It was pretty neat, being able to access HPFS partitions and run 16-bit OS/2 programs on NT 3.x (or 4, if you hacked the pinball.sys and OS/2 subsystem back in).

MS-DOS 6.22 was awesome.

We already have tracking chips for them! How long before government requires it? Or better, since we're all required to have health insurance, they could just wait until Big Insurance requires it in order to reduce your premiums.

Because I have a pen and a phone.

We know all this stuff is based on an order from Reagan, you mental midget. Have you read that EO, and the subsequent ones? It's what has been done since that original order that is the real problem.

So you think without guns, there would be more liberty?

The problem is that searching now requires hunting for a hidden menu, which rarely appears even when you know where to point (especially in a remote session). Then, when you have it, you have to click again to change where you search, then type what you are looking for. I've gone old school-- I've relearned all the hot keys (Win+F for search) and treat Windows Server 2012 like it's a DOS app, because the GUI is unusable.

If you have a battery bank, you are either off-grid or you have a very, very expensive hybrid system. It is horribly expensive to be grid-tied AND off-grid; that is, with the ability to run off the panels and/or batteries alone. It costs almost as much as having two entirely separate systems-- totally off the scale. That's an area I'd like to see improve.

I assume that the people who manufactured the panels and installed them didn't get paid, then, since that would be capitalism.

"Progressives" are the worst reactionaries around. They'll impose regulations like this under the guise of Depression-era ideas of "modernization" that were aimed at enlightening the poor, ignorant hicks in the backwoods. Meanwhile, we've moved past that, but you just try to take back your liberty and see what happens.

Ad hominem tu quoque. Actually, a straw man, since you're assuming that somehow that poster was a shill for Big Oil.

In the USA the road taxes on diesel fuel are higher than on gasoline-- and our adoption of diesel passenger cars is very low-- so de facto we have higher taxes on the heavier vehicles. Of course, toll roads also charge by axle. Won't be a big change in the status quo.

Alternatively, one could just realize that many government fees are not about proportionately recovering costs, but influencing certain behaviors that have a variety of costs and benefits elsewhere.

I don't like government trying to modify human behavior, other than to keep humans from harming other humans.

Liquid bread!

Ah, the firearms that President Obama is so afraid of.

Except that Windows probably has just as many holes only you dont know about them because they aren't public or because Microsoft has decided not to invest the engineering resources to fix them or because Microsoft has fixed them in a patch but the actual security flaw is still unknown publicly.

An unprovable assertion.