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Comment Wrong assumption in the article (Score 5, Interesting) 83

by SteveWoz (#65962954) Attached to: When 20-Year-Old Bill Gates Fought the World's First Software Pirates

I, Steve Wozniak, did not participate in the theft of the BASIC. It was funny to me to see others enjoying doing this. I had never used BASIC myself, at that time, only the more-scientific languages like Fortran, Algol, and PL-1, and several assembly languages. I sniffed the air and sensed that you needed BASIC to sell computers into homes, because of the book 101 Games in BASIC. I loved games and saw games as the key. It was the [MS] BASIC that inspired me to write a BASIC interpreter for my 6502 processor, in order to have a more useful computer.

Comment intergenerational divide and conquer (Score 1) 167

You do realise that this whole intergenerational warfare thing is just standard divide-and-conquer tactics cooked up by the ruling classes and their propagandists-for-hire, don't you?

The truth is that most - as in all but a very tiny fraction of a percent - boomers (and genX-ers) have absolutely no say in anything of any importance, and never have had - no more than most millennials or gen-z or whatever stupid marketing bullshit demographic term they come up with next.

They're not the ones buying up all the housing, or replacing workers with shitty AI, or "innovating" by re-inventing piece-meal work and day-labour exchanges from the 1800s.

At best, some of them might, if they're lucky, own their own home - but most boomers, the vast majority, don't even have that and don't even have any savings - their existence is even more precarious than that of younger generations.

But right, blame Granny. It's all her fault. Never the fault of the .001% who own and control everything.

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