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• Long's Notes 1) Always store beer in a dark place.
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  However, people who weren't employed by Red Hat or VA Linux, or who didn't receive The Letter, are still poor....
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  based on 680x0 processors, custom support chips and an operating system that combined some of the best features of Macintosh and Unix with compatibility with neither....
• FUD /fuhd/ n. Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company
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• COMPETITION Competition is now recognised as the lynch-pin of free trade, the brake-pad of democracy, and the small plastic novelty egg of the consumer society.
  It is also an excellent method of breaking up monopolies, with subsequent improvements in consumer choice and customer service....
• The following is a recommendation from the personnel director to the president of Acme Publishing Company.
  "Many other companies have recently stated that having their employees take the Easy Read Speed-Reading Course has greatly improved productivity....
• Now, telephone companies are not stupid, at least for large values of 'stupid'.
  -- Michael O'Brien (Mr. Protocol)...