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AMD Geode Internet Appliance

Posted by Hemos on from the fun-things-to-play-with dept.

Justin Davidow writes "For a new twist on internet appliances, AMD is finally attempting to go mainstream with their mobile Geode processor, with the Personal Internet Communicator (PIC), a stand-alone device that allows users a striped down laptop/inflated PDA (without a screen included!) for internet surfing.
Expected retail price: $299USD." Be cool to play around with - I'd love to test it out.

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  1. Re:Perpetual Payment Processing by phloydde1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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    Always
    Communist,
    Left-wing, and
    Un-American
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    sorry, I know it's OT but I gotta hear your explaination on how the ACLU, whose sole purpose is to defend the documents america was founded on (the constitution and the bill of rights), is un-american?

    thanks,
    P

  2. Re:Perpetual Payment Processing by Jonathan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry, I know it's OT but I gotta hear your explaination on how the ACLU, whose sole purpose is to defend the documents america was founded on (the constitution and the bill of rights), is un-american?

    Oh, the idea is that right wingers don't like the fact that the ACLU finds lawyers for people who have been accused of terrorism (clearly, if they have been accused, they *must* be guilty -- especially if they are arabs, right?), and they don't like the fact that they find lawyers that help defend the constitutional separation of church and state by keeping Creationism out of science classes. Additionally, they like to run a quote by Baldwin (the founder of the ACLU) where he says he is a communist. Not only is the quote never attributed to a verifiable source and it varies in wording from citation to citation, (good evidence that it is manufactured), the right-wingers never explain how that would be un-American even if true -- surely, in America, people have the right to be communists if they want to, just like they have the right to be fascists (and anyone who thinks that the ACLU only supports left-wing causes needs to consider that they have also supported the right of neo-Nazis to hold demonstrations, so long as they were peaceful)