The Acer Debacle – Closing The Chapter

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KS
Ken Starks
May 24, 2009

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“Michelle Minkin, a friend of this effort and an all-around nice
lady; suggested that we auction off the opportunity to destroy
these computers. We were almost ready to start soliciting the
community for creative ways to make them go BOOM and film it for
YouTube consumption.

“You are right, it was a juvenile and silly idea. One I
personally liked thank you very much. Sure it might have been
silly.

“So was spending 9 hours of my life seeking the solution for a
problem that took all of 1 minute to solve.”


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Ken Starks

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