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• I have a friend who just got back from the Soviet Union, and told me the people there are hungry for information about the West.
  He was asked about many things, but I will give you two examples that are very revealing about life in the Soviet Union....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• America is a stronger nation for the ACLU's uncompromising effort.
  -- President John F. Kennedy The simple rights, the civil liberties from generations of struggle must not be just fine words for patriotic holidays, words we subvert on weekdays, but living, honored rules of conduct amongst us....
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• ecurity through obscurity (alt. `security by obscurity') A term applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of coping with security holes -- namely
  ignoring them, documenting neither any known holes nor the underlying security algorithms, trusting that nobody will find out about them and that people who do find out about them won't exploit them....
• One promising concept that I came up with right away was that you could manufacture personal air bag
  hen get a law passed requiring that they be installed on congressmen to keep them from taking trips....
• ime bomb n. A subspecies of logic bomb that is triggered by reaching some preset time, either once or periodically.
  There are numerous legends about time bombs set up by programmers in their employers' machines, to go off if the programmer is fired or laid off and is not present to perform the appropriate suppressing action periodically....
• It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan.
  The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons....