I was similar growing up, except that instead of buying second hand I would rent NES games from the local box store (Phar-Mor in the 80's), similar to movie rentals before NetFlix and such. I suppose the modern-day equivalent would be GameFly, which would also be cut out w/ this.

The idea of a bunch of people from Pittsburgh voting to not give CMU a bunch of loot is at best weird.

If they would teach biology they would not have to teach evolution, lighting the path of the ignorant leads them to the truth. No one should be able to become educated and stay a creationist. I realize that there are heads-in-sand people out there, but mental illness is not an excuse.

Northern kentucky will now have two myth based museums and ZERO science museums. Pretty much what I expect from people that voted Rand Paul into office.

You can tell that he is but a child, what kind of repression and ignorance was he raised amidst that caused him to believe his complete lack of honesty and morality can be throw away by attacking businesses with MUCH more integrity than he will ever learn to possess. He must be a christian.

I think it is too early for the Comcast victims in Michigan to rejoice, they purchased one set of politicians years ago and it is clear that the bribes have worn off. New Bribes in 3...2...

I do not think that adults who still talk to invisible friends have any right to make decisions for the rest of us.

How remarkably Applesoftian of them!!!

Smoke does not contain proteins, humans react to proteins. My grounds are human biology. Your dismissal of that is grounded in ignorance.

Your husband does not have an allergy to cigarettes, it is biologically impossible. A large number of non-protein substances like Kleenex, paper dust, paint fumes, perfume, newsprint and cigarette smoke are erroneously called allergens, but they’re not. They do produce symptoms in many people, but it’s because they’re irritating, not allergic. Which means he is "allergic" to anything burning. Tobacco allergy does exist but only affects those who handle the raw leaves.

In 1996 I called IBM Support about the fact that my IBM Aptiva was having memory problems. When they found out I had OS/2 Warp installed they refused to help unless I installed MS Windows. I have not purchased an IBM product since.

"An empty 500 GB Seagate hard drive usually sells for $140" This is factually inaccurate, the only way I can see you spending that much on a 500 gig drive, especially the typically bad Seagate drives is to buy them at Best Buy. For that much cash Newegg was selling a 2TB drive yesterday.

As an FYI, skip the NYTimes version of this story, I have had 4 users walk in today with infected systems. It appears that NYTimes has pulled another screwup in security land http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10351460-83.html

Somewhere in this process sat a stupid christian convinced that D&D was a game of devil worship.