Actually, 13 years previous to Windows XP, the state of the art on a PC was either OS/2 1.1 or DOS 4.0. Could you imagine still using DOS (maybe with Windows 2.0) or 16-bit OS/2 in 2001?

Assuming high taxes result in fast internet is like assuming German cars are the fastest in the world because the Autobahn has no speed limit.

There's a reason I limit my auctions to specific countries. I live in the USA and, by default, only sell to the USA and Canada. I did open to the UK for one auction, but no UK bidder won.

Doesn't matter, does it? Every time there is some mass shooting in the US, someone says it's because the gun laws aren't strict enough even though they rarely obtained the weapon legally.

Only in America would someone claim, with a perfectly straight face that attending a 4-6 year university is "elite". Are you really that brainwashed?

No, your reading comprehension is that POOR. He said "elite schools", not "all colleges are elite".

all the Jesus people in the US

You really have no idea what "all the Jesus people" want. For example, the College of the Ozarks is a Christian-run university that doesn't charge tuition.

I can even call the fire department to come a remove some bees in my garden.

What's stupider: removing BEES from a garden, or having people who have been trained to fight fires remove them? We have "beekeepers" here. We also have pest control people trained to remove dangerous insects.

You really are thick, aren't you? He used the word "contemporary" in a generous attempt to keep someone from looking like an idiot. I think we've solved the Christian violence problem in the modern world. It helps when literacy is widespread, and a religion's texts don't actually call for violence against those of other religions-- it makes it easier to point out the radicals.

I started doubting early on because this administration seems to love to blame visual media for everything. Remember when the Benghazi attack was provoked by a Youtube video almost no one saw?

And another unwary internet traveler is kicked into the goatse.

Windows was something you had to exit from in order to play games. That's why OS/2 was briefly popular. I could set my paper (in Wordperfect) aside and take a TIE Fighter break. Windows users had to at least exit, and maybe reboot into a different config where they had conventional memory maxed out. That was actually amazing in the PC world at the time.

It seems like you could only prove the evidence inadmissible if, say, your GPS was turned on at the time and it pinpointed your location as being on private property.

Rabbi, I realized that if flipping a switch is work, that turning my door handle must be. That's why I couldn't make it to synagogue. Oy vey, I was trapped!

I'm sure this means that, since police don't need warrants to perform monitoring of communications, that private citizens are free to do so. Thinking otherwise is illogical.

I reluctantly bought a Sony Blu-ray player because reviews seemed to indicate that just about every other player on the market had serious performance issues with the built-in streaming apps. It definitely has its annoyances. Other than the disc drawer issue you mention, the number of video protocols its can decode is small, inexplicably that list is even smaller if using DLNA rather than local media, and it tends to crap out between songs when controlled remotely under DLNA, making it impossible to play your playlists without interruption.

What good is identifying the threat, when you aren't allowed to defend yourself and the police aren't required to help you?

XP has no concept of user priveldges outside of programs so all services run as admin for everything

This is not true. Services can be run under user accounts.