Emergency detention plan: 'This way to the ZOT!'

World Net Daily ^ | 05-30-2007

[cposnarkey]

Houston-based KBR was awarded an initial $385 million contract in January 2006 for one year, with four one-year options extended into 2007. KBR held a previous emergency detention contract with ICE from 2000 to 2005.

ICE spokeswoman Jamie Zuieback told Corsi the primary intent of the contract was to build temporary detention facilities that could be used in the event of a mass migration crisis, but she confirmed the facilities could be employed in national emergencies, including natural disasters.

[sionnsar]

You were spoiled. I had to cut holes in Hollerith cards with a knife.

You had knives? I had to punch with a stick. Fresh off a tree. Chads were an endemic problem. (It was actually better if you hardened the stick in the fire by which you read the Hollerith cards at night. Finding stones with the proper sized backing holes was a real problem. Rectangular stone holes of any size are rare.)

Naturally we tended to write programs that favored zeros (no holes) over ones (holes).

Sequence-punching was an awful lot of extra work, but paid off any time you were jumped on your way to the computer by a sabre-tooth, spilling your precious Hollerith cards across the savanna.

[sionnsar]

I’m trying to figure out the other language on that package. It almost looks Greek, but not quite.

[darkangel82]

So hanging chads weren’t just a 2000 problem lol.

[NicknamedBob]

"It was actually better if you hardened the stick in the fire by which you read the Hollerith cards at night."

Fire? You had fire? We lined up the Hollerith holes with stars and ran Astrology programs.

[TASMANIANRED]

I remember the punch cards but never saw what they got fed into.

Made Christmas wreathes with them.

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening Bob.

Have you done anything terribly creative recently.

[TASMANIANRED]

Kitty looks cross. Should be in throws of delight.

[sionnsar]

Fire? You had fire? We lined up the Hollerith holes with stars and ran Astrology programs.

Fire? Sure we had fire. It was dicey, running across the cooling lava (we had lots of that back then when the Earth was cooling) with a long stick to dip in the molten stuff to bring away the fire with which we'd form the Hollerith punches.

Computing was a hot field and a lot riskier in those days -- "breakpoint" didn't have the innocuous meaning it has today. The closest you get today is "fatal exception," and even then when one of those occurs you don't tend to end up with dead programmers.

[NicknamedBob]

"Have you done anything terribly creative recently?"

Hmm. Worked on my chainsaw. Cut and split some firewood. Wrote a poem or two.

Thought about a title for a third book of poetry. (Yeah, I know. I haven't put out the first two yet ...)

Thought about making a new kind of vehicle, with both compressed air and electric motor drive systems.

You know. The usual lollygagging.

[Lady Jag]

She’s looking at Mommy saying, I meant to do this.

[NicknamedBob]

"Fire? Sure we had fire. It was dicey, running across the cooling lava (we had lots of that back then when the Earth was cooling) with a long stick to dip in the molten stuff to bring away the fire with which we'd form the Hollerith punches."

Idiots.

Why didn't you use the sabertooth teeth to punch the holes? As for backing holes, my cousin's skull where the sabertooth bit him made a perfect backing hole for punched cards.

When I said "knife", I meant it the way Kim in the Jungle Book meant when he said, "I have a tooth!" with which to fight the tiger.

[Grunthor]

Well I know I am just quaking in my pj’s now./s

[Aloysius88]

Church garage cleaning day. The garage belongs to everyone and therefore no one and so it fills up. Then the volunteer maintenance guy compacts everything in a completely random fashion so that even if anything of any use was in the garage no one could get to it anyway.

So we got a few responsible individuals (i.e. willing to take the blame) together and voila... a full dumpster, a large burnpile, and a garage that is once again useful.

By the way Good Morning Campers!

[Tax-chick]

Good morning! It sounds kind of like my garage. Various family members toss gunk all over the place, and eventually I pitch a fit and say I’m not serving a meal until it’s cleaned up.

[NicknamedBob]

"... eventually I pitch a fit and say I’m not serving a meal until it’s cleaned up."

Ah, the desperate measures hunger can force one to.

[Tax-chick]

They could fix a meal for themselves, of course, but that would be Work.

[Monkey Face]

Morning, Kiddies!

Looks like y’all were kinda busy last night! I wanted to stick around, but I had done my quota of work and my eyelids slammed shut about an hour after the computer was shut off. *sigh*

But I’m here!

[Tax-chick]

James just had an Accident.

[NicknamedBob]

"James just had an Accident."

I'd like to say, "He'll grow out of that."

But instead I have to admit, "I hate when that happens."

[Monkey Face]

Ohno....Did James also have an accident?