15 years here...it's two hostile takeovers and subsequent company name changes later, but the seniority stays, happily..

I would love to use DuckDuckGo as a Google replacement,just on general principle...

Unfortunately it's not a very good search engine :-(

I have fond memories of spending several months on one of the last bits of the DOS version...I'd managed to get to the top of a fairly huge tower but failed to realize that I had to take small steps to cross an invisible bridge instead of jumping a chasm...

Or something like that, mainly I remember swearing and restarting a lot...

Psychiatrists identify social media as new source of revenue..

shame if anything were to happen to it..

Basically, what most people want is to be able to take a photo with their Iphone and then press the print button. Anything more complex than that just makes their brain hurt.

I've been playing VO from Europe (Denmark) for 5 years, my ping's been around 140 pretty consistently, no lag at all. Could be network issues closer to home ?

Well.....too much vacation time can be a problem, too.

I have 6 weeks paid vacation every year, but sometimes I only manage 5 and have to transfer a week to the next year..

The paperwork involved can be a bitch :-(

Or burn the place down for the insurance..

It may be legal in the U.S, but I'm almost 100% certain it isn't in this part of the world (Denmark, and probably the rest of Scandinavia).

And not the file itself.

Closest match gets the highest grade..

Well, my HP 28C still works perfecly after about a quarter century of daily use, so I wouldn't be too worried..

Surely that's been on Project Gutenberg for years and years?

As your wifi ages, you pick up more and more freeloaders which slow down your net. When you replace your equipment, the freeloaders get booted off and have to rejoin. Hence the temporary speed increase. Duh!

It'd probably leave you open to all sorts of copyright violation charges. For instance from Playboy inc., as well as several makers of small household appliances. Or maybe that's just me..