Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum of moo. And I am afraid to say that these days all I get is moo.
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Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor (righto.com)Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, a chip to “separate the really power-hungry folks from ordinary mortals.” The original Pentium was followed by the Pentium Pro, the Pentium II, and others, spawning a long-running brand of high-performance processors, Intel’s flagship line until the Core processors took over in 2006. The Pentium eventually became virtually synonymous with “PC” and even made it into pop culture.
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Terry Pratchett (Wikipedia)Sir Terence David John Pratchett OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English humourist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels.