Why would there be a hailstorm? The way "nature intended" things to be can be interpreted just as easily as referring to the path through which evolution has taken nature, since evolution is by and large an automatic process.

It's sad that people are so religiously anti-religion that you even said that, that it's even possible to interpret the words "as nature intended" as a claim of a deity's existence.

The person you responded to said "otherwise illegal". Not that it was illegal as done here, but that it would otherwise be illegal without collusion with those being "stolen" from.

[citation needed]

A stock installation of IE6 (any revision) does not support tabs. You have to install a third-party addon in order to get tabs in IE6.

IE did not support tabs until IE7.

So just don't use it. It's not like this is a requirement.

It amazes me the number of so-called "technologically-savvy" people who are closet Luddites.

Wow, why leave out the "at least initially"? Doesn't say that it never will, only that it won't work at first.

Your mod2 theory falls flat because XP wasn't shit and Vista was (immensely so). 98 didn't suck either, at least not as bad as 95. The only thing that really sucked about ME was the removal of real mode DOS (yes, I know, there are mods available to bring this back, but that requires modifying system files and so IMO is only useful for hobby or bullshit usage).

One does have to admit that Vista is way better than any 9x-based OS simply because it has the stronger NT underpinnings that make it more secure and reliable. And that half of the major "complaints" were just because something changed that they didn't like (for example, for a while there it seemed that people actually liked it when RAM went completely unused because I heard tons of bitching about SuperFetch). Also, UAC is a good thing, and the main problems with it were actually not UAC failings per se (like the hassle of trying to copy files into a protected folder and getting IIRC three or four dialogs to click through - this was an Explorer issue, as it did not happen with Directory Opus). 7 is heaps better than Vista, however.

There was nothing saying that the $600,000 came from her account all at once. Over time, a little here and a little there, and I could see $600,000 building up. Especially if money that was meant for the mortgage payment was included, and depending on how long of a process this was.

Go get an SSD. Probably the closest thing that's available to what you want.

Placebo effect. The 1541-II is exactly the same speed as the 1541, no matter which machine (or fastloader) is used with it. The 1541 series drives were actually slower than the drives both preceding them (1540) and succeeding them (1571), but only when one used a 1540 with a VIC-20, or a 1571 with a C128. (Or, one could also use a 1541/1571 with a VIC-20 and switch it into "1540 mode", which would speed it back up to normal VIC-20 IEC speeds).