I agree. Americans are just weird and not too bright that way. The whole "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" syndrome and all that. It's like when you meet an american they want to find out what your job is, as if that matters to what kind of a person you are to them.

I am sometime called on to do Calligraphy. Yes, with ink and edged pens and fancy expensive as fuck paper. I have a Pelikan pen from 1983. It is in a steel box that used to be my mom's sewing kit. She bought that in 1966. I also have a metric triangle that helps me line out a page very quickly and it's from 1979.

Given this is slashdot, you're probably thinking "fuck Heineken man - we're talking' computer shit around here dude!"

So my oldest piece of digital gear is a box of floppy disks from the mid 1980s - "original copies" of files I made and some software that will never see the light of day, and sound disk for my 1986 DSS1 Sampling Synth that is mouldering in the basement.

HW

If the wealth created is captured by the rich.

I'm not a liberal. I'm a socialist. Big difference you anonymous cunt.

Come and get me you anonymous coward.

Sure that's fine until you want to see how big your directories are - still epic fail on some thing Mac has done since forever. My hybrid dream OS: Linux kernal, MacOS UI modified by Win7.

How about we also remove all those oil subsidies, and see how cheap that car really is? Oh, and also the cost to the environment from burning fossil fuels - let's see, how much will it cost to move everyone out of Florida? Anf how about all the carcinogenic bullshit that comes along with it - all those health costs need to be wrapped into it as well. Oh gee - look! It's actually more expensive to run fossil fuel vehicles than some flimsy govt subsidy for an electric car.

I'd call you a troll, but that would overstating the case, and it's possible you're something stupider, like a republican.

People are so damn stupid, I see precious little natural intelligence in this world as it is, I would argue it doesn't really exist. So making an artificial version is meaningless.

Ad blockers are not immoral. The "economic realities" to which you obsequiously collapse before are.

Best keyboard I ever owned - built like a truck and cost me - I dunno - $65? The two previous keyboards died after about couple years each - with the money I pissed away on them, I could have bought the unicomp...

Oculus Rift is this years flavour. No one really cares that much about 3D. I predict it will no longer exist in 3 years.

about a product that shouldn't exist.

Better yet, charge people to comment. Then ban them.

That says it all.

No we won't trust you on that. We trust rational reasoned discourse, not bigoted race baiting bullshit artists.