Slackware has had an online shop for the longest time.

It seems, based on previous posts by Patrick Volkerding, that the people who were in charge of running this shop have been ripping him off for years.

The situation finally came to a head when Pat V broke all contacts with them and asked the community for support. Having a Patreon page is just one more step in this direction.

If you'd like to contribute, Patrick Volkerding PayPal page is: https://www.paypal.com/paypalm...

I use Slackware, and I support Slackware financially, through PayPal and probably through Patreon in the future.

Do you?

Contrary to what you seem to think, a lot of people who use Slackware like it enough to support it. This is a community that values Patrick Volkerding's work.

or whomever wrote speeches for Kennedy

The speeches are the (direct) object - they have something done to them. The writer is the subject, he does something to the speeches.

Therefore s/whomever/whoever/.

I wasn't aware that rhyming was a necessary or a sufficient condition for being poetry. Well, you're the expert, or so you claim.

The New Yorker reviews linguist Gretchen McCulloch's new book ...

FTFY.

The oldest, still the best.

Go Slack!

(Seriously, though, it's worth using -- just plain Linux, no frills, does the job)

Second for Audio-Technica.

I'll put on my QuietPoint ATH-ANC9, switch on noise-cancelling and I can barely hear even the loudest engines on a plane.

Pump some music in those headphones and I am in a cocoon of music. I cannot even hear people talking right next to me (which is very annoying to my wife).

Beats is just garbage, as far as noise cancelling is concerned.

Sounds like bullshit to me. Wet potatoes go off really quickly, almost overnight. Anyone trying that trick would get zero repeat business.

credited to help put Austin on the tech map

What kind of retard speak is this?

I have used OpenBSD on the desktop since 2005.

It was a great OS for my laptop at the time, and it still is. I used OpenBSD exclusively on it, and managed to get everything done without any issue.

My current laptop is a MacBook Air, but the next one will run OpenBSD again.

Mmm, Tibet? Weren't they involved in Korea too?

What about Hitler, Neapolitan, or Genghis Khan?

Type mismatch - expected parameter of type dictator, found icecream. Bailing near line 473.

... why I should invest some $$$ in the shitcoin "du jour"?

I have always said that computer security is a huge mess. As the crypto-currencies gain value, they provide more and more incentives to bad guys to hack your computer to get at your wallet.

Well... In that particular case, Amazon, Microsoft and Google are "more" secure because Intel gave them advance warnings and probably some detailed patch and vulnerability information. And Linux got patched really quickly because Google and Amazon have invested massively in that operating system.

The smallest projects, like OpenBSD, were left in the cold to fend off for themselves. Theo and other developpers asked Intel if they could be a part of the embargo. They never received a response.

The average age of a nuclear power plant in this country is 38 years old

Its age is zero milliseconds old, since it refreshes continually as time passes.

Did you mean "The average age of a nuclear power plant in this country is 38 years", or perhaps "The average nuclear power plant in this country is 38 years old"?