They know everything about you; all it takes is a "gentle reminder" and this bill is turned into a termite-eaten stack of drivel.

I didn't expect any different, It just means they had enough on enough people to effectively gut it before it was passed. We really knew that already...

If it really meant anything, this bill would have contained a passage giving Snowden immunity, as long as he testifies against everyone else inside the Govt that violated the constitution with respect to their illegal activities.

"It's not illegal when the President does it!" didn't work for Nixon, it should not have worked for Bush or Obama. Everyone should be in Jail, at this point, lol.

WTF has our country become?
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There IS a good reason for burying these things in the deep earth.

Some of the radionucleides' Gammas and Neutrons are good for 10 feet of dirt for 50% absorbtion.

100 to 1000 feet is where I'd start considering storage, due to shielding. Remember, neutrons will extend the zone of radioactivity over time. :)

IDK if Yucca mountain is the best possible place to store this stuff, but based on Fukushima, where it is now is much, much worse.

The computer beside me has a 5.25" floppy drive; I needed it to read some old disks from 1988. They still work fine. :)

The 3.5" disk copies were trash...

I never used EDLIN with DOS, only with CP/M. I really hated it. :)

IBM's BASIC editor was the first WP program I used on DOS; I'm still using the PWB Editor that came with Macro Assembler 4. :)

I still have a machine that can play Duke3d and Leisure Suit Larry, lol. :)

To have to duck around here, you have to say "EMACS can't..." and follow that up with pretty much anything. :)

Lots and lots of meaty humans.

Lots and Lots...

We're Fucked, pretty much; No lol. :)

FTA: apparently, If you pull enough shit out of your ass, you eventually get Aliens, lol.

Nevermind the whole "Space is huge" thing, the no radio thing, and the lack of confirmed-non-whacko-sightings, Aliens it must be... :)

2024; That's the year the Pak show up to seed the planet with thallium and tree-of-life.

I, for one welcome our new Pak Overlords. What's that smell, dammit...

Of course, it could be Kzin... :)

We've always had somewhere to go to escape the "assholes"; that's how America was founded.

Of course, we stole most of it, and handed out blankets laden with smallpox to people with no immunity at all, but hey, that's the way it was back then.

The movement to the frontier is what drove most of the innovation in the last 150 years or so; now the War Machine is the only source of most of the funding in the "Free World".

Expanding to space requires you to be locally sufficient for all your needs; can't wait a week for a shipment of o2, lol.

Working in space would definitely thin the herd, tho. :)

There seems to be more overall effort into the obstruction of further progress, than to encourage it.

If we don't get off the planet, there will be an extinction eventually; either an asteroid or a "terrible mistake".

Either way, dispersal is really the only option in the long run.

If it weren't for the politicians, we would have had more moon missions, and the Shuttle wouldn't have turned out to be the clusterfuck it turned out to be.
(If you were along for the ride, the shuttle program was supposed to be completely different; missions every week...)

The cord that I ended up getting with the keyboards I bought ended up making my day today; I rebuilt an old Isa bus system to use with an MCA card, and I needed a 5 pin pre-ps2 keyboard.

I bought 5 of those with the models ms, lol.

I'd love to find one of the ones you have, those come in really handy for programming; there's Nothing like unassigned macro keys. :)

The best upgrade I've found is the rosewill 9000; it's mech keys, and there are several selections of keys/models.

I bought a couple to save wear on my good keyboards, and then found out while gaming they have a better keymapping; usb is limited to six keys simultaneously, but the the rosewills using PS2 connection are not limited. :)

You Can fix the coffee and tea impaired keyboards; I'd pay someone personally. It involves unmelting the plastic spots that hold it all together. Then successfully cleaning and reassembling it.

If it had screws, I'd think about it, but man... I could resolder the keys back in much better than I can melt the plastic back together correctly. :)

I bought a bunch of these from a local National Lab for ~$5 each; the oldest one is from '84, iirc.

I bought them in ~94, and only the one that caught a full cup of coffee has died.

It was cannibalized for keycaps immediately, lol.

They cant afford to see your logic; These guys all want to be guards for the concentration camps, they're paid shills, mostly

If these NSA types actually meant that oath they swore, they'd kill all the other assholes around them violating the law, before the killed themselves.

The fact no one has yet is a clear indicator of how they view the Constitution.