When I was spending a lot of time on Slashdot back in 1999, my boss used to say "Talking to your friend Commander Taco again?"

We canceled cable about 6 months ago. We have SlingTV (and pay extra for the sports package during NFL season), Netflix, Hulu+ and HBO. All those together are still cheaper than cable was.

Even better, we cancel HBO when there's not a series on that we watch, and it's a simple matter of a website click. When it's time to turn it back on, same thing.

With the addition of a $30 digital antenna, there is nothing we used to watch that we can't get now.

Totally understood. The trick is: you can tune your own signal/noise. Its very handy and I get essentially all my news via Twitter these days.

Its all on Twitter man...

The hippie going 45 in a 65 zone is high.

The dude sitting there waiting for the stop sign to turn green is high.

I'm a Patreon user, and I got the scam email.

They claimed "I have your tax id, tax forms, SSN, DOB, Name, Address, Credit card details and more sensitive data..."

All Patreon has of mine is my credit card info, name, and billing address. The same stuff any online retailer, or anyone who takes payment has. They DO NOT have my tax id, etc.

So it's obviously a scam right from the beginning.

They pull crap like this and then have the gall to say adblock users are evil?

"I don't like it so NO ONE should like it!"

I went to a presentation at a Unix convention in San Diego in 2000, 15 years ago, where Larry Wall talked at length about Perl 6, and how he was hard at work on it.

Well, better late than never.

Seems like the "Collaborative" part would be kinda difficult if it was not online.

Ok, they got a handle on the headaches. Now what about the horrible, horrible motion sickness?

No. The first thing anyone should do when they join Reddit is *unsubscribe* to the defaults. Then subscribe to ones they are actually interested in.

I though this was common knowledge, but I guess it is not, because I see statements like yours all the time.

"If you die in the game (or a dream), you die in real life" is one of the most tired plot devices in fiction. It's on my short list of things that will make me stop reading a book, along with "hero loses their powers" and "best friend becomes worst enemy".

You need a roof on a home to mount solar panels. Not an apartment, a home.

Have you seen housing prices in California? My house cost $389,000 in 2002 and it's only 750 square feet.

So, how do the "poorest residents" own a home?

Very little CGI was used in Mad Max.

"Over 80% of the effects seen in the film are real practical effects, stunts, make-up and sets. CGI was used sparingly mainly to enhance the Namibian landscape, remove stunt rigging and for Charlize Theron's left hand which in the film is a prosthetic arm." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt13...