It also makes really cool fake snow.

Pork, is there anything it can't do?

Your posts insults my belief in free speech. I am warning you that you will be harmed if you continue to say things like this. You have been warned. Do not ever say anything like this again or harm wil come to you.

See how it works?

Because brilliant geniuses like yourself remember how awesome it was back before things like the EPA and the Clean Air and Water acts?

Junior, some of us were alive in the 1960's and 1970's. We remember how well the "invisible hand" of the market didn't do shit to stop rampant pollution. We remember not being able to swim or fish in the rivers, lakes and bays we can now swim and fish in comfortably.

Go swim in some toxic sewage this weekend. Then get used to that feeling if the EPA is defunded.

True fact: The first utterance of "Motherfucker!" came shortly after the invention of the hammer.

But we did have Bow Wow Wow.
Which had that hot welsh/burmese chick

And you know, to not use wireless keyboards in any environment that could be compromised.

I work in a facotry and we still run Windows NT 4 on a couple hundred machines. Because the equipment interface for the tools these machines control requires it.
The tool manufacturer isn't going to invest money in upgrading 20 year old equipment, they want us to buy new tools.
As does every vendor we deal with in any kind of tool support role.

At $2M per replacement tool, even if we only need 1/4 as many new tools due to throughput inprovements on the new platform, we'd have to spend over $100M to acheive what we do now.

so I get to keep supporting NT4.

Don't ask about the win98 controlled tools. Or the half-dozen DOS tools that have to connect to the network. It's like I live in medievel times.

And few will remember how secret communications used to be done before the days of the Internet.
But for those who do, the world will be their oyster.

Too many of us have "gone to the backup tapes" and found them to be corrupted.

I'm not saying "don't use tape" but I've been burned too many times with only having tape backups (and these were expensive enterprise systems) in the past. If you use tape, also use something else. Belt & suspenders.

France: 3.01 gun deaths per 100,000
USA: 10.3 gun deaths per 100,000

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

So according to you, if their gun laws weren't so restrictive they could have had over three times as many deaths!

And before you flip out and call me a "gun grabber" I happen to own about 8 guns. Which admittedly is a ridiculous amount. Though I have grabbed them on occasion.

This is directly related to a story about people who want to censor certain information.

Freedom of speech is as important to geeks as it is to journalists. We design, build and maintain the code and the hardware that journalists use to put out the stories to the public. Back in the print days most people didn't give a crap about what was printed in one country, or even in the next town over. Now we, the computer nerds of the world, have enabled a huge revolution in communication that is affecting entire countries, societies and religions. And we keep creating new ways to share information every day. Control of information, censorship, freedom of speech and the press are hugely intertwined with our nerd lives and livelihoods.

Remember when anti-free-speech advocates tried to censor music lyrics? I do. Remember when they tried to ban many video games? I do. Remember wen they started shooting people who published satirical cartoons? Computer nerds like us are all about moving bits of information around. We thrive on information, data and ideas. It's what we're all about. And these shootings are a direct result of people trying to restrict the free exchange of ideas, which is the foundation of modern society.

Any computer nerd, in fact anyone who appreciates their modern life, should want to know about anyone who is threatening the free flow of information.

Of course, it works two ways.

Someone who knows what data is collected and sent can easily spoof the gadgetry. In fact, I can see a business model for this.
Have people pay you to take their phones, cars, etc. to the library or church while they go to the strip club, bar, brothel, etc.

Then when discovery is done in the divorce case all they can get is "Well ma'am, it looks like your husband spent a lot of time studying and praying when you said he was out whoring."

It just means smart people won't get caught. The usual idiots will continue to be busted. Much like every time in history.

Infidel. Only my invisible tyrant is valid! YOU WILL BE PUNISHED!

I remember this Nancy Reagan talking point. Proved to be 100% bullshit.

Look, I believed all the BS I was taught in my childhood as well. I believed it until I was in my late 40's. Then I finally tried the devil weed.
My life has improved greatly since I became a regular "pothead" at age 48 ( I'm now 51). I'm happier, I sleep better, I get more things done, I'm a nicer person. I smoke weed almost every evening after work.

You should try it.