Look, this is the good ol U. S. of A. which is a CAPITALIST society. This means that competition reigns supreme, so take your--oh, wait.

Seems like Twitter is inching ever closer to a blog platform. PSSSST! Jack: it has been done already.

when heavy-handed coercion will do the trick every time?

Well, you can't fight City Hall, ya know!

I agree that the Roku is a good investment.

But I'm secretly hoping that Amazon and Google both obliterate each other and take Facebook down with them. Then we can start fresh.

It's not Star Trek. It's a totally different movie that rips off the same character names to draw in long-time fans, but it's not recognizable to them. Fuck Abrams and his money grab.

There's a setting buried in the Firefox "about:config" tree that stops autoplay of videos/media, but I don't remember what it's named right now. Search around there long enough you'll find it.

That's what puzzled Capt. Picard in the Devron system.

Idea: start a service that actually drinks your coffee for you.

EVERY day? EVERY SINGLE day?!?!

A French press is indeed the best for numerous reasons. The entire batch of coffee brews for the same duration, unlike drip. The filter allows juuuuuuuuust enough particulates through to impart a body to the coffee that you don't get when it's filtered to within an inch of its life--it does make a difference. It's a breeze to clean once you get the hang of it.

If you want a good cup of coffee a French press can't be beat.

Wul, don't forget about Q-signals thar, bud.

QSL - acknowledgement; "QSL, W4NUA Fairfax, standing bye and monitoring"
QSO - conversation
QRT - STFU!! also used as "I am signing out and leaving the air"

I even had a Callbook with *Z-signals* listed. Things like
ZUE - affirmative, roger, 10-4
ZDG - Accuracy of following message(s) (or message...) is doubtful. Correction or confirmation will be forthcoming. (Particularly applicable in the US these days!)

Sounds like an order wire to me. Which they could have provided themselves, as operator of the network.

The crazy thing is that text messages are still a more universal platform, allowing any person with a mobile phone to message anyone else using a different service provider.

It wasn't always so. At first you could only send text messages to customers on your carrier. Then they started to realize that a network that can't connect to any other networks holds little value and started to work toward interoperability, but it was haphazard.

that SMS made it all the way to the ripe old age of 25 without running its car into a bridge abutment while texting.