But the thing about Socialism is... that there's no money in it.
OK, after we get rid of all the "wasteful" spending at the NSF, can we take a look at the DoD? I have several hundreds of billions of dollars worth of recommendations for spending cuts on that front...
Perhaps it was just an error (or an easter egg) on the part of the server software. Maybe they piped the votes through
I once knew a woman named Jenn Jameson. True story.
Also, Linus Torvalds is just a "stage" name.
I recommend that all of you, your children, your grandmothers and your mothers download the "history insurance" file that was tweeted 3 days ago.
I sense that they will soon give up trying to go about this in a diplomatic fashion and just leak the key for the AES256 encryption. Then BOOM! Thousands of people will have the entire cable archive (or at least a large part of it) on their home computers.
ICANN is really a perfect example of where a bunch of wise-beard Unix hacker types could do a better job than the corporate whores currently doing it could. Or better yet, a proper distributed alternative to DNS.
With enough Linux geeks, anything is possible.
I feel I'm in the same boat as the OP; I used to game a lot when I was younger. I still remember fondly the first time I played DOOM for so long that I couldn't see straight. Then it was Blood, then Quake, then Half-Life.
The decline started when I decided I was going to uninstall Windows and switch to a completely Linux system six years ago; I decided it wasn't worth the effort to restart my computer and risk infection just so I could play Battlefield 1942 against bots for a few hours. At first I still tried to keep my favorite old games around via projects like prboom, ScummVM and the engines at icculus.org. (Little did I know, this was slowly turning me into a *NIX admin and guru.)
Then, a couple years ago I lost almost everything in a hard drive crash. I decided that was the winds of fate trying to tell me that I should just give up.
Now that I'm 25, I'm a coder by day and a musician/sound engineer by night. I find I don't even have the patience or the hand-eye coordination to play some of the flash games on Newgrounds.
MMORPs seem to be more addicting social habits than games.
I completely agree. I guess I'm lucky never to have gotten into the whole scene (not enough cash, having sex with girls, etc.).
Apple users prefer the term "Cougar"
"Cougar" is also a term for a middle-aged woman who seduces younger men. The Apple 1 seduced many young men as well, causing them to become obsessed and spend excess amounts of time with it (her?).
...except the Apple 1 is way sexier.
First contact with the Vulcans in April 2063.
Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking. -- Jerome Lettvin