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Comment Re: Duck & Cover? (Score 1) 69

that loon in Sydney attacked a store full of unarmed citizens. In the USA, that would just be impromptu poll of who's concealed carrying.

Sure, might not survive armed terrorist attack even carrying a weapon, but what would you rather have when someone determined to kill starts their rampage, some chance or no chance?

Comment Re:Why 'wheel'? (Score 3, Informative) 118

just shortened form of slang "big wheel", a person with authority. It was term first used for user accounts with admin privileges in the TENEX operating system (later called TOPS-20).

Extra trivia, the name TENEX was chosen because it was intended to be superior alternative to TOPS-10, as in Ten Extended. OK, that's enough, god I'm old

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