Re: [Mactel-linux-users] trashed refit

[Geoffrey <li...@se...>]

Michael Crawford wrote:
>> well right now I'm in frisco, at moscone,
> 
> That means that you're in the United States.  Due to an arcane vestige
> of Prohibition - which was never *completely* repealed - one cannot
> send alcholic beverages through the mail.  I don't think you can ship
> them via UPS or FedEx either.
> 
> Back in the day I sponsored a Conway's Life contest for the Classic
> PowerPC Macintosh.  I promised to award the winner a bottle of beer
> from the Front Street Pub, a microbrewery in Santa Cruz.
> 
> Well some German guy implemented it all in PowerPC assembly code that
> used bit-parallelism to operate on 32 cells simultanously.  He was
> clearly the winner - he beat the pants off everyone else who entered.
> I *still* haven't figured out how his code worked.
> 
> Woe was me and woe was him, I was not permitted to send him his bottle of beer!

That is sad.  I can't imagine why such a law still exists.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson