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Old February 10th 14, 12:43 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Gene E. Bloch[_5_]
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Default 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 :-)

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Old February 12th 14, 10:56 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default 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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