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I started my programming career learning COBOL in college. Then I got a job that used COBOL and PL/1 which are very similair. I learned a couple of other programming languages in college including C, RPG and even assembler but I haven't used any one of them in years. For me, COBOL was a good base language to learn. It kinda gave me the basics of everything and how programming works. Since then I've been able to pick up other languages fairly easily. I use SQL and VB.net in my current job everyday even though I wasn't all that familiar with them when I first started. I took a free python programming course through Coursera a few years ago. I don't know if they still offer free courses or not but that might be something to look into. LearningTree is another one that I know of but you have to pay for their courses. Honestly though, going back to COBOL you'd be amazed at how many businesses still use that language today. My last job was thrilled to hire me because I was one of the few people under the age of 40 that actually knew it.

Whatever happened to this? It seems like there was a ton of talk about creating one a few months ago and now it seems like we've sort of lost interest in doing it.

A list of all the companies working on vaccines and where they are at: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker.html

But wait... Some guy on Facebook said he watched a Youtube video that said the flu is more deadly. I'm just not sure who to believe?!?

Kids start going back to school, fall sports start up and cases start to rise. Shocker.

I didn't even know it was possible to have admins on ignore. Most message boards don't allow it.

This is where some of that rumor got started. I don't know where the $1500 number came from though. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/21/facebook-posts/Fact-check-Hospitals-COVID-19-payments/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/medicare-hospitals-covid-patients/

I've never heard of any undertaker that is involved in determining the cause of death. That's usually the doctors and/or coroner.

Right on que: https://www.yahoo.com/news/sturgis-motorcycle-rally-tied-coronavirus-002612074.html

Man, if we only had the foresight to realize that putting 1000's of teachers and students in close contact with each other for 6-8 hours a day was a bad idea...

We'll know in about a week or so. I hope they had fun with their spitting and sneezing contests up there.

Just having all the states that are forcing the kids to go back to schools is going to make this fall a disaster. We've already seen several examples of schools having to be shut down on their very first day back.

This is what a lot of schools were planning on doing. Now I'm hearing many of them pushing their start dates back into early or even mid September and going to fully online.

Simply sabotaging the United States Postal Service in order to tilt an election in your favor seems like a pretty shitty and evil thing to do, imo. Also how is that legal?

I mean... this is one of those "doctors" in that video: https://www.thedailybeast.com/stella-immanuel-trumps-new-covid-doctor-believes-in-alien-dna-demon-sperm-and-hydroxychloroquine

Then things like this happen. Some people discovered a long time ago that if they throw a big enough tantrum, that stores will eventually cave and give them what they want just to shut them up. https://www.insider.com/the-grocery-store-employee-was-suspended-for-face-mask-altercation-2020-7

Our local grocery stores have all been doing this for months...

It's almost like having heath insurance tied to having and keeping a FT job is a bad idea and we should come up with a different system...

So if the parents disagree with sending their kids back to school they should just... find new parents?

So when a crisis hit they decided to do their job and actually be leaders? And comparing this to them "allowing" the protests to happen. I don't think they had much of a choice there. They attempted to control and contain them as much as they could but there was no way they were going to stop them from happening. It'd be like stopping an ocean wave from hitting the shore.

Here's the whole thing. https://www.facebook.com/LadyXandraWrites/photos/pcb.2753285704904017/2753285324904055/?type=3&theater

I just read this on FB. What I read was longer but this is the start of it.

Do you scream at them because they make you wear a seat belt or else you will be ticketed? How about the fact that they make you wear a shirt and shoes into a store or else you can't shop there? Are they being bullies then? Are you upset that they bullied people that smoke to smoke outdoors only?

It's possible to get chicken pox twice and we have a vaccine for that now. But most people don't. Could be the same thing here. I've heard of people getting covid twice but I don't think it's that common.