only in EBCDIC format in many counties. That is still machine readable. for an IBM mainframe.

I still have the box too.

I quit trying to train lusers long ago. Too many corporate types training them to be insecure. Hiding extensions, active-x, hiding email addresses, link shortening, click link to install, auto-start. Idiot proofing forces the evolution of better idiots
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I always felt google was targeting flash mainly because ad block plus had a 99% block rate for flash ads. Now I can't stop national geographic and every other news site from auto-playing their videos. Click no longer stops them and if you scroll down they follow you. I fore see an added fee for advertisers that want to force you to see their ad on a google system.

sig line pain inducer... it is "intents and purposes" not "intensive purposes"

Seems impossible to me. Cost wise, in my high tax state a carton of smokes was 80 bucks when I was buying them.. I used 6 a month. 480 bucks plus sales tax of 10 %.

Vaping currently cost me about 30 dollars a month for nicotine base, 2 dollars for VG (vegetable glycerin) to mix it down to the strength I use, and about 6 dollars a month for flavoring. Coils are about 6 to 10 dollars a month and batteries are 8 to 10 dollars a piece and I have bought 9 in 5 years.

I keep a 5 year supply of Nic base in the freezer because I know anything the FDA gets its hooks into will eventually go up 1000% in price and never escape their grasp.

Yup. I buy them separate and mix my own. I also buy nicotine as a 99 mg/ml litre jug and mix the strength I want . (currently 16 mg/ml) Vaping for 5 years and my doctors are happy with it. Far better for me than the 47 years I spent smoking. Been a nicotine addict since working the fields at the age of 5.

for the Reichstag to burn down.

The plucky entrepreneur who strip mined the public domain and made millions (back when millions was a LOT of money) and reinvested some of that cash into lawyers and lobbyists to make damn sure no one else on the planet would every be able to do the same.

https://priceonomics.com/how-m...

I grew up near a military base which included artillery and air cavalry training every day. I noticed later in life that I did not actually hear helicopters anymore unless I saw one or noticed someone else looking up.

Will never get back in their account.

I worked many years in the Westin building. By 2001 all the lawyers, consuls and misc office drones had been pushed out and the telcos, isps and several big name startups had to find cheaper office space since it was damn near all being converted to datacenter. The parking garage lost several floors to generators and cooling overflow and the roof top looked like a fucking torch in the infrared. Seattle internet exchange started in the Westin (1997 ish) using a sparc 10 and a dumb hub and a couple of cat-3 cables we threw across the wall to real networks. Now it is massive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... I am pretty sure the building will not come down in a "big-one" earthquake since it is by my guess about 20% fiber-optic and copper cabling by weight. :)

I pay the neighborhood kids 15.00 an hour. I am disabled and they can get a lot more done in that hour than I can.

Blacks and whites in the south often have the same name. There were three with my name and middle initial in my third grade class, 7 in the elementary school. 4 were black. (Last name the same as Confederate President)