfortunately convinced the powers-that-be that the fifty programmers are just as good as the ten, if only you apply XYZ process to managing the project.
Software Zen: delete this;
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