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Creditor William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 4-25-18
Beij jycu yi duluh vekdt.
Rud Vhqdabyd
Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
Victor Hugo
Lord Kelvin, the grandfather of thermodynamics and an indisputably brilliant man, predicted in 1898 that the world had but 400 years of oxygen left due to man-made industry.
Early ripe William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 4-24
P rgtsxidg xh ldght iwpc p hapkt-dlctg; udg iwt bphitg dlch dcan ndjg etghdc, qji p rgtsxidg dlch ndjg sxvcxin, pcs rpc rdbbpcs xi.
Kxridg Wjvd
Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Early ripe, early rotten.
John Quigg
The original names for the atom bombs that ended World War II were Fat Man and Thin Man and came from characters created by mystery writer Dashiell Hammett. Thin Man eventually became Little Boy but Fat Man — he was the Sidney Greenstreet character in Maltese Falcon — stayed.
Write In C Let It Be Internet History — This is the sort of thing that you’d see on Usenet groups or get in your email when the internet was brand new.
For your convenience we will publish below but to get the full effect visit the Tripod built web page which if you notice hasn’t been updated since 1997.
When I find my code in tons of trouble,
Friends and colleagues come to me,
Speaking words of wisdom:
“Write in C.”
As the deadline fast approaches,
And bugs are all that I can see,
Somewhere, someone whispers:
“Write in C.”
Write in C, Write in C,
Write in C, oh, Write in C.
LOGO’s dead and buried,
Write in C.
I used to write a lot of FORTRAN,
For science it worked flawlessly.
Try using it for graphics!
Write in C.
If you’ve just spent nearly 30 hours,
Debugging some assembly,
Soon you will be glad to
Write in C.
Write in C, Write in C,
Write in C, yeah, Write in C.
BASIC’s not the answer.
Write in C.
Write in C, Write in C
Write in C, oh, Write in C.
Pascal won’t quite cut it.
Write in C.
Earth abides William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 4-23-18
Sofzm fwds, sofzm fchhsb.
Xcvb Eiwuu
Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: One generation passes away, and another generation comes;
But the earth abides forever.
Ecclesiastes
Greatest quality of the mind William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 4-22-18
Bar trarengvba cnffrf njnl, naq nabgure trarengvba pbzrf;
Ohg gur rnegu novqrf sberire.
Rppyrfvnfgrf
Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle
The Maltese Falcon was first made a movie in 1931 and starred Ricardo Cortez as Sam Spade. It was made before the Motion Picture Production Code went into effect and hence is far more risque than the famous 1941 version with Humphrey Bogart.
Cortez was Jewish and from New York. His real name was Jacob Krantz. He used “Cortez” to take advantage of the Latin lover craze created by Rudolph Valentino. He eventually quit acting and went to work as a stockbroker.
Medical Assistance Work Requirement Before Senate
By Leo Knepper
On Tuesday (April 17) the Pennsylvania House passed HB 2138 with bipartisan support. This legislation would make important changes to Pennsylvania’s Medical Assistance (MA) program. Welfare programs too often measure their success by the number of people enrolled; not how many people achieve independence. HB 2138 reforms the MA program by adding work requirements for able-bodied adults. Work requirements should be a cornerstone of any welfare reform proposal. According to the sponsor of the legislation, Rep. Matt Dowling, 51 percent of able-bodied MA recipients do not work.
At one-time MA was truly limited to the neediest, but that changed with Obamacare. Now nearly 20 percent of the US population are enrolled in MA plans. By adding work, job search, and training requirements, Rep. Dowling is ensuring that people who can work are encouraged to attain independence. It is worth noting that HB 2138 exempts several groups of people from the work search requirements. The exemptions include some of the most vulnerable members of society like pregnant women, people who are in a mental institution, children and senior citizens.
Adding work requirements does increase administrative costs for the state. However, those costs will be more than offset by the savings generated by people who are able to move off of MA. There are thousands of empty skilled labor and manufacturing jobs across the state, helping people prepare for that work and off of public assistance is a win for everyone.
HB 2138 now moves to the Senate.
Mr. Knepper is executive director of Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania.
Government degenerates William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 4-21-18
Kag iuxx zqhqd pa mzkftuzs uz ftue iadxp iuftagf oagdmsq. Uf ue ftq sdqmfqef cgmxufk ar ftq yuzp zqjf fa tazad.
Mduefafxq
Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson