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Comment Re: They are correct to be (Score 1) 168

And free to manufacturer and own nuclear weapons. It's none of your business what I do a long as it doesn't affect you.

So long as you demonstrate that you can keep them safe and secure, I'm less worried about you having a nuke than the US government having one. The US, after all, has actually flash-fried children with the things before.

As for mandatory vaccination, the SCOTUS found in Buck v. Bell -- and has never overturned -- that the same principle that justified mandatory vax also justifies forced eugenic sterilization. It's not just a theoretic "slippery slope", we already slid down it.

Comment What a fucking idiot (Score 1) 113

He's destroying that which makes it actually scarce. He's putting it on the blockchain, which means that no one, even the owner, will have an authentic original. They'll just be able to say that they paid for it. And, nothing he's creating is custom made. The only positive thing you can say about him is that his art was shite in the first place, and he's doing a great job swindling morons.

Comment Re: VIC-20 (Score 1) 523

I'm not sure, but I don't think my parents thought I would actually do it. Straight A's in school, and raising over a hundred dollars by myself at the age of 7. We lived in the woods, half way between a town and a village. Money making opportunities were not plentiful.

Comment VIC-20 (Score 1) 523

My first computer was a Commodore VIC-20. I wrote my Mom a program to store her recipes on cassette tapes, but she didn't want to use it. I was really upset. Switched to writing games. Hey, come play the game I wrote! This is taking forever to load off a cassette tape, my Atari loads the game instantly, this sucks, let's do something else.

I was so happy to get my first floppy drive. I had to get straight A's for my parents to cover half the cost, and I raised the rest of the money delivering newspapers, mowing lawns, raking leaves and shovelling snow.

My second computer was a Commodore 64.

I even taught myself assembly. Haven't used it since I was a child, though.

Comment Re: Seriously, it's worse (Score 1) 103

The program never should have existed in the first place. The leadership should have been fired and sued for implementing it at all. They violated the core values of the project as defined by the mission statement and used money donated for a specific and clearly articulated purpose to further their own personal political goals. They're thieves.

Comment Re: Seriously, it's worse (Score 1, Interesting) 103

Blame the feminists and the transgender activists for that.

Seriously.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/...

They created the Outreach Program for Women in 2014, disregarded their responsibilities to act as stewards to the project and almost drove the Gnome Foundation into bankruptcy wasting money that was in short supply on "gender issues".

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