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Transmeta TM8800 And Ultraportable Announced
yerdaddie writes "The just-released Transmeta TM8800 has been integrated into a new ultraportable from Sharp. The smaller 90nm variety clocks and performs better than the older 130nm TM86XX Efficeons. It also seems the Orion Multisystems personal clusters discussed earlier on slashdot will be built around this processor variant. Hopefully Transmeta will be releasing a developer kit soon for eager hardware hackers."
The last Bushism was "OB/GYNs will no longer be able to love their women." Thank you, W for endorsing sexual harassment on the job.
I may be risking my life by telling you this, but George W Bush's helpers compress Bush's manifestos into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. Here's a quick review: To say that we should be grateful for the precious freedom to be robbed and kicked in the face by such a noble creature as Bush is uneducated nonsense and untrue to boot. In a tacit concession of defeat, he is now openly calling for the abridgment of various freedoms to accomplish coercively what his damnable convictions have failed at. The first lies that Bush told us were relatively benign. Still, they have been progressing. And they will continue to progress until there is no more truth; his lies will grow until they blot out the sun.
To Hell with him! He has become so morally and ideologically degraded, so acclimated to jujuism and antidisestablishmentarianism, that he wants to rescue pauperism from the rubbish heap of history, dust it off, slap on a coat of cheap sophistry, and market it as new and improved. From this anecdotal evidence, I would argue that time cannot change Bush's behavior. Time merely enlarges the field in which Bush can, with ever-increasing intensity and thoroughness, numb the public to the ethnocentrism and injustice in mainstream politics. Bush, as usual, you prove yourself to be wicked. Unlike him, when I make a mistake I'm willing to admit it. Consequently, if -- and I'm bending over backwards to maintain the illusion of "innocent until proven guilty" -- Bush were not actually responsible for trying to perpetuate myths that glorify barbarism, then I'd stop saying that Bush insists that sin is good for the soul. Sorry, Bush, but, with apologies to Gershwin, "it ain't necessarily so." His pleas may not be traditional for all hideous boneheads, but I am certain that if I asked the next person I meet if he would want Bush to use every conceivable form of diplomacy, deception, pressure, coercion, bribery, treason, and terror to impede the free flow of information, he would say no. Yet we all stand idly by while Bush claims that he can change his effete ways.
As I have indicated, it's his belief that my letters demonstrate a desire to rifle, pillage, plunder, and loot. I can't understand how anyone could go from anything I ever wrote to such a perfidious, disaffected idea. In fact, my letters generally make the diametrically opposite claim, that Bush has -- not once, but several times -- been able to hold annual private conferences in which power-drunk, out-of-touch racketeers are invited to present their "research" without anyone stopping him. How long can that go on? As long as his truculent op-ed pieces are kept on life support. That's why we have to pull the plug on them and speak up and speak out against him. Much of the noise made on his behalf is generated by unrestrained carpetbaggers who seem to have nothing better to do with their time. And here, I think, lies a clue to the intellectual vacuum so gapingly apparent in his recommendations. I hope that Bush's opinions were intended as a joke, although they're not very funny if they were. Bush's rodomontades need to be reassessed with Bush's ulterior motives in mind. This position, in large part, parallels civil libertarianism, but with particular emphasis on the fact that Bush is absolutely determined to believe that the laws of nature don't apply to him, and he's not about to let facts or reason get in his way.
As for the lies and exaggerations, in order to shatter the illusion that it's perfectly safe to drink and drive, we must put inexorable pressure on him to be a bit more careful about what he says and does. And that's just the first step. Remember, I shall return to this point in particular. To cap that off, if Bush truly believes that he is beyond reproach, then maybe he should enroll in Introduction to Reality 101. Bush claims that the most valuable ski
* Anything abnormal, that is.
You could always get Trolland to post it on his blog and then submit it to Slashdot. Michael will put it on the front page right away.
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