Wrong day to lack mod points...

I recall a letter in New England Journal of Medicine in the 90s, where the writer was commenting on a previous article suggesting therapeutic uses for cannabis. The crucial statement was something like "medicine has advanced such that we no longer treat conditions by burning leaves".

Location tracking shows that they did not upgrade to Outlook Interplanetary, terminates service.

They just need to RTFM: Zero Gravity Toilet Instructions

It wasn't actually Kubrick. This carefully researched documentary explains everything: Moonwalkers

I was working with prototype telephone line equipment with a new solid state (plus inductor) ringing generator. The ringing generator chips tended to explosively self destruct, spalling and tossing a piece of the chip package. Proper documentation of test results being essential, I put pieces of masking tape on the lab floor where each landed, annotated with the date and time.

Hollywood got it even before Godwin: They Saved Hitler's Brain (1968)

The floppy disk ("diskette") was originally developed as a microcode load device for the 370/145.

"Round and round she goes. Where she stops, nobody knows."

The best that I heard: "When Chuck Norris was born, he drove his mom home from the hospital.'

When I was 55 years old and people would ask my age, I would answer "Nixon speed limit".

Years ago, I was in a town a couple of hours outside of Minneapolis to support a customer trial of equipment. The town had a Walmart. In conversations with several people there, it became evident that people were driving upwards of 100 miles from various small towns and individual farms.

Patents cost money to draft and file. Unless the company has inside patent counsel or patent agent, they will need to pay outside counsel to draft it and answer through the examination. I had one proposal rejected by inside counsel because "we don't do phase locked loop patents".

One set of motivations for patents of broad scope, is to stake a claim for possible future use, to have something to trade around standards bodies, or to offer as value to settle infringement actions against some other patent.

My contact was on a DEC-20. One guy was in the terminal room playing it for hours every night. A typical night would bring one or two night bell calls from his wife. I poked around at it a little, then found that it provided a Lisp interpreter, which was more attractive to me than a game.

"You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike."