Back in the day, my friend and I would co-op in GTA2. Our mission was to steal as many cars as possible then jam them next to each other for as far as we could go. Then we'd blow one up and create a massive chain reaction which on occasion would crash our machines. It was great fun.

When I was a kid, my step-brother and I would spend hours playing this game "co-op." One of us would take charge of the movement joystick while the other took the firing one. It was great fun yelling back and forth about where to go and what to shoot. Try it with a friend some time.

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Driving Like a Geek, The Geek Guide to Not Sucking In Bed, A Geek and His/Her Dog, The Geek's Kitchen Friend, The Geek's Guide to Overcoming Superficial Label Addiction

I dunno if you're a geek or not when you can't figure out how to switch "(neglect due to interest in sports, etc.)" to "(neglect due to interest in Linux/gaming, etc.") Sorry to break your "Geek" heart but you don't need special books because you're a geek.

I hope your marriage works out. Really, I do. I've just had my fill of people that need "Tags" and live their lives around them.

It seems every day now I end up stopped behind some idiot who's too busy texting on the phone to realize he's sitting at a damn green light. Or I watch some soccer mom weaving around in her SUV with the telltale hand to the head posture.

It used to be that here in the south that when you saw a car weaving around it was from good old fashioned drunk driving! WTF happened?!

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Maybe the stockholders should be given a file about the donor what with the potential of genetic memory influencing Jobs' decisions now. ;)

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I don't want a democracy. I don't want a democratic republic. I want a REPUBLIC.

Too few people know the difference.

Arresting pot smokers is an incredibly lucrative business! That's why it's still banned.

From their support email:

"Hello,

Thank you for contacting Sprint regarding the Palm Pre handset. We really appreciate your interest in our new products.

You can certainly purchase the Palm Pre handset without providing the SSN Number. However, to use this handset you are required to add this handset on any existing Sprint account of your family member or friend (if any).

In case, you wish to open a new account on your account, then you need to provide us the Social Security Number as per the FCC guidelines.

Thank you again for contacting Sprint and have a nice day."

So they claim it's an FCC guidelines requirement. True?

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I'm with you there. This is one issue where it's very easy vote with your dollars. I won't support an industry that behaves like this.

It's all political.

I was going to post a large list of things that piss me off about the industry but hell we all know what they are. Every policy is driven by greed. I won't pay anyone for that. So yeah if they gave me a reason to want to buy from them then I would gladly do so.

I will say that when I'm visiting Asia I buy music ALL THE TIME (admittedly from select labels) because the price is reasonable, the quality of mainstream music is better, you can get the music very easily and in many ways. I also buy movies there because of the same reason. I like that I can pick up a legit english version of a movie on VCD at the same time that the movie comes out.

Meh it's the same ole western greed system that's in place in about every industry. In Asia I can buy a killer mobile phone, pick whatever carrier I want, use prepaid or some sort of plan, not be forced into a multi-year contract just to get a decent phone or rate, have far better access to internet and other features, and get far, far, far more functionality out of the phone. Because the opposite is true here in the states, I don't even bother having a mobile.

My $0.02. Cheap!

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this kind of idiocy pops up and sets me straight.

They'll never get a dime from me.

I start with Wall of Stone, Wall of Fire, and Wall of Darkness.

I've used Linux on and off for a dozen years but it wasn't until I installed Ubuntu, after trying a dozen other distros, that I finally ditched my Windows partition. It's not perfect and it still takes some tweaking to get everything working but finally I can accomplish just about everything I want to.

I can do it while stoned. Which is how I intend to spend my entire retirement. Until then I'll live in semi-retirement. ;)

It doesn't.