My wife and I enjoyed watching the whole series together. She'd never had the chance, and I missed entire chunks of seasons so it was definitely fun for me. We put off watching the last episode for months because she didn't want to see it end.

People who think the series sucked: it's just not for you.

Woman.

Oh. You meant to select "project", then.

Uh... take out the guy riding it?

Do you ever leave the basement?

This happened over 10 years ago. In response to the Blaster worm, someone wrote the Welchia worm to find, clean, and patch unpatched machines. Because it downloaded the patch to each machine it infected, its deleterious effects on networks may have been worse than Blaster.

I had the pleasure of being contracted to help remove both worms for a local hospital, sneakernetting the removal tool.

Could be messy if the Secret Service tried to track down a counterfeiting operation and it led them to the CIA's door...

Wow... I guess Fred Flintstone really did have computers. I'd love to unearth one of those printers that used a pterodactyl for a print head.

Well, it is ONE factor that causes inflation. Fiat currency, be definition, is devalued by deficit spending, my Foe.

Stop shopping at the 7-11. The regular price of a 2-liter of Coke at the supermarkets where I live is 1.59-1.79. Gas is 3.65. The Coke would need to be over $2 to be more expensive.

Now, milk is over $4/gallon, and I live in a state with a huge number of dairy cows. That's government propping up Big Dairy, of course, with minimum prices.

So you're not bothered by the hit to the economy? Raising regressive taxes always slows an economy. Higher gas prices hit the middle and lower classes hard. It's a more complex way of arriving at the broken window fallacy-- empty the pockets of the people, but give them more work so they can refill them. I'm not even touching the negative impact on the tourism industry.

And the wooden crate doesn't even have a pallet under it! How realistic is THAT?

I guess the IRS asset depreciation rules don't actually apply to the IRS.

Yes, let's use ad hominems because our partisanship is more important than logic or truth.

I know this is OT and I'll probably be modded down, but think about other strange occurrences like Obama and Harry Reid taking umbrage with the Washington Redskins name, and suddenly having the Patent Office revoke their trademark. Very Nixon-like.

So you're OK with people being persecuted by the government as long as it's done equitably?

You're presuming the IT guy even had any idea that something untoward was going on. That's unlikely. Many of us here are admins or have been on the past. When disabling accounts following a termination, have you always known why that person was terminated? I often didn't know when it was an involuntary dismissal.