I used to work for a company that wrote the software used by Clerks of Court in Louisiana. It was niche software because Louisiana is the only US state whose legal system is derived from the French, so the companies that write software that can handle all the other states don’t bother accommodating Louisiana. Clerks of Court in most of the LA parishes made $60K to $70K per year (which was actually a pretty astronomical salary there) but they controlled budgets that could afford the $100K per month cost of the software. The owner of the company would wine and dine the Clerks and pay for their house renovations and driveway pavings etc. and vacations and whatnot, and meanwhile he raked in fucking enormous profits (64 parishes X $100K per month, with a team of about 5 programmers). Nobody batted an eye at this shit.

Technically, their profession is “Saudi ball-cleaner”.

I started coding professionally using Visual Basic (3!). Everybody made fun of VB’s On Error Resume Next “solution” to error handling, which basically said if something goes wrong just move on to the next line of code. But apparently nobody knew about On Error Resume, which basically said if something goes wrong just execute the offending line again. This would of course manifest itself as a locked app and usually a rapidly-expanding memory footprint until the computer crashed. Basically the automated version of this meme.

BTW just to defend VB a little bit, you didn’t actually have to use On Error Resume Next, you could do On Error Goto errorHandler and then put the errorHandler label at the bottom of your routine (after an Exit Sub) and do actual structured error handling. Not that anybody in the VB world ever actually did this.

Now they are nickel and diming us until the bubble pops and they we have to pay.

She knows her endgame is being buried in an unmarked grave on a golf course.

Lol out loud

It couldn’t possibly be rich parents.

A rule of thumb is that a corporate employee costs their company roughly twice their salary. Probably not very many Oracle employees are making just $37,000 a year.

Even in that first case they should have her dragged out there in an orange jumpsuit.

he conspired with Hanoi to sabotage LBJ

Oh, c’mon. Next you’ll be telling me Reagan conspired with Iran to sabotage Carter!

liberals are bloodthirsty warmongerers who worship Khorne

Excuse me? It’s spelled “Koɿ n”.

Slight quibble: being quartered means having your top half separated from your bottom half and your left half separated from your right half. The “drawn” part means you’re dragged around the city first. Otherwise you’re 100% correct.

“If I told you once, Chris, I told you a thousand times: slaves go in the other direction.”

He has some stiff competition for that title, though: his father and his son.

Mediocre pop star.

Visual Basic isn’t dead … it’s just resting!

Just at Treblinka alone the Nazis murdered 900,000 over a span of 18 months. The camp was staffed at any one time by 25 German officers and soldiers and 100 local workers. Almost all of the victims were murdered with the exhaust from a single tank engine. Other camps were generally much larger-scale operations because the Nazis were trying to extract useful work from their victims before murdering them; Treblinka was purely for mass murder.

Anyone who thinks the Nazis couldn’t have murdered a lot more people than they did if they had a little more time is misinformed.

I passed by a mechanic’s shop a couple of years ago that had a big lit-up sign out front that said “WE BUY CATALYTIC CONVERTERS”. I hope it was a honeypot but I dunno.

When they move to Russia, that’s when we’ll know we’ve won our country back.

I think you’re overestimating them with “actively hinder”, unless you think keyboard warriors are an active hindrance.