I remember the glory days of usenet, before AOL invaded...

Here in Minneapolis they have a pretty decent mass transit system. It takes me 35 minutes to get to work during non rush hour. During rush hour its usually an hour due to congestion on the roads. Riding the Express bus and light rail to work also takes an hour. So in that instance, it works out for me. The Park and Rides are the way to go. Free covered parking (Yeah more snow coming tomorrow) and an express bus leaves for downtown Minneapolis every 5 minutes or so during Rush Hours. Light rail runs by the job site every 10 minutes.

Admittedly, it only pays off during rush hour. Times when I have to work alternate shifts, then it would take about 90 minutes to use mass transit. No express bus running, so I would have to use the route that stops every other block to get downtown.

Even though it's free for me to ride (retired military) there are days where I still decide to drive, just because I don't want to deal with people. So the above comment about people not wanting to "share rides" makes sense. Some days I just want to be left alone and sip coffee, even if I'm stuck in traffic.

Minneapolis has a Light Rail that goes from downtown Minneapolis, to the airport, then ends at the Mall of America. Because it has major destinations along its route, it's quite popular. It drops you off under the airport. You take three escalators and a short tram ride, and you're in the airport terminal.

For the Super Bowl they plan to have everybody park at the Mall of America, and use the light rail to go directly to US Bank Stadium. All other stops will not be in service that day.

Damn I wish I had Mod points, got a good laugh out of this. Love that show (MXC)!

When they jumped on board the SJW crap and came out in support of Black Lives Matter, that's when I canceled my subscription and closed my account.

I just want music on my music program. Keep your politics to yourself. When you decide to alienate half of the country, don't be surprised when they decide to part ways with your product.

Moved over to Spotify. No idea how they lean politically, because they just play music.

+1 for FB Purity! Another nice feature is the blocking of key words. Type in "Jayden K Smith" and every post containing that phrase disappeared. Rather nice.

The last time I wore a watch was when I took my boy's Cub Scout pack camping a few years ago. Four days in the rural parts of Oklahoma, crappy Cell service (T-Mobile at the time). Dug out an old sports watch from the 90's and wore it the four days, and put the cell phone away. Was able to get the boys to all the scheduled activities on time, without messing with the cell phone.

Back in the 80's I had the Casio calculator watch. Lots of fun, miss that watch.

I got introduced to Linux back with Ubuntu 8.10 and shortly thereafter discovered Kubuntu with KDE. I've tried the others, but still always come back to KDE. When KDE 5 came out on Kubuntu, I gave it a try, but had issues with Dropbox working. Hopped around several distros, before finally settling on Mageia 5, which uses KDE 4.

So I've been using KDE 4 in one form or another since 2008 or so. It works for me, and I know how to use it. I like how familiar everything is eight years later.

I'm at the point in my life where I want it to "just work", and quit changing icons and programs around just for the sake of it. My Galaxy S5 just updated the icons yet again, and introduced new programs I don't want.

As the mainline distros switch to KDE 5 I'll probably be forced to upgrade, but in the time being, going to ride the KDE 4 train as long as I can.

Back in the early 90's when Back to the Future 3 was about to be released, a theater in Denver played the first two movies in the trilogy, then played #3 before it was released. Cost about $10 or so to see all three of the Back to the Future movies. Crowd was a lot of fun, would cheer whenever Lea Thompson's name appeared. Management allowed people to bring in food from outside. Even scored a T-Shirt since I was one of the first 100 to line up.

Minnesota Nice - Agreed.

The only time I was the only patron in the movie was when I went to see "Red" at the theater in Waconia, MN. It was a weekday afternoon showing, and I had the entire theater to myself. Lots of fun.

The Docks in Excelsior was another fun place to see movies.

In Moore, Oklahoma they have the Warren Theater, which is the theater the family prefers to go. Separate 21 and over section that has a full bar and restaurant. Also the directors room with the full reclining seats. The tickets cost more, but it's worth it. Let the riff raff go to the dollar theater.

I second that. Anytime I get on a computer without KDE, or a windows computer, I miss the split screen. Very handy!

Windows 7 is working perfectly fine on the computer I use to play Civilization, and the computers the kids use for school work. I have ZERO interest in Windows 10. What part of "Fuck off and die" does Microsoft not understand?

Glad my Linux machine doesn't try to automatically upgrade me to the next distro version.