I remember the Grid Compass computer complete with its HPIB connected hard drive all too well. It had tremendous potential and crashed more often than AmigaDOS 1.0. On top of that of the 6 computers our group of 4 developers had we barely managed to keep one working machine per person on the floor at any given time. But hooboy our military customer loved their sexy look.

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This destroys an important feature of a somewhat humorous observation relating two dates celebrating more or less opposite things, at least for Christians. You'd no longer be able to declare that Halloween and Christmas were the same thing, 031 == 25, after all. {^_^}

I'd like to meet the guy who can use this as pocket change. The Jolly Green Giant comes to mind, though. So the meet should be at a safe distance, I suspect. {^_-}

Before blaming it on the Bush tax cuts go find the 2008 taxable income tables and compare it with the 2011 (non)-budget. Look for where you can obtain the money needed to balance the budget or at least keep dept from growing at Grecian rates. I picked 2008 as a fairly prosperous year except at the end. Then look at who makes the investments in new jobs for most people. It's the low end of the rich scale. Tax them out of their savings or profits and they throw up their hands, "Why bother?" Hence we have more and more people out of work. Investors make jobs. Governments unmake jobs of every kind other than the masturbation known as public sector employment. Your politics of envy don't survive the tests of reality. Taking 100% of the wealth, not taxable income, but wealth of the top 1% and you run the country for a few days. Go down all the way to $150k/year and take 100% of the taxable income and you don't make it through a year. And you've killed any investment for the next year. We need more freedom, less government, and reduced taxation at all levels. That demonstrably works everywhere it is tried. The tax, spend, and entitlements approach fails everywhere it is tried. It leads to Greece, Portugal, and Spain for glaringly obvious examples. It's a shame your mommy never taught you that money does not grow on trees. (And it's a real shame nobody hear will read this and take it to heart.) {^_^}

Take any and all bets that the world will end at whatever odds the bettor wishes to make. If the world does not win, you keep the money. If the world ends, who's going to be there to pay? {^_-}

At 10 to 20 watts each 16 wall warts is less than 320 watts or roughly 3.5 amps drain. That's not enough to blow anything or generate smoke. It does generate fearsome cord tangles, though. {^_^}

Let me see here. If we had adopted this philosophy for whale oil lanterns and buggy whips we'd still be supporting those two moribund and obsolete industries.

This should stifle progress and prove the big government capability to tax "because we can and you have no choice."

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Or simply run "sa-update" as root to fetch down the updated rule. {^_^}

It will happen due to a simple slip-up by an 11 year old playing with his Kiddie Gene Splicing Kit that produces a universal killer virus.

That is to say, we'll to it to ourselves by simple mistakes.

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