Because the roads are not wide enough to handle all those overweight planes. :)

Yeah, you're right. They ALL do it that way.

This device is for IT people who must frequently erase bare drives and don't want to spend the time and trouble plugging them into PCs.

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Whose on?

"....I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to...." —Gandalf

The camera must have been mounted on this guy's head:

Agreed. The shuttle was impressive as all hell to watch, but it was not the cheap, reusable orbiter that it was supposed to be. They practically had to rebuild the thing after each flight.

OK, now I'm looking for a "Hack the Staples Easy Button Into a Drama Button" instructable.

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Thank you. The boutique look of current Apple products is a recent invention. There's nothing particularly elegant about the Apple II, the Lisa, or the early Macs, in form or function. Elegance came about later, in order to justify the price.

And talk about a breeding ground for germs, as if keyboards weren't already bad enough.

You must be responding to a different post with THAT one.

Electric and hybrid cars can do that now. That's the problem.

I see vehicular "ringtones" (cartones?) becoming popular.

While it can be used to stab things, the twisted blade makes it less useful overall. A simple combat knife would actually be more deadly in more situations.

I maintain ma building automation system which integrates a lot of old hardware and software with more modern stuff. Usually the two systems, from different vendors and eras, would be totally incompatible, but a third system built on OS/2 Warp gets them to play nicely together.

I think one reason it never caught on was that many people associated OS/2 only with the PS/2, which was IBM's overpriced attempt to reclaim a monopoly on the PC market, which clone makers had broken open.

There's something fishy going on with those numbers. I'm not sure I believe them.

Why do so many righties think "liberal" is a bad word? It must be the Conservative Media's fault.