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Comment Re:Therre's teleprompters (Score 1) 1128

McCain teleprompter

Palin teleprompter

Reagan teleprompter

Chimpy McCokespoon teleprompter

Citing The Onion does not equal reality.

Of course, the teabaggers who point and laugh about teleprompters ignore the reality of Chimpy's innumerable verbal gaffes, as well as his intellectual failings.

They also ignore President Obama's verbal and intellectual pwning of the GOP in 2009 during a live, televised Q &A event. The pwnage was so epic that the GOP NEVER again permitted a similar event.

You know, just admit it. You and your ilk hate President Obama because, to quote the teabaggers, he's a "god damned fucking nigger!"

If President Obama was white and a Republican, you and your ilk would be kissing his ass, rationalizing his every action and statement, and otherwise doing exactly what you did for the eight years Chimpy McCokespoon was disgracing the White House and America.

Comment Re:And you certainly don't want (Score 1) 1128

"Peeance, Freeance"

"Can't get fooled again."

"Too Many OBGYN's can't practice their love with women all across this country"

You were saying?

Keep in mind, we have 8 years of Chimpy McCokespoon's incoherence at our fingertips, thanks toYouTube.

Of course, if one speaks of GOP verbal gaffes, then the name of Dan Quayle must lead the list!

Finally, DO keep quiet concerning teleprompters, lest Google Images must be consulted for thousands of images of Reagan, Bush Senior, Bush Junior, Huckabee, Romney, McCain, and Failin' Bailin' Palin all using teleprompters, and in case of the Wasilla Chillbilly, her left hand as a post it note.

Comment Re:Higher Goals (Score 1) 645

Within arm's reach is my Z80 CP/M cartridge for the C=64. Archived are quite a few 5.25" floppies with my CP/M software and files.

With an inexpensive EPYX FastLoad cartridge, followed on by many utility cartridges, 1541, 1571 and 1581 disk drive performance improved dramatically. When the JiffyDOS chip replacement package came along, most utility cartridges were kept more for their other uses than disk I/O speedup.

Keeping the original 1541 and 1571 drives in alignment was made easy via DIY kits and even some 'headknocking' software.

I used my C=64 for:
Text editing
Spreadsheet
Music composing
Graphics
Intercepting and displaying shortwave radioteletype text and images
Both BASIC and ML programming

The diverse input devices I used were:
Keyboard
Joystick
Mouse
Graphics Tablet
Music keyboard
Microphone
Handheld Digital scanner

Yes, one could play games on the C=64...

When one needed a break from doing serious work with it.

So, yes, you ARE a troll. And not a very good one, either.

Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 60

"I'm interested in what Mars is like, not in how impressive pictures of Mars can appear after a session through lightroom-on-steroids."

To reiterate:

"To equate either with Photoshopped imagery is to betray a level of ignorance that one should well be embarrassed to display in public."

You just cannot seem to get away from the nose in the air attitude towards the use of color to convey information, can you?

If you go to the University of Arizona site, you can see all these images in their original 256 greyscale "goodness". Oh, wait. These images have been enhanced as well. Messing with the contrast and brightness and what not. Horrors!

Sucks to be you, doesn't it.

How the very Moon itself must vex you, what with that garishly bright silvery white glare when it's full. Pray, do you stand out in the garden at night and shake your fist in impotent rage at the Moon, knowing that the Lunar surface is actually the color of old, Sun bleached asphalt? "It should be GRAY, GRAY dammit, not that false white colour! I shall write a letter to the paper about this damned outrage!"

Comment It's sing-a-long time! (Score 1) 305

Botnets! Worldwide botnets!
What kind of boxes are on on botnets?

Compaq, HP, Dell and Sony, true!
Gateway, Packard Bell, maybe even Asus, too.

Are boxes! Found on botnets!
All running Windows. FOO!

Why, yes! Yes I Am a smug, OS X using bastard!
How kind of you to notice!

Comment Re:Wow (Score 4, Interesting) 60

"Amazingly photoshopped, with more kohl and false colours than a Soho gal. I don't know about others, but I am more impressed when pictures haven't been exaggerated"

The use of color to indicate variances in terrain elevation is common.

The use of false color to indicate areas of differing surface chemistry and elements is common in remote imaging.

To equate either with Photoshopped imagery is to betray a level of ignorance that one should well be embarrassed to display in public.

Comment Re:Guess we'll see if Darwin was right (Score 1) 222

RE: Campaign for Liberty

"...Tell them to approve a short-term version that removes the FDA's War on Food..."

I stopped reading that site the instant I saw that. If wanted to read infantile Libertarian fantasy, I've got an old L. Neil Smith paperback around here someplace. Probably doing something useful, like being stuck under the short leg of a wobbly table.

Apparently, the FDA seeking to enforce its mandate to ensure the cleanliness of food and food processing facilities is, according to the Randroids, a "War on Food".

"I'm trapped on Gilligan's Island, but I'm not paying ANY Income Tax!"

MaryAyn Rand

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