"You'd even struggle to download a modern Firefox that worked on '98."

I guess someone doesn't know about OldVersion.

I can tell you don't live out here.

"There are age-related anti-discrimination laws already on the books, and they should be plenty sufficient for protecting actors as well as all other kinds of labor. "

If you're 40 and over, yes. Problem is, many actors get discriminated against in their 30s, considered too old. Unless you've got star power behind you, you're pretty much fucked, and might as well get a job being a gaffer or boom operator if you want to stay anywhere in the field, or relegate yourself to TV roles.

"Dude, I'm not a network technician but I've been putting computers together since the late 80s and have been running Linux OSs as my desktop OS for over a decade now...

And I couldn't set up the network you described without some serious googling."

If you don't know what pfsense is (and you claim to run Linux as your desktop OS for over a decade) and if you don't realize that almost everything described is actually a cable job (outside of making VLANs and configuring pfsense) then I suggest you get out of the IT field entirely.

If you can't handle at LEAST 5+ tbits in this day and age, you have no business being a CDN. This isn't the 90s or even the beginning of the new millennium.

Bet you Akamai's been pocketing that money and not bothering to expand their capabilities.

Yes, it is a good time to spend the money, before it becomes utterly useless. Fail to learn how the Great Depression worked and what it did to the Dollar, did we?

The PSU is very well-isolated. Even the crappy P4 PSUs that came stock with many systems and only had one 6-pin PCI-E power plug for the GPUs of then (7000+ series nVidia) had diodes and capacitor decoupling in the PSU. No, the PSU was very unlikely to have been killed by the GPU.

You do know what a diode is, right? You do know those are on every rail of even the utterly crappiest of PSUs, right? You do know that since pretty much the 80s the PSU is rather well-isolated from the rest of the system as far as electrical feedback and reverse voltage goes, right?

Do you even have any electrical experience? I've got a bare PSU mounted to a board right now powering a motherboard, again mounted bare to the same plank. De-shrouded GPU, etc. I bet you're the kind of person that hasn't ever turned a screw in your life.

I'd definitely mark troll for the power supply comment. Windows has exactly zero to do with that. For the GPU issue, that could very well be caused by Microsoft.

I could think of plenty of uses for 1T-bit connection in the home.

Camfrog Video Chat, if they hadn't fucked up and removed your own ability to host your own server.
4k broadcasting of multiple video cam angles for things like live from-home guitar education, lapidary education, etc.
Being able to back up your stuff to whatever silly online cloud provider you have thank to our ever-increasing data glut.

Because SD card speeds vary by class. You aren't capable of taking full advantage of USB 3.0 with the majority of SD card classes available now.

"That is not what that clause says."

The tenth amendment reads pretty much as I said it, verbatim. Have you bothered reading it and thinking about it in this context?

Here, have a pic of the internals - Nice and clean spaghetti.

Yes, the entirety of the system is original minus the tubes, on a hand-wired thru-hole board. And the system is QUIET. There's no hum. The caps are rock solid.

"The clause in the Constitution grants the government to right to mint money. It does not precluded anybody else from doing so."

The Constitution clearly states any powers/rights not delegated to the government are thus the powers/rights of the people and/or states. Since the government has the power to mint money granted to it, the people by constitutional decree do not have that right.

"and have shorter lifetimes than solid state electronics."

Spoken like someone that never used W-grade (military) tubes in their life. Mine are still kicking in my 1978 Fender Super Reverb, from when my father bought them. That's almost 40 years. You got any solid state stuff that old, gramps?