"Trucks? The Cybertruck is completely outclassed. " The Cybertruck was DOA when Truckla was created. I still chuckle that they wouldn't let her bring it to the Big Reveal" of the Cybertruck.

They were not rubber bullets - they were either paint balls or pepper balls.

"About the only reason..." I take it you don't live where there is snow...

If I only had mod points.

" Second, thinking that your gun will save you means that you are wasting time solving the wrong problem. It's a legal, law enforcement, information, and telecommunications threat, so sitting around counting your bullets and cleaning you gun means that you are a non-combatant. " Thank you for this.

I think I am on year 8 or 9 for my Microsoft Trackball Explorer and it is still going strong. Whatever else can be said of MS, they used to make really good hardware. I have 2 new ones in the box still as well. I suspect they will outlive me.

Hey you know those States Rights you want to drone on about and vote about and tear your hair and cover yourselves in ashes about?

Yeah, SUCK IT.

Then hoist the jolly roger and run out the guns and money nets Cap'n - thars GOLD in them thar server cabinets Arrrr!!

I only wish I had mod points for you. Panspermia always has rated a "So what?" in my book.

" I did not find it a good device for sketching; the interface in Photoshop CS5 (my usual painting program)"

When all you have is a hammer....

Seriously, PS5 is what you based a thousand dollar machine on? Considering the plethora of very good sketching programs out there the fact that you used PS5 tells me that you didn't really give the thing a chance, or that your idea of sketching is different than using a pencil and paper. I have a Surface 1 with Autodesk's Sketchbook Pro and it is a joy to work with. Smooth drawing, grea tool set you name it. I hope to get my hands on a copy of Manga Studio, but it isn't in the cards at the moment. Penny Arcade has been drawn on Surfaces for a while now, though I understand that Gabe has had some issues with the SP3. There are plenty of artists out there who are very happy to have an alternative to the side pad and the the surfaces are scratching that itch. Next time you try one, grab some 30 day trials of some software that is actually meant to do what you are looking for, PS is great and all, but lets be honest, it is becomming a backwater in the sketching deparment for a reason.

"and preferred working with them to men. (I'm a man^H^H^H^H^H an Uruk-hai BTW.)" FTFY ;)

Thank you for your comment. You are spot on.

Yeah, now if I want to listen or watch something that isn't 6 months old or less my options are either buy it if it is even available or not hear/see it. Boy did we show those dinosaurs, AmIRight?

but no lives depended on my 6502 code.

I am sure the guy(s) who came up with apple maps said the same thing. If I remember correctly they were *almost* wrong.

Which is why when you read you don't have to care if it is a tab and three spaces, two short tabs or 8 spaces. Using a non-visible character for control is just a bad idea. And don't even get me started on code clarity - what I find clear to read vs what you do vs what a compiler demands - ICK! To put it into web terms, go try posting something about how the new (place your browser here) is going to impose its manufacture's CSS on every page, ignoring the user's css prefs, hell even ignoring the page authors css and see what kind of firestorm you light off, and with good reason. Code should be no different. Especially when it comes to white space as commands.