…and he exercises his obvious control-issues through legislation!

How great is that?

There’s the small government in action.

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Back in 2020 when I took my class for my A+ cert I remember the instructor directing us to a Windows 10 debloating video tutorial to speed up a Win10 computer. If I recall correctly In that video the host point’s out that one of the Microsoft services that ran in the background of every standard distribution of Windows 10 was a keylogger. It was one of the many things that got permanently turned off in the in the tutorial.

Oh, cool! I thought Haiku had stalled out. I guess I was wrong.

It’s hard to remember but it was some version of Mandrake probably in the early 2000’s. At the time, they were one of the only distros (along with Red Hat) to offer an installation GUI. As a first time user I found partitioning a hard drive too complex to do on the command line.

I only used Mandrake for a short time before reverting to windows but it wasn’t long after that when I came back and then started using Debian. Since then I went back to Windows then to OpenSuSe, then Debian, Kubuntu, Ubuntu, and now Pop!_OS.

I don’t. I say either.

The Wolfenstein 3D minigame contained within Wolfenstein The New Order is probably the best one I’ve come across. I may be biased though since Wolfenstein 3D is probably one of my Top 5 all-time favorite games.

I wish the HR managers I ran into were more like you.

In this case, since I’m quoting/parroting someone elses words, yes. I do admit, though that this is a grammer rule I have struggled with on several occasions myself.

Honesty is a tough one, especially when living in a world that expects people to tell employers what they want to hear just to get decent work.

Boo! Hiss!

…affecting any sort of progress.

how do you want them to affect progress?

yeah, but do we really need a 1000+ page book to learn that absolute power corrupts absolutely?

Created flashpowder from 70% Potassium Perchlorate, and 30% 400-Mesh German Dark Alumium powder then subsequently blew shit (mostly earth) up. I also set a lot of stuff on fire. I created Molotov Cocktails out of gasoline and styrofoam and threw them at a block wall of a barn-ruin in the back yard. I also remember creating a Napthalene charge(think cardboard paper-towel roll stuffed with ground up mothballs sitting atop of some Black powder) that was suppose to create a big fireball and though I had no black powder prepared, I did have some excess flash powder I needed to get rid of so I used that. -For the briefest, loudest moment my buddies and I lit up the night sky.

–It was dangerous back then but it was before 9/11 and a visit from the feds was highly unlikely. Afterwards it became much harder to acquire German Dark 400 Mesh Aluminium Powder and today I would wholeheartedly expect a visit from an Alphabet agency. I did scald my face when nickel(bottle)-rocket fuel (made of carmelized sugar and potassium nitrate) ignited in my face as I was melting it together.

scientific hubris is the underlying theme of almost all of Crichton’s sci-fi books.

"We just closed them down one day and threw the insane on the street. "

On the street or in jail over what would otherwise be trivial legal violations. -like sleeping in public.

Wasn’t banned. left due to Corporatism.

It’s more of a French puppet state than U.S. as a result of their massive centuries-old debt they accrued when they managed to make themselves independent and end their own slavery. I’m pretty sure it’s hard to maintain a functional government when it’s permanently in debt to another country.

Fair enough.