it's how you mass-extinct with it.

Maybe we should all just start playing sarcastaball. That will be much safer.

So is his company then going the way of ReiserFS?

Even if it were all publicity, I must say, that I am impressed. Look what every other politician would do for some PR like that. Everybody can go around kissing babies. Doesn't matter what you think of him, but you have to commend his commitment.

If I remember correctly, there is this one voting district in Bavaria with about 80 elegible voters who are usually done counting about 20 minutes after polls closed (the smallest voting district has 12 people but usually they are about 2000) and they get the record for fastest tally every time. Don't know how the 12-people-district manages to screw that up, but anyways

You do know that most of our electronic devices rely on electrons colliding with stuff?!

Would have suggested that right away but didn't know whether it packs enough bang.

As far as I know, you could put a linux-box there with pulseaudio and make the input device network-available. You could record then with any pulseaudio-system anywhere.

We've seen companies opening up in the past and often they started closing down again after time. Let us hope they stay open and even more, let us hope it works for them from a business perspective, so that other companies may follow.
As long as the guys in the suits think they make more money by closing down, we still have a problem.

My summer vacation will consist of going to the countryside with some friends this weekend, watching the Perseids, and getting drunk. Shall be enough.

I live in Leipzig (500.000ppl in Eastern Germany) and we have 18 Packstationen. I think they are pretty well placed and I would hazard a guess that about 80 to 90% of the population would be within 10 bike minutes of one. But since you decide where you want it send, you are usually near one.
I always let them send packages to the Packstation near my university. So I can get my package during break. Lots of people let their packages being sent to a Packstation near work or on the way between work and home.

In Germany we have a similar but general system called "Packstation" (package station). Everybody can get an access code and everybody and every company can send a package to any Packstation in the country (there's one for every 50.000 to 100.000 people). You can get automated round-the-clock access via electronic card and a pin-code.
You can also drop off packages. You get an email and sms when a package for you arrived. All in all, pretty nifty system.

And it doesn't cost a cent more than having it delivered to your house.

My main rig is a dual-OS-boot Fedora/Win7-machine, the latter of which I only use for gaming. It doesn't have active anti-malware. Only passive anti-virus that runs whenever I feel like it. I am pretty sure that this machine has a little bit of trojan inside of it. But I don't actually care.

The mouse and the gamepad are very good to simulate 3D-Dimensional motion, as are the Graphics Cards. Having a game that works with space is easy because it is modelled after reality.
So having a game around the notion of moving things through space at a specific target is an easy concept. Acquiring control over said space through excertion of force is easy to grasp as well.

I think there was an article on RPS some time ago that talked about how the video game controls are specifically suited to manipulate a world physically instead of emotionally or through dialogue. And what better physical interaction is there than punching?

Sorry, I meant the baltic sea. In Germany, North Sea is literally "North Sea". I thought same would apply for the baltic sea, which in German, again, literally translates to "East Sea".