I'm convinced every congress-person, when first elected, gets a late night call with just a few carefully chosen words, or a nearly forgotten name or two, just to let them know the nature of the game they are in.
Anyone remember when the only phone modems you could connect to the telephone system had to be leased from the Bell Telephone system. And remember when 2400 Baud was accepted as the theoretical maximum rate of data transmission over twisted pair? And remember that if you wanted a really cool phone, you could get it in one of several colors or really push the envelope and get a princess phone?
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It would look incredibly slow.
I'm convinced every congress-person, when first elected, gets a late night call with just a few carefully chosen words, or a nearly forgotten name or two, just to let them know the nature of the game they are in.
I would not be so irritated if the ads were not 10DB louder than the programs.
OK, I won't feel bad, then, that my Skype account is "Blocked" for no reason that they care to explain.
We geezers often get our decades confused.
We in WA live in Washington AC.
When eukaryotes invented 2 way sex 1.2 Billion years ago, it was considered controversial too.
When it was time to clean up the mess at the Fukushima nuke plants it was U.S. robots that were rushed in.
Sometimes, when there is a plane idling on the tarmac waiting for the payroll checks, ya do what ya gotta do.
Anyone remember when the only phone modems you could connect to the telephone system had to be leased from the Bell Telephone system. And remember when 2400 Baud was accepted as the theoretical maximum rate of data transmission over twisted pair? And remember that if you wanted a really cool phone, you could get it in one of several colors or really push the envelope and get a princess phone?
Gullible laymen with money to invest.
So they deleted the data points that didn't fit their predetermined bias.
Yes it is. It maximizes Gross National Happiness.
Or young ones texting while driving.
Sipping a nice $2.50 vintage from Grocery Outlet. Excellent!
While you guys argue over this, would you hand me the flak vest?
Management was outsourced to China.
Zero?
I was guessing I wouldn't find Kool Aid Man for Atari 6200 but, sure enough, it's out there.
Or new pontoons for Washington's 520 floating bridge.
So, do they understand it now, or just trust their "gut".
Back off. Let natural selection do it's job.
BofA was so secure that when I tried to close my account they told me I was the wrong gender and born in the wrong year and refused to speak to me.
PEEK and POKE are on the short list of Bill Gates' truly original contributions. Clearly tools of the Devil.
All right. This is what I was looking for. She truly earned the prize. The article missed the whole point.