So, now most American men would be eligible.

Excel.

Since when are they unrelated by blood? The largest genetic population in the USA after the English was (and I think might still be?) German.

Okay, so it’s a win-win. I’m not against the option of profit when it increases freedom.

No, I just don’t trust Valve. They poached the better Cassali off Doomworld, and they’ve monopolized gaming without physical media.

TBH, if Tim, Romero, or Carmack relaunched the Big Blue Disk, I would get in, in a heartbeat.

That’s exactly what I believe about it. If Valve sold it without their monopolized software on it, I would be interested.

Happy holidays! I hope you and your friends have fun with your board game shelf!

Well, yeah. The worst of the 2600 is more playable than the new crud.

Was an even longer one essential to the plot of Ghost in the Shell, then?

At the time I went to college, I planned to become a librarian. 2008 happened when I was graduating and looking at getting into a library so I could qualify for a scholarship on my master’s, and things didn’t work out. I’m now in marketing. I don’t know if I’m using anything from college or not anymore, because it’s been 15 years and it’s just a blur.

I had a career plan to make college worth the money and time. The economy fell apart just in time for that to be impossible. I was struggling until about 2017, when I briefly got into private education.

I mean, I live here in the USA. Laughter is the only response I have left. I’m too tired to be scared, and there’s no point in getting angry since there’s nothing I can do about it that wouldn’t leave me hurt worse.

So the only answer left is to laugh about it.

For #18, here’s how my sneakernet software sharing goes: Windows: I copy the installer exe, or a zipped version of the software as installed to a flash drive. The person can then run the software from the drive, or copy it to their own PC. No Internet required, no outside connection called for.

Linux: after determining that they have the right distro type for the software, I have to walk them through either getting it from a GUI repository client, apt, pacman, flatpak, snap, or whatever other cockamamie thing it’s on. They have to install it from the central authority - which is not sharing the software. It’s suggesting that someone else connect to the Internet and download a thing.

If it requires the Internet to for a typical user to share software on media, your operating system is hostile to freedom.

Never stop your enemy when he makes an error in your favor.

The Ten Commandments are the clearest example of “rules for thee, not for me”.

It’s a lot like Backgammon.

Here’s hoping he can be revived in 400 years.

Ah, my sympathies then.

Garish yes, but it was great for color-blind people.

Their deal with Google for Widevine is separate from Mozilla, basically.

No, because at least with masturbation, you have something to show for it at the end.