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When Joe Woodland dreamed up the bar code in the late 1940s, it looked like a bull’s-eye — a series of concentric circles. But although Woodland went to work for IBM in the early ’50s and helped Big Blue push the UPC into the market, he sold his original bull’s eye patent to another company, and the code IBM settled on looked more like a rectangle — a series of short, parallel lines.... Laurer first realized the code could be construed as some sort of apocalyptic signpost while it was still under development in the early 1970s. His daughter happened to be studying the Book of Revelation, and he couldn’t help but notice that the code harbored a few 6′s — though not the 6′s alleged by the urban legend that’s still bouncing around the internet. And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice say, "Attention shoppers...."
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My response? They (the [REDACTED] protestors) are all ID-TEN-Ts and have a non ending BrainNotFoundException, coupled with an IAmVeryGullibleexception and an IAmStupidException.
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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