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Comment · 11 months ago
Oh that seems difficult. In Finland the postal service uses right hand drive cars.
Comment · 5 years ago
COBOL has MOVE ... TO ... which seems to be the logical order for a command named MOV/MOVE.
Comment · 5 years ago
Famous British philosopher Andrew Zaltzman put it like this: if you leave a man alone in a room an electric socket he will eventually try to stick his dick into it.
Comment · 6 years ago
BASIC only ruins you if you have no intellectual curiosity. BASIC was my first language and with each new language I’ve learned since I’ve always been excited at the new possibilities and paradigms it opened up.
Comment · 6 years ago
A stencil machine. We used it to print the school newspaper. Just by writing this I can smell it.
Comment · 7 years ago
The bullet proof thing is just a gimmick to give you a retort when a retard questions your manhood for driving an eco friendly car.
Comment · 7 years ago
That should be “Fuchs”.
Comment · 7 years ago
I’d say that at heart they’re a utility company rather than a tech company.
Comment · 15 years ago
Care to give an example where a study with strong self selection bias is still scientific?
Comment · 15 years ago
If they were volunteers the study would have a very strong self selection bias and therefore not be scientific.
Comment · 15 years ago
Thank god I'm self employed and decide myself when and what to exercise. I can't imagine having to dance to the pipes of these corporate clowns. 18 people being scrutinized by their bosses collectively lose 150 lbs (25 of which are accounted for by 1 person)? I can't say I'm impressed.
Comment · 15 years ago
Comment · 16 years ago
>but it IS called the "Pro" for a reason

Exactly, the money you safe on hardware you'll lose on support issues. If I were still a student I'd probably be running a hackintosh but my time now is too valuable to dick around with such a setup and afaik there are no firms offering support for hackintoshes.

Comment · 16 years ago
In the early nineties I used to start extra early so I could get my work done before the Americans started hogging mainframes.
Comment · 17 years ago
See, its so easy that 75 million people already learned how to use it.

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