Yes.. as a kid I kind of used to rationalize that gasoline should be the most powerfull explosive known to mankind, capable of blowing up by itself if you agitate a container full of it fast enough. When I first lerned that you needed other componets (like oxigen) mixed in a precise proportiont o make gasoline violently explosive, well... I was already ruined. Lets say I like my TV & Movie's falling cars explosive.

So they aren't? Why?, this site has journals you know. Slashdot is the only social network you need. What do you need pictures for?

Nice trolling attempt but I think mr. Cmdr To hit Armor Class 0 is quiting cold turkey for the moment.

About 10 years ago a couple of Alpha servers (Tru64 Unix) and EMA storage in a cluster arrangement was as fast and as stable you can get below the mainframe category (thanks to DEC VAX multiprocessor and shared memory technologies). The natural evolution of the alphas never came out of HP because of their infatuation with Intel Itanium processors, and see how that affair ended up.

...exhume his skull, embed gems into it, and put it on a table. That would really screw with those in the know.

/yes I know the Tomb of Horrors jokes are getting old.

..was the operation runner named "Peggy"?

..isn't this how executives expect to be treated, even though they're not the necessarily smartest ones in the company?

So what's their excuse? Special treatment occurs in the workplace all the time.

...is this a fancy way of saying a transactional system? Just say it then!