About once every year for the last 15 years. I buy a CPU that is at the good price point, which always means there are 2 or 3 more faster chips in that same socket. Later, when those faster chips hit the good price point, I upgrade on the same mobo.

I can't believe this is all that uncommon.

The President has a "Kill List." The death penalty is executed, at least, as the result of a trial by jury. Capital punishment is not even close to the thing that gives the government "too much power."

If you learned one thing from the study of human history, it is that human life is extremely cheap.

Just do what I do: say, "I used to work at the company that made these, and we used to cook Hot Pockets in them for lunch."

Not true, but I do enjoy making them wonder.

These days, "Wow, I really disagree with Obama's policy on taxation" = racism.

I never thought of the dealer as an unnecessary middleman before... and at the same time I learn they are protected by law.

Is it possible to order a car directly from a manufacturer, and skip the dealer markup completely?

Are there ANY Chinese companies that chose to open a factory in the US, where they would have to deal with employee unions?

Voted first thing. The woman in front of me in line was told she already voted by absentee ballot, she said she had never even applied for one. I didn't see how that turned out.

Now I hear that sort of thing is happening a lot.

Nice to see California is flush with cash.

Yeah but, according to the Labor Department gas prices had already dropped in California, so be happy.

Red wrigglers? They're the Cadillac of worms.

I'm 41, and I have a core group of buddies with whom I have been multi-gaming since 1995. We met when Duke Nukem 3D came out, and on weekends we would rewire our employer's network to give our workstations the 10MB connections (we were the IT folks) and we would Duke it up all day. Then UO came out, and we were the early adopters of the first cable modem lines, and we would crush peeps with our low pings. And I can't tell you the number of times we were called "low ping bastards" in Team Fortress Classic.

I think my age group... some of us... are the first ones looking forward to being old and infirm so we can chillax in a nursing home all day, owning bitches in online games and watching a torrent of Aliens in 2160P while peeing into a catheter. "dtmancom, you have visitors!" "Go away, raiding." And, of course, we'll be 75 years old and mocking the console noobs.

n/t

How do I mod the judge a Troll?

Reloaded the last version of Office I bought, which was Office 2000. It is still doing everything I need to do. Imagine that.