If governmental institutions have the ability to retain the data indefinitely, and you have no way of knowing whether or not you're one of the ones being actively watched, is there a significant difference?

You and your 5 other counterparts are going to get lonely without us though. We worry for you.


And fuck beta.

Also, fuck beta. If they wanted to genuinely improve the site, they'd require us to rlogin to submit comments.

An 8 bit ALU, and all you need is a modern computer running 64 bit java with a gigabyte or larger in heap to use it.

I would follow. We could even submit the story of the ressurection on places like Slashdot (Is slashdot still around?) so that we can spread the word!

Damn, that's bleak.

I...I genuinely don't know where you got that notion from.

That aside, I'd much rather pay $2.00 to sit down and watch a cheesy movie with some friends I'll never watch again than $15.99 for a DVD that takes up space, but I seldom ever watch something twice. Music is a different story altogether.

That makes sense. That's how it works for me for movies and shows. I don't really even have any DVDs because of services like Netflix and Amazon. The issue for me is that I already have the infrastructure in place for music. I have my backed up mp3 collection, organized better than they'd probably let me on their service.

I've looked into other cloud services too. I have a google music account with my music uploaded there, but it's generally inferior to the local player. Somewhere in the last 5 years or so, we decided that features like virtualizers weren't necessary. That's usually a dealbreaker for me.

Apologies if I come out ranty. Pulled an all nighter for work so I'm not entirely lucid.

But what can they bring to the table that old winamp and mp3s can't do better?

I have three "credit cards". I have a bank debit card, a paypal debit card, and then a credit card that's an actual credit card.

Technically if you count the cheesy ass HSA debit card that my employer considers "health insurance", then I've got four. Only one of them is a "real" credit card (as in, buying things on money I don't have).

Naturally it had to be. "The decline of nuance" wouldn't be nearly as polarizing. :P

Fuck the Eagles.

Joe Walsh was pretty cool though.

AC commented: "Not without huling [heavy things at their heads]."

A strange world is one where we're prosecuting people for crimes they've not yet committed...

The irreconcilable difference between those who promise they will create that which they can, and those who promise what will be created that which cannot actually exist.