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It was possible to connect the MIC or EAR connector (I don't remember exactly which one, as this was 40 years ago) to a cassette recorder and start recording, which caused the cass…

The first attempt failed, so they caved in, but they’ll try again after a while and lay those people off again.

IIRC, my problem with Quake multiplayer was that one node acted as the server, so when I connected to a friend’s computer via modem, my lag was a serious disadvantage (neither my f…

> If one spouse stays home to watch them, that covers as many kids as you have. That's debatable ;) I have two kids, and taking care of both during the day is vastly harder - both …

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And there was Wham! The Music Box if you wanted to compose music :). Here’s how it sounded on the original ZX Spectrum, equipped with only the beeper: https://www.youtube.com/watch…

> It's an advantage, but I don't see that changing for a very long time: It’s an interesting question: for how long will it remain important to know multiple languages in the age o…

Ah, Clipper was a major force in the late ’80s in Yugoslavia, as economic reforms enabled the widespread establishment of private companies that needed accounting software, and PCs…

A few years ago, I bought a bunch of magnetic cables (with both Lightning and USB-C connectors - the cables are the same; only the connectors differ). I haven’t had any issues so f…

I’ve heard that lower and middle education aren’t exactly the US’s strong suits, but still? The US organized a coup in Iran over 70 years ago and has never really stopped meddling …

Acquired taste. Ten years ago, I switched from a sugar-based soft drink to one with Aspartame - it didn’t taste great at first. Now the sugary one tastes awful, while the Aspartame…

> Iran's situation is obviously very different. Yes, very different as in 'Our blessed homeland vs their barbarous wastes' meme. We (and our allies) should have nukes because we wa…

> Germany would have to quickly get nukes No shit? Why would they have to? Is someone ready to nuke them if it turns out they’re no longer under the U.S. nuclear umbrella, or are t…

I would guess that there's a big difference between assembling a drone (which can easily be done in a kitchen) and mass-producing parts such as batteries and gas engines for drones…

The OP probably thought of defense in the narrow sense as "the action of defending against or resisting an attack", and not in the broader sense defined as "we’re going to travel h…

I’m implying they aren’t getting ready because they think Russians are going to march on Berlin.

So while many of the reasons are questionable (understatement of the year), let’s focus on the last one. After America lost the war in Vietnam, what happened to those neighboring n…

Yes, the previous time they were getting ready it was because those pesky Poles being an inch away from invading the Third Reich.

The Turbo button worked wonders for Tetris. You start it with turbo turned on, so Tetris adjusts to the computer’s speed - but it only does this once, at startup. As soon as the bl…

Both scripts have been taught in the early years of elementary school in Serbia for the past 80 years.

So Croats and Muslims fought each other bloodily because all Serbs wanted to live in one state? Funnily enough, they were already living in one state - Yugoslavia - so they certain…

Russia pretty much took over all the USSR's external debts too.

> Do you think some evil military planners sat in the Pentagon... Why shouldn’t he believe it? You people believe the same kind of crap when you're told that X (insert the current …

Americans can be convinced of anything without too much effort so that isn’t really a factor here.

One of my better cinema experiences was watching Austin Powers 3 at the theater in some random late-morning screening where there were only three friends and me in the hall, plus t…