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andrewducker) wrote2009-01-18 03:30 pm
andrewducker) wrote2009-01-18 03:30 pm
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A review of what is possibly the worst comic ever created.
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And makes it _really_ obvious that it's about 20% as usable as either the Windows or Mac interfaces...
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Eliza being one of the earliest examples of "conversational" software.
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Sully Sullenberger didn't leave it up to God whether his passengers were going to live or die. He spent a large percentage of his professional life taking time out to practice in simulation how to land a commercial jetliner without engines. When he decided that wasn't enough, he then went on to make a professional study, on his own time, of commercial aviation safety, so much so that telling other people what he learned from studying it turned into a second job for him. And (more goosebumps again) he decided, years ago?, that that wasn't enough margin for safety for him, so he went on to learn to become a certified glider pilot. Nor should you call it a "miracle" that US Airways flight 1549 had someone like Sully Sullenberger at the helm, because that's what commercial aviation is like.
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The truth about George Bush
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I am _very_ amused.
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Astounding view of an African nest - the thing's fucking _huge_.
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