Robert X. Cringely

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@SenTuberville So only Republicans should be allowed to steal Medicaid from American citizens?

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@JacksonOswalt I can relate. When I was 14 my friend Charlie and I got a visit from the Atomic Energy Commission because of our 40 million electron-volt X-Ray machine, which they confiscated, but left behind our glass plate tinfoil capacitor, which weighed 4000 lbs.

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@Singularitybook @seanpk I knew Larry Flynt, who used a version of this strategy to play blackjack most weekends in Las Vegas. Larry was a very disciplined player who relied on a $10M bankroll to level the odds so there was never a question of going broke.

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@paulg Alfred Hitchcock?

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@Thadus6 @scottiebateman The plexiglass broke out of the canopy frame in the first second. You can see it. Even if it could be shut she'd still be open-cockpit, so probably not worth the trouble to try. This is an Extra 300 I think.

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@Benioff Mahalo

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@elonmusk Hey, that's my film! Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview. I'm the guy talking with Steve back in August, 1995.

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@pmarca I participated in a Yahoo offsite meeting about Gmail. They were stunned by the 1G free storage and reflexively matched it. But Gmail had three million users to Yahoo Mail’s 134 million, showing how to enter a market if you have a gimmick and deep pockets.

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@sarahntuned I was 36 years old and made a documentary in October 1999 for PBS about the pending Y2K crisis as one of the first to predict the crisis. My show said there would be minimal disruption, leading me to get 800 DEATH THREATS IN 24 HOURS. When I was correct, nobody apologized.

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@fasc1nate Gorillas are the LEAST territorial of primates you doofus.

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@pauljeffries @ESYudkowsky When I was an English schoolboy before North Sea gas was available, few had central heating and people were skinny. Now the British are toasty at home and as fat as Americans.

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@timecaptales @fasc1nate Roselle was trained at Guide Dogs for the Blind in Petaluma, CA by our friend Tiffany. What a great organization!

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@alpix17 @michael_nielsen The analogy I’d use here is the fax machine. Almost nobody had a fax machine until Ricoh introduced the first digital ones. But now nobody has a fax number again. Technologies do fade away. ..

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@creation247 Jay from Modern Family was the successful, respected patriarch

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@skdh Your kids are beautiful, Sabine.

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@ifofgot @kampeas @AP My 18 year-old son met Kissinger at the Bohemian Grove where my 6-6 kid worked security. He noted how tiny Kissinger was at 99, then I told him how an old friend lived in the apartment next to Kissinger's in Boston and could hear through the wall Dr. K beating his first wife.

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@skdh I'll drink to that.

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@skdh Sure, Sabine, let's get back to the Old Days when all we cared about was who to blame...

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@AlexWil56684695 @robertlhall3 @QLN38 @CalltoActivism In which half are you?

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@paulg For five consecutive summers our eldest son went to an expensive adventure camp with international campers his age. Now he's going to junior college but has friends (who love him) at Harvard, Oxford, and all over the world. I'm hoping it truly is who you know that counts.