@frost COBOL requires you to know some other language (JCL) in order to use it, assuming you are using it on IBM mainframes.
So it turns out that COBOL also requires you to know some other language known as JCL, as it is use to run the program (gives it input). But this seems to be assuming that you are actually using an IBM mainframe, but if you use something like GnuCOBOL, which compiles COBOL code into C, you can use it without JCL.
So it looks like they are indeed going to rebuild LA as a smart-city.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/smartla-2028-newsom-announces-marshall-plan-rebuild-new/
bidness
UCKING BUYS THE DATA WITH THE TAX PAYER MONEY to spy on them
I think you have it backwards. Look at "Digital Life Log" by DARPA and it's connections to Peter Thiel, Palinter and Facebook and you'll realize the government doesn't buy the data. It funded/created all the companies that collect it for that specific purpose.
The CIA literally has a startup incubator fund called In-Q-Tel.
@noyoushutthefuckupdad I bet all these words are handpicked by the CIA or some other organization. Almost none of it seems organic.
@Dan_Ramos @sensei The actual Exec Order is here
https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/EO-N-4-25-Rebuilding-Final-signed.pdf
It cuts red tape is the new structure is essentially the same as the prior structure.
Whether that unfairly benefits Blackrock vs the existing owners is open to interpretation.
@RandomDeamon Correctamundo
Did anyone see Blackrock woke up and keft Net Zero in the dust https://oilprice-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/BlackRock-Continues-Wall-Street-Exodus-From-Net-Zero-Alliances.amp.html
My Dad told me that I should learn COBOL because there are so many businesses running on COBOL software, yet not many people are maintaining it.
Though I always wanted to write a full-length video game in a language that was totally not intended for it, so I'll take that into consideration.
https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=8-kazxQBolM
https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=qaApxBPKOdw
https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-hardware-designs.html
There are crucial differences between hardware and software, This will not come as a surprise to you, but based on them I conclude that it makes no sense under present circumstances to talk about "free hardware". What does make sense as a concept is "free hardware designs". That article addresses many issues about freedom raised by digital hardware.
First whitepill of the year:
While everyone was distracted by recent events going on the past few months, it seems like all 6 major world banks have left the net-zero alliance. Even BlackRock is withdrawing from the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative, and major oil companies are scaling back on renewables. The entire net-zero agenda is collapsing.
We are winning on this front.
https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/2025-predictions
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/jpmorgan-says-leave-net-zero-banking-alliance-2025-01-07/
https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/01/09/bloomberg-news-blackrock-leaves-major-climate-group-amid-wall-street-exodus-as-donald-trump-returns-to-the-white-house/
@Hephaestic I think every artist has a few shelved paintings.