1. "do date" = "due date"
My bad.
2. In a mid 1960s
episode of "Rocky & Bullwinkle", R & B were walking on the campus of
Whatsamata U. and asked a "hippie-looking" kid where everybody was
going.
He answered, "We're going to the Student Union to protest /Norman
Mailer/!"
I will never ever forget that line. I was aware enough then to laugh,
and still laugh when it crawls back into mind.
3. And, for pure rambling fluff in closing, here is how I've become
passionate about the value of stewardship of citizen privacy and rI
learned to write FORTRAN in 7th grade in 1967 on an IBM 360. It was
located at a bio research facility. Data comm and physiological
modeling became a hobby as fun as hunting, fishing and trapping. And
been into and applying it ever since. Kinda nerd-giggly. And made a
living from it.
Still I'm not "a good programmer" by good programmer's standards, as
far as I'm concerned. But I learned and love the challenge to build
the most efficient (tightest security, most efficient
performance-wise (and always cheapest by far) result) systems design
and implementation. How is simple. I always brought/bring in help
who are much smarter than me.
Honestly, the approach has never saved LESS than $2MIL on medium
scale projects, over the Anderson's, Toilet and Douche, etcetera,
bidders who slithered in through Executive wine and dine attempts to
derail valid protests from our internal division and proven
contractors. I've kicked them out the door or resigned, first. And
always I'm lucky to have been hired back as soon as their
merit/performance was obvious.
When I teach my counterparts that "resigning" is a realistic option
and always works out in the end, it's always received like its the
first time they've heard or considered it. In japan and in the US.
I've made more mistakes than everyone I've met combined. But I try
not to make the same ones twice. I'm not smart by any measure. Just
stubborn.
I've been very lucky. But uncompromising focus on
user/patient/citizen/needy-consumer privacy, cost containment,
starting with prototypes & results analysis and Plan B from
inception, before all else, has let me sleep at night.
And for the life of me I don't know how the greedy cronies, NSA and
the rest, can sleep at all. Their intent is and always has been
truly misguided and harmful to all.
I seen the price of incompetence, needless financial drain, and
politicized sales fairytales early on. They always, w/out exception,
result in domino-effect burdens on trusting consumers & taxpayers.
They're one in the same, and they always suffer and own the resulting
burden.
Thank you very much, yet again for your sincerity. I find myself far
too verbose in my posts here. Sorry. I need to really work on that!
Todd
On Jul 5, 2014, at 5:32 AM, doug <douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Dear Todd,
There is no need to apologise, as far as I am concerned, ...
