This. Even asking the question is fucking stupid.

He wanted to be left alone, there is nothing the public gains from knowing his identity except some entertainment. There are cases where identifying someone serves the public good, but in this case it really serves nobody except the rag that published it.

Hiding under his real name was actually pretty smooth. I'm sure a dozen nosy reporters passed him up before because they thought that can't be.

I prefer the days...when people/groups generally wrote their own songs, played their own instruments, and aside from a bit of reverb, and other treatments shy of fucking Autotune...had real vocals on their songs.

Yeah, I remember the good ol' "Get Off My Lawn" song, by "Wipper and the Snappers".

There are many, many differences between an M1 Garand and an M1 carbine. The Garand is larger and heavier. The carbine shoots a less powerful round, but has a larger magazine. It was designed specifically for soldiers who wanted a lighter rifle than the M1, like paratroopers and radio specialists. They have something like one butt plate screw in common. The fact that an M1 carbine was used in a crime once 50 years ago---and granted, it was a truly horrific crime---hardly seems like a compelling case for banning the import of a completely different weapon that happens to have a similar name.

Depends on your county :)

We had 'em in Los Angeles Co., and also here in Montana. Here it comes thru about every two months.

Thanks, that is good factual information to have.

Still, would losing 100 or 200 coins make headlines these days when thousands got lost and stolen in what makes the news (Silkroad, Mt. Gox, etc.) ?

Not a single someone, he's probably mention it. But how about 100,000 individual someones, each of whom mined (on average) 10 or so coins? That's a few thousand bucks these days, not something that would make headlines beyond your Facebook page.

Exactly.

I hate paying taxes as much as everyone, but I'm not super-rich, so I don't have options to avoid it. Once you go above a certain income class, your tax burden drops, in both relative and absolute values, because you can make use of loopholes that normal people can't.

Corporations are the worst of it all. As they can split up, merge and do other trickery that physical humans can't, they can exploit the system to the maximum effect. And since everyone else does it, they almost have a duty to do so, because otherwise their shareholders will grill them about it.

The problem is that the tax systems allow this, which is caused by countries competing against each other to attract corporations. Which, if you are able to see it for a moment from outside the pot in which you're slowly being boiled, is quite insane and perverted.

As long as the countries of the world readily sell out to corporations and super-rich, nothing will change. Only when they realize that (at least yet) they have the tanks and the guns and the corporations don't and maybe the power-relationship should be the other way around, and then work together to fight the parasites, this will stop. All it needs would be a world-wide agreement to, say, leverage a fixed % of revenue from every corporation, no exceptions, no loopholes, no special deals.

Which I think sounds like a really good idea, either way you do it.

And if it just hoists the whole to a VM, no need for config dumpster diving for individual programs that may not play nice with Wine.

Or, why running Win9x is pretty durn safe. Malware that expects XP-or-later networking just gets confused.

Is that the .308 variant? I've never seen an extended mag for the .30-06. A .308 with a 20-round mag is basically an M-14 (minus selective fire). And you're right, only a deranged moron would jack up an M1 by putting a black composite stock on it. That would be like letting your kid fingerpaint over an original Rembrandt.

I agree in principle, though not in degree. Let's be honest here: All advertisement is psychological warfare, and it is very, very imbalanced. It's millions of dollars in research and design vs. the usually untrained mind.

However, in the game there is also immersion, which is intentionally abused, and a situation that was artificially constructed. It's more like the soda stand in the theme park which is intentionally placed at exactly the distance from the intentionally way-too-salty french fries stand at which you realize that you're quite thirsty.

This is what we all hear all the time when it comes to advertisement, and I'm quite certain the advertisement experts are giggling so much they can hardly catch a breath. This false belief is one of the core reasons advertisement is still legal and not very heavily regulated. It's the Emperor's New Clothes situation - as long as that meme is out there, most people won't admit that they are, in fact, influenced by advertisement.

But you are. More than you believe. And claiming you aren't only proves denial, not freedom.

Well, we're reaching WAY back here, but according to Wikipedia, he used an M-1 carbine, which may as well be an M1911 for all the similarity it has to an M-1 Garand.

Uh, no we aren't.

Windows XP was released in October 2001. That's half a year after the initial release of OS X (March 2001). In fact, by the time XP came out, OS X was already on 10.1 (released in September 2001).
MacOS 9 is a full two years older, it was released in October 1999.

No, your example is actually a good example for the evilness of "f2p".

Of course you could just walk away and not drop any money. It's not like they put a gun to your head. Except that psychologically, that's exactly what they are doing. They are putting you into a situation where you are a) drawn in and b) stand more to lose in time and effort than in money.

This is extortion, plain and simple. These games are intentionally designed to put you into these situations so you part with your money.

I'm a bit Leary of this kind of research.