...says the NC...

All the people who rent servers must have those one-way ethernet cables (http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/02/10/0257227/10k-ethernet-cable-claims-audio-fidelity-if-youre-stupid-enough-to-buy-it) then, so that the internet can access the servers but the servers can't access the internet...

It's a great business model. I quite like the nice printed books of artwork and stories I got with older games. Reading that stuff in a PDF is damn boring. Give me a dead tree, please (but remember to plant a replacement).

ISP: Internet Service Provider. They connect your machine to the internet. WTF do you think server hosting companies do, you nitwit?

It is. Just some months ago, flooding from Hurricane Sandy caused massive devastation at the same time as drought was (and still is) devastating parts of California. Apparently this Church of Warminetics knows what they're talking about; you should stop fighting and join them :)

ISPs get plenty of money from spammers. Ever heard of Ecatel?

There are perfectly good shielded ethernet cables that only cost twice as much (e.g. $4 instead of $2).

Take your measly coax and get off my lawn. This here is real audio cable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

It's called "suspension of disbelief". When things get ridiculously illogical even with the alternate physics in whatever universe the movie is in and _character_s start acting ridiculously out of _character_, it becomes less entertaining and more groaning in pain as brain cells commit suicide.

Sheeple killed the "died-in-the-wool audiophile".

So you're saying it is impossible to have flooding near the coast and drought inland at the same time? The world is bigger than your back yard.

If you want a paper trail, you're going to have to go find a paper trail. In the days of Alta Vista and Infoseek you were lucky if you found something that actually matched your keywords, and Google doesn't index the Wayback Machine for obvious reasons.

When you want to buy something at Target, do you drive up and down every road looking for a store that might be Target, or do you go to the address where Target is?
When you want to get groceries, do you drive around randomly looking for signs that say "grocery store" or do you go straight to the street address of the local H-E-B, Kroger, Publix, or whatever?

The same applies to web sites. When you want to order a laptop, you check the sites of businesses you know that sell laptops (Dell, HP, Amazon, NewEgg, Fry's), or you go to a shopping comparison site (which, guess what, has a brand name as their domain!).

Search engines have absolutely not reduced the importance of domain names.

In the late 90's, domains were practically free. In fact, lots of places "sold" free domains (actual .com and .net, not just subdomains). He didn't do anything hazardous.

You're confused. It actually costs $30-$50 less to get internet access without also getting cable, because cable + internet is upwards of $90 after tax, while internet is under $60, even after the stupid "for the first 12 months" bullshit.