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Gates can't install win 8.1
On 2/08/2014, Adam Kubias posted:
On 2014-02-07 1:49 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote: On 2/07/2014, mechanic posted: On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 01:57:01 -0500, Adam Kubias wrote: I guess I should clarify a bit. When I say autistic, I really mean the opposite of empathic. In other words, an engineer ; ) Sig alert! Remarks such as Adam Kubias's that you quoted always strike me as a form of (or an analogy to) racism, even when they pretend to be meant as humor or satire. I think I agree with you about sig alert. The only reason I'm not sure I agree is that I'm not 100% sure what you meant :-) I don't follow the racism train of thought. It was meant to be humor... its a butchering of a really old joke I heard. In this case, I was reacting to stereotyping engineers as the opposite of empathic. And as I said, I react that way even if the purported intent is humor. YMMV :-) -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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Gates can't install win 8.1
On 06/02/2014 20:08, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 07:55:08 -0600, philo wrote: On 02/06/2014 06:57 AM, CRNG wrote: Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install Windows 8.1 http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...indows-81.html Even the New Yorker feels it need to compete with "The Onion". Since their spoofs are not labeled as such, the first time I saw one in the New Yorker I initially thought, "Is this for real?" It was a story about a guy so rich he had a fireplace in his house that was one mile long. It seems too far fetched for even a billionaire...and it was. A fireplace a mile long would be, but I wonder if there is a building a mile long. It is definitely possible. Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...st_foo tprint There are some where going corner to corner is nearly 2/3 mile. The 'footprint' building numbers are meters (hence kilometers). In miles, these would be less (more like 0.4 miles). |
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