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Who screwed this up?
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09-01-2022, 09:54 PM
JoeH wrote: 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.
09-02-2022, 02:25 PM
Acer wrote: :ftw:
09-02-2022, 02:49 PM
AllGold wrote: 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.
09-02-2022, 02:57 PM
AllGold wrote: You never lived in punch card era when keypunches (and most computer systems) only supported upper case.
09-02-2022, 03:25 PM
GGD wrote: 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. 
09-02-2022, 06:13 PM
TOS and warranties frequently have all-caps sections among normal case. What would that have to do with punch cards?
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