I wouldn't tweet I hope anyone dies, rather tacky. I would tweet that I hope Trump makes a complete recovery, and is released from the hospital a day after Biden's inauguration.

If you try hard enough, you can write convoluted, impossible to understand code that will compile and almost do what you wanted it to do, in ANY language, it's just easier to do in C++. As a basic object oriented language with light weight low level support, C++ is actually not bad. Some of the STD Lib stuff written for it is actually useful. But I will admit that I rarely use even HALF of the language and Libraries power. "for with great power comes great responsibility"

Big oil isn't to blame for global warning caused by fossil fuels, everyone who USES fossil fuels is to blame. Of course, we KNOW that the Big Oil lobby has bribed our government to limit support for renewable energy. In the end it is the congressmen and the current president who deny the science of climate change so in the end it will be the government that will have to pay the piper. Just wait till land owners whose property goes underwater start burning their mortgages, and demanding that the government bail them out for causing the problem by denying climate change. THEN watch taxes on Big Oil go through the roof.

I suspect there will be a long waiting list for these. If you pre-order you could make a killing by selling your spot on line if you decide not to buy one.

Just remember 18th century France. The top 1% (or is that the top 0.1%) will feel the blade.

Any job that requires full time labor MUST pay a 'living' wage. That wage will vary according to the local cost of living. If McDonalds can't afford to pay a living wage in an expensive area such as San Fransisco, then maybe they shouldn't open any franchises there, or should only hire part time labor (such as college students).

I don't think that gasoline stations will go out of business. Some will, but many will convert over to electric charging stations. If electric cars are to become mainstream we'll need plenty of charging stations along every interstate route. Even with a 200-300 mile range, how are you going to handle a 400-500 mile long trip? For average commuting, and short range vacation trips this range may be enough, but what happens when we want to go cross country?

The "Requirement" still does exist in the sense that good chunks of the amateur bands are restricted to use ONLY by this technology! Of course one may legally use computer means for encoding and decoding such transmissions. The point is that CW is still one of the most efficient means of spectrum use. I did make use of the 'Morse' code (and to be technically correct what is used over the air in amateur is NOT MORSE, it is the 'international radio telegraph code. True 'Morse' has variable spaces and long 'dashes' added to the mix), in a product at Coulter. The CPU board had only a single LED to indicate good/bad status. I ended up blinking error codes in 'Morse'!

That's "Stone Knives and Bear Skins"!

QDOS was originally written for the 8086/8088. It was based on CP/M which was 8 bit. QDOS was the product of Seattle Computer Products. They called it "Quick and Dirty" DOS, it was a hack of CP/M written because of CP/M-86 remaining 'vaporware' for a long time after it had been announced. SCP had their hardware ready (S100 board) but no O/S thanks to DR delaying their promised product. When IBM contacted Bill Gates at Microsoft about them writing an O/S he send them over to DR who gave IBM the run-around (so the urban legend goes). So Bill purchased QDOS from SCP for a song, and that became MS-DOS v1.0. I suppose there is room for debate as to if the 8088 is an 8 bit or 16 bit processor. Intel DID call it an 8 bit microprocessor in some of their literature. However the instruction set is most certainly 16 bit.

Reminds me of my first computer build. AMD K6 230mhz, 64mb ram, 2gb disk running Debian. Those were the days when you had to configure your own kernels, go though the hell of getting X-11 to work with your video card/monitor combo, set up a working dial up connection with an external modem, and make dpkg work.

Intel i7-4790 3.6ghz, 16gb ram. I added a crucial 160gb SSD for the OS (Linux Mint), a dual head Nvidia graphics card, and a 500W power supply to replace the 300W one it came with. The existing 1TB rotating disk drive now holds my /home partition. I also have two Dell 24" (16x10) monitors. It's not bad for an El-Cheapo system purchased off of Ebay as 'Factory Reconditioned'. The Window's 8 OS was wiped off the disk, but I still have a re-install CD if I ever want to put it back. (Nah!).