Microsoft & Intel have brainwashed people into thinking PC == x86 + Windows.
Apples are PCs! Macs are PCs!
So are : TRS-80s, Atari 800s, Commodore Pets, Texas Instruments TI-99/a-s, Exidy Sorcerers, Tandy Color computers, VIC-20's and Amigas!
You Americans need to get some priorities!
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Yet the rest of us dust ourselves off, adapt to the new situation and geat on with our lives.
Contrary to what American trial lawyers would like you to believe, nothing in life is risk free.
The question is whether the risk (and investment) is warrented by the returns.
Hell, the United States on it's own produces enough food to feed a good chunk of the world. Just imagine if Russia and China put their minds to the problem.
No, starvation is a political tool used by dictators to keep the population weak and squelch dissent.
You want us to go straighten out Africa while we're waiting to finish off Iraq? Do you really think that and change that we would make would make a lasting improvement? Change comes from within. The best we can do is provide a supportive environment for people to come to the right decision.
"His sixteen-bug-power motor was, likewise, not an unqualified success. This was a light contrivance made of splinters forming a windmill, with a spindle and pulley attached to live June bugs. When the glued insects beat their wings, as they did desperately, the bug-power engine prepared to take off. This line of research was forever abandoned however when a young friend dropped by who fancied the taste of June bugs. Noticing a jarful standing near, he began cramming them into his mouth. The youthful inventor threw up." Adopted from "Tesla: Man out of time", by Margaret Cheney, 1981
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He has this big-ass radiation-spewing monstrosity powered by nuclear weapons launching right over Billy G's backyard.
Warning : Possible spoilers for "Ringworld" (I figured that was better than giving up the ending of "Neutron Star" ;-)
It seems to me that channeling might be a perfectly reasonable way to conduct an interview!
Now, now, there, we all know who's more prolific.
Makes Larry look like a bit of a slacker, actually!
I always thought that Larry should work a little more dilegently. I want more!
Microsoft & Intel have brainwashed people into thinking PC == x86 + Windows.
Apples are PCs!
Macs are PCs!
So are : TRS-80s, Atari 800s, Commodore Pets, Texas Instruments TI-99/a-s, Exidy Sorcerers, Tandy Color computers, VIC-20's and Amigas!
We heard this all in the 80's -- Dungeons and Dragons & Ozzy Ozbourn music will make you kill yourself.
Some people are weak. We shouldn't mourn for them and sue. We should honor them for having the sense to remove themselves from the gene pool.
I never played D&D, and I've never murdered anyone -- coincidence? I THINK NOT!
Maybe they should worry a little more about securing their online payment systems!
Ohhhhh, wait...
He's talking about getting their customers to provide credit card info for billing.
See above, it still applies.
Unfortunately, GI->GO!
when we hit the singularity and the oosphere becomes sentinent, because part of it is made up of /. , it's gonna be a troll. With a taste for tentacle rape.
I think he means he's a locomotive. ?
Maybe it's some sort of weird dyslexic Buddist koan.
Pleeeeeeassssse?!!!
(Or how about "I can't believe it's not patent infringement"?)
China is much bigger than the US.
Yes, bring back Futurama!
Contrary to what American trial lawyers would like you to believe, nothing in life is risk free.
The question is whether the risk (and investment) is warrented by the returns.
Hell, the United States on it's own produces enough food to feed a good chunk of the world. Just imagine if Russia and China put their minds to the problem.
No, starvation is a political tool used by dictators to keep the population weak and squelch dissent.
You want us to go straighten out Africa while we're waiting to finish off Iraq? Do you really think that and change that we would make would make a lasting improvement? Change comes from within. The best we can do is provide a supportive environment for people to come to the right decision.
But when 99% of your population lives in mile high skyscrapers, they don't have much of a footprint.
Adopted from "Tesla: Man out of time", by Margaret Cheney, 1981
As seen in these secret plans confiscated from Nicola Tesla by the foreign property office, you just need enough flys! It scales perfectly.
I am amazed at the amount of disinformation spread on slashdot daily.
Don't let THEM immantize the Gershenbeck continuum!
mmmmmm.... XUXA! Trampy Spanish kiddyshow goodness!
Homer! You've ruined me!
Common sense.
Didn't Dr. Pepper recently try to advertise on Fark? I seem to recall that was the joke du jour for about a week. Whatever happened with that?
I prefer Dr. Rush!
hmmmm..... O'Reilly Associates presents "The Perl Kama Sutra"