Something with good enough QA that you do not need to pray it keeps working.

I wonder why the site shuts down now, when it is finally the year of Linux on the desktop?

That would be called a bootloader.

Many OS-less plattforms have bootloaders.

The thing about them is, no matter what features the bootloader has, once it passes control, they are of no use to the loaded program (unless you do some adr jump magic... maybe).

If this was so easy, couldn't you call a 'friend' in the U.S. and make them mail you a copy?
There has got to be more to this than that.

free car!!!

And here I thought it was the xbox dashboard.
I remember getting that from TBP around the time.

goodness = (1 - p(random explosion))

I thought we were going for the 'put their talking heads in a jar' solution.

If you are old right now and do this thing, you might be one of the few out of your generation who has made these records available.
That should set you apart from the other 127 not so tech savvy grandpas and grandmas.

Being the most ancient entry in the digital family tree will surely draw you some attention. So grab the chance.

Us younger people will just be another record in between.

Isn't the judge, who's now apparently target of homoerotic advances due to being so awesome, an absolvent of the same line of education you seem to despise so much?

A friend of my parents was an early adopter in this wind energy thing.
Meaning he put up a 30m tall generator in his own front yard in the early nineties...

I don't know what 'wind sickness' is supposed to be, but that thing was god damn annoying.

It would go ....SHINGnnnnnn.........SHINGnnnnn...........SHINGnnnnnnn......... all day and night, never stopping. If you didnt hear it, you could feel it through the floor/bed.

Maybe it would've been a good idea not to put the thing 15m in front of his house. And maybe a wind generator making a sound like that means it's damaged somehow. But I wouldn't say noise pollution from wind generators seems like such a far fetched idea. Not after living with that house for a couple of days.

I can't post either.

True.
Also you can be (and most likely are) a freeloader for a lot of projects while also being a contributor for a few.
No one can work on all projects at the same time and many will shift their attention to different projects over time.

- drawing an above average length pageflip-cartoon
- weight for flattening out crumpled pieces of paper

What if you send the single photon through a lot of 'weak' detectors placed in a row, before it finally hits the 'strong' one?
Would that count, or would they cease to be 'weak'?