Or you can go with vintage gear, if you know where to find it.

I'm using a set of 1970 (or so) original Advent Loudspeakers. A cousin gave me his 'old' system when I was in school around 1986, when he upgraded to a Sony system. I think I got the better part of the deal, and am still using it.

The system included the 2 Advents, a BIC turntable, Yamaha Natural Sound Receiver, and an Akai tape deck.

I'm going to bet that no one talking about this knows what the apps actually does. Does the app say "Hold this to your forehead for 5 minutes while running to be cured of being gay" ? If so then it could be denied as being a fraud and skip the whole issue.

Along the same line, a vaccination for being gay would be just as bogus, but wouldn't be an argument against vaccines for polio.

I'm going come back on the freedom side. A person can want or not want, whatever they want. Moreover, as a general fear of absolutes, I would be incredibly surprised if everyone who was gay, was so for the same reason. I don't think we know nearly enough about it to make blanket statements.

Apple, of course, is free to do whatever they want with their business, and we are free to buy whatever phone we want, which is why I have a G2.

And I'm a borderline human who was happy to get a D in Differential Equations. However, I encourage anyone who thinks differently to do what they feel is right, and leave the good jobs to the rest of us.

Or

A Hurd of Vaxen

A Beowulf cluster of Timex/Sinclair 1000s

There you go.

Yup, dual DSDD floppies. I bought these Cannon 2/3 height floppies at a local computer show. They had a funky faceplate that you would push in to open, that looked really good with the TRS-80 all in one design. Eventually I added a third external floppy.

The controller was from whoever always had the ad in the first few pages of 80-Microcomputing (later 80-Micro) magazine.

I prefered LDOS, which I needed to use my double-sided 360k floppies.

But I voted for TRS-80 DOS above as a general alternative.

Thanks ! This immediately came to mind, but I could not remember the title of the book.

Points to anyone who can spot the reference.

This reminds me of my college days, when the school was switching from all DEC Pro-350 computers to PCs. They were throwing out pallets of the DECs, and students were grabbing them all up - to use as space heaters. Had an off-campus basement apartment ? Extra cold night ? Turn on another DEC Pro-350 !

Not a complete solution, but possibly part of a solution. WowWee (The company that made the Robosapian) has a mobile webcam 'robot', the Rovio

http://www.wowwee.com/en/products/tech/telepresence/rovio

They sell it for pretty much your situation. So, whenever it's wondering around, the family can know "Dad is here !"

Better blowing it up in Iraq and Afghanistan than New York.

Sorry guys, short term "better you than me" goals are a fact of life.

Fscking hot.

Why should we go to the moon ? Do you want someone ELSE to be at the top of a big gravity well, throwing rocks at you ?

Of course, discussing the military aspects of space is unthinkable, so it doesn't come up. Meanwhile, some other country will get up there, And that scares me.