Dear ShanghaiBill, I am regretful that it took so long to reply to you. I enjoyed your post and think that youngsters like yourself need all of the encouragement that those of us in the older generation can give. Sadly I find that telnet does not support mosaic, so the graphics available are too restrictive. It was also getting harder and harder to connect to AOL with telnet and along with many tech savy geezers, I converted to mosaic back when y2k forced me to upgrade to my current computer. Sincerely yours, An Old Geezer

Since this is not a secure channel, I think we should use the cone of silence!

The OP said, "I can live without rayon, but, dang, I'm gonna miss polyvinyl chloride!" Rayon is made from wood. We make vinyl chloride from petrochemicals, but the original source was plant material and the majority of world production uses plant material. Acetate, is another one typically from plants. As is nitrocellulose. Casein, is a protein from milk. It is also the plastic that the buttons on your shirt are probably made of. So plastic without petroleum is not that hard to find.

Now I have worm senses.

Anyone remember the side kick, Peri? In 1984 they cast Nicola Bryant, as Perpugilliam Brown, and she lasted through 2 Doctors. Towards the end, they even let her wear entire sets of clothing.

Bad enough that Kirk's son messed with the stuff, now we have a bunch of it orbiting our sun. Seriously even Klingon scientists have denounced the use of protomatter.

It is pretty clear what this is really about. Facebook is the natural enemy of Anonymity. You can not use Facebook and remain anonymous. You can not even have a friend use Facebook and remain anonymous. Anonymous finally realized who their natural enemy was and that they would be assimilated eventually if things remained as they are. Facebook is the Borg of computer identity. Personally I fear Anonymous Coward, while the Anonymous Coward group never does anything, they can be amazingly snippy.

Seems that we regularly 'discover' that Uranus has another moon or two every now and then. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Uranus I think we know who the culprit is. I would advise you to be a bit more responsible for what Uranus does. Don't think we haven't noticed. Bathing might help.

The two moon, one wolf t shirt was amazing back then, I tell you I can! So awesome that one moon had to go,

Checking out Clayton Morris, http://www.foxnews.com/archive/author/clayton-morris/index.html, he loves him some istuff. His 'Another day another tablet.' Starting line is pure salesmanship! Nice to see Apple scared enough to send out the dogs.

The kind of Rovian bastard that comes up with this sort of slimy plot is the most disgusting slime that a sick society can possibly produce. The SAIC is disgusting just for allowing such smarmy and clearly anti-American skum to work for them. I remember a day when analyst used to mean something. Usually a technician promoted high enough to present data a meeting, But now, I am embarrassed that Dallas Boyd holds a title that I once held. Why didn't this slime ball practice what he preaches and self censor himself. He should have chosen to protect our democracy and values, but no, he had to go and publish this damned fascist drivel. What a horridly unattractive sort of weasel. He should be stigmatized for presenting such clearly dangerous schemes!

A goat, pig, chicken and a lobster are not worth a lot of EP. I doubt Zuckerberg is even second level. There! Now it is news for geeks.

This is pretty well silly. Trademark is common law, registered, international, national and just about every other sort of monkey court in existence. ICANN may be opening themselves up to some real silly nastiness. The sort of thing they will richly deserve if they go through with this.

Sums it up really.

Does this mean that DMCA is an actually restricted four letter word? That would make DMCA the strongest cuss word of them all! What ever you do, don't threaten to DMCA someone, especially in writing, unless you have what it takes to DMCA someone! That's just DMCA'd up.