Interesting reading about how World War III almost started in 1983, except for one Russian colonel who said, "Fuck, this makes no sense, I won't do it."
May 27th, 2004
...that these days, it's an exercise in complete futility trying to buy anything on eBay that anyone else wants, except via Buy It Now, unless you have a multi-megabit connection or an account with one of the automated robot-bid-sniping services.
And to think that when automated bid-sniping first started, eBay banned it because it was unfair. I guess they musta decided that fairness could go fuck itself, 'cos they made more money off the last-90-seconds bid-sniping wars.