"in debt to China" TL;DR. Vast majority of the debt is domestically held, saying China "owns" the U.S. or any other country for that matter is nonsense.

Wonder if their IT was outsourced?

For the record this event couldn't have happened to a better company. Since we're talking individuals and not collections of people: It's not just these parts, for example take violations of prisoners, specifically rape jokes. How are those convicted of sex crimes, say involving children (Sandusky) treated inside the system?

All non-military personnel are civilians, this includes police.

Offtopic: Ah that joke, reminds me of this scene from The Pink Panther. (sfw)

1914 is not the 19th century. I imagine this person still uses 'turn of the century' to refer to the 1900s, too. In a similar vein, an actual 19th century computer, there is Babage's Difference Engine (tighter shots here) which is very impressive to watch as well.

Broke into an open network eh?

You seem to have a pretty good understanding of the topic and I'd like to expand upon it. I've worked with several payment processors and been involved with many systems which handle credit card data and PCI compliance has very a specific definition (expanded, see also) about what card holder data is. Your first and last name, billing address, expiration, last 4 and the card type are not card holder data. Plenty there to "track" legally without touching the PAN (Primary Account Number). That said, I have no desire to see CurrentC implemented.

This doesn't even really touch companies like Acxiom. Here's a little scoop on the whole data broker thing for those unfamiliar with the scope of collection.

Hahaha.

How many blogs can you go back 30 years on? I've had paper last far longer than any computer.

Purchased one a few days ago from a Microcenter. Maybe they were just out?

kids these days are just drones amirite?!.

Perhaps, it might explain why they're fatter and slower than their parents were. At least if they were busybodies they'd be moving around. Why do you hate America?

After downloading the QWTF 2.8 and then exploring the .PAK file looks like you're right. MegaTF sounds may be found here: http://tfgames.org/sound look under barney.

Uh oh, my heart just stopped... there it goes. I vividly recall the happy bday stuff too. Good times

What? I must've missed where I claimed all of these games were "German style". I listed some games in one comment and in another comment mentioned that I liked German style games. These are not in conflict. Also, Settlers of Catan and Pandemic qualify and Catan is explicitly mentioned in what I linked, take a look under the history section again.

The Settlers of Catan, first published in 1995, paved the way for the genre in the United States and outside Europe.[citation needed] It was neither the first "German game" nor the first such game to find an audience outside Germany, but it became much more popular than any of its predecessors.

What are some games you like playing?

Understandable. The whole point of the game is cooperation and if you cannot get people to work together play a different game pronto. I like this game specifically because its a team building game.