[Random Thought Thursday
Everardo Laboy
I had a lot of conversations recently about the "Great Resignation." This led to thoughts around why are people leaving their jobs or not wanting to work in corporate America anymore? What is different? Is it the employees' fault or the employers' fault? And on and on and on my mind goes.
I had a conversation with a friend who has been upset about something that happened four months ago that I said, and she just now told me. My random thought was, what did I do to discourage her from being honest with me? What made me unapproachable for her? Lots of soul searching for me here.
Just a few random thoughts for Thursday. Stuff I think we forget about. Trump has a tendency to drown us in "junk" news to draw attention away from his idiocy. Ronny Jackson is collecting on his lies to us. He added an inch to the Presidents height and reduced his weight 40 lbs. to get a Government position. A man who has never done a budget led any groups of employees, and was never responsible for more than a dozen peoples health is "suddenly" Given the position that has him controlling a multi-billion dollar budget, control of several hundred thousand employees and the health care of nine million veterans. All he had to do was blow the President to the press about his health, which he went overboard in doing. He gave him a physical evaluation that Adolf Hitler would have been proud of! "Superior Genes", "Perfect Health" only "slightly" overweight. As his reward, he gets to Run the VA! Good job Ronny! Congratulations on your breaking your oath. I'm sure you will be "great" just like Ben Carson and Betty DeVos.
Paul Mannifort and Mike Flynn. They won't except a pardon, even if it was given to them but for very different reasons.
Mannifort because a pardon would lead to being extradited to the Ukraine to stand trial for crimes against the Ukranian people. For his part in putting a Putin Puppet in office. The longer he drags things out here, the better chance he will die of old age first here. In Ukraine, he would probably die and lose everything. If he cooperates, he has to worry about being "poisoned" and his family possibly dying too. Plus immunity here doesn't give him immunity over there. Basically, he is screwed no matter which option he picks, so he decided to fight them all and pray for death.
Flynn put family first too. He could get that immunity, but his son wouldn't. His son would get a maxed out Federal sentence or state sentence. So cooperating helped his family stay free.
The Saudis CAN be sued by the 9/11 survivors. Trump may not want to offend them. He may not acknowledge their participation in the 9/11 attacks. THe may not include them in his list of countries banned on Muslims. But the judge okayed their right to sue them. Damn Liberal Judges! Letting the Country of origin for MOST of the 9/11 hijackers being sued for their participation in the attack on our Country.
Heres a suggestion Donald. If your going to sleep with a porn star while your wife is giving birth to your son, just admit the mistake and move on. Don't deny it then sue her for violating an NDA you supposedly Know nothing about! If it didn't happen then don't sue her for violating an NDA dumbass. If she has panties that have your dried semen in them, your screwed. Makes a fifty cent rubber look like a good idea next time, huh? Monica saved a dress, Stormy may have some panties.
It's sad, you can be sued for taking money through your Trump Hotel in Washington DC. It sucks to be you. Jacking up the prices may not have been such a good idea now, in hindsight, huh?
I find it hard to listen to you about your appointees wasting taxpayer money when you are the biggest abuser of this. Your golf trips have cost us millions and millions of taxpayer dollars. You cut spending for the Coast Guard, yet they have to protect the waters every trip you take to Florida. The Secret Service is running on fumes too. Jacking the Club prices up to didn't make it easier for anyone but your purse. We have to pay your expenses, security, travel and club fees to you for you to visit your own property. Now more than one hundred times. Still, wonder where your appointees "got the idea" that wasting our tax money was okay?
Sadly your surrogate Devin Nunes is too stupid to know when to quit. The Hillary diversions are worn out, old, and proven unfruitful. But hey, you got to try and put Trump's failure as a man, a politician and a so-called President in a "better" light, right? So you jump on the Hillary thing again for the 197th time! Trey Goudy quits, rather than back your spurious ass arguments yet again. Now your getting crap stirred on the Carter Page probe. Was it illegally obtained? A known spy was given a surveillance warrant for "no real reason"? Are you really expecting US to be that Stupid? He turned. It was verified by Moscow. He was heard doing so. But hey, that isn't good enough to get a FISA warrant huh? I personally think he should be deported to Russia. They deserve this Moron as their own.
Well, that's my ranting for today. Let er rip. Remember to stock up canned goods, and put some gold away, you know, just in case. Have a great Thursday. Friday will be worse.
Dear Eloy and other backup/restore kings,
I have been having a problem with quizes involving Random Questions on my Japanese language Moodle. The problem is explained here in the quizes forum.
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At first I thought it might be some incompatability between the quizes of the two (both beta) systems that I was attempting to back up between (1.9 sept 27 to 1.9 Oct 24ish), but it seems that even in same-system backup/restore in both Moodle 1.1.1 and in recent 1.9 versions, quizes involving random questions created on a Japanese language system result in the problem outlined above.
By way of background, I should mention that I have had slight problems with the interaction between the backup function and Japanese characters. For example we (Mitsu, the Japanese translator and I) realised that it the word "backup" which appears in filenames should not be translated into Japanese ("Bakkuappu" in Japanese characters) for the restore to work since the Japanese characters appeared to corrupt the pathname to the zip file. I also found, at the same time that abbreviated course names should not include Japanese characters for the same reason.
Thanks to the very kind work of Bernard Boucher, it was found that the fact that my random questions were made on a Japanese system are preventing their back up, probably for a similar reason. So, following Bernard's advise, I commented out ("//") the Japanese translation of "Random Question" (Randomu houshiki", in Japanese characters) and anticipated that this would solve the problem. But unfortunately, it does not. Even though now the random questions appear in the quiz and category as "Random Question," (i.e. in English) and both category names and the question names for the Random Questions are in English characters, the same problem above arises. I have been looking through the translation (lang/ja) files for other words that look as though they may occur in a path name or database entry, but I cannot see any that spring to mind.
While it would be ideal, I don't think that it is all that important that Japanese characters be supported by the backup module, so long as users of Japanese systems know which descriptors (ones that we set, and translations in the lang file) need to be specified in English characters. For example I am happy to make sure that my abbreviated course descriptors and the words "backup" and "random question" are in English (this is partly because I am English, he he! But even if I were Japanese, I don't think that it would be that much of a problem, not enough to wish to trouble anyone with the heavy task of making this function Japanese language compatible).
However I am at a loss for what descriptors I should put back into English in order to solve the current problem.
I am creating and using a course with two tests per week. From this week that number was due to rise to 4 (or perhaps 10, counting duplicate course) tests per week. The Moodle is working wonders and I am very happy with its functionality but it will be a great shame if I cannot back up or copy (those duplicate courses will be impsossible for one). I am also scared to upgrade to newer versions of Moodle in the fear that this error may arise, or if the upgrade does not go smoothly I would be left relying on non functional backups.
If anyone has any suggestions, particularly as to which translated strings (i.e. those that are in the lang files), or entered categories, appear in filename paths or database names then I would be very grateful. And, wonder upon wonders, if any backup/restore kinds are so kind as to look at my system I will be happy to furnish the admin password. I have Mysqul admin installed.
Thank you all for this very useful backup (and course copying) functionality.
I am thinking of upgrading as Eloy suggested now, but there are a few tweaks I have made. So I am wondering if I get away with just upgrading the backup restore module. If you have time, Martin or Eloy in the couple of hours or so, please let me know.
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