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.

It's hard to find people with Tim Berners-Lee's integrity. We should 'own' our own lives. It's a lot deeper than just being watched.

+5 insightful analysis (I speak as a proud American of Indian origin who just got caught in the Indigo sh*tstorm, but would've agreed about this societal artifact even otherwise).

They don't know that the ultimate secret password is 0451. Nobody will ever guess that.

The next step will be Microsoft patenting their "innovative" "invention" to protect it from dastardly Intellectual Property thieves.

> Crazy Cat Ladies. Crazy College Professors. Crazy High School Teachers. Crazy Elementary Teachers

Unlike "crazy fox news uncles", none of these people think that gas chambers for people they don't like would be a good idea, worth promoting at every opportunity.

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.

I find this very amusing.

It would be great if it also served as a wake-up call for everyone who insists on inflicting their files on everyone else in Microsoft Office or Google Docs format....but we all know that's never going to happen.

It's still amusing.

nice to see some positive news

about people shitting the streets in the so called developed USA

terrible drugs n crime n open defecation rate at 1/9th population density of India
- (US landmass= 3x Indias
- US Population = 0.3 x Indias)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Thank you for saying this. Concur.

....into a drug n crime infested hellhole, and this is the supposed upscale Silicon Valley

terrible drugs n crime rate at 1/9th population density of India
- (US landmass= 3x Indias
- US Population = 0.3 x Indias)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

sad to be a dying civilization, is it not, AC

... didnt know the US was a humongously worse shit-pit

https://youtu.be/RKIebSflncQ?s...

my bad...

I speak as a proud American of Indian origin (25years in the Good Ole USA, ex GeorgiaTech, ex MIT startups)... ... who has watched the US sell its soul to cheaper, shoddily produced Chinese goods.