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To: Boplicity who wrote (12773)	4/19/2001 1:49:36 AM
From: pbull	Read Replies (4) of 13572

I live in the sticks. Middle of nowhere. We don't know nothin' 'bout them e-commerce interfaces. Don't know nothin' 'bout local wireless networks. Don't know nothin' 'bout middleware. Don't know nothin' 'bout tunable lasers. Remember Apollo 13? How they lost power? Went into a low orbit around the moon as a slingshot to try to get back to Earth? Had to shut down all non-essential systems? Remember when the commentators said that the astronauts likely would not be unable to navigate? That the outlook at Mission Control was grim? Remember when they went to battery power? And that the batteries were not designed for that? That, according to government specs, the batteries could not bring our astronauts home? Remember that? And out here, in the sticks, we said, "Yeah, they will. It'll work." Man, we were sh*tting bricks. Sent a Lear jet load of engineers to Houston. Had to tell them, over and over, that those batteries weren't made according to government specs. They're better than that. And that we would bring those guys home. That's what we do here. Or, at least, that's what happens at our largest employer. Don't know nothin' 'bout Web servers.... PB

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