Uh oh, input error. Will anybody care about my car?
When I lived in Beantown, I used to take my care there on occasion. You couldn't know a more down to earth and practical individual. I will mourn his passing.
Was it similar to the donkey show in "Clerks 2"?
What's not to be cynical about?
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Sure. Correct the flawed stereotypes with more subjective flawed stereotypes by a naive observer.
She was correcting her engrained 'Revenge of the Nerds' stereotype of hackers with an equally arrogant attitude, similar to those of parents who visit a zoo, point to the gorillas and say to their children -- "Hey little Johnny, look at the big monkeys! (while tapping the glass under the sign that says DON"T TAP ON GLASS) Look, at those hands and fingers -- They're just like ours!" -- concluding with huge collective swigs from their BIG GULP clones.
She seems to be aiming to take the logical, thoughtful, democratic behavior hackers exhibit -- which should be the vanguard for all human interaction -- and bending it into an amusing sidebar for WIRED as to the hackers "unusual" habits. All for a chance to get her name in print for some future book jacket blurb regarding "... her insightful and seminal work as she risked her name, sanity and possibly even her life as she descend into the seamy hacker underworld to collect research data..."
This is all much like the gorilla inwardly cringing whenever he's called a monkey.
YMMV
With that remark, one might deduce that MIT had invented time travel...
I have only one word to respond to that ---
Human Engineering
(It's two words actually, but it sounds much more dramatic to say one word...)
How easy would it be to watch Barbie or Kelly type in their PIN number at the gas station, a shoe store or the Clinique counter. Phones are popular theft items to begin with.
Pet _MAN
How appropriate.
It will be a hit with woman.
It let's itself be pushed around,
It checks the toilet seat state.
It proposes on one knee.
The only flaw I see, is that it only seems to know the missionary position...
Source: http://www.synonyms.net/synonym/surrender
surrender, yielding, capitulation, giving up, resignation, fall, forsaking, concession, surrender, resignation, conceding
Depending on your point of view these can apply as well: Withdraw, fall back, retreat.
So what does that say about English speaking countries?
You forgot ---
"Yes, dear"
and its variant
"OK, honey"
This reminds me of a tale of woe in a company cafeteria many many many moons ago.
A stock room clerk was lamenting the spending of $1500 (on the credit card) by his wife for shoes and clothing the previous month. He told us that when he confronted his wife as to the large outflow, she sincerely responded that she didn't actually spend $1500. She told him she SAVED the family $300 since she bought the merchandise on sale. Further explanation of flawed reasoning led to tears.
Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time. -- George Carlin
