Despite a State Law that claims motorists have to stop for Pedestrians in a crosswalk I have close calls once a week outside my office. If I could park closer I would. Drivers need to stop playing with the blasted phones, GPS, tablets, in dash entertainment systems, and just drive.

Aren't most Fords made in Mexico now?

I was very much into Apple mid 2000's, but post 2012 might as well just buy a tablet. I had a 2009 Macbook Pro that is still in use by my Mother-In-law. Core2Duo, 8GB of RAM, 1TB Harddrive when I gave it to her. I put an SSD in it, and loaded Win 7 when Apple dropped support. Had a co-worker ask me to take a look at a Macbook air the other week, liquid damage. It's a tablet with some proprietary m2 like SSD tacked on. three circuit boards, a battery, and a trackpad. Replacing the keyboard on one of these is a nightmare. Same thing with the new Pro model laptops. Then they took everything pro out of the MacBook Pro. In the quest for thin and light the ports, graphics, and everything else have been stripped from the 13.3. I moved to Linux for just about everything. KDE gives OS X a run for the money on the desktop and Ubuntu/SuSE/Mint, etc... provide an excellent Stable platform with a little research.

Personally, I prefer Citizen Eco Drive and Skaggen. It's a style thing. Love MacOS, can not deal with the current prices and inability to upgrade. Bought a Lenovo Y410p back in 13, i7-4700MQ and it still is blazing fast. Not as pretty. Screen is not as good, but I dropped 16GB of Ram in it, a 256GB Crucial M2 SSD, and these days Kubuntu 16.04. I realized what I liked about MacOS was functionality, and that can all be reproduced in KDE.

Ahh, yes, like the ones in NC. http://www.wral.com/hog-farmer... I felt bad for these people.

Yes. We have to learn what is safe to shoot at. Don't want to haul off and spray a friendly. There are flash cards. Have to be able to identify it by silhouette. If you are a ground pounder like I was and fail, that may be your last failure. Even then it may be too late.

Either Asus or Lenovo. My wife bought an ideapad in '06/07 and it still runs well. My Y410p from 2013 still works perfectly. Asus has been fairly decent to me. I still regret dumping my U32, it was a fantastic machine.

First they went there own way with out of date software. They didn't contract this to some outfit like SuSE or Canonical. That would have been the smart thing. Second, Microsoft opened a massive office in Munich. That means jobs, money, taxes. Not too hard to figure out why they went the way they did. Microsoft has spent years throwing money at them to move.

Keep in mind, 7 was not very hard to pirate.

I have no idea why they haven't rolled out molten salt on a larger scale. I know it is a thermal system, but it works.

Amazing. People forget Steam is a defacto monopoly now. They have no real competition. The last disk I bought just had a steam code on the disk, and the steam installer. When they mislabeled the minimum requirements for a game and left out that it did not run on 64bit Win 7 it took three weeks for them to tell me to sit and spin. They are not consumer friendly. You click no to the newly updated subscriber agreement and your library is locked. They could put in their that they have the right to use rabid sheep to bite off your ear and you agree or lose $1000 worth of software. Enjoy:)

Took me 7 months, a 300mi move, and a $20,000 reduction in pay. 18mo later most of that is resolved, or will be before the end of this year.

No, that is not true. As a Liberal and American I volunteered and served 8 years in the Army as an Infantry soldier. You might want to rethink what you know about us. Benning tends to weed out the cowards.

Thinkpad 11e

We also have to figure it is almost impossible to get ahead now. Work hard for 10 years at a company and one day they simply decide you are to expensive, never mind the fact that the reason you are expensive was that you worked hard and had earned a number of pay increases. Find a new job, rinse, repeat. But yes, 100 years ago it was worse, the problem is we are headed back in that direction now.