"I remember having to pay "long distance" to call the next county" I, too, remember the aughts. I remember getting stuck with a whopping $300 something phone bill back in 2002 because I didn't realize the number I was using for my dial-up provider was long distance even though it was the same area code and only required dialing 7 digits. 2003 was a great year when my home finally got DSL.

I didn't take the Swiss for being xenophobic, until the public voted in a referendum banning minarets and running anti-niqab ads to single out minorities.

Don't say "religion" when you only mean Christianity. Some religions actually do offer proofs.

Almost all mosques are open to the public and welcoming. If they tried it they'd be told to stop running, would they like to sit down and have some tea?

Why are we going back to CDs and Vinyl when we have a physical audio format that blows them all away? High Fidelity Pure Audio, occasionally abbreviated as HFPA or BD-A is an audio-only Blu-ray optical disc. It has been around since 2013. HFPA is encoded as 24-bit/96 kHz or 24-bit/192 kHz linear PCM ("high-resolution audio"), optionally losslessly compressed with Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD Master Audio. (Wikipedia). Chances are you already have the ability to play this as it works on any standard Blu-Ray player unlike DVD-Audio and SACD which preceded it.

I would argue that if you get married quickly after your spouse dies then it is a sign you had a very good marriage. I know people who've told me that once their spouse dies, they are never getting married again because they don't want to ever get trapped again.

imagine how many more thousands they could save by replacing 200k in toy computers with a real datacenter platform.

Yeah, and none of those or even the sub-$400 new laptops are worth buying when $150 5yo business laptops are available.

It's doubtful that Apple will create anything worth buying in the ~$500 market given the ~250GB storage on their $900 macbook air

Yeah they're whining here about this but they throw captchas relentlessly at those of us on standard net configs too. I would say its even more likely to get a robot accusation on desktop than a doublenat mobile session.

He's gotta leave us guessing because like other competitors MS has bought and killed countless studios and the games they produced.

They're also never actually free on the scamazon store, it's just a subscription that you don't ever own.

It's coming to light due to the private equity buyout lead by esteemed real estate criminal Jared Kushner. This is likely anti-woke washing to entice a class of customers who have already moved along due to EA sucking for lots of other reasons which won't be addressed.

Why solve real problems intentionally created due to mismanagement when you can just play the culture war card and get a bunch of knee-jerk reactions?

unlikely it will be good for much with less than 1GB memory available. Should be a good reminder that true personal computers are still available and at only a modest cost premium.

In psychology, this is not hallucination. The proper term for making stuff up like this is "confabulation."

This is like hitting a nail with the handle end of a hammer. The companies that need to be sued in order to put an end to this nonsense are the ones selling their movies on Amazon and iTunes and FandangoNow and all the rest. Ultimately, US law will need to be amended to keep Hollywood from ripping off consumers.