Nonsense, Baldrick! It's a perfectly cromulent plan! Cannot Fail!

Because the "middle class" is broke enough that they have to rent out their spare rooms on AirBnB to keep the rest of the roof over their heads...

The power goes out. How much is your gold worth then?

More likely he's a parts salesman who needed this for his work and IT had "other priorities" so he hacked something together to get his job done.

Users, like the internet, route around obstructions.

And he was lucky if you didn't pound a six and smoke two packs by the time yah got home, right?

This is why people transporting prisoners should not carry guns. If the bailiff hd been armed with a nightstick, there would very likely be three more people alive tonight.

here, I'll boil it down: "Is it fucking broken? No? THEN DON'T FIX IT!"

Depending on severely antique technology (8" floppies!) is stupid and broken. Depending on a language that's just not in fashion because the kool kidz have declared it 'My grandpa used it so it MUST be too old and no good anymore!' is neither stupid or broken.

Oh FUCK Skype for business, with a goddamn rusty pitchfork. It decides that the reply to an IM I send from my desktop client must be sent to my phone, because I woke it up when I got a text (in an entirely different app) from my wife.

And that's not even considering the clusterfuck that is SfB on the mac. Oh yeah, no such thing as SfB on the mac. I have to run a goddamn VM just to use our group chat client, because we're too goddamn special to use a functional application like Slack, IRC or the thirty goddamn years of chat clients before SfB...

We're just all goddamn lucky that MS doesn't make rockets...

Bill Gates would be a moderately wealthy harvard-educated lawyer.

Expensive. Not as much space as a Nomad. Lame.

I've only been doing it for 21 years. :-)

The only thing that hasn't changed is..nothing.

I started out running a Dec Mini-Vax about the size of a washing machine, only much louder...(we still remember the blessed silence in our office/server 'room' the day it was finally turned off.) using (IIRC) kermit to connect to it from my desktop.

Cut my unix teeth on a HP/Apollo franken-unix thing: part SysV, part BSD.

All the machines I am sysadmin for now are Linux VM's, except my desktop systems...which all run OS X....so, yeah, still using Unix.

That would possibly be the most amusing/horrifying Human Subjects Committee review ever.

Better not tell Jim Bakker this, he's saying people should get horses because Gawd is a-gonna fry us with an EMP , and you should buy Jim Bakker's special dehydrated soup supply http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/doomsday-prepper-jim-bakker-swears-youll-love-his-160-potato-soup-bucket/

Oh ghod don't get me started on my '81 Honda civic and the Kehin 3BBl, aka 'Satan's Own Carburetor'....