>But what if I want to drive from New York to Las Vegas all in one
>go on a Coke fueled journey of self-discovery and action?

If you're going straight to the tables from that, we'll happily comp the room for when you crash, along with more drinks and meal! :)

>It's been on my desktop since 1997.

which is the year I took it *off* my primary desktop, iirc!

At that point, FreeBSD supported my hardware.

Linux still ended up on some laptops when I was in a hurry.

I couldn't tell you whether either FreeBSD or Linux can play nicely with the other's filesystem, though--back then they both did enough intermittent damages to the other's filesystem that I had do uses a DOS partition to share between them.

"Gun shows" have nothing to do with it.

Dealers are required to do background checks, "gun show" or not.

Private individuals are not required to do background checks, "gun show" or not (under federal law, state laws differ).

If you claim to be a private individual and the ATF determines that you are, de facto, effectively acting as unlicensed dealer, you go to prison for a very long time (assuming they don't just show up at your house and kill you, your dogs and quite possibly the rest of your family)

Anyone who talks about a supposed "gun show loophole" is either demonstrably ignorant of the actual laws in this area or being actively dishonest, and their opinions should not be trusted on this subject (or, arguably, anything else).

This led to my having to ask for a replacement windows CD from the university. It's not like I used it more than a time or two ago. year, being on FreeBSD, but sometimes it was needed for some screwball stuff.

I'd looked high and low before giving up and asking. It isn't a big deal, as the university had a master licensee, but still.

And then, a few months later, I found it.

My fire had put it into coaster duty!

Err, why?

"well you said . . ."

[eyeroll]

the tech guy and I got a good laugh out of it, though.

I missed the joke? Must have to do with the reference of "subject". Care to clarify?

My own reaction is that whether this is bad or good depends on what the data centers are doing. Reminded by the names you mentioned, I'm inclined to the side of "doing bad". So let me try to offer some examples of possible uses of AI:

Good: Time machine for the future. Educate political leaders to do better with accurate descriptions of the consequences of their policies. Surely they will want to have legacies beyond dying with lots of toys?

Bad: GAIvatars used for manipulation, especially manipulation unto death. If someone had a GAIvatar of Epstein six years ago, perhaps it was used to arrange his convenient suicide? (I could go for funny with speculations about promises made and not kept? Or go for serious with a citation of Determined by Robert Sapolosky, arguing against the existence of free will?)

Mod parent funnier, but I thought the story had much more potential for funny.

If you have to feed the troll's sock puppet, do you need to propagate the vacuous Subject?

Better of the only two jokes on the target-rich story.

If I ever had a mod point to bestow would that motivate me to search for funny-but-not-yet-so-moderated stuff?

I want to thank you for that link, but... Turns out it seems to be some kind of clickbait scam. It did show a page that looked like bash.org, but then it insisted on permission to send notification and I accept no intrusive notifications I can avoid.

And yeah, I know that some of the bash.org stuff made it into the Wayback Machine, but my favorite capslock joke didn't.

Mod parent Funny, though the joke I was looking for is that EVERYTHING is older than the earth. Matter is really persistent and the Big Bang happened a long time ago. It's just the packaging that sometimes changes?

Range will get there.

But we also need to deal with climate disaster or hauling a boat for funsies. Waaaaaay to many people in the latter category

>It's really not the same, for a number of reasons.

OK, make it a dam with a huge stopcock, or half a nuclear plant that defies the laws of physics by switching suddenly on and off, and to partial power.

Only Funny?

But I hate having to tell you that bash.org is gone.

" things where the display elevated or the keyboard would remove so you could use them like a workstation,"

There's a name for that design: Osborne!

Yup, if only there was some small Central-European country that could have demonstrated that direct democracy could work at the nationnal level.
But no, nope, there absolutely none, nothing to see here, move along...