A walk-in microwave?

Maybe, but what I miss from shareware is that I would get a game (e.g. Quake, Duke Nukem) from someone and be able to play without restrictions the first chapter.

In fact, most shareware games had also multiplayer available so those were very common in school’s computer “labs”.

Freemium apps, in my experience, have too many ads and fiendish tactics to my taste (Though I know it’s not all of them).

Like my belt onion.

I miss shareware.

Because cops are famous for following the rules.

What’s knife monopoly?

Let’s put it this way: If in our lifetime we can simulate the intelligence of a vinegar fly as general intelligence, that would be a monumental landmark in AGI. And we’re far, far, far away from it.

As far as the iron age was from the metal alloys used in the Space Shuttle.

Talking about AGI simulating higher intelligence at the level of a dog or a cat, dear I say a pigeon or a crow is as far fetched as expecting ancient Egyptians to harness the power of the atom.

Who’s the pregnant virgin?

Japanese budhist monks use black for their clothes as it simbolizes purity, or as black being the most pure color. In very few instances, they may wear purple or gold, but that’s due status and a latter addition.

In a funeral, only the deceased would wear white, I don’t remember why though, but for a while wearing white was in bad taste.

Wearing all black is also common for the Catholic clergy, and for a long time most brides used black for their wedding dress: https://kentuckykindredgenealogy.com/2014/12/13/history-of-the-black-wedding-dress/

That’s why the “hustling culture” is so important and prevalent in our society right now.
Everyone “knows” someone that made bank with either youtube, selling some pyramid-scheme product, bitcoins, some collectibles, craft beer, lottery… you name it.

Social media (and before that was TV) is selling us the idea that there’s a shortcut to becoming rich, you just need to find it, hustle, and you will become one of the rich persons.

That’s also why there’s so much cult of wealth and billionaires.

That said, a large portion of Millennials and after them have a rather negative view of billionaires and are rather skeptical of becoming rich, or even becoming home owners.

Not sure why you’ve got downvoted, but that’s the reason why all Baltic states had such a reaction when the invasion started.

That said, I would say that most of those states are highly socialistic despite having pretty much allergy to anything red and while preferring a capitalist system that doesn’t mean they want or support billionaires.

The mac address can also tell you the hardware vendor.

Weren’t the 70s worse than the 80s? I mean around 1975 when the city ran out of money.

Was there any chance for being against the war on terror or the government? Sincerely for like 10 years I felt you could easily get suckerpunched for just seeming hesitant about Iraq’s invasion or saying something negative about America’s Mayor.

Do You Have the Slightest Idea How Little That Narrows It Down?

Oh so just one grad school text book.

“You have five minutes to move your satellite”

As I mention above, the central power in SA needs us to keep other regional powers at check and the Wahhabi in power.

Even if government officials where involved on the attacks, that would be against the direct interests of the Saudi Crown.

In all cases, 9/11 was stated by the perpetrators to be used as an attempt to take the US out of SA (sacred land for Muslims) and every one had allegiances with either the Muslim Brotherhood (and through it Iran), Al Qaeda or, like in Bin Laden’s case, both.

This guy though fell from grace and started his campaign against the US during the Iraqi invasion, when the king and government decided that his plan of fighting with faith wasn’t as sensible as US tanks and planes.

In fact he tried to convince the Saudi scholars to issue a fatwa against the US deployment, but they preferred to keep their necks.

What I’m trying to say is, the SA government is a cruel, despotic and brutal regime but had little to no benefit from aiding in 9/11. Did they fuck up? I guess royally so, but I don’t see why would bite our hand.

Then again, I know nothing…

Whom in the Saudis wanted to take such a risk? I mean the Wahhabi needs us to keep the cash and weapon flow going if they want to keep in check their rivals.

I’m not disagreeing, just want to understand their motivations.

After all, Bin Laden was not Wahhabi at all, at odds with the Royal Family and had an upbringing at Muslim Brotherhood camps, which at the end of the day are managed by Iran, one of the main powers in the region and the biggest threat to SA.

In that regard, intentionally or not, Bin Laden strategy would weaken SA, which fits with what the Brotherhood wanted and ultimately fits with Iran’s regional objectives. But I can’t see how someone in power would want that unless they had pretensions to the crown, or rather following the Iranian philosophy, a possible republic’s government.

Ghostbusters is probably the single movie I can quote from one end to the other.

That and maybe Robocop.