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Offline D76

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« on: July 05, 2006, 08:32:48 AM »
It is to weep.

This guy's clones are everywhere. Canada's (and those of Toronto that's on the hook for millions after a recent computer-sales scam) make him look like Einstein.

Our fate is in their hands.
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« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2006, 08:41:20 AM »
Listen to this weeks TWIT  for more.

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« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2006, 09:28:41 AM »
This is "the Tubes" guy isn't it!  

http://www.techsurvivors.net/forums/index....showtopic=13082

It's nice he has such a fine grasp of things!  I bet he could teach computer
science somewhere! smile.gif
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« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2006, 09:38:16 AM »
It wasn't until early this morning that I (finally) finished reading every link on the interweb. Whew!

Now, my lips are tired. yum.gif
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« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2006, 10:23:54 AM »
QUOTE(gunug @ Jul 5 2006, 10:28 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
This is "the Tubes" guy isn't it!
Sorry, gunug. I didn't realize you had covered this buffoon.

QUOTE(pendragon @ Jul 5 2006, 10:38 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
It  wasn't until early this morning that I (finally) finished reading every  link on the interweb. Whew!
Me too. I realized there was nothing more to the interweb when I landed here. Now that I know everything, I can finally rip out those pneumatic tubes in my house and stop bumping my head. They're all plugged up with movies, anyway.

By the way, this is the bridge to nowhere guy.
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« Reply #5 on: July 05, 2006, 01:00:37 PM »
I don't think he started the bridge but he's the one that looks like the biggest jackass:

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/20...s/index_np.html

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No politician better flaunts an ability to bring home the bacon than Alaska's Don Young. As chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Alaska's lone congressional representative for 32 years, the elder statesman wrangled $941 million for Alaska in the bill, making Alaska, the nation's third least populated state, the fourth-biggest recipient of transportation funds. The money for the bill is fed by a gas tax at the pump, but this slush fund isn't redistributed to all Americans equally: The bill spends $86 per person on a national average; it spends an estimated $1,500 on every Alaskan.
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« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2006, 07:51:11 PM »
I listened to that TWIT today. Unbelievable.  huh.gif
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« Reply #7 on: July 06, 2006, 12:56:03 AM »
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An explanation of where that "internet" file went...

http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1513010
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« Reply #8 on: July 06, 2006, 12:52:04 PM »
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Ok...who elected this twit?

"The best minds are not in government." -- Ronald Reagan. wink.gif
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« Reply #9 on: July 06, 2006, 02:58:07 PM »
Thought I was headed to the TS site...

Must've turned left. wink.gif

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« Reply #10 on: July 06, 2006, 03:13:59 PM »
Gross stupidity, last time I checked, isn't bound by political affiliation (though some may beg to differ!)....

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« Reply #11 on: July 06, 2006, 07:18:07 PM »
Saw this at Boing-Boing and it seems to be the source of the Senators edumacation:

http://images.agblog.com/michigan/Hands_On...networks?full=1

This is a demonstration of the packet-switch network using tubes and ball-bearings.
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« Reply #12 on: July 06, 2006, 09:25:05 PM »
It looks like the movie Pirates of the Caribbean is playing. The sails from the pirate ship made it through the tubes. You can see them at the top right.

I dunno how many important letters will be blocked by a wooden ship before it gets through, especially if the yardarms aren't parallel with the hull.

There's just no way of knowing.
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« Reply #13 on: July 07, 2006, 08:00:15 AM »
Paddy, I was merely commenting on the direction the previous posts were listing. Had it been the other way, I would have noted it as such.
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« Reply #14 on: July 07, 2006, 08:08:23 AM »
A muttonhead by any other name would still smell of sheep!
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