Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this.
The Secretary is unfit to lead.
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So are we still more upset about Diverse, but qualified, yet presumed unqualified hires, than DUI hires?
(Asking for anyone who cares about US National Security)
Pete Hegseth needs to go for the safety of the United States & the allies that we still have.
I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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There were a set of actions taken before Steven’s arrival to compete with Lotus SmartSuite. He has foreshadowed this with his choice of graphics in this first chunk.
PCs were evolving quickly into machines with enough RAM, disk space, and CPU power to run more than one program at a time. In parallel, companies were starting to put “a PC on every desk” and IT departments were scrambling to figure out how to contain the cost of training and supporting their users. These were…
Jon, I also recall a debate about the color of hyperlinks in the Help content for Word and Excel. Excel argued that green is the color of money, and Excel is all about the money. Word wanted blue because, umm, blue looked nicer? On those ridiculous points we went round and round for months.
I did the hyperlink implementation for Excel ‘97 (started after “code complete”). There were arguments about the hyperlink toolbar sizes and order and lots of other stuff. I just said I’m not arguing about this stuff - we’re matching Word (I felt that feature was more important for them). I even made it so the testers and localizers could control the sizes of the fields and the order of buttons on the toolbar to just match Word no matter the language (they kept tweaking them and I was tired of …
This is such a great story. Also you were managing a big team at the time too!
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