Don't come home until u is sobern! (NC Thread)

[Wetdog]

KO, I feel the same way every day working with cobol developers. I do user acceptance testing. When I report a bug, I hear Charlie Brown's teacher saying "Whawh whawh whawh."

[JavaNut]

Cobol? I know how to program in cobol, but I know of no reason to do so in this day and age. Had a course in cobol in 1983 or 84 at uni, that was the last year they gave that course because cobol was considered obsolete (it was mandatory, had no choice, am scarred for life).

[bozlax]

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Cobol? I know how to program in cobol, but I know of no reason to do so in this day and age. Had a course in cobol in 1983 or 84 at uni, that was the last year they gave that course because cobol was considered obsolete (it was mandatory, had no choice, am scarred for life).

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I know a half-dozen guys that were "scarred" by Cobol to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars in the late 90's because they met two very strict criteria:

1. they knew that "Cobol" was a programming language;
2. they didn't sleep much.

[JavaNut]

Unfortunately the panic wasn't as big on the other side of the pond, so no wirtschaftswunder for me. I guess the main reason was that most systems were developed later than in the US and therefore made to better standards. It would also require me to leave a job, that I really enjoyed for only about $10k more a year, a job that I thought then could last until retirement. Now 2 jobs later........

[OziBattler]

if anyone has a MOBILITY RADEON 9000 circa 2004 graphics card can you drop me a quick PM, thx

[00Snitch]

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I feel the same way every day working with cobol developers


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lawl. beat.

i work with a guy who talks about the cobol days - he is 62.

@JavaNut - I work for a utility, our customer managment system is cobol - yes it's from the 80s. But the point is, there is still a somewhat niche market out there for cobol developers. That said... we are in the last phases of replacing the system and it should be totaly gone by mid 2008. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[kerowo]

Meh. I'm a cobol developer.

Do the cats make more sense?

[00Snitch]

I just don't get it, there can't possibly be a scam in this...

Could it just be a lead up type thing. i.e. please send us some bibles, a month later, all our bibles are damaged, please send us some money to fix them, we need some money to build a church, etc.

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Dear Brothers/sisters in christ.

I am very happy to write you this
letter as I pray and hope you will answer my writing for the holy bibles
for myself and the christian lepers that are with me."
I want to brief.
you little about myself. Sir i was born to the family of a chief priest
- a well known idol worshipping family, and married to the daughter of
another such family. we had four children, and lived their idol
worshipping life happily. Then everything changed.)My wife came back
from the city where he had gone to buy goats for our annual festival. He
came back to inform me of his encounter with a man of GOD that told him
about Jesus Christ and it was the first time He was hearing of that
name. He also told me the man of GOD said we should accept Jesus Christ
as our only lord and personal saviour.
We never really understand what
it means to accept Jesus Christ as our only lord and personal saviour
until two months later, April 25, when my wife encountered this man
of GOD again and he accompany my wife back to the village, that he
now taught us what it means to accept Christ as our lord and saviour. On
the 10th of May, 1994, we were baptized and started our home fellowship.
It was then that the trouble started.
The villagers including my
wife dad abducted my wife and sacrificed her to their gods, and
that same night they came to our house in the middle of the night and
set our house ablaze, and I lost my 2 sons and daughter to the inferno.

It was only a miracle that I managed to escape that night with my only
surviving son, but by the time the villagers got to know about why we
were running from our village, they too planned to use us for rituals,
and they believed we are accursed for believing in Jesus Christ. But God
had a purpose for me in life, and made one of the elders in the village
to have compassion on us and let us escape before the day we were to be
used as sacrifices to their gods.
We eventually settled in O. Leprosy
Centre where we were received with open arms. We were free from all the
disturbance as the lepers are rejected people in our society back here.
I was afraid to preach the gospel again as I was afraid of death. But on
October 27, 1999, God spoke to me in my dream that I should not be
afraid of death, for death is the gateway to eternity in Heaven for we
the believers... that HE preserved me and allowed all those persecutions
to happen to me so I can serve him... by the next day when I woke up I
realise for the 4 years I have been with the orphans, none of them have
ever heard of the gospel, and none of them knew anything about our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ. So I started to preach the gospel of Jesus to
them.
Initially they refuse to listen as they believed nobody loves or
care about them and that Jesus I talk about is no different. But after
much preaching and praying for six months, I was able to convert 10 of
them for Jesus Christ. Today I am happy to say we are 163 in number, and
we now have a church that is called Lepers Fellewship Bible Church We
have been serving and doing the work of GOD diligently even with all the
hardship and untold neglect from the members of the larger society. We
don't even have a church building, and we use under trees for our
worship and services, but our major problem is the holy bible as only 23
members of the church have bibles. 6 of the bibles was from a man of God
some 7 years ago.
It has be my concern and prayers to get bibles for
my people. I choose to write you after i was told that bibles are easy
to come by in your country, i prayerfully write and i believe that the
lord God we reveal to you more of our needs. We are hereby appealing to
you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you please have compassion
on us. For more than 3 years now we have been in the waiting list of
some churches and individuals who have promise to help us. It is only
one who sent us just five bibles. My members are lepers who can neither
work nor toil to buy bibles, and bibles are very expensive here in
Nigeria. We have been longing to have bibles.
(They are 65 in munbers
of the Christian lepers who are heads of households, wishing that each
could have a bible, to read it with their family.) We need KJV Bibles,
Please they need the large print type due to reading difficulty, We all
at the Lepers bible church have all heaved a sigh of relief since we got
your email address and we contributed money to send somebody to the city
which is about 45 miles from where we live, to type and send you this
request as we pray earnestly that you grant us our request and making
our dream of having bibles a reality.
May God Bless you For the work
you do for the cause of the kingdom
In Christ.
loveth okundia

Sister Ruth says items are save when you insured airmail. Our Mail
address is.

LEPERS FELLOWSHIP CHURCH
NO, 20 Aghobaghase Village,
Ogida Quarters, Benin city
Edo State,Nigeria.


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[Xylocain]

[Aaron W.]

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I just don't get it, there can't possibly be a scam in this...

Could it just be a lead up type thing. i.e. please send us some bibles, a month later, all our bibles are damaged, please send us some money to fix them, we need some money to build a church, etc.

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tl;dr


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Weird. Maybe there's an underground black market where large print KJV Bibles are traded for guns or something...