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Does A Pentium 4 Need A Weapons License?

Posted by timothy on from the it-can't-even-carry-a-gun dept.

WindBourne writes "It appears to be that the U.S. house of Reps. want to classify Pentium 4 and above CPUs as weapons. This would mean that all these will require export licenses. Apparently, they have not heard about that the far east has developed large CPUs as well that are used in beowulf clusters." According to the article, this clause is unlikely to appear in the final version -- but stranger things have happened.

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  1. uh... by blackmonday · · Score: 0, Troll

    (Cue Beavis and Butthead Laughter)

    Uhh Huhh...I don't know about the Pentium chip but I've got an unlicensed weapon in my pants. Uhh Huhh...

  2. Good paint job, US! by no-body · · Score: 0, Troll

    closer and closer into the corner, moving steadily....

  3. Re:Donno about Pentium 4 but Athlon is a weapon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    So that makes my G5 a... what? Weapon of Mass Computation?

    For you, more like a Weapon of Mass Masturbation.

  4. No by tolan-b · · Score: 0, Troll

    overpriced.

  5. Who were the terrorists again? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I hope you and your friends like living in a glass parking lot, you need to nuke yourselves, because the terrorists who slammed the planes into the wtc buildings were USA brand government terrorists. Have you seen the closeups of the planes taken from the 911 video clips yet? It's on the net, you can find them. Those "airliners" have no windows on them,except the cockpit windows, and they have some sort of bay or pod bolted on underneath the plane that looks like right before they hit the buildings was used to launch some sort of penetrator missle. In addition, right before they hit, they released some streams of fuel, to help create a fuel air explosion, and probably to overload any cameras lenses aimed at them with too bright of a light, to obscure what they looked like as much as possible. The last is a guess, but the previous you can see with your own eyeballs. No windows, some sort of pod bolted on underneath, then a flash from the missile launch just a split second before the plane hits.

    Think about it, hard. Really think about the implications of that, then correlate with all the other various things going on simce then, see if it matches an obvious scenario.

    Educate thyself, don't believe what the government and the controlled media tell you to believe. Get the data FIRST.