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75th Anniversary of Television
SpiceWare writes "In the summer of '21, Philo T. Farnsworth was struck by an inspiration after plowing a field. He transmitted the first television image six years later on September 7, 1927."
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it was "one channel, and nothing good on."
Things haven't really changed since then.
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This strikes me as being much like celebrating on the anniversary of Hiroshima, considering that tv was pretty much a cultural nuke. Ugh.
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As an American you are no doubt some fat, ugly overweight child with a penchant for running a machine gun up and down your local school.
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You, sir, are obviously an idiot. The weapon of choice for rampaging through public high schools is the semi-automatic handgun. Its small size makes it easy to conceal under clothing or in a bag or backpack. Weapons that fire 9mm rounds present a good compromise between power and magazine capacity, but for real effectiveness against targets at close range, go for the
What a moron.
Yup. Isn't it strange how the Americans were the first people in the world to invent everything, usually several years after we were using it here in Scotland?
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.
You can always tell that a statement is meaningless when you can replace the key noun in it with a different word without changing the degree to which the statement is true. A statement that is always true, regardless of the subject, is dull and pointless.
"Well, Slashdot has given us some nice moments. But in between all those nice moments has been a high-volume sewer hose of cultural sludge."
Hey, you're right! It works for everything!
(edit: In retrospect, this post looks like an insult to you. Well, it's not. Thank god for the edit function.)
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"What kind of inspiration did he get from plowing the field?"
Well, likely he was thinking: "This sucks, I'd rather be watching Rosie"
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