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ChrisKen wrote:Mother in law jokes
scbriml wrote:I took one of these Compaq bad boys home from work for a weekend once. Nearly gave myself a hernia the thing was so damn heavy.
N14AZ wrote:Does anyone remember this?
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule
I think it hasn't been mentioned before. If yes, I apologize..
N14AZ wrote:scbriml wrote:I took one of these Compaq bad boys home from work for a weekend once. Nearly gave myself a hernia the thing was so damn heavy.
My father bought the very first computer and took it home for a weekend as well. He asked me to carry it and I will never forget his words: "Watch out! This is as expensive as an aircraft!"
I was an active planespotter at that time and he didn't like that I "wasted" so much time at the airport fence. I always wondered if he really thought you can get an aircraft for the price of a computer (well, maybe a second hand Cessna...) or if he simply tried to impress me. Useless to say that I took every step of the stairway veeeeeeery veeeeeery carefully..
c933103 wrote:9 Planets
DL717 wrote:johnboy wrote:Russia was “the enemy” and no one in government would be caught dead licking their taints like the current batch of Republican traitors are hungrily doing.
#threadclosed
Oh brother. Try to stay on topic.
johnboy wrote:DL717 wrote:johnboy wrote:Russia was “the enemy” and no one in government would be caught dead licking their taints like the current batch of Republican traitors are hungrily doing.
#threadclosed
Oh brother. Try to stay on topic.
What? Are you telling me this doesn’t fall within the thread topic? Perhaps you need to be a bit more open-minded.
DL717 wrote:c933103 wrote:9 Planets
This one is being debated again. Apparently, the criteria that rules out Pluto wiped out a billion planets in the galaxy and some people are pissed.
https://www.space.com/40550-pluto-plane ... again.html
DL717 wrote:johnboy wrote:DL717 wrote:
Oh brother. Try to stay on topic.
What? Are you telling me this doesn’t fall within the thread topic? Perhaps you need to be a bit more open-minded.
#WhenPeopleDidntTryToDerailThreadsWithPolitics
DL717 wrote:c933103 wrote:9 Planets
This one is being debated again. Apparently, the criteria that rules out Pluto wiped out a billion planets in the galaxy and some people are pissed.
https://www.space.com/40550-pluto-plane ... again.html
nonsense wrote:"This leads to many bizarre and absurd conclusions. For example, it would mean that Earth was not a planet for its first 500 million years of history, because it orbited among a swarm of debris until that time, and also that if you took Earth today and moved it somewhere else, say out to the asteroid belt, it would cease being a planet."
aviationaware wrote:Playing tug of war on the school yard. These days, most schools forbid it
aviationaware wrote:Has nothing to do with liabiliy, but everything to do with the war on boys.
zrs70 wrote:Calling a phone number to get the exact time
Revelation wrote:I remember he booted DOS from floppies and loaded some spread sheet (probably VisiCalc) to show us that you could actually do work with it.
Aesma wrote:zrs70 wrote:Calling a phone number to get the exact time
That's still available here, the number is 3699.
It's useful in my line of work when we can't dial a longer number for some tests.
DL717 wrote:867-5309
I feel for the poor bastards that had that number.
cranberrysaus wrote:sccutler wrote:cranberrysaus wrote:
Sadly not gone yet.
In which state is discrimination on the basis of race lawful? Please, be specific, so w can learn something new today.
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As for WordPerfect, it ain't dead yet, especially in the legal market. Now in version 16 (I think), fully supported, a vastly superior word processor to Microsoft Turd... errr, Word.
The quote was legal racism which is alive and well, not discrimination.
Of course, tactics like gerrymandering and voter ID laws are current legal ways to discriminate against minorities
STT757 wrote:Dialing a phone number without needing to use the area code.
c933103 wrote:- Knocking on an electric appliance was an effective way to repair them
- 9 Planets
aviationaware wrote:Has nothing to do with liabiliy, but everything to do with the war on boys.
salttee wrote:aviationaware wrote:Has nothing to do with liabiliy, but everything to do with the war on boys.
Actually is has to do with the fact that tug of war is dangerous, in the sense that kids get hurt when the rope breaks, and 20 kids on a side can put thousands of pounds of tension on a rope.
Lots of kids have gotten broken bones from playing that "game"
aviationaware wrote:Broken bones are to be expected with children. Nobody has ever suffered permanent damage from playing tug of war.
salttee wrote:aviationaware wrote:Broken bones are to be expected with children. Nobody has ever suffered permanent damage from playing tug of war.
You aren't the brightest bulb on the tree.
https://priceonomics.com/a-history-of-t ... atalities/
GalaxyFlyer wrote:Trust. At 65, I’m astounded how dishonest and untrustworthy people are.
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Collect or person-to-person phone calls. Remember calling p2p and Mom telling the operator, “he’s not home” thus knowing I got wherever I was going.
salttee wrote:12 cent White Castle hamburgers
salttee wrote:superheterodyne radios
aviationaware wrote:Banning tug of war is stupid, anti-boys and totalitarian.
T18 wrote:H-Pattern Transmissions,
T18 wrote:sequential highway exit numbers
T18 wrote:From what I can find Georgia has in fact adopted the by mile system at least on the Interstates.