GR translation: sugar faces

Bled Welder bledwelder at gmail.com
Sun Mar 3 13:36:35 CST 2013


Okay.  Who was it, is it, who has the sugar faces?

We can figure this shit out if we deconstruct it.

First, What was Snuggles talking about?

On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>  David Morris wrote:
>> I didn't know punch cards were common or even real back in WWII.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Hollerith
>
>  A key idea was that data could be coded numerically. Hollerith
> determined that if numbers could be punched in specified locations on
> a card, in the now-familiar rows and columns, then the cards could be
> counted or sorted mechanically and the data recorded. A description of
> this system, An Electric Tabulating System (1889), was submitted by
> Hollerith to Columbia University as his doctoral thesis, and is
> reprinted in Randell's book.[2] On January 8, 1889, Hollerith was
> issued U.S. Patent 395,782,[3] claim 2 of which reads:
>
>     The herein-described method of compiling statistics, which
> consists in recording separate statistical items pertaining to the
> individual by holes or combinations of holes punched in sheets of
> electrically non-conducting material, and bearing a specific relation
> to each other and to a standard, and then counting or tallying such
> statistical items separately or in combination by means of mechanical
> counters operated by electro-magnets the circuits through which are
> controlled by the perforated sheets, substantially as and for the
> purpose set forth.



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