Or they'll just say they stopped but keep on doing it.

I'll be astonished if they aren't already doing more than we know about.

Because sitting around playing video games all day is *exactly* like a career as a programmer. If you like one, you'll *love* the other.

It got him an off-hour story on Slashdot.

I used to maintain a BBS list for my local SoCal calling area. That was about 55 BBSs, and as you say -- all different, all with their own unique flavor -- which depended on the mix of board software, file areas, message areas, and the users those attracted. A few survive as internet-accessable (including Techware, which was also the last of our local dialups) but for the most part... a lost era.

http://www.techware2k.com/publ...

Sure, let's solve this problem by ... uh .. what, legislating HTML practices? Brilliant.

The infinite monkeytypings will eventually produce a theorem proving it one way or the other, if such a theorem exists.

I had a neutered male cat who from about 9 months old spent all day, every day, killing gophers. Within a few months he'd completely exterminated them within about half a mile of my house. He only ate part of the first gopher of the day, far as I ever saw.

Most predators kill for fun as well as for food and for training their young; it's not at all unusual. -- That's the real problem with wolves vs domestic sheep; it's so much fun to shoot fish in a barrel that they wind up killing a whole flock just for jollies.

That, and the other question I had -- are these metabolites *unique* to cocaine? Cuz if not, cue the false positives.

I don't, but I use music to "fill up the cracks in my brain" that would otherwise be full of distractions.

I don't think you understand games a service.

It helps if you know what you're talking about. Starcraft you can mod all you want in single player, in fact, they effectively encourage Starcraft mods.

They still have 7M subscribers. I'd hardly count that as dead.

I'm not exactly excited about Hillary, but Kim Dotcom isn't where I usually turn for information about politics.

Sounds like he just misses being in the headlines.

I was astonished to see it open at 9.0 on IMDB. I had read that it's just one big chase scene with no plot. Is it actually interesting?

Cats only eat a relatively small % of the birds they kill. I'm a cat owner, but the numbers don't lie.