The police themselves should be treated as accessories to the crime, for busting down a door and brandishing weapons based on an anonymous call.

The number "2600" appears a lot in his stories. Phreaker wannabe?

Besides, the "annoying and bright" part tells me he's actually complaining about HIDs. LED lights are far less annoying.

My body count is 0. Where's my award?

I should get the prize for peace this year. I haven't bombed anyone-- ever!

It is a pretty ridiculous statement, considering that the BASICs for most early PCs and home computers came from Microsoft.

That's like saying a human being isn't alive because the part we see is mostly a layer of nonliving kertin and dead skin cells.

A corporation is not a building. A corporation doesn't even need to have assets. One thing is does need is at least one living, breathing officer.

It's a necessary evil. Thanks to progress, racist murderers are no longer afforded such protection.

People here are complaining about the effort required to press Model M keys. Man, those VT-100s were brutal. You had to slam those keys, and you didn't even get much tactile feel for the effort.

Stromasys offers an Alphaserver emulator for this. There is a free version called PersonalAlpha. It is accurate, but even running on a modern quad-core 64-bit CPU it's only about as fast as an EV5 by my benchmarks. The commercial product fares a little better.

There are other options, like FreeAXP, but I had better performance with Stromasys.

OpenVMS has been licensed by VSI, a venture by Nemonix, so a migration to x86-64 is not out of the question. In fact, it's likely considering it would free VMS from the whims of HP.

For me to calculate efficiency without using the MPG readout, I have to use the odometer and the gauge that's on the fuel pump. The fuel pump should be accurate, but the odometer is connected to the same computer that calculates the MPG. How would this be more accurate? Or are you suggesting that people drive around with fifth wheels, and remove and weigh their tanks after every trip?

Many, if not most, modern 4-cylinders can make it to 120 MPH-- if the governor is disabled.

Yours is a nonsensical complaint, anyway, since you'd demand that a manufacturer have different speedos for different models, based solely on how fast they can go. It's a bit cheaper to make one speedo for two or three different models than make one for each.

Number one, a contract is different from a policy. If you sign a contract, you have protections based on what is in the contract. Number two, you can put anything you want in a contract or a policy, but if it violates law they might as well put "must surrender first-born" in there for all the good it does them.

That's exactly how I would have put it to the judge in traffic court. "Moving out of the way seemed like the safest action. But don't worry, I won't do it again. Hopefully, no one's life depends on those few seconds."

Where do you pull over and call when there is no shoulder? On on a limited-access highway, where non-emergency stops are prohibited?

I hope you recognize that yours was an extreme case.