He’s a Mac, he’s a PC, but we’re Linux
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Summarized at VerizonMath. For the full impact first watch this video and then listen to this recording.
In response they got this:

from xkcd.
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A restaurant sign in Bloomington (Minnesota):
Sushi and Mongolian
A restaurant in China, anticipating the Olympic influx of Anglophone visitors, ran its name through a computer translator and put up a large sign with the results:

Read a Letter to the Franklin Institute and think again.
I just looked at a jug of milk in our refrigerator. The label says
Milk from cows not treated with rbST.
No significant difference has been shown between milk derived from rbST treated and non-rbST treated cows.
I have often thought that phraseology sounded odd, and wondered why. I found out today when I read Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear, which begins
Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics–ruthless legal battles against small farmers–is its decades-long history of toxic contamination.
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