I have a fairly unique name, and I purchased a house, putting my name and address on the public record. Frankly, I don't want you crazy people to know where I live.

Well... there's BSD. Which is in a LOT of embedded systems as well as desktops in the form of OS X.

Free as in beer, that you have to pay for to have it in a bottle, can or other container. Plus the chilling fee if you want it cold, and the carbonation tax if you don't want it flat.

Had they not totally Bjorked up Skype (and yes I use her name as a pejorative) there would be no need for any competitors, new or old.

and they want to fix that?

After this? A lot potentially. All Amazon needs to do is put up a 800 number where you can call in to pay. Could be 100% automated.

If I call an out of state company and order something, no taxes. But if I do it via a web page, taxes? Seems fair...

Well... Windows creates them on the drive itself. But I thought that was what MacOS was doing as well so I could be totally off on that.

Coincidence? Yeah, probably...

Not sure that "cord cutters" are properly tracked by these metrics.

They wont start actually acting on the repeal until after the 2018 elections. So we got time before everything goes to hell.

Then you start exerting control. It's how drug dealing works.

I mean, do we really need a full 24 hours to act environmentally aware if we don't do it the rest of the year?

The issue is that "Atari" (not sure who they are at this point, the name keeps changing hands) are trying to sell us nostalgia, which I already have via a FPGA system. So what will they offer, that I can't get elsewhere for less? Far as I can tell, they got nothing. I see nothing about the unique platform specific games that would make me want to shell out anything for such a system.

Toilet for cheeseburgers, bed for more cheeseburgers, golf course. Easy to track.