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which could run for 12 hours on a self contained battery

And you don't have one in 2013 either! ;)

For shame indeed! I don't know about you, but I am exhausted from hauling these clay pots filled with wine back and forth to the pyramids. Did you know that somehow the pharoahs have violated physics and made it uphill BOTH ways? Insanity! They won't even let me have any shoes either. And for those uninformed in the alchemical arts, copper is HEAVY. The only thing that could make this job worse is if it were raining frogs with swarms of locusts or maybe a plague!

Your logic is exquisite as that is precisely what that means. You see, we call people ass's because when they open thier mouth, only stupid shit comes out of it. The only part of one's body that spews shit is your ass, which was called the d'arriere at the time (we also wore onions on our belts). So we subbed d'arriere with ass because of the stupid shit that pours from both of them.

Look kid, you're a grade A asshole- I'll give you that. How about you go take your assberger's[SIC] meds and give your 6 digit UID back to your grandpa? You're too ranty to sit at the big boys table.

I present to you- MegaSquirt!
It isn't completely OS, the source code is available but it has some patents on it. It's the closest thing we have right now that I'm aware of. It is also, to my knowledge, the most popular hobby hacker ECU.

And they call me a sociopath ...

They do or they don't call you a sociopath? Maybe you're right. Sounds more like schizophrenia.

is, as Nietzsche pointed out, merely

First off, don't [sic] me, boy. You misspelled it first. Secondly, sure you aren't "quoting" it but you're spouting off his ideas which is just as bad.

and your sense of irony is somewhat underdeveloped.

This made me laugh, thanks! I couldn't help but read it in Clark from Good Will Hunting's voice. I know you've probably been doing the irony thing since before it was cool but I've just one thing to say: How do ya like dem apples?

Do the needful? Is this supposed to be something an Indian tech suport person might say? Otherwise it isn't any proper English phrase that I know of. At least not American English. Those silly Brits like taking people's piss for some reason.....

Ha! You mean to tell me that all those kids who 10-20 years ago were getting a shit education grew up to be adults that don't know shit? Say it isn't so! Next thing you'll tell me is that correlation isn't causation and there is some bigger root cause we just haven't figured out yet.

Nope afraid not. Hehe. You actually don't get it from them. It's much like the thing in the article. They get you set up on the Amazon buy, and then you head off to the local dealer to pick it up. It isn't perfect or ideal right now but it's a start.

Amazon should sell cars.

Ask and ye shall receive!

Why would you seem surprised that they haven't bothered telling you yet? Is this your first big corporate rodeo? Every company that I have ever worked for never tells us, the workers, shit about what is going. It gets people panicky. They get depressed and lower output. They get pissed off and steal or sabotage equipment. Some even get super pissed and come to work armed for a good old fashioned game of Postal. I have typically always heard about what was happening to me from the news before managment bothered to "officially" annouce it. Your employer will even probably deny it for a week or so until they just can't hide it. But you know what answers you'll get from them when you specifically ask them "Will I be geting laid off?" They'll just say "we just don't know yet," "we have some plans still up in the air so we can't speculate," "we're doing everything we can," and a whole host of other PHB talk. Do you know when you will "officially" find out you're getting the axe? EXACTLY 2 weeks before your layoff date. Not one minute sooner.

They call you a sociopath cause you go around quoting Neitzsche.

How very authoritarian of you!

I have been told they will be "Overlords" and that many here, including myself, are welcoming them.