Everybody knows that those who would take our rights are all from Rightstakania, that despised little lump of shit country in Eurasia. Everybody knows that Rightstakanasians are a bunch of stupid, short, smelly little people. We have plenty of evidence to show that they are geneticly inferior. Why do we listen to them?
I say all Rightstakanasians should be forced to wear some kind of identification. Then, we can make sure that they only live in certain parts of the city. Eventually, we can execute them all so that the rest of us will never have to worry about our rights being taken away ever again.
This makes much more sense than persecutin niggers, chinks, spics, hebes or any other of them thar "hated groups". After all, those people wash dishes, make good food, dig ditches, and tell jokes. All the Rightstakanasians ever do is sit on useless government bodies and make a lot of noise. Nobody will miss them.
So, come on Rightsians! Are you with me?! I know a lot of people will be shocked by what I just said, but I felt like I had to stand up for my Rightsian rights before the Rightstakanasians took them away.
That's funny. I was thinking that a power vacuum, US military, or UN martial law would provide a good opportunity to prosylatize Christianity and educate women with impunity. Free DVDs were pretty far down on the list.
The writers of Star Trek never understood how this worked. In TOS there were a number of episodes where the engines had been damaged or sabotaged and the orbit was somehow rapidly decaying. Only a moron would have put them into such a low orbit that it needed constant thrust from the engines to maintain it in the first place.
Of course they understood how it worked. They were banking on most of the audience either not understanding how it works, or not caring. After all, decaying orbits are dramatic and ST is drama.
Now, won't Starfleet please listen to our report indicating that the red dye used in some uniforms seems to have a tendancy to attract hostile aliens and deadly anomalies?
Why do they want control? So they can get money. Why do they want money? So they can get control.:)
In the long run, the people with control will get money. In the long run, the people with money will get control. However, as a famous economist once said "in the long run, we are all dead".
He who is controlled is a slave, and he who controls is a slavemaster. Those who seek to loose controls say they are fighting slavery. But what is slavery? If a man is hired, and receives nothing for his work, isn't that slavery? Those who seek to "loose controls" would have musicians receive no payment in exchange for recorded music. Isn't that the essence of slavery?
Currently, copyright is a part of the government. What if it weren't? Well then, people would enter into contracts that are very much like what we have now with copyright. People would have to agree to a license that would be printed on a CD, much as things are with software now.
It would be laissez-faire with IP law, much as it was with labor law in the 19th century. Now, labor laws were enacted when conditions were shown to be oppressive. The key law is minimum wage. Without minimum wage, it would be possible to create defacto slavery via debt as was often the case in "company towns".
Now, there are certain people who hate copyright and would like to see IP law abolished, but ask yourselves, what would we get? We would get a totally unregulated market, which might be good or bad. Notice, making music licenses illegal is not the same as abolishing IP law--that would be just another form of government regulation.
Let's say that we had the totally unregulated market. What would happen to the price of really popular music? What would the license stipulate? Would fair use be part of the contract? Most importantly, would the laissez-faire IP system become as oppressive as a 19th century coal mine? If so, what would be the remedy?
The obvious remedy is some form of government regulation, which we already have in the form of IP law because the founding fathers forsaw that *creators* would be enslaved without it. So yes, there is a battle for control here, but it's more about who will get the power to regulate. Will the Fashionable Left with its current distaste for IP get the power, or will the Right In A Panic Over New Technology get the power? Will The People even have a clue? Will the careful balance crafted over the years fall to pieces?
What do I do? I object to proposals from both the Left (mandates for Free Software in government as an example) and the Right (DMCA, SSSCA) and seek to return the system to a fair balance. I guess you could say that I am pasionately moderate when it comes to IP law.... which is a really strange position. It's hard to get people excited about balance but in the end, it's what makes good politics. We have all seen examples of what happens when people go too far to an extreme (Nazis, Communists, and most recently the Taliban). Given that, not only should it not be difficult to get excited about moderation, it should be a patriotic duty for citizens of every country--not just the USA.
That's why you use your Standard Parallel Interlink Fiber (SPIF). You know, Interplanetary Federation standard IFP-340-A or B if you have the new IFP-560 standard chipset. Backup should take about 10 seconds for the former, 7 seconds for the latter.
Well, it depends on where they are from. Searching Google for poll muslims osama revealed this. (you need to scroll down a little).
Approval for the 9-11 attack was as low as 3% in Turkey, and as high as 26% in Morocco. The Netherlands were in the middle of that with 10%. Of course people are calling the poll into question, but I bet if you gather info from enough sources you can come up with some kind of figure for how many Muslims approve of terror, and although it is a minority, it is most likely not an insignificant minority.
Even given this, I want you to bear in mind that I'm not condemning them. For example, what if you had conducted a poll 100 years ago and asked Americans from the South "Do you think all Blacks should be lynched?". Now, if you conducted such a poll today the results would be quite different. One can only hope that the same is true for these Moslems who support terror.
The hebrew is "Yam Suf", the Sea of Reeds. Not too hard to see how a simple typo made that the "Sea of Red",
Removing one letter from a Hebrew word is not likely to be the same as removing one letter from an English word. Possible yes, but not likely. Can anybody who knows Hebrew and English describe what happens when you remove a letter from "Yam Suf"? Does the English translation have any meaning? I doubt such a thing happened anyway, since the scribes did an excellent job. That work was taken *very* seriously. Even if a whole, carefully transcribed page had one blot, it was destroyed rather than risk corrupting the Holy Book. It is more likely that "Reed Sea" just happened to be another name for "Red Sea" or one of its gulfs.
The clause used in that license is the same as the one used in the Artistic License. A "reasonable copying fee" could, in reality be an "outrageous copying fee" or more commonly the software can be bundled with something else for which you charge a "ludicrous proprietary fee".
So in this regard it's essentially the same as the Artistic License. I would criticize them for lifting material from the AL, possibly the most vague, unprofessional, IANAL license of all time.
ObSuicide: CmdrTaco is a big fat penis, I spit on/., the streets will run red with the blood of chickens. Why chickens? Because VA Chicken Processing just opened a new plant there and agreed to give everybody free chickens. They expect profitability by 2008.
There's another fine fucking thing spoiled by terrorists. I mean, the Mafia just doesn't cut it as evil anymore. Sure they might make you wear cement overshoes, but they always had a reason. None of this fucking business of putting a hit on somebody just for the hell of it. What's up with that? They gotta no respect I tells ya.
Yes folks, I'm tired. Getting modded up at 50 and getting nothing from it is such a bore. Bouncing around in the high 40s just isn't worth it anymore. In fact, you might even say I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.
That's why I'm going to blow my Karma brains out, right here on national TV, err... um... international web... err.. whatever. You get the idea.
Heck, I might even go for negative karma. I mean, VA Linux, err... um... VA Software or VA Chicken Processing or whatever business they are in this week is going to fold soon anyway. What difference does it really make? So go ahead mods, do your worst.
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While I'm waiting for the form submission timeout, let me tell you a little fable. Once upon a time a man heard that there was gold in seawater, but no economical way to extract it. So, he studied chemistry for years, earned a PhD and worked secretly on it in his spare time, neglecting everything including marriage, parties, and anything remotely resembling fun. One night he went out in a boat to test it. Because he forgot to move a decimal point, he didn't realize how fast it would work. He went to sleep, and overnight the electrode got so heavy that the boat sank with him, his idea, and his pathetic life on board.
The moral of the story? Well, this is/., so "Bill Gates is evil" is the moral.
Yes folks, I'm tired. Getting modded up at 50 and getting nothing from it is such a bore. Bouncing around in the high 40s just isn't worth it anymore. In fact, you might even say I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.
That's why I'm going to blow my Karma brains out, right here on national TV, err... um... international web... err.. whatever. You get the idea.
Heck, I might even go for negative karma. I mean, VA Linux, err... um... VA Software or VA Chicken Processing or whatever business they are in this week is going to fold soon anyway. What difference does it really make? So go ahead mods, do your worst.
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While I'm waiting for the submission timeout, let me take some time to remind you all of something. This is especially true for the young, impressionable people in the audience: Suicide is not the answer in real life. This is just an amusing Slashdot fantasy suicide. Real suicide is NEVER the answer. If you feel the least bit suicidal, talk to a parent, teacher, clergyman, or other trusted individual. If they make a grab for you, stop trusting them and talk to another trusted individual. If they all make a grab for you, and you are a chick, e-mail me because you must be really HOT!!!
Come on! Drink the Kool-Aid. Everybody's doing it. Don't you see??? Posting a troll is the only socially responsable way to earn Karma. So what if we haven't actually figured out a way to get modded up by posting trolls. This is the New Karma Economy.
(sung to the tune of the Free Software Song)
Join us now and trash your Karma,
You'll be Free.
You'll be Free, Losers, you'll be FreeeEEEeeEEE.
Good posts may get lots of Karma
Yes, that's true.
But they cannot post off topic
That's not good.
(end singing)
BANZAI for the Emporor!!!
Kamakaze Karma rrrrroooOOOAAARBOOM!!!
So apathetic about/. by now, that I don't even feel like copying and pasting my standard KS troll.
After the Karma is all burnt, think I'll abandon/. for a while. Maybe a month. Maybe 6. Maybe forever if/. is still being maintained by VA Chicken Processing or whatever their business du jour is.
3 years, over 900 posts. I think I ought to get a Pulitzer for some of the stuff I wrote. What the heck, if Koffee Enema can get the Nobel Peace Prize while a cold West vs. Middle East conflict bursts into a boil, I don't see why I can't get a Pulitzer.
Yes folks, I'm tired. Getting modded up at 50 and getting nothing from it is such a bore. Bouncing around in the high 40s just isn't worth it anymore. In fact, you might even say I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.
That's why I'm going to blow my Karma brains out, right here on national TV, err... um... international web... err.. whatever. You get the idea.
Heck, I might even go for negative karma. I mean, VA Linux, err... um... VA Software or VA Chicken Processing or whatever business they are in this week is going to fold soon anyway. What difference does it really make? So go ahead mods, do your worst.
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While I'm waiting for the form submission timeout, let me take this opportunity to tell you all what a bunch of Commie Leftist trash Linux is, and how RMS et. al. play right into the hands of Al Qaeda, The Farakhans, and various other Neo-Nazi groups.
Yes folks, I'm tired. Getting modded up at 50 and getting nothing from it is such a bore. Bouncing around in the high 40s just isn't worth it anymore. In fact, you might even say I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.
That's why I'm going to blow my Karma brains out, right here on national TV, err... um... international web... err.. whatever. You get the idea.
Heck, I might even go for negative karma. I mean, VA Linux, err... um... VA Software or VA Chicken Processing or whatever business they are in this week is going to fold soon anyway. What difference does it really make? So go ahead mods, do your worst.
Yes folks, I'm tired. Getting modded up at 50 and getting nothing from it is such a bore. Bouncing around in the high 40s just isn't worth it anymore. In fact, you might even say I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.
That's why I'm going to blow my Karma brains out, right here on national TV, err... um... international web... err.. whatever. You get the idea.
Heck, I might even go for negative karma. I mean, VA Linux, err... um... VA Software or VA Chicken Processing or whatever business they are in this week is going to fold soon anyway. What difference does it really make? So go ahead mods, do your worst.
...spent more time and money going after Bill Gates than Osama Bin Laden.
Judge Jackson kept massaging the definition of "Personal Computer" until it made MS a monopoly (what, a Mac's not a PC? Linux is not an OS?). If I were BG & Co I would never cave. I'd close up shop, Atlas Shrugged style before settling in any fashion. But, that's just me. Maybe this is BG's contribution to prevent the country from being distracted and inconvenienced in time of war.
One evening after hours of trying to explain to a clueless user how to double-click, my supervisor interrupted to ask what was taking so long. I explained that the guy who kept calling was a total idiot. The super said he would try to help.
About 15 minutes later the super came back on the other line and said "the calls are coming from in-house!!!".
Slashdot Mirror
Everybody knows that those who would take our rights are all from Rightstakania, that despised little lump of shit country in Eurasia. Everybody knows that Rightstakanasians are a bunch of stupid, short, smelly little people. We have plenty of evidence to show that they are geneticly inferior. Why do we listen to them?
I say all Rightstakanasians should be forced to wear some kind of identification. Then, we can make sure that they only live in certain parts of the city. Eventually, we can execute them all so that the rest of us will never have to worry about our rights being taken away ever again.
This makes much more sense than persecutin niggers, chinks, spics, hebes or any other of them thar "hated groups". After all, those people wash dishes, make good food, dig ditches, and tell jokes. All the Rightstakanasians ever do is sit on useless government bodies and make a lot of noise. Nobody will miss them.
So, come on Rightsians! Are you with me?! I know a lot of people will be shocked by what I just said, but I felt like I had to stand up for my Rightsian rights before the Rightstakanasians took them away.
That's funny. I was thinking that a power vacuum, US military, or UN martial law would provide a good opportunity to prosylatize Christianity and educate women with impunity. Free DVDs were pretty far down on the list.
The writers of Star Trek never understood how this worked. In TOS there were a number of episodes where the engines had been damaged or sabotaged and the orbit was somehow rapidly decaying. Only a moron would have put them into such a low orbit that it needed constant thrust from the engines to maintain it in the first place.
Of course they understood how it worked. They were banking on most of the audience either not understanding how it works, or not caring. After all, decaying orbits are dramatic and ST is drama.
Now, won't Starfleet please listen to our report indicating that the red dye used in some uniforms seems to have a tendancy to attract hostile aliens and deadly anomalies?
Why do they want control? So they can get money. Why do they want money? So they can get control. :)
In the long run, the people with control will get money. In the long run, the people with money will get control. However, as a famous economist once said "in the long run, we are all dead".
He who is controlled is a slave, and he who controls is a slavemaster. Those who seek to loose controls say they are fighting slavery. But what is slavery? If a man is hired, and receives nothing for his work, isn't that slavery? Those who seek to "loose controls" would have musicians receive no payment in exchange for recorded music. Isn't that the essence of slavery?
Currently, copyright is a part of the government. What if it weren't? Well then, people would enter into contracts that are very much like what we have now with copyright. People would have to agree to a license that would be printed on a CD, much as things are with software now.
It would be laissez-faire with IP law, much as it was with labor law in the 19th century. Now, labor laws were enacted when conditions were shown to be oppressive. The key law is minimum wage. Without minimum wage, it would be possible to create defacto slavery via debt as was often the case in "company towns".
Now, there are certain people who hate copyright and would like to see IP law abolished, but ask yourselves, what would we get? We would get a totally unregulated market, which might be good or bad. Notice, making music licenses illegal is not the same as abolishing IP law--that would be just another form of government regulation.
Let's say that we had the totally unregulated market. What would happen to the price of really popular music? What would the license stipulate? Would fair use be part of the contract? Most importantly, would the laissez-faire IP system become as oppressive as a 19th century coal mine? If so, what would be the remedy?
The obvious remedy is some form of government regulation, which we already have in the form of IP law because the founding fathers forsaw that *creators* would be enslaved without it. So yes, there is a battle for control here, but it's more about who will get the power to regulate. Will the Fashionable Left with its current distaste for IP get the power, or will the Right In A Panic Over New Technology get the power? Will The People even have a clue? Will the careful balance crafted over the years fall to pieces?
What do I do? I object to proposals from both the Left (mandates for Free Software in government as an example) and the Right (DMCA, SSSCA) and seek to return the system to a fair balance. I guess you could say that I am pasionately moderate when it comes to IP law.... which is a really strange position. It's hard to get people excited about balance but in the end, it's what makes good politics. We have all seen examples of what happens when people go too far to an extreme (Nazis, Communists, and most recently the Taliban). Given that, not only should it not be difficult to get excited about moderation, it should be a patriotic duty for citizens of every country--not just the USA.
That's why you use your Standard Parallel Interlink Fiber (SPIF). You know, Interplanetary Federation standard IFP-340-A or B if you have the new IFP-560 standard chipset. Backup should take about 10 seconds for the former, 7 seconds for the latter.
Well, it depends on where they are from. Searching Google for poll muslims osama revealed this. (you need to scroll down a little).
Approval for the 9-11 attack was as low as 3% in Turkey, and as high as 26% in Morocco. The Netherlands were in the middle of that with 10%. Of course people are calling the poll into question, but I bet if you gather info from enough sources you can come up with some kind of figure for how many Muslims approve of terror, and although it is a minority, it is most likely not an insignificant minority.
Even given this, I want you to bear in mind that I'm not condemning them. For example, what if you had conducted a poll 100 years ago and asked Americans from the South "Do you think all Blacks should be lynched?". Now, if you conducted such a poll today the results would be quite different. One can only hope that the same is true for these Moslems who support terror.
The hebrew is "Yam Suf", the Sea of Reeds. Not too hard to see how a simple typo made that the "Sea of Red",
Removing one letter from a Hebrew word is not likely to be the same as removing one letter from an English word. Possible yes, but not likely. Can anybody who knows Hebrew and English describe what happens when you remove a letter from "Yam Suf"? Does the English translation have any meaning? I doubt such a thing happened anyway, since the scribes did an excellent job. That work was taken *very* seriously. Even if a whole, carefully transcribed page had one blot, it was destroyed rather than risk corrupting the Holy Book. It is more likely that "Reed Sea" just happened to be another name for "Red Sea" or one of its gulfs.
Dude, not only has that been mentioned before, (by the founder of 3Com no less) it even has a Slashdot article.
Who does he think he is?
Someone with a better sense of humor than you?
The clause used in that license is the same as the one used in the Artistic License. A "reasonable copying fee" could, in reality be an "outrageous copying fee" or more commonly the software can be bundled with something else for which you charge a "ludicrous proprietary fee".
/., the streets will run red with the blood of chickens. Why chickens? Because VA Chicken Processing just opened a new plant there and agreed to give everybody free chickens. They expect profitability by 2008.
So in this regard it's essentially the same as the Artistic License. I would criticize them for lifting material from the AL, possibly the most vague, unprofessional, IANAL license of all time.
ObSuicide: CmdrTaco is a big fat penis, I spit on
First of all, how are you going to build a self-replicating machine? The obstacles are so large as to be practically insurmountable
Yeah, men will probably walk on the Moon before we build such things!
There's another fine fucking thing spoiled by terrorists. I mean, the Mafia just doesn't cut it as evil anymore. Sure they might make you wear cement overshoes, but they always had a reason. None of this fucking business of putting a hit on somebody just for the hell of it. What's up with that? They gotta no respect I tells ya.
Bah! Buying a gun now is a waste of money. When times are really bad you can scavenge all the guns and ammo you need off the bodies of the fallen.
Yes folks, I'm tired. Getting modded up at 50 and getting nothing from it is such a bore. Bouncing around in the high 40s just isn't worth it anymore. In fact, you might even say I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.
/., so "Bill Gates is evil" is the moral.
That's why I'm going to blow my Karma brains out, right here on national TV, err... um... international web... err.. whatever. You get the idea.
Heck, I might even go for negative karma. I mean, VA Linux, err... um... VA Software or VA Chicken Processing or whatever business they are in this week is going to fold soon anyway. What difference does it really make? So go ahead mods, do your worst.
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While I'm waiting for the form submission timeout, let me tell you a little fable. Once upon a time a man heard that there was gold in seawater, but no economical way to extract it. So, he studied chemistry for years, earned a PhD and worked secretly on it in his spare time, neglecting everything including marriage, parties, and anything remotely resembling fun. One night he went out in a boat to test it. Because he forgot to move a decimal point, he didn't realize how fast it would work. He went to sleep, and overnight the electrode got so heavy that the boat sank with him, his idea, and his pathetic life on board.
The moral of the story? Well, this is
Yes folks, I'm tired. Getting modded up at 50 and getting nothing from it is such a bore. Bouncing around in the high 40s just isn't worth it anymore. In fact, you might even say I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.
That's why I'm going to blow my Karma brains out, right here on national TV, err... um... international web... err.. whatever. You get the idea.
Heck, I might even go for negative karma. I mean, VA Linux, err... um... VA Software or VA Chicken Processing or whatever business they are in this week is going to fold soon anyway. What difference does it really make? So go ahead mods, do your worst.
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While I'm waiting for the submission timeout, let me take some time to remind you all of something. This is especially true for the young, impressionable people in the audience: Suicide is not the answer in real life. This is just an amusing Slashdot fantasy suicide. Real suicide is NEVER the answer. If you feel the least bit suicidal, talk to a parent, teacher, clergyman, or other trusted individual. If they make a grab for you, stop trusting them and talk to another trusted individual. If they all make a grab for you, and you are a chick, e-mail me because you must be really HOT!!!
Come on! Drink the Kool-Aid. Everybody's doing it. Don't you see??? Posting a troll is the only socially responsable way to earn Karma. So what if we haven't actually figured out a way to get modded up by posting trolls. This is the New Karma Economy.
(sung to the tune of the Free Software Song)
Join us now and trash your Karma,
You'll be Free.
You'll be Free, Losers, you'll be FreeeEEEeeEEE.
Good posts may get lots of Karma
Yes, that's true.
But they cannot post off topic
That's not good.
(end singing)
BANZAI for the Emporor!!!
Kamakaze Karma rrrrroooOOOAAARBOOM!!!
So apathetic about /. by now, that I don't even feel like copying and pasting my standard KS troll.
/. for a while. Maybe a month. Maybe 6. Maybe forever if /. is still being maintained by VA Chicken Processing or whatever their business du jour is.
After the Karma is all burnt, think I'll abandon
3 years, over 900 posts. I think I ought to get a Pulitzer for some of the stuff I wrote. What the heck, if Koffee Enema can get the Nobel Peace Prize while a cold West vs. Middle East conflict bursts into a boil, I don't see why I can't get a Pulitzer.
Yes folks, I'm tired. Getting modded up at 50 and getting nothing from it is such a bore. Bouncing around in the high 40s just isn't worth it anymore. In fact, you might even say I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.
That's why I'm going to blow my Karma brains out, right here on national TV, err... um... international web... err.. whatever. You get the idea.
Heck, I might even go for negative karma. I mean, VA Linux, err... um... VA Software or VA Chicken Processing or whatever business they are in this week is going to fold soon anyway. What difference does it really make? So go ahead mods, do your worst.
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While I'm waiting for the form submission timeout, let me take this opportunity to tell you all what a bunch of Commie Leftist trash Linux is, and how RMS et. al. play right into the hands of Al Qaeda, The Farakhans, and various other Neo-Nazi groups.
Yes folks, I'm tired. Getting modded up at 50 and getting nothing from it is such a bore. Bouncing around in the high 40s just isn't worth it anymore. In fact, you might even say I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.
That's why I'm going to blow my Karma brains out, right here on national TV, err... um... international web... err.. whatever. You get the idea.
Heck, I might even go for negative karma. I mean, VA Linux, err... um... VA Software or VA Chicken Processing or whatever business they are in this week is going to fold soon anyway. What difference does it really make? So go ahead mods, do your worst.
Yes folks, I'm tired. Getting modded up at 50 and getting nothing from it is such a bore. Bouncing around in the high 40s just isn't worth it anymore. In fact, you might even say I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.
That's why I'm going to blow my Karma brains out, right here on national TV, err... um... international web... err.. whatever. You get the idea.
Heck, I might even go for negative karma. I mean, VA Linux, err... um... VA Software or VA Chicken Processing or whatever business they are in this week is going to fold soon anyway. What difference does it really make? So go ahead mods, do your worst.
...spent more time and money going after Bill Gates than Osama Bin Laden.
Judge Jackson kept massaging the definition of "Personal Computer" until it made MS a monopoly (what, a Mac's not a PC? Linux is not an OS?). If I were BG & Co I would never cave. I'd close up shop, Atlas Shrugged style before settling in any fashion. But, that's just me. Maybe this is BG's contribution to prevent the country from being distracted and inconvenienced in time of war.
It's a good thing they didn't mention what OS the rocket was running.
One evening after hours of trying to explain to a clueless user how to double-click, my supervisor interrupted to ask what was taking so long. I explained that the guy who kept calling was a total idiot. The super said he would try to help.
About 15 minutes later the super came back on the other line and said "the calls are coming from in-house!!!".
That reminds me of this.
Random thought - imagine IP addresses in Rome: ccv.xcv.xxx.ii.
/me shudders thinking of how they would have represented approximations to PI.