Along those lines, the last surviving civil war veterans died in the mid-1950s. I'm pretty sure that some people alive today talked to those people.

I'm sure a doubter could say "what if the interviewers are lying about what the civil war veterans said"... but then how can you believe the civil war veterans? how could you believe anybody? taken to the extreme, how can you even trust yourself when the human brain's visual, aural, and even memory components can all be tricked?

Guns of the South (pretty much that exact concept, only it's ak-47s and the american civil war) was a pretty fascinating novel. a bit dry, but then it was written by a history professor.

Religion never solves anything.

Chances are you invent your new space-race religion, and they'll put the actual "lets get to space" part on hold in order to focus on killing everybody else in the world who has a space program first.

That's just how religion rolls. Building bridges and making friends. With swords and ak-47s.

Even TAILS has JS on by default. never really understood why.

I remember being amazed back in the early 90s at what the demoscene coders could do in 64k.

Well quite honestly nowadays you can leave the radio on and be fairly certain that the song you want to be played will come on within the next 30-40 minutes... as long as what you want to hear is one of the current top 15 songs or so for the genre of the station in question.

It was bad enough when I was young, but now it's to the point where the same song will be played multiple times per hour, like the stations just have a "greatest hits of summer 2013" cd on repeat.

Spotify's "basic" quality is Q5 Vorbis, which is roughly equivalent to VBR mp3 in the 192kbps range (only with better handling of edge cases than mp3). i.e. virtually transparent to most listeners on most equipment. Spotify's premium quality is Q9 vorbis, which is, well, complete overkill. Even more pointless than 320kbps cbr mp3.

Youtube's "basic" quality is shit. Youtube's premium quality is... is there even such a thing?

Don't misunderstand me, I find out about songs often though youtube, but then I go load the tune up on spotify to actually enjoy the music.

Those 17 people within 100 meters of the hub are going to be thrilled!

describing cpu speed in ghz is like describing engine speed in rpm. it's technically accurate, but tells you nothing at all about what the product can actually do for you unless you're comparing two different examples of the exact same architecture.

you guesstimate that 80% of drivers have had a drink before getting on the road?

That explains SO much...

christmas eve, 1985.

We had a tradition in my family, we unwrapped one present each on christmas eve. my dad kept hinting that I should unwrap the big box up front.
I did. It had an NES in it.

My dad passed on opening one of his presents so i could open another one of mine. it had Wrecking Crew in it.

My father and I spent the next several hours alternating between two-player wrecking crew and super mario brothers, until mom made us go to bed because santa wasn't coming as long as I was up.

it was a good day.

Actually I did stop playing wow to play d3. for like 3 or 4 weeks.

really though, it's just... it's just time. the game is a fantastic game, one of the best ever made, but it's been the same thing with new coats of paint for almost a decade now. you can only do this same dance so many times before you sit up, ask yourself "what else is there", and wander off.

I was in a world top 80 guild in vanilla. I personally was the highest DPS on the server for a good while. It was a 7-day-a-week job, but I was young and my GF (now wife) raided with me so it was doable. we both burnt out about the same time the rest of the guild did, it colapsed in on itself about the time we realized that the imminent expansion would completely negate everything we'd done. and it did. complete burnout. left the game for 6 months at least.

raided with a semi-serious raiding guild in TBC. I fought my way back up into a server-best guild again by the end of the next expansion (wrath is still the best thing they ever made imo), just in time for it to all repeat again.

didn't bother raiding cata. same song and dance again.

haven't even SEEN most of mop, i mostly just level alts now. dungeon finder circa level 15 to 55, and questing in northrend and cataclysm for nostalgic purposes, that's all the game is to me anymore, a time sink for nostalgic purposes. like putting weekend at bernies on the tv while you're cleaning the house.

yes.
that's a limitation on the clause.
which is exactly what I said.
look, it's not exactly rocket science here.

I'm pretty sure that putting limits on the interstate commerce clause is exactly what Chief Justice did in the recent affordable care act case.

read up on it. in the furor over "omg he betrayed conservatives everywhere he's a villain! lynch him!" hysteria, the true legacy of his phrasing of the majority decision was pretty much overlooked.

I suppose it depends on which X2 processors you're refering to.
I have a "regor" based X2 that I purchased brand new in 2010.