"That means 120 a year for 38 years, or 10 a month, or one every three days.

If they wore out that quick I'd ask for my money back."

Maybe they worked so well she thought she got her money's worth out of them.

Which brings up another band name:

Cheap Trick.

"And I'm a septic myself, actually..."

A septic what?

Or did you mean aseptic?

Either way, maybe it's a good time for your annual medical exam.

"What did you shoot him with?"

Malice Aforethought?

(which is almost as good a band name as Evil Shadow Team)

"Surely the brand new machines and factories will be next-gen? "

And that's the problem.

My need is for 1.5Gb/s or 3Gb/s jumperable down, 512 byte sector, non-"advanced format" drives to avoid having to replace every single motherboard and NAS box and TiVo into which I already have money sunk.

And not that dodgy "reconditioned" or "refurbished" stuff, either, I want it with the original furbs still intact.

Nope, merely infringed the copyright.

Did you watch a version with Barbara Bain edited out?

Or are you of a different species that appreciates only the technology?

A devious, evil, twisted one perhaps, but a genius nonetheless.

... for a very imperfect situation.

If you pardon him because the law he broke should never have been on the books in the first place, then you have to do the same for everybody else convicted under that same law.

If it was okay to have that law, but you pardon him because of who he was and what he did for the country, you get into that whole question of whether or not there's equal justice under the law for both the common and the elite.

(I think we all know the real-life answer to that one, but we should at least acknowledge that it is not right that it is that way)

But a knighthood says "A grateful nation and sovereign thank you for what you did for the nation".

Of course if there were any real justice he'd have gotten that knighthood back around '46 or '47.

Boffin icon as a salute to the man who should be called Sir Alan.

And the hypocrisy is even worse.

TWC's internet service isn't any worse than their cable service.

But then again, how could it be?

...it was exactly for that sake that the video was made.

Sherlock, because if you're going to be looking for evidence of something, this is a great thing for evidence of which to be looking.

...unless you mean more than one of the type of person who conducts seances.

The plural of medium is media.

And if MS wants more sales, they should put reasonably priced full retail versions of XP Home and Pro back on the store shelves.

The real outstanding salesman is the one who convinces you that the POS with "gold-colored" plating is actually superior and what you really want, and offers to carry away all of your previous stuff with real gold on it without charging you any extra.

And the other reason it's cheaper than sugar is that sugar prices in the U.S. are artificially high, courtesy of the government, which is what drove manufacturers to corn syrup in the first place.

Google "U.S. sugar subsidies", been going on practically since there was a US, but it got worse about a generation ago.

I personally believe New Coke was a way to get the old stuff off the market so they could bring it back with HFCS instead of sugar.

closest they've got for an 'it's the government's fault" icon

It was WKRP General Manager Arthur Carlson who said "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

Mine's the one with a 3rd class phone with broadcast endorsement in the pocket.

"I love how this site pretends that there are places outside the USA! I guess it's a running gag or something."

You think that's something, over at tivocommunity they pretend there's some place called a "youkay" where they had different S1s and got the next model after the Premiere before we did.

...will ever need more than 405 lines.

Except those of us stateside with our "We're so superior" 525 lines.

Now that the Gates icon is gone I could actually have used it.

Yeah, Win95 had hot keys, some of which were the same as the ones everybody had just learned in Windows 3.1, and when they brought out Windows 98 they only changed some of them from what they were in 95, and XP even left some of the ones from 98 unchanged.

Was that the one with a bunch of guys in red spacesuits/uniforms and another bunch in the same thing, only yellow?

Saw the preview at the theater but didn't get to go see it when it got to town.

A factoid is actually something that's not quite a fact, like a humanoid is not quite a human.

"...suggesting that demons are real and are responsible for. . . *masturbation*..."

Well, mine certainly are!

At least that's what Mrs. Palm tells me.

You did mean a 12 inch pizza, right?