have you learned nothing? you're just going to get opposums listening to animal collective on vinyl.

to the majority of those making business decisions -- PHBs and their ilk -- this is nitpicking of a granularity they'll never get to. Just as all PCs run "windows" and all copy machines are "xerox machines" etc. You're right, but almost no one will notice.

that's Officer Heisenberg to you, son

apparently it was the 2nd time he did it...

because when the IP address block that was assigned to your IP is blacklisted, you won't be able to do shit except switch ISPs, then switch all your DNS entries (if you're a corp user) or hang out all day waiting for your new cable/dsl/whatever tech to show up to plug in your shiny new cable/dsl/whatever modem. That's why you would care about it.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine searching the internet with Bing -- forever.

...you check your mail on your VCR?

The internet is not the web; DNS has uses other than HTTP requests. Ping, traceroute, SMTP, FTP, to name a few. Please think back to the myriad things that broke when verisign started doing wildcard redirection. This is still a good idea, but to pretend that there aren't privacy/security concerns because "they were going to know anyway" is false.

with a little luck, you could be someone's happy place.

remember that they're called "courts of law" not "courts of justice".

that totally makes sense. you've proven the church out of existance, thanks.

So they can't pony up for some servers in europe and an agreement w/ a euro cell carrier? sounds like bad planning or a bullshit song-and-dance to rake in the $.

There's a menu item for installing software, but honestly, if you don't know what yum is and how it's used to install software in redhat-based distros -- especially if you couldn't be bothered to google it and instead thought installing windows would be easier -- windows is where you need to be. that's not meant as an insult either; linux is not for you.

out of curiosity, where would one find mousepads like that?

A war crime by any other name....

The Unit 731 stuff is particularly abhorrent.