It is a crime that this has not been modded up yet.

The problem with markets is that their motivations are not often in line with scientifically determined needs.

Are you running VMs on FreeBSD? Is there a good management system for this? I'm running Proxmox VE at home and have been really happy with it; curious if you've had a better experience on BSD.

It's really bad as a guest on Linux. Unusably slow.

My kingdom for points to mod you up.

What is the difference between Cuba's "Communism" and Scandinavian "socialism?" What is the difference in these two places' qualities of life? "Markets" are not the whole story here. Cuba is poor because its "leadership" has been abusing its people for decades. Their economic system has to do with that only tangentially.

It's like I'm really in 2002!

This is why you make cold backups.

What do you like for a dedicated pfSense box that runs 24/7 without chewing up too much juice?

You're right, but at least there's still USB-OTG: For When You Absolutely, Positively, Have to Dump Files to External Storage or Something Is Going to Dump Core.

Thanks much from my family and everyone else touched by your help on those days.

I did get licensed and briefly met with a Staten Island ARC before moving out to the Midwest, which is fun whenever I call CQ and somebody goes "KC two?! Huh?" :)

"Don't do it." FUCK you, chief. Who are you to discourage a potential future Ham based on what YOU say the Amateur service is "for?" People become Hams for all sorts of reasons. The FCC specifies what we may NOT do on amateur bands, and gives reasons for establishing them in the first place, but EVERY use permissible is entirely valid and should be encouraged to further the hobby.

So this guy starts out with a backpack HF rig to make sure he has a way to get messages out of the wild, and then what? You should know how this goes if you've been in the hobby as long as you say you have. You start out with a specific purpose, and then one thing or another starts interesting you, and before you know it you're watching the waterfall for PSK31 on HF and trying to DX with Zimbabwe a couple months later.

I became a Ham BECAUSE of the service's emergency provisions. I watched a plane fly into the North Tower of the WTC and kill my cousin and her coworkers in Cantor-Fitzgerald, and then heard about ARES and RACES volunteers stitching Manhattan's emergency services together so they could communicate in the wake of having their repeaters turned to ash. I heard those stories and said "I want to be on that team. THAT'S how I'm going to contribute." So I got a license, and got elmered by some of the guys who volunteered on Wall Street, and eventually started learning about how huge the hobby is and how much you can do with it. I found out about MARS and Skywarn and EchoLink and IRLP, and all the incredible things you can do with just a little dual-band HT, and I was hooked. Now my friends and I talk on a number of the local repeaters in town (I've since moved) on a regular basis.

But according to you, I never should have started, because emergency services are not the "primary purpose" of the Amateur Service. Kill yourself. I can't stand curmudgeonly old fucks like you who think if you didn't start on CW on 10m you're somehow illegitimate. Get over yourself.

I wonder why no one seems to have thought of this possibility.

"I don't want the burden of righting wrongs." Go to Hell, you self-important shit. Take the goddamn money, give it to charity and stop being such a goddamn Aspie.

Fucking hell. This isn't THAT hard to figure out. Use it to feed the hungry. Use it to build a school. Stop being such a fucking antisocial douchebag.

Better in some ways than Windows Mobile phones.

This really shouldn't be surprising.

That should be a comma in ("iPhone %d,%d",majorversionnumber,minorversionnumber), not a period.