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The San Jose Mercury News reports
A South Bay [Milpitas, California] recycling firm is looking for a woman who, in early April, dropped off boxes of electronics that she had cleaned out from her house after her husband died. About two weeks later, the firm, Clean Bay Area, discovered inside one of the boxes a rare find: a vintage Apple I, one of only about 200 first-generation desktop computers put together by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne in 1976.
The recycling firm sold the Apple I this month for $200,000 to a private collection, Vice President Victor Gichun said. And now, because company policy is to split proceeds 50-50 with the donor, he's looking for the mystery woman who refused to get a receipt or leave her name.
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(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @08:44AM
No women ever read Soylent. If you're trying to locate the mystery woman, she won't see this news.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday June 04 2015, @09:40AM
Because it illustrates how people don't do due diligence in their doings. Throwing away perfectly useful stuff tends to be one of those things.
(Score: 2) by Ryuugami on Thursday June 04 2015, @10:12AM
Throwing away perfectly useful stuff tends to be one of those things.
In this case, not so much "perfectly useful" as "antique"...
If a shit storm's on the horizon, it's good to know far enough ahead you can at least bring along an umbrella. - D.Weber
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday June 04 2015, @11:26AM
I'd consider something that I can sell for $200,000 as useful. But maybe you don't consider money useful?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Ryuugami on Thursday June 04 2015, @03:43PM
I guess you could also put it that way...
It's just that I don't consider selling something as using it. If it was, every shop would be a second-hand shop. Also, there could be some confusion with "sell" and "use" commands in games.
If a shit storm's on the horizon, it's good to know far enough ahead you can at least bring along an umbrella. - D.Weber
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @12:41PM
I remember once on the old site how someone responded to that with "I'm a woman, you insensitive clod!!!!". Got very defensive about it too, complaining of a community prejudice that women couldn't be interested in the same tech stuff as guys. In the end, it was discovered from deep in this poster's comment history that he was a male-to-female transsexual. That is, he was essentially just a man pretending to be a woman. Kind of went to prove the original poster's point that no actual women read the site.
So, unless the person who dropped the computer off is similarly a tranny, he/she/it wouldn't see this news here. However, the recycling center is in Milpitas, almost at the epicenter of the land of fruits and nuts, so the woman may well have been a man playing dress up.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday June 04 2015, @01:13PM
Interesting. Somebody modded this interesting at the same moment I modded it flamebait.
I don't know if you're a feminist or an MRA, but you would do yourself some good to get some education about the physiological reality of mental gender.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @02:08PM
(Score: 3, Insightful) by kurenai.tsubasa on Sunday June 07 2015, @03:04AM
Ok, seeing as how I have 2 disagree mods and no real refutation, here it is [newscientist.com].
Granted, this is far from a diagnostic test. I hope one day there is a diagnostic test. I remember reading a piece from the American Family Association [afa.net] that stated that being raised as the wrong gender causes profound psychological damage. This is absolutely true.
I'm lucky in this respect. I was able to live as a girl and a woman from an early age. Yet, I've observed that other trans women have suffered sometimes insurmountable psychological damage after being forced to live as a gender they are not. I weep for my sisters who have taken their own lives.
None of us gets a choice as for what gender we are. We merely need to accept it and move forward. Fighting it is nonsensical, especially when reproductive gender does not match mental gender. Are you your vagina or are you your mind? I think mental gender is the true determinant of gender.
(Score: 2) by curunir_wolf on Thursday June 04 2015, @02:28PM
I am a crackpot