You just gave every lawyer a giant woody, even the ladies.

After Washington jacked up the taxes on booze I would think that would mean stopping to pick up a fifth.

Go Cougs!

Exactly. Show me another way I can watch Masterchef Australia in the US (which is produced by Murdock's wife's company, Shine, but still the best of the Masterchef shows.) Most of our viewing is BBC, CBC or PBS. I could get my PBS with an antenna (I donate each year) and if I put up another high gain yagi pointing northwestish I should be able to pull in CBC from Victoria to grab Doc Zone, but why bother? The few US show that I watch are streamed anyway so I'm just saving them bandwidth.

You could bust me for Hot in Cleveland but I haven't found a way to send TV-Land money for that yet. Oh, and Deadliest Catch. But since one of the deckhands burnt down a friends house while shooting up and we had to give him a room for six months, I think that one is paid for. (Looking at you Matt.)

Anyway, my ISP is owned by an American Native Sovereign Tribal Government. Good luck sending them a letter.
Ok, I've about run out of justification here. But as far as felony theft , I've been busted for that back in 1987 (18USC1029). Millions of dollars of long distance calling on Sprint. (did it with a C64) and did 6 years in Club Fed. These days offering unlimited long distance for $100/month would just get you laughed out of the room. I've got a $6/month VoIP line that gives me that, not to speak of the four cell lines I pay under $100/month for. I hope in the not too distant future that we can get the show we want without having to pay for the whole package. Give us the infrastructure and let us pay for and download what show we want to pay for. I'd be more that happy with that.

Until then, well, I'm a felon... again.

Computer LCD screen, old Core2 box running Mint Linux, set of old speakers with sub-woofer, VLC, thepiratebay for content. Has served our house well for the last two years.

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So it's not how to get your 8080 to see the 8250 UART so you can load a Microsoft BASIC from paper tape from your Model 33 ASR.

Hah! Fancy toggle switches. We had momentary contact switches for both the data bus and the address bus. Took three hearty men and a coxswain to load the code for the paper-tape reader. One man on the data bus, two on the address bus (though the man on the most significant byte had it pretty easy) and the coxswain would call out the bits and hit the load button. One year our team loaded a 3548 byte moon lander program in just under three minutes and twelve seconds. Made state finals that year only to be bested by a nine man team that touched pull-down resistors directly to the CPU pins. Boy those guys had dainty but quick fingers.

They do, but they have been know to be incorrectly installed and go into a feedback loop.

Crappy drum brakes and overpowered engines. Non-radial tires.

How are we even alive?

Sorry, Bi-Directional Amplifier. A signal booster.

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It sounds like it could have been a BDA gone into a regeneration loop. Not that uncommon.

True, but cars were much more dangerous back then. Looking at you old Fury III with bench seats, 383 and no belts.

Got an 8" Turbo Pascal disk hanging on the wall of my office.

Well, anything by them but specifically the Model 500 telephone set.

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63 years old and still works just like it came out of the factory. The only maintenance is a bit of cleaning with soapy water and tapping the microphone against something hard every few years to pack the carbon granules.

Also remarkable is that it will still work on just about any phone system in the world. That's a long lasting communication standard.

Another great line of products were pre-1990 Motorola two way radios. They were build almost as well as the WE stuff.

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Hell, give me that on a ball of rice with some wasabi, let me dip it in soy, I'll eat it. Google knows that I've eaten worse and stranger, and paid good money for it.