IIRC wasn't the name of the computer WOPR?

This might not be a game. You, the player as it were, might be controlling a remote drone in some far off country.

Or was it a TV show?

Which ever it was, humanity was almost assimilated into a collective.

When most phones, including the iPhone, come into contact with anything Apple, they become crippled.

At least we can officially call it: The Apple Effect.

More likely that mummy and daddy are home, and forcing little Timmy/Tammy to do their homework.

I have been watching the magpies in my area. Most birds just cross the road, but magpies will turn their heads left and right, then cross the road.

Crows have also been observed using busy intersections for crushing the shells of nuts by dropping them or whatever they want broken up, onto the road where cars run over the food-stuffs.

That might solve the "biker war" in Sydney

Or if I cannot find paper a slate.

I doubt it: He's dead Jim.

Buy a DVD lately, and surprise there is spam right after the "You wouldn't steal a..." spam.

Thankfully the skip button still works on that crap.

But is it me, or are the highest piracy rates located in areas where a certain religion is practised?

find $SRC -print0 | cpio --null -pdv $DEST

find $SRC -depth -print | cpio -ov > $DEST.cpio

Don't use 'wall' when you want to abuse someone using 'write'