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MOTOONER MOVED OUT
The editor of a student newspaper in Illinois has been fired for publishing Motoons (Berkeley’s free-minded folks are outraged over a similar incident). Meanwhile, in England:
Five men were arrested today over their alleged role in protests outside the Danish Embassy in London last month against cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad.
Four of the five were held on suspicion of incitement to murder and all five are suspected of “using threatening words or written material to stir up racial hatred”.
In other ’toon news, behold the very latest in babe-sketching technology:
It’s part of the latest Lileks archive fest. Computer says: click now!
Given the number of comments like “From 1971, the Control Data Cyber 70 Bosom-Goggler, which automatically stares at the secretary’s breasts, freeing up the busy executive so he can stare at her legs.”, perhaps James should call it Compu-Prono instead of Compu-Promo?
Posted by ausdiplomad on 2006 03 15 at 11:23 AM • permalinkBerkeley the former home of the swearwording FREE SPEECH MOVEMENT, that Berkeley????? Feckless piss-ants, the lot of them!
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 03 15 at 11:51 AM • permalinkMargort, Loonnig, MoToons, Fisk and Labor infighting, good morning it’s a TB Top Five Kinda Day!
That computer sketched woman…five foot six, 118 pounds, 36-24-36, that hair…Good God, it’s Condi Rice! Condi is Miss Formula!
newsflash : Red Kerry faces off against Condi Thursday night. He will WITHER under that glare.
Go to Lilek’s, click through the photos, computers in an office, they get smaller…wait a minute, there’s no paper, anywhere. The paperless office! Did people ever really believe that fantasy?
“your iPod has more storage capacity than everything in this room,” amazing.
#4, go further to the embarrassing celebrities photos, Arthur Miller and Marilyn - “Beavis grows up and gets married.”
Caaah-lassic!
Posted by LeftieLatteLover on 2006 03 15 at 12:11 PM • permalinkHow can we be sure that that isn’t a depiction of the Prophet Mohammad (bees pee upon him)?
Where is the outrage dammit? I demand Lilek’s head!
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2006 03 15 at 12:26 PM • permalinkMy best friend was a key punch operator for Collins Radio (one of the companies that took us to the moon, now Rockwell Collins) in the 60’s. As I recall, there was only one computer, but it was enormous, housed in a huge, climate controlled room. You had to don a lab coat, foot covers and a hair net just to enter. Most input data was stored on the key punch cards and there were gazillions of them.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 03 15 at 01:02 PM • permalinkI ‘member the computer at Dickinson in 1981 (?) (year Charlie and Di married). It was huge, and had princess-phone type setups embedded at each workstation, and took about a hundred years to do anything. Ah, and then I believe there was the dot-matrix printer that used that perforated green-and-white shaded wide paper with the hole-strips on the sides…always coming off the hole-holders…
Ah, and then I believe there was the dot-matrix printer that used that perforated green-and-white shaded wide paper with the hole-strips on the sides…always coming off the hole-holders…
I was still grappling with those in the mid-90s. I had many multi-part, pre-printed forms that I formatted on the computor and the dot-matrix was the only printer that could handle them. What a pain. Remember the old thermal paper fax machines? Ei-yi-yi.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 03 15 at 03:11 PM • permalinkAh the glory days of DOS 2.0 and 386’s!
I remember struggling to tell LOTUS123 to print a landscape page. You had to tab around for ages and, finally, input something like: “$PG_7&45;%9.(83”
It still wouldn’t work.
Posted by Bill Spencer on 2006 03 15 at 03:59 PM • permalinkIn the USA, for air defense processing, the “SAGE” system (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) was installed (13-15? locations) in the mid ‘50s. All vacuum tube (‘valve’) system, tape storage, in ‘duplex’.
Two of them, so each could be shut down for maintenance. Took up a whole floor in a largish building. Prodigious air conditioning involved. Worked good though, since N. America was never attacked, which had nothing to do, I believe, with me being on staff. Replaced in the mid-late ‘70s, them was the new war game daz.Folks these days! What with their “windows” and “mouses” and “internet”—why, when I was a lad all we had were ones and zeros, and sometime just zeros!
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 03 15 at 07:14 PM • permalink#10 Bill
That’s the command input line TODAY for the <insert your country of derision here*> fighter auto guidance system.
*I was going to say New Zealand myself, but I don’t think they have any fighter jets now
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 03 15 at 07:43 PM • permalinkLileks is first on my list when I get to my desk in the morning. I have his books & after the first one I had to remind myself not to read them while waiting for my plane to board…people look at ya funny when you laugh that hard in public, if you’re not 2 years old. He gets my day off to a good start. Love listening to him on Hugh Hewitt, too.
I lived in a ‘burb of Minneapolis in ‘74, ran machines that made computer chips. LOVED the job. Too young & ignorant to stick around for long, though…
Glad I don’t live in Mpls now, though, much to old to shovel that much snow…
Great link to Lileks!!
Ah, the old IBM card programs! I used that in high school and college, learning to pound the keypunch machine with finese and accuracy. Programming in Basic, PL/1, and FORTRAN, oh boy!!!
God, I’m glad thoses things are either in a museum, landfill, or recycled.
The computer operators at my college especially earned my extreme dislike over those cards. We had to submit our programs for a batch run, and come back later for the results. The sequence of cards was critical, so you checked your deck a couple times just to be sure. And the way the cards were manufactured made it near impossible to put in wrong.
Since those beasts were pretty slow, there would be a backlog from time to time, especially if the main frame glitched and shut down for a while. To speed things up, those computer operators would select batches at random, and turn a card around, so the machine couldn’t compile the deck, and kicked it out.
This sped things up considerably….and put the blame on the unfortunate victim, since everyone “knew” the
computer operatorsfriggin’ geeks wouldn’t mess with your deck. No way!But there were ways to screw ‘em back; you might look stupid to those operators, but it was worth it. My favorite was to submit a program that would print one line one on a page, and then skip to the top of the next page. Since these were high speed chain printers (very noisy, BTW) that flung 132 column paper (11” x 17”) about, the result was a distinct sound: BRRRRRAAAAAP!!!! WHACK WHACK!!!, repeated every second or so.
The operators had to move fast to keep the paper supply from being wasted. But the sounds scared ‘em s***less, especially if they weren’t paying attention. If you turned the deck in for an overnight run, chances were that someone would be caught napping….literally.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 03 15 at 09:59 PM • permalinkThe list of editors sacked and/or arrested for printing the cartoons is growing
http://pommygranate.blogspot.com/2006/03/cartoon-rage-publish-and-be-fired.html
Posted by pommygranate on 2006 03 16 at 07:09 AM • permalink“Folks these days! What with their “windows” and “mouses” and “internet”—why, when I was a lad all we had were ones and zeros, and sometime just zeros!
Posted by MentalFloss”
Remember being involved with Pine and Shell and DOS? I mention those terms to the young whippersnappers at work and they look at me as though I’ve lost my mind again.
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Oh, five were arrested for incitement to murder? And will they be let go with an apology? After all, isn’t threatening to behead those who insult Islam merely a cultural expression?
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