I misread the title and thought it said, "Logic gates out of dummies."

I want to see the dummies!

100+ comments later, and you all seem to have forgotten the original premise: This is not a story of an astronaut believing in the possibility of alien life, it's only about an astronaut believing an alien spaceship crashed at Roswell.

That's one small step for a kook, one hell of a giant leap for kook-kind.

I am meat
Hear me ROAR!

Antinous: I hereby sincerely apologize for my earlier comment. Please don't stalk me. Please. I don't know what the frequency is, I swear I don't.

Somebody needs to yank this boy's pants down, and check to see if he's wearing a diaper. That's usually the first sign when an astronaut's lost it upstairs.

Maybe it's just me... but the incest kids look awfully happy about... uh, something...

Nothing beats the George Barris Munsters cars.

Another classic Steve Jobs boner...

He's so in love with himself that he's apparently forgotten what happened with Apple's 1980's trademark, gargantuan mistake of refusing to license the Mac OS.

He's fallen in love with another beautiful little toy, (iPhone,) and convinced himself that Average Joe will live with a forced marriage to the HORRENDOUS service of AT&T, in order to gain access to the pretty bauble.

He's wrong.

Again.

Bummer for Stevey, and for Average Joe. This AJ would really like to buy one of those neato trinkets, but there's no way I'd ever allow myself to be forced into another crappy service, crappy terms, AT&T contract.

The initial sales, (to the trinket prostitutes - those greasy haired geeks and geekettes who can't control their meth-like addiction to zippy techie sparkly thingies,) are over and done, and it's time for Average Joe to start buying - but Average Joe ain't as stupid as Stevey (still) believes he is.

Imagine the sales potential if Jobs would only wake up and license the pretty technology without his wishful requirements of having Apple as the sole entity that can replace the battery, and the disgustingly arcane hubris of believing he can force AT&T down Average Joe's throat as well?

Sorry Stevey, but Average Joe ain't gonna bite on this hook... Just like 1984, all over again.

This nightmare already exists:

I live in a small Sierra community, and there is only one ISP, (SierraTel,) available to us.

SierraTel sells two packages of monthly DSL service, "normal" and "fast." Now, this obviously means that ST is not doing anything to make their DSL service faster for the additional $20/month, but that they're actually slowing down all of us rebels who refuse to be extorted by them.

...which suddenly gets to me wondering about something: You can't use any old DSL modem with the service, you have to rent or purchase a "specially coded" modem from ST... so, could it be that the "fast" or "slow" configuration is selected in the modem?

Hmmmm... Time to break out the tools and have a look see at the jumpers in the modem.

Paul Domeier
Coarsegold