It came to me in 2001 and it's been my daily driver since then. Works every bit as well as a brand-new one. I'm occasionally tempted to upgrade to a 104-key model, but only occasionally.

This particular Model M was fitted with a WordPerfect keyboard template, and included a sticker on the Enter key that said "any key". The latter has long since worn off, alas.

They purchased the whole factory in Kentucky.

Probably most of it comes down to driving style. People who are used to older cars with bigger engines will probably think a new model with a small engine is gutless and will floor the accelerator to make it go faster. Anecdotally, I drive a 2005 Civic Hybrid, which was originally rated for ~46 MPG with the "less realistic" measure EPA used back then. I've driven it 170k miles now and that is in fact its lifetime average - it has two trip odometers and I never reset one of them. However back when these were still pretty new I read reports of people who complained about getting only ~33 MPG out of an identical car. The only reasonable explanation is that they were flooring it between stoplights and generally ignoring the instantaneous and cumulative MPG display the car gives you.

Basically people are impatient and don't know how to drive efficiently. It took me a few months to really get into the groove with mine and I still have to make sure I've got plenty of room to pass on the highway, but it's certainly doable.

Privacy Badger. I just let it manage my blocking automatically and I don't see ads here.

1-2-3 on OS/2 was also much slower at calculating than the contemporary Win32 version. Something like half the speed on certain tasks, IIRC.

Back in the '90s the NYPD discovered that if you enforce laws against minor offenses like jaywalking, littering, etc. then there will be less serious crime in that same area.

The Republicans /are/ the crazy-right party and have been since either Nixon's Southern Strategy or the '94 election, depending on whom you believe.

It's ironic that you've made several spelling and grammar mistakes while calling other people stupid.

Are you fucking stupid? B-52s are an obsolete design with a huge radar profile that are only in service because they're excellent cruise missile carriers and well-understood enough to be quite reliable.

It would be nothing for a reasonably modern air force to shoot an unescorted B-52 down either with SAMs or fighters.