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We'll probably see that in the next James Bond movie.
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At that price, they can keep them!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The price doesn't necessarily affect the wanting
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it only works if you are young, fit and sexy (both men and women).
are you ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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How is the score calculated? Are these T/F, or are varying levels of shrugs as responses acceptable?
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Maximilien wrote: fit and sexy I really can't imagine how sex could work out on top of a device like that!
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you don't have a fertile imagination.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Can I buy you a car instead? That price tag is scary.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Why do these videos never show them mounting or dismounting. Very rarely do you see the the awkward step or launch platforms to actually get on the bloody things.
And yeah young and fit seems to be a requirement, sexy is optional (too subjective).
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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I'm sticking to falling off my windsurf - whenever some jet-ski tw@t comes past within a few feet, totally oblivious of the wake they are creating!
Wind is the only 'proper' propulsion method on water. Nothing beats the feeling of being propelled, (for free) without noise and pollution. Especially on a calm, warm sea, with a moderate and predictable wind. Need a holiday!
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long time sailor here - wind is the way to go. Still you have to admit they are pretty cool.
I once saw a jet ski sink a very expensive power boat. He was out in the water doing donuts, loops all sorts of crazy stuff without paying attention. He smacked into the corner of the motionless power boat setting up to pull some skiers. Within 2 minutes the boat was at the bottom of the lake. Owner had the forsight to tier a life jacket to the bow rope. They managed to get it out of the water....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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For the same price, buy a used car, a used waverunner, a tow behind hydrofoil board, and 3-4 other water toys.
That is $13,000 that could walk off very easily. Does have a title like a boat or a car?
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yes, yes yes - but we're in the lounge where people make jokes, etc. No way would I ever buy something like this until I reach a point where I go, "meh, 13k". . I just think it looks elephantine cool
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I think it is more like $26K.
You have to buy one for your partner as well! No fun by yourself.
I could see becoming bored with that board very quickly. How do you grind a rail with that?
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Grind a tiger shark instead, that should keep things interesting.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Trying to remember if I had enough bandwidth in '98 to actually "surf" ...
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: Trying to remember if I had enough bandwidth in '98 to actually "surf" ..
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I remember the internet as faster then.
There was hardly any ads or scripts on any pages.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: enough bandwidth in '98 to actually "surf"
I had a 56K modem, but actual speeds were lower.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Remember the Lynx web browser? It let you browse the web on a TTY, or maybe more realisticly: from a text-only based command shell. It was The Solution for visually challenged users who could browse the internet on a braille line terminal.
In the 1990s, there was a general demand that information on the internet must be available to users without graphic capabilites. Publishing a picture without an "alt" attribute was a shame. With the predecessor of HTTP, Gopher (the majority of computer guys nowadays don't know how much HTTP builds on the Gopher protocol; they think HTTP came out of nothing!), pictures was a special case and text was the default. In the first years of HTTP (/HTML), the expectations were at the same level. Text-only browsing was perfectly fine, even with a 28.8 kbps modem on an analog phone line. ISDN with 2*64 kbps was described as a "broadband" offering.
I am surprised to read in Wikipedia that a preview of Lynx 2.9.0 was released in February! So it is still alive. I can't imagine that any large fraction of today's web pages make much sense in ASCII-only format, though!
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I know someone that was using Lynx circa 2017. No cookies, no ads, no streaming, just information.
Google probably contributed features to support cookies.
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It's interesting it mentions no time for chit-chat while surfing the web, because you literally could not do both at the same time back then (i.e. your couldn't use a phone and surf the web).
I don't imagine that was an intentional reference though, but makes you think.
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So there was no ISDN offering in your place?
One major sales point for ISDN in the 1990s, here in Norway, was that you could surf and use your telephone at the same time. Of course that would reduce your bit rate from 128 kbps to 64 kbps for the surfing, but there was little grapics and no video on the web at that time. With little but text, small icons and graphic effects made by HTML (separator lines, frames etc.), 64 kbps was enough.
Especially when your old connection was 9.6 kbps. BBSs became popular before faster modems were available (at least at a low price), and before the early comers were ready to upgrade their modems, ISDN became available. There were some 28.8 owners, but even for them, single channel ISDN more than doubled their speed. So people were certainly not complaining.
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From what I recall, there were many places where ISDN didn't gain traction. It wasn't marketed well and was rather expensive. Modem speeds were constantly improving, and you could just get a second phone line if tying up the first one was a concern.
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