First Pandora's Box opened!

If you're trying to be cute, tell her the two of you need time debugging how to spawn a child process. If she's really nerdy in a computer savvy sort of way that should work far better wonders than some of these other suggestions :)

The payments may be free, but I imagine the VAT is not? And I imagine they expect it on all bank to bank transfer for goods and services? Disclosure: I'm just a dumb American, so I don't know much, beyond large government organizations like taxing commerce, intra or inter state.

The chinese are famous for their shell games :) Which shell is it under? That one? Noooo.

I actually made a longer post in a reply further up about that very issue. I forgot to mention the lack of some form of escrow or a required copy in order to provide the copyrighter with their desired protections. If such a thing became required to enforce copyrights, perhaps more information from this generation, culturally significant or not, would survive for future generations to explore.

I've been complaining about this for a while regarding source code. The notable example I can remember pointing this out was Star Control 2 (Ur Quan Masters is the name of the Open Source release.) Due to the fact that they weren't required to SUPPLY a copy of their copyrighted work/code/etc in order to obtain copyright, the original source code for the DOS version of the game was lost years ago. Toys for Bob, the guys who had programmed it (But not distributed it, which is why it's not called the SC2 Open Source release) decided after many years of fan interest to allow a full open source release of the game, datafiles and all. However they'd lost the master source code for the game years before, which resulted in the release instead of the 3do version of the source code, which thankfully HAD survived all these years. My point with this being: In the 50-100 years or so when CP/M, MS-DOS, PC-DOS, Microsoft Windows 1.0, etc should be coming out of copyright, allowing people three to five generations from now to benefit from being able to explore the code behind the massively successful and historic works, those works will not exist, because in the greatest travesty of this generation (and there are many, both great and small), all of that information, code, documents, film, etc will be lost, because nobody other than the 'owners' was allowed to look at, back up, save, translate, and otherwise secure those culturally significant treasures for future generations. (And yes some people might not consider these items 'treasures' but they are important to both outlook and understanding of what went on during the latter half of the 20th century on through to today.

Obviously the Death Star Logo for AT&T, after they buy up Verizon so one of the lines can be etched with 'Can you hear me now?' :D

Given how much that 33 percent drop in profits is costing him in viagra, probably more like a blow job with every copy sold (lube is expensive! Spit is not!)

Of failed automobile cities of any country? :D

EXCEPT Bacteria is self-replicating, Viruses ARE NOT. That's the key difference you're missing here. In the case of bacteria anti-biotics are killing it directly, thus not all bacteria is killed immediately. In contrast to this, the virus has to be able to infect a cell first in order to replicate.

Don't worry, I'm sure the next addition to TPM will be a built in nuclear clock using the isotope decay to keep it energized. That way all future computers manufacturered will be unable to have the wrong timestamp set on files :) (Obv that won't be 100 percent true, but you can see the gov. wanting that perception present... saves on prosecution time :D)

Hey, I *AM* Still using Win2k, and you know what? It's *ON* A new computer. WITH Radeon HD3650, And a Logitech DFP, with a 500 gig SATA hard disk. And y'know what? It runs circles around both Vista and XP, has had no crashes (although it HAS had irrepairable registry corruption! Appears to be either app or driver related but it's hard to track down once the OS is hosed.) Best part is, with the except of games using Windows Live or Developer Studio 2k8 runtime libs I've had no problems installing/running games that are supposed to be XP only. Anyone else out there with me?

Penetration Enhanced Network Interface Security.

Except by that point you'll be senile, and you can just have the clock set to 199x anyways, and problem solved :D

You mean because it also filters out the morons who were too stupid to not have kids? :D