Invasion of the Body Snatchers victim: Nicholas Kristof & The NY Times is their home base. Kristof has been found to have published fabricated, uh, mistruths, about rapes & such by Israelis. The NY Times doesn't deny that, only stands behind him by saying he's a Pulitzer Prize winner & has reported on sexual abuse in the past. Maybe can't say Kristof isn't a bad person, but he shouldn't be writing fact when it's really fiction. And a well-known newspaper, well, any newspaper, is a bad, bad newspaper, for hiring & supporting fiction over fact.
Love cut, copy, paste features. Use them all the time on Google Translate when I have to have a more involved conversation beyond my basic understanding of Spanish.
. . . and before copy, cut and paste, there was cut and tape! In the early 2000s I was required to review a document that was so poorly written that I went back the pre-word processing method of cut and tape. The employee that drafted the report, just could not grasp how to move stuff around in a document.
I cut the paragraphs and sometimes sentences apart so that the connected topics could be grouped in like content paragraphs and then taped them back together reorganized into a logical flow of information below applicable and appropriately named sections in the report body. Then I asked the employee to go back and reconstruct the report. The employees following reports had much better presentation.
Yes, I am old enough that I learned to type and make corrections on a manual typewriter with a monospaced fonts, hyphenated words, and use of carbon paper - and was required to type 30 wpm with no errors in order to get a C for the class. You get exceptionally good at reworking text to keep the content on a single page and avoid hyphenation or a dangling last few words of a paragraph on the following page.
When I was a kid I worked at my dad’s business. My mom ran the advertising department. It was marvelous when they got the typewriters that, with a pedal on the floor, you could make half spaces, etc., in order to make the right margin be aligned. I really felt big when I was allowed to learn to do that!
Oh, you mentioned carbon paper - how about correction fluid - had to make sure it was dry! - then the best - correction tape!!
And let’s not forget gestetners. That smell of a gestetnered document is forever in my brain. You had these little hook things that were used to correct errors on the document being copied.
I worked for a lawyer back in the ‘80’s who said the main skill to be a lawyer is the ability to fill in blanks. He worked for a bank that did a LOT of foreclosures when the interest rates were in the high teens and that was really all I did, fill in the blanks.
I learned to type on IBM Selectric memory typewriters, you could store up to 50 documents, it was a great step forward. Then I learned word processing on the AES system, which was a dedicated word processing system, predated computers. Wordstar, WordPerfect, Symphony, floppy disks are also in my history.
Will Trump ever admit he is wrong, he is breaking laws that have been in place for decades if not longer? Start a war you figure was going to be a walk in the park, end up vastly underestimating the enemy and then fudge things to keep the war going. Great way to run a country.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers victim: Nicholas Kristof & The NY Times is their home base. Kristof has been found to have published fabricated, uh, mistruths, about rapes & such by Israelis. The NY Times doesn't deny that, only stands behind him by saying he's a Pulitzer Prize winner & has reported on sexual abuse in the past. Maybe can't say Kristof isn't a bad person, but he shouldn't be writing fact when it's really fiction. And a well-known newspaper, well, any newspaper, is a bad, bad newspaper, for hiring & supporting fiction over fact.
The rest of the story:
https://henmazzig.substack.com/p/the-last-public-editor?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2jsha
Love cut, copy, paste features. Use them all the time on Google Translate when I have to have a more involved conversation beyond my basic understanding of Spanish.
. . . and before copy, cut and paste, there was cut and tape! In the early 2000s I was required to review a document that was so poorly written that I went back the pre-word processing method of cut and tape. The employee that drafted the report, just could not grasp how to move stuff around in a document.
I cut the paragraphs and sometimes sentences apart so that the connected topics could be grouped in like content paragraphs and then taped them back together reorganized into a logical flow of information below applicable and appropriately named sections in the report body. Then I asked the employee to go back and reconstruct the report. The employees following reports had much better presentation.
Yes, I am old enough that I learned to type and make corrections on a manual typewriter with a monospaced fonts, hyphenated words, and use of carbon paper - and was required to type 30 wpm with no errors in order to get a C for the class. You get exceptionally good at reworking text to keep the content on a single page and avoid hyphenation or a dangling last few words of a paragraph on the following page.
When I was a kid I worked at my dad’s business. My mom ran the advertising department. It was marvelous when they got the typewriters that, with a pedal on the floor, you could make half spaces, etc., in order to make the right margin be aligned. I really felt big when I was allowed to learn to do that!
Oh, you mentioned carbon paper - how about correction fluid - had to make sure it was dry! - then the best - correction tape!!
And let’s not forget gestetners. That smell of a gestetnered document is forever in my brain. You had these little hook things that were used to correct errors on the document being copied.
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I worked for a lawyer back in the ‘80’s who said the main skill to be a lawyer is the ability to fill in blanks. He worked for a bank that did a LOT of foreclosures when the interest rates were in the high teens and that was really all I did, fill in the blanks.
I learned to type on IBM Selectric memory typewriters, you could store up to 50 documents, it was a great step forward. Then I learned word processing on the AES system, which was a dedicated word processing system, predated computers. Wordstar, WordPerfect, Symphony, floppy disks are also in my history.
Will Trump ever admit he is wrong, he is breaking laws that have been in place for decades if not longer? Start a war you figure was going to be a walk in the park, end up vastly underestimating the enemy and then fudge things to keep the war going. Great way to run a country.
I use c/p a lot every day, too. As I did in a previous Understandably.