Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 23:04:03 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <3b7aeb7e-5ac3-09be-eacd-23d5e0dfd950@example.net> <61890a5e-ba4b-b266-f822-3f10294e63a1@example.net> <3834b159-d262-5cb7-2ffb-5edc9e1c2042@example.net> <5695a5d7-ef0b-3fdd-6993-fb421d182aed@example.net> <1502c51c-09c4-5b06-6d43-9e0d1effca5d@example.net> <329ccded-4b7a-f553-581c-75a03252c206@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="3041629"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:62477 On Sun, 15 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote: > On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 11:36:27 +0100, D wrote: > >> Yes... bicycle helmets where completely unknown during my childhood as >> well. For entertainment we had fireworks, firecrackers (now illegal in >> sweden), dismantling old electronic waste to see what's inside, running >> around on the streets of central stockholm without supervision, smoke >> bombs, the occasional beer sold to minors from where discrete and hidden >> small shops. > > Most fireworks were illegal where I grew up but we had them anyway. Much > later I brought some back from a trip to the south and wound up arrested > for possession of explosives and deadly weapons in my home town by a cop I > went to school with. My future brother in law was a silver tongued devil Really!? Sounds like quite an asshole! =( > that could turn any situation to shit. Years later he was killed by > lightning so he may have pissed the Gods off too. This does tend to happen sometimes. Perhaps a proof of gods existence? On the other hand, Putin is still alive and kicking. Gods ways are mysterious! > I was a big kid and the liquor stores weren't too particular. As a joke > one year I bought one of those nip bottles of gin for a Mothers Day gift. > That led to an interrogation of where I got it. > > One problem of being a kid in a town of about 2000 is everybody knows > everybody. Pill something really outrageous and the news would get home > before you did. My mother grew up in a town of less than 1000 and it was not so fun being a teenager. She moved to Stockholm when she was 18 and was very happy with her choice.