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mmcgaha

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    Comment #47165643

    I have no concern for young generations wanting to blame our age group. The day will come soon that their generation is pointed at for not solving the complex problems of their day…

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    Comment #47042316

    And here is thought sl was a pain in the ass. I hate that train.

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    Comment #47025162

    I live in rural Maine so it may not be the same everywhere but a few months ago I was just enjoying the outdoors and noticed all these fast moving objects. Turns out they were sate…

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    Comment #46646424

    Christmas dinner for my immediate family almost $500. That was pretty much dinner and our favorite appetizers but does not count the liquor and wine. This was just me, my ex, five …

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    Comment #45795360

    I bet you are the life of the party. Seriously though, what makes you write that so matter of factly?

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    Comment #45393040

    I just wish someone would make a first person version of AMFV. It would need to be a really different game to stay true to AMFV but I think it could revolve around not getting shut…

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    Comment #45392994

    I like that it is a well maintained unix like environment with full on vendor support. Since the pi 5 performance has been good enough for everything I do and the 400 is still my g…

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    Comment #44954735

    I use it to maintain our product catalog at work. The server does the final rendering of the complete document but as a page is getting edited the preview is getting rendered in th…

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    Comment #44948625

    When I was in high school I could hold my breath all the way through comfortably numb. None of my friends could even come close. My technique was to breath in and out real fast unt…

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    Comment #44768254

    Yep, this is it exactly. When I was young TV, including HBO, would go off the air at night. You could not have hours of fun playing an Atari. Having fun at home was cards and board…

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    Comment #43637416

    I would say shut up and take my money but they don't want my money.

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    Comment #43611324

    When my son was six he found a girly magazine at a friends house and was sneaking away to look at it. When my wife caught him she told him the magazine was bad and he should not be…

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    Comment #42860792

    I met a lot of folks playing TT and the method that I used most was to jump for numbers and the first letter of speed chat was the letter. Adults and older teens picked up on it an…

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    Comment #42784825

    I used to work for a company that bought off cuts from this plant and the static that comes off of these rolls is scary. I heard this story years ago and no one in our plant had a …

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    Comment #42649998

    I used to run my mother's vacuum cleaner plugged into the same outlet as my C64 to keep it from crashing.

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    Comment #42612376

    I have too many family stories of the things police used to do to believe that it was better back then. My gut tells me things are better now but maybe I am just not in the know.

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    Comment #42472776

    I could not agree with you more. I am replying to you from my third mac. I got it less than a year ago and it is the first Mac I have used since 2010 or so. Sure I am getting used …

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    Comment #42462378

    In my mind Perl was the Rust of the 90s. Perl evangelists were everywhere and wanted to rewrite everything in one line of Perl.

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    Comment #42444386

    When I was a kid I used to think that having variables A... without any gaps in the letters meant that I did a good job of thinking out the program in advance.

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    Comment #42380106

    I was looking for a reference but I am afraid it is lost in some news group in the distant past but my understanding is that all of Meta Kernel was written directly on an HP calcul…

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    Comment #42286927

    In the 90s there was a charge on my mom's phone bill for touch tone dialing. I called up to dispute the charges but the phone company wouldn't have any of it so I had them remove t…

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    Comment #42260192

    So musicians should not be compensated when their old songs play on the radio? You made your money in 1974 now move along while my company exploits your work for free.

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    Comment #42159456

    I am not sure that it is an issue with the origination point. In fact I just thought it was my ISP because my daughter's boyfriend was watching and doing facetime with her and my v…

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    Comment #42152526

    I doubt it still works but things I needed to get through email I would embed in word documents.

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    Comment #42037650

    Magazines used to have pen pal sections where kids would post their name, age, and address so anyone could write them. It was a different time.