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    One China, Three Stories

    Happy 35th Birthday Bar Code

    Happy Birthday, Gmail, You Cute Lil Five Year Old

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    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    10/02/09

    In reply to One China, Three Stories
    People should NOT wish the communist party a happy birthday. Mao and his cohorts are nothing but bandits who robbed and pillaged their way in. It’s a good lesson for all of us. Cuba went the same way. So did many other countries who had strong fascists that took over.

    Whenever the population becomes too stratified where the rich doesn’t give a crap about the poor, there comes some a@@ like Mao to rise up.
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    Image of Wwhat Wwhat
    10/03/09

    @Noobs-R-Us: Using crack is bad, using crack to 'enhance' your comments is worse
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    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    10/04/09

    @Wwhat: Oh yes, as if you know the difference between your ass and a hole in the ground.
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    Image of All Your Base Are Belong To Us All Your Base Are Belong To Us
    10/02/09

    In reply to One China, Three Stories
    How is this different from the US? New Orleans anyone?
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    10/02/09

    @All Your Base Are Belong To Us: You only get red beads at the Beijing Mardi Gras.
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    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    10/01/09

    In reply to One China, Three Stories
    Everyone in China is happy. Just ask them.
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    10/01/09

    In reply to One China, Three Stories

    would be nice if the us had these battalions too:
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    10/01/09

    @greenleave5: Photoshopped!
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    Image of Curves Curves
    10/01/09

    In reply to One China, Three Stories
    Happy Birthday China.
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    Image of dbett dbett
    10/01/09

    @Curves: It's not China's birthday...merely the anniversary of the Communist victory. Not really something to celebrate IMO.
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    10/02/09

    @dbett: They are celebtrating, and as such, its not my place to judge. So for my friends and colleagues there, Happy Birthday.
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    Image of dbett dbett
    10/02/09

    @Curves: Nicely non-judgmental of you.
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    Image of infmom infmom
    06/26/09

    In reply to Happy 35th Birthday Bar Code
    And almost 30 years later, Fry's Electronics finally installed bar code scanners for the very first time.


    I am not, as Dave Barry says, making this up.

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    Image of GlenTen GlenTen
    06/26/09

    In reply to Happy 35th Birthday Bar Code
    Bar codes are the work of Satan and should be avoided at all costs
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    06/26/09

    @GlenTen: but how would we know what that cost is, unless we're close enough to Satan to scan said barcode.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/26/09

    @Geisrud: price check on prune juice bob . . . price check on prune juice.
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    06/26/09

    In reply to Happy 35th Birthday Bar Code
    customer: i would like to return this gum.
    cashier: do you have the receipt?
    customer: *rummages through pockets* no.
    cashier: NEXT!
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    Image of TimmahTao TimmahTao
    06/26/09

    In reply to Happy 35th Birthday Bar Code
    Weird. I'm from Troy.


    That Marsh is still there, and probably has the same people working in it.


    IIRC, there is a 60 year old cashier named Barbie.

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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    06/26/09

    @TimmahTao: sounds hot!
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    Image of tacomstng tacomstng
    06/26/09

    In reply to Happy 35th Birthday Bar Code
    1973 or 1974, the video talks about '74, the article says '73, but that would mean today would be its 36th birthday....
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    06/26/09

    @Tacomstng: "So, let me get this straight. That would mean you lied about your age to make yourself older. But why would any barcode wanna DO THAT?!"


    (Fifty points to first person to get the reference.)

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/26/09

    @OCEntertainment: You may proceed to kick your own ass.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    06/26/09

    In reply to Happy 35th Birthday Bar Code
    I have been to Troy, Ohio and let me assure you, that this has to be the biggest thing that ever happened there. Bigger even than Troy itself.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    06/26/09

    @Curves:

    Bigger than Troy?
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    06/26/09

    @Curves: Is their local summer celebration called "Bar Code Days"
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    06/26/09

    @Geisrud: Kids dress up as their favorite UPC. The local sports teams don't have numbers on their jerseys, but bar codes.
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    Image of ironman1266 ironman1266
    06/26/09

    In reply to Happy 35th Birthday Bar Code
    ...the iPhone's better...
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    06/26/09

    @ironman1266: the iPhone is better than barcodes?


    Son, without barcodes, there wouldn't be an iPhone

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    04/02/09

    In reply to Happy Birthday, Gmail, You Cute Lil Five Year Old
    with i could disable every shortcut but R for reply. sometimes the message window get's deselected while typing, and then all kinds of shit happens.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    04/02/09

    @nutbastard:


    with == wish

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    Image of frigg frigg
    04/01/09

    In reply to Happy Birthday, Gmail, You Cute Lil Five Year Old
    I can't remember a world without Gmail. And yet, I've got to be older than 5. Maybe because I just watched "Lost."
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    04/01/09

    In reply to Happy Birthday, Gmail, You Cute Lil Five Year Old
    For those who don't get why GMail is "still in Beta", allow me to provide a scenario...


    I use GMail. I use it for work. Google has a problem and loses some data... data I need. I get upset at Google and tell them that their broken product caused me to lose business.


    Google says "GMail is a beta product. We make no guarantees for its stability. We told you this long ago. There are still lots of bugs in it. That's why we hung the big BETA sign on it."


    Sometimes, being buggy has its advantages...

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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    04/01/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: At some point, don't you think this becomes a legally untenable position for them?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    04/01/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Care to throw some money into litigation and find out?


    And I'm sure that other companies like Apple and Microsoft and Red Hat and any other company that makes software on a large scale will stay silently on the sidelines and not offer up endless amicus submissions explaining why beta means all bets are off.


    Yes - it'll be just like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington. One honest guy against the machine, fighting against the fat cats and winning. That's just how it will play out.

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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    04/01/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: I don't know.


    Somebody's going to lose something important someday, and some Judge is going to decide that after spending 25 years getting everyone to use your product and essentially begging the entire world to rely on you for everything, that you can't just say "Hey, we said Beta!" and escape from your own f*ck up.


    I'm kind of wondering if there are analogous cases (maybe even some warranty/as is type cases), but I'm not about to actually do legal research for a Gizmodo comment.

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