The last disc won't be for a long, long time. Too many people like to collect them. It'll be years before they are totally superseded by digital downloads.

You're an idiot.

That was von Braun, for one. For another, Oppenheimer was aghast at the destruction caused by the atomic bomb (he quoted the Bhagvad Gita, "I am become Death -- the destroyer of worlds." after the Trinity Test) and actively campaigned for non-proliferation.

If anything, his sympathies towards the other sides caused him to be a martyr to McCarthyism. Hell, even von Braun commented that, "In England, Oppenheimer would have been knighted."

Oppenheimer is the poster child for how scientists have little control over the political consequences and use of their discoveries, and how the political institutions would happily discard them once they're wrung dry.

I can go back all the way to 2001 and what I'm pretty sure was my first comment with this account.

My guess would be that the limit is in place unless you have a subscription. Though that's just a guess.

Yes, but not really. ICQ/AOL were not broadcast media. (I admit, I only implied that in my post) Chats were mostly realtime, just like IRC.
Newsgroups and BBS had the broadcast non-realtime but not the "linking" functionality. I was not online pre-Internet. Communications were waaaaay too expensive in Europe for BBS to be practical, especially in a small country.

...really deserved a "funny" mod.

Nah, more like studios, who are the actual content creators.

MSOs are as much at the mercy of content providers as consumers.

Well I made a few concessions, but it was totally worth it, Windows? Never again.

One of the things I gave up was games, and I never missed them.

His (or her) anonymity does not take away from the validity of the statement.

It's a dumb joke - but it does make me wonder if the F-5 has this problem and if not - why they chose to make the T-38 with this weaker canopy. The aircraft was already relatively inexpensive.

As The Offspring say, "The more you suffer, the more it shows you really care. Right?"

Of course I really haven't found anywhere better. There are some interesting discussions on Reddit sometimes. There are some good links at Hacker News but the discussion is usually not in a direction that is very interesting to me. Twitter is too constraining. Facebook? Well you know. It's useful to me in a social sense -- in that it helps me stay connected with non-technical people I care about. But it doesn't replace or compete with why I'm here.

So here I am. And I'll probably be here until they shut it down or something better comes along.

There are a few programs that she needs to run that require windows or mac. I thought about going with apple but I wasn't sure about making that switch when everything else in my house is windows or linux. Going forward I may just make the jump.

But even if I moved towards mac/linux I'd still have at least one windows machine for games. So I was aiming to keep things simpler.

Anyway -- if Linux could do everything I needed, that would be it. But unfortunately that's not the case. And I've never been a fan of Apple products or their approach but it feels like Microsoft is pushing me in that direction with one bad decision after another.

... Subject says it all...

So am I.