I don’t think insurance claim review boards went away.

I would enjoy a link to them all so I can randomly send them out

It might not be as good a brag down at the country club

That depends on if you’re buying new or you have a classic roadster.

Age restrictions, size of containers, where you can carry it, formulations, criminal history, etc, can all be factors for pepper spray.

For knives, the size of the blade, mechanical operation, age, etc are all factors.

My comment applies. PLEASE, CHECK YOUR LOCAL LAWS.

*Depending on local laws. Please check.

Tape is still the best long term storage medium though.

… I still have probably 100 blank DVDs and a hundred blank CDs.

But I also have a 3.5" floppy drive so I’m not a good measure to go by on these things.

Money and means always matters.

The bending of the knee is just a quest for more money.

They have sufficient money and means to get out.

Having had a disagreement with Miguel De Icaza that boiled down to him saying “Well I have these books on my shelf so I’m right” (narrator: he wasn’t right, it was hilarious later).

I will never, ever touch Gnome. I get it.

Because shitty makes for cheap.

How is this confusing?

Not even remotely how your comment comes across.

Also, I’m going to disagree. Every win deserves its associated celebration of success. Saying it isn’t successful - and this is what I’m referring to with your comment not coming across how you intend - helps nothing.

It doesn’t mean its “over” to have a win. Its never going to be “over”. There will always be new issues to tackle, rights to address, support that needs to be put in place, etc.

But glossing over what has been accomplished as just “not good enough because of one issue” isn’t going to help or motivate. Its the celebration of the successes that provide the drive for more.

Your comment comes across as “Massachusetts may as well be Nebraska.”

“Its not exactly what I want so it sucks” is never a useful take for anything.

I see you’ve met my moron of an uncle. Who is in his late 50’s.

Oh he is not a good author by any stretch. The sci-fi equivalent of eating sugar - technically reading, has that fun sci-fi bits, but nothing of real value underneath.

C.S. Friedman is a highly undervalued SciFi/Fantasy writer IMO, I think she played in a lot of the same themes as Hubbard but with way better writing and much more interesting stories.

Hubbard was good at churn and rock solid as a swindler, and Mission Earth IMO was just him throwing his last "screw you"s to the people he conned.

A stupid but moderately entertaining read, with insane alien sex scenes, mostly from the perspective of a (I swear I’m not joking) small dicked trickster alien who keeps screwing up his own plans. I think its Hubbard’s self insert.

I wouldn’t bother with it though.

Yeah, definitely subjective, but to me the early days of the web were before HTML 2 - so up to 1995.

And yeah, so many tables for a long time… Mostly because it was a bit messy to work with and had limitations, not to mention browser support requirements and a pretty fast moving sets of specs…

It was fun though.

Ohhh… No, not battlefield earth.

Mission Earth. 10 book series.

divs were added in the late 90’s… that is not what I’d call early internet

The sheer number of different religions and the general talk about any religion, as well as the laughter at the idea of a god other than power, would have me disagree on that.

But that’s the fun thing about books - everyone gets their own interpretation of the message!

There are parts of it where he explicitly has the aliens talking about how stupid humans are for following dumbass religions, and how easily religious leaders - of any religion - can be bribed with power, money, and sex.

Its definitely not in support of any religion