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Post #260,456
by ben_tilly
6/29/06 5:51:32 PM
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New Americans REALLY don't get sarcasm, huh?
That one was so thick that even I got it.

Cheers,
Ben
a very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing. -- Warren Buffett
Post #260,457
by imric
6/29/06 5:54:44 PM
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New There are some stimuli I cannot resist...
Have you not noticed?

*chuckle*
Imric's Tips for Living
  • Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
  • Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
  • Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.


Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
 
 
Post #260,459
by ben_tilly
6/29/06 6:06:01 PM
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New Note to self: make OS 2 = NT jokes this weekend. :-P
a very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing. -- Warren Buffett
Post #260,460
by imric
6/29/06 6:14:07 PM
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New Ah. De-sensitivity training!
Imric's Tips for Living
  • Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
  • Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
  • Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.


Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
 
 
Post #260,461
by n3jja
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6/29/06 7:07:32 PM
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New And I'll try not to laugh my head off. ;-)
     Astroturf in 3...2...1... - (pwhysall) - (22) - June 28, 2006, 07:03:05 AM EDT
         Perhaps he's just trying to be "balanced". - (Another Scott) - (21) - June 28, 2006, 07:40:16 AM EDT
             My own list - (andread) - (20) - June 28, 2006, 09:50:46 AM EDT
                 Re: My own list - (pwhysall) - (19) - June 28, 2006, 12:22:23 PM EDT
                     Hot Damn, I've been waiting for the release of Vista. - (folkert) - (14) - June 28, 2006, 01:26:54 PM EDT
                         MS innovating Mahjong? Nope, - (tonytib) - (13) - June 29, 2006, 12:54:54 PM EDT
                             NO.... NO, NO. - (folkert) - (11) - June 29, 2006, 05:31:20 PM EDT
                                 YES, NO. - (imric) - (10) - June 29, 2006, 05:50:04 PM EDT
                                     Americans REALLY don't get sarcasm, huh? - (ben_tilly) - (4) - June 29, 2006, 05:51:32 PM EDT
                                         There are some stimuli I cannot resist... - (imric) - (3) - June 29, 2006, 05:54:44 PM EDT
                                             Note to self: make OS 2 = NT jokes this weekend. :-P -NT - (ben_tilly) - (2) - June 29, 2006, 06:06:01 PM EDT
                                                 Ah. De-sensitivity training! -NT - (imric) - June 29, 2006, 06:14:07 PM EDT
                                                 And I'll try not to laugh my head off. ;-) -NT - (n3jja) - June 29, 2006, 07:07:32 PM EDT
                                     Windows hasn't been crashy since 2000. -NT - (pwhysall) - (4) - June 29, 2006, 11:10:51 PM EDT
                                         Define "crashy". - (Another Scott) - (3) - June 29, 2006, 11:40:16 PM EDT
                                             Peter's right - (Silverlock) - June 30, 2006, 07:37:20 AM EDT
                                             In fact, I think that X is now less stable than Windows. - (pwhysall) - (1) - June 30, 2006, 08:58:35 AM EDT
                                                 Avidly seeking AS400 - (Ashton) - July 1, 2006, 12:35:25 AM EDT
                             I created a custom tile set - (SpiceWare) - June 30, 2006, 11:46:00 AM EDT
                     Fscking Mahjongg is addictive! - (jb4) - (3) - July 6, 2006, 05:46:26 PM EDT
                         And illegal in 34 states! -NT - (admin) - July 6, 2006, 05:55:46 PM EDT
                         It's hard to beat Kyodai. - (Another Scott) - July 6, 2006, 06:48:24 PM EDT
                         Real mahjong, with actual tiles . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - July 6, 2006, 10:33:55 PM EDT

You're typing on a device that stores trillions of pieces of data and makes billions of computations per second with the ability to grab data on almost anything from around the world in milliseconds, using electricity transmitted from hundreds of kilometers through wires on towers dozens of meters tall connected to megastructures that do things like burn coal as fast as entire trains can pull into the yard, or spin in the wind with blades the size of jumbo jets, or the like, which were delivered to their location by vehicles with computer-timed engines burning a fuel that was pumped up halfway around the world from up to half a dozen kilometers underground and locked into complex strata (through wells drilled by diamond-lined bores that can be remote-control steered as they go), shipped around the world in tankers with volumes the size of large city blocks and the height of apartment complexes, run through complex chemical processes in unimaginable quantities, distributed nationwide and sold to you at a corner store for $1.80 a gallon, which you then pay for with a little piece of microchipped plastic, if not a smartphone, which does all of the aforementioned computer stuff but in a box the size of your hand that tolerates getting beaten up in your pocket all day.

But technology never seems to advance...


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