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23:10 - Geez!
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Ahh, the march of technology. Half the industry works like mad to realize the grand dreams of what the advancing state of the art can do for wide-eyed customers, and the other half... well, seems to be dedicated to working out ways to subvert the ingenuity of the first half for fun and profit.
As Marcus says, "Can you imagine being EMPLOYED to create and design these things?"
Those of us who are engineers will probably easily recognize such people as being the ones who cruised through high school on a bare minimum of effort, seemingly untouchable by the rigors of life, popular and attractive and insufferable. But we all put up with them, because we knew we'd end up with jobs where we created things, and they would end up pumping gas or something (perhaps working in a museum of ancient gas-station technology).
We were right about ourselves. But as it turns out, there's always a place in this world for the slime who can only imitate but never create. There will always be a demand for such services.
Wow, I even managed to get disillusioned on a holiday!
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