@Axtremus said in Avoid It: Cited in the article is a former Compaq PC engineer saying that Apple, Inc.'s hardware is not that reliable. I have never used Compaq's computers before (at least not that I can remember), so I am curious to ask: if you have used both Compaq and Apple's hardware, which do you find more reliable? If memory serves, they were a behemoth in the bad old days when PC compatibles were really expensive. Reliability wasn't really the issue as much as cost. They were pushed into obsolescence by companies like Dell and Gateway which really was the point at which the PC became the default for home computing rather than non-PC alternatives like Commodore and Atari.

Injuns?

In fairness they probably had no idea what the Mass 54th was.

Almost went to work for a guy a few years ago. He had a few patents and he managed to talk some venture capitalists out of $18M for a beta site project. I was going to run his industrial lab(s) and his QC program in return for peanuts and shares of preferred stock. He was going to take materials from waste water plants and use it to make biodiesel. The material, such as skim from the aeration ponds is very high in fat content, but because of trace metals, etc., is hauled off to a hazardous waste landfill and costs the plants to do so. My guy thought he could get the material for free. So, I talked his business plan over with my BIL (who is a very good ChemE), who said this idea would work great in a lab, but wasn't going to scale up. Simply too many variables. Also talked to some guys I knew on the technical side of DEQ and the EPA. I turned the guy's offer down. My BIL was right.

Paul Desmond smiled...

@George-K said in President Poopy Pants: Sez the guy with small "hands." C'mon Ted, be better. He’s channeling what he believes is his inner little Lyndon B. Johnson.

@jon-nyc said in An open letter to white supremacists: This is the woke-religion's equivalent of Paul's second letter to the Corinthians Wonder why this one won't survive, though.

Somewhat related: Link to video

Ambien and alcohol. Two leading risk factors.

@89th said in Let’s talk wireless headphones…: The irony that you have a santa hat on That was a typo. He’d meant to order a Satan hat

Jon-NYCs law: As an online meta-discussion grows longer, the probability that Godwin makes a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.

Lasagna always makes me think of Garfield the cat. He loves lasagna. lol!

@jon-nyc said in Many Votes, Very Few Laws -- 2023 House of Representatives in review: By the way, he’s now a RINO, according to the fat guy. Better a RINO than a hippo.