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Ross’s laptop bag was slung over his shoulder, and he was folding up his flip phone.
Ross was absorbed by a smart phone in his hand.
Page before, it was a flip phone
They looked large enough to serve as a redoubt in the event of Indian attack.
Asshole, couldn’t resist the stereotype, could you?
you think his games contain hidden data?" She nodded. "The MMORPG world is a male-dominated subculture. I need a guide."
He also took out large lines of credit in the months before his death.
Would you knowingly lend money to a dying person?
It’s a corporation."
Because 14th Amendment
Her new boss was an undead automaton from hell, true, but no job was perfect.
In general, Sebeck viewed computers as a necessary fact of modern life. His chief complaint was that they gave a false sense of precision to poor thinking.
"What’s a Vorpal Sword?"
Vorpal
The Warmonk, Inc., prison-based telemarketing facility in Highland, Texas, was privately owned and operated under contract to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
At thirty cents an hour, they gave Indian telemarketers a run for their money.
"The American private prison industry is now an international enterprise. The two biggest companies have direct construction or alliance partnerships to build prisons in over sixty nations—including countries where criticizing the government is a crime. This ensures an ever-increasing pool of slave labor—"
Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza with roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shared an apartment, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.
Stupid
"Early on, evolution branched into two distinct paths: independent organisms—those that exist on their own in the natural world—and parasites—organisms that live on other organisms. And it was, by far, the parasites that proved the more successful of the two branches. Today, for every independent organism in nature, there exist three parasites."
This is such bullshit
