Trumpet was a pretty easy way to connect to the internet with Windows 95. Sure, Windows should have had TCP/IP but if there's an easy workaround, who really cares? Anyway this is 20 years ago, it's like refusing to buy an iPhone because you hate how Apple got rid of 3.5" disk drives way too early.

And Openoffice & iwork have been around for years now, and are still obviously inferior to MS Office.

What a ridiculous idea...you're on an internet forum, and you're not swearing at each other? Thanks a lot George W Bush!

Fwiw radio shack actually does carry a selection of contact-free phones.

Get a tiny $200 fanless laptop.

If you buy the top of the line model for around 2k you get about 6 years out of it, so that is $300 per year. If you buy a starting PC for $400 you will get about 2 years out of it $200 per year.

Ridiculous. For one thing, who would bother with a $2000 desktop, except for a gamer with money to burn?

Mexico also sells spectrum. Did you even read the article, or did you just start ranting?

I've been self-employed (and now my wife is), I have investment income, and doing taxes myself takes me maybe an hour or two, once a year. It would be silly to get outside help for that.

If I was in a truly difficult tax situation, sure. But especially Schedule D, what the heck? I imagine it's a very common form, and it's trivial to do oneself.

The paper is essentially a racist rag where old white men push the buttons of minorities. Of course the bombing was wrong, and I support the paper's right to say what I disagree with, just as I support the right of Neo-Nazis to hold parades down Peoria, Illinois. However, having the government/Google go further and give public funds towards a racist paper is a step too far.

This doesn't prove it at all. You shouldn't have been modified +5 Insightful. Over the course of a game, luck is very important. Like you get dealt the card you already have, or you get dealt crap.

Blackjack also has a perfect strategy, and of course blackjack has a great amount of luck.

I guess if you planned on playing an infinite amount of games, luck wouldn't be a part of Texas Hold Em. For somebody playing a finite amount, luck is key.

To be fair, most grandparents are going to be less than 100 years old (the youngest you would be to have money on deposit before the government started backing bank deposits). Great or great-great parents is more likely (and they're likely dead). The banking system is fundamentally different, it was a stupid point.

In addition to your own link disputing what you say, open-air burials are a part of Tibetan Buddhism, which wasn't really a part of Genghis Khan's cultural heritage (he was a Shamanist with a lot of Nestorian Christian family members). Lama Buddhism became the religion of Mongols only 400 years later. So I imagine open-air burials got adapted after they got Tibetan Buddhism but before the Commies.

Because basically all the top tech firms are either based in SV or have a very large presence there? And in a industry where changing jobs and job instability is just the name of the game, having the ability to easily find other work opportunities is basically a necessity?

While we're at it, why not make your film studio in Montana? Why not open a car factory in Bora Bora?

It was East India Company tea that the 'founding fathers' dumped in the ocean. And East India Company-related trade restrictions that they suffered under.

In this specific case, BMG was a separate music company that Sony purchased shortly before the scandal. There wasn't a guy working in a Sony office in Japan who approved the rootkit. It happened nine years ago, it didn't actually act as a backdoor to people getting hacked, and I think it's time for Slashdot to get over it.

That's like the first the paragraphs, you should read the rest of the article. It's interesting and informative.

And is an interesting point that the stock market views yahoo as a negative three billion company with a thirty billion investment in Alibaba.