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By some accounts the regular articles are not that biased; it's the editorial section that resembles the usual Rupert style.

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when we're far more likely to die from something mundane, like getting hit by a truck.

Just think of a truck as a small, slow asteroid.

Then what is a Hammond organ?

You can also use it to Bach up your files.

I've read 3 different explanations of why VisiCalc was done on Apple first.

1. The dev TRS and Pets were tied up on other projects.
2. Jobs promised free hardware if they targeted Apple first.
3. Apple had more potential RAM ability.

I don't know which is true or if it's a combo. Either way, Apple would probably be dead if not for VisiCalc. VisiCalc sales gave Apple just enough money for R&D into GUI's (Lisa/Mac), and those were relatively slow sellers until desktop publishing kicked in.

Without the VisiCalc boost, Apple would probably fall short, and die with the rest of the early microcomputer makers (who got clobbered by IBM clones).

I'm always astounded how someone as smart as Woz could hookup with an egotistic leech like Jobs.

A master brain plus a master liar, perfect tech biz combo.

Woz has money & fame up the wozu, you have shit. So where is the "astounded" exactly?

c) Outsource the problem to Russia.

Answer: "You end up in a black hole due to division by zero."

Don't tidal forces eventually produce near-circular orbits? Thus, if they were captured asteroids, over time a "lopsided" orbit should grow circular and roughly equatorial.

Correction, I meant to say "bell-shaped" curve, not "bell curve". The second is a specific family of curves. (No Kardashian puns intended.)

Have God let me fork several versions of current Earth and I'll find the optimum min wage.

That's almost like saying, "If consuming water is good then drowning to death in it must be better". In short, improvements are generally on a bell curve: there's an optimum level of any given factor. Too much or too little tends to create problems.