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Re: Who screwed this up? - pdq - 09-01-2022
JoeH wrote:
[quote=pdq]
Fortunately, it is in fact being brought to the Michigan Supreme Court, where Dem appointments hold a slim majority. I’m thinking this move to block the amendment will backfire, big-time.
Michigan Supreme Court judges are elected. Vacancies from death or resignations are temporarily filled by appointments until the next general election.
Thank you for the correction.
Re: Who screwed this up? - August West - 09-02-2022
Acer wrote:
They should submit all supporting documents in Comic Sans.
:ftw:
Re: Who screwed this up? - JoeH - 09-02-2022
AllGold wrote:
I could read it just fine. My only beef is I don't think text should be all caps. EVER. :wink:
Yeah, but the all caps section is probably required by the laws or regulations for the formatting of petitions. Something required by the legal type who have no sense of what is readable.
Re: Who screwed this up? - GGD - 09-02-2022
AllGold wrote:
I don't think text should be all caps. EVER. :wink:
You never lived in punch card era when keypunches (and most computer systems) only supported upper case.
Re: Who screwed this up? - JoeH - 09-02-2022
GGD wrote:
[quote=AllGold]
I don't think text should be all caps. EVER. :wink:
You never lived in punch card era when keypunches (and most computer systems) only supported upper case.
Yeah, I even worked on an older CDC system where they used that to save storage space. Characters were stored in a 6-bit "byte" which only allowed 64 different characters, 10 to a 60-bit word. So the alphabet, numbers, arithmetic operators, punctuation, etc. In text fields they were defaulted to represent lower case, a capital was preceded by a shift character to indicate upper case. Otherwise upper case when used everywhere else. There also was an IBM 7-bit character coding and some other ones we would consider odd 40-50 years later.
Re: Who screwed this up? - Acer - 09-02-2022
TOS and warranties frequently have all-caps sections among normal case. What would that have to do with punch cards?
Re: Who screwed this up? - AllGold - 09-02-2022
GGD wrote:
[quote=AllGold]
I don't think text should be all caps. EVER. :wink:
You never lived in punch card era when keypunches (and most computer systems) only supported upper case.
WRONG.