It's not just oil, it's Jets (Boeing), Jet engines (GE), Intel, Dell, and I don't remember what else. Makes a mockery of any and all insider trading rules.

Anyone want to bet when it will be China limiting the number of chips that can be sold to the US? My bet is inside 10 years.

Ford stock has been bouncing between about 11.50 and 13.50 for a few years now. If I was still in the stock market (I'm old, my long term horizon is a year) I'd be buying below 12 and selling at above 13.

I don't own an X Box, nor do I game on my laptop. Please don't force this on me.

I fess up, I did it. What are you gonna do about it?

We were I/O bound with a saturated network. Our boss bought a Pentium to see if it would help. He didn't understand what "I/O bound" meant.

Went to a Comdex and saw this new fangled thing called a network switch. 3-4 of those in our system solved our problems.

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People can look for patterns in all sorts of algebraic spaces. I imagine there's probably a PhD or two in there.

I have to really want to see a movie to see one 2.5 hours long in a theater. Once the movie hits 3+ hours I'm watching it at home.

Doesn't help that inside the typical 3+ hour slog is a good 2 hour movie waiting for the fluff to be edited out.

It's the cost of the land the house sits on.

Good luck getting non-USA hackers to add this to Linux. Good luck preventing kids from downloading and installing Linux from non-USA sources.

Or are these geniuses going to outlaw an entire OS?

I don't care if the minimum wage wage slave says please and thank you. I want tasty food at a decent price. Problem is, then the C suite needs to look into the mirror instead of blaming some powerless minion.

Have you realized yet someone did 'ln -s /usr/bin/gvim /usr/bin/emacs"?

When I retired we were using 2.4. Time moves on, wonder if I could still write a device driver?

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