iamdave

Getting back on topic, this brings up a weird thing to me: While not raised with the internet, it has been around for a good portion of my life, chat rooms and message boards, channels and newsgroups were my daily fodder. I've met numerous friends I've gamed with in person, had meetups with others, and traveled with some.

But having tried it across a few sites, and even tried some of the paid experiences, online dating-even as a guy-absolutely REPULSES me.

Being in the generation that birthed it, you'd think the exact opposite. It's a weird phenomenon to me.

As far as "no bullshit" registrars, Domai.nr has been short of incredible.

Thought I'd share the option if anyone is looking to migrate and at least wants options on the table to think about, along with namecheap.

Knowing where my note files are and not having to worry about accessing them is a priority.

Whatever metrics you want to point at as to how long Google service x survives doesn't magically make that clock go away in my mind. It's there. It's present.

Now if there were a graduate degree for that, I'd audit a class or two.

Heh same, I've observed when my cat strains his neck to tilt and lean, he's laser focused on something that's partially obscured, and then bolts across the room.

I've learned to let him go maul whatever ball of dust is tumbling across the floor in those moments.

I grew up in one of those "children are meant to be seen, not heard" households, so attempts to be helpful and part of things was always rebuffed with "no you'll just getting in the way and break something". Made resentment of being given chores arbitrarily that much more intense, because why would I want to help now?

Of course, being older now with my own home I work hard to keep things tidy as a point of pride, no kids but if they ever come along I'm going to make sure if they want to help out that they feel involved and maybe learn something in the process-the kind of parents I wish I had.

If you have a working landline phone, calling a nearby airport could be your only way to know the latest conditions and if it's safe to go outside.

Not enough, I would wager. It's something I spend a lot of time thinking about, living in one of the largest cities in the country now, with parents who live comfortably in the rural south-but have complained about the internet a couple of times.

To their credit, they'll lose connectivity for hours and not even mind, since mom will just turn on the radio and listen to the local PBS station and tend to her garden while dad goes out to his woodshop.

Others in their community probably aren't as content without connectivity, for such long periods as they are.

I await the results of all the inquiries into this to find out what took place here.

Edit: Oh and "But $ISP doesn't offer traditional phone service, they sell VoIP", is as of 2005 no longer a valid excuse for non-compliance: https://www.fcc.gov/document/commission-requires-interconnec...

I've consulted with a few rural counties (I don't know a thing about the PNW, is Kitsap a rural or suburban county?) who got their circuits leased to them through a local MSP/IT Shop who had all the best intentions, but overlooked any sort of failover and you end up with an answering center taking calls over a single adtran going direct out to a CLEC.

Just wondering if this is less county refusing to do something, and more like the county implementing services sold to them that probably could have benefited from better planning and integration.

I'm getting a little more than annoyed with the constant insinuation, in the face of challenging, difficult and emotionally painful issues in our society getting thrown into a discussion as something we've factually accepted and tolerated as something that just 'is', as if we've thrown our hands up and said "please keep slaughtering our school children".

Especially in the form of throwaway comments from individuals who aren't actually putting forth a solution themselves.

Please stop waxing post hoc ergo propter hoc like this-just because a solution hasn't made its way through the mechanisms of law and procedural solution making, and please stop projecting YOUR cynicism on the issue on to the rest of us.

As you said, OCS was a needed optimization at the time it was rolled into the publicly facing releases, and I thought it was an interesting topic to at least share with others who are interested in the discussion (the amount of negative downvotes I see now maybe suggests folks don't find it as interesting as I do as someone who merely plays video games but doesn't develop them); at the very least I wasn't aware that it's a common technology, but it is still an interesting technology to me nonetheless.

It seems though in some industries (not all), as you allude to in the floral industry, that licensing is just another manifestation of rent seeking and ever encroaching regulatory capture.

Would you concur? Curious to hear what you think there could (or should) be done about it in your opinion? In the case of selling floral products-caveat lector: I know nothing about flowers other than they are pretty and smell nice-would it make sense to replace licensing with some sort of rating system for businesses to aid consumers in deciding who they want to procure professional services from based on assessed expertise and past services rendered (not Yelp, an assessment from your industry peers)?

I haven't even played Elite:Dangerous in ages since the Alpha 3.1 update came out and Elite is one of my favorite space series of all time

Kiiiind of? As in, you can see the framework of how it could work, and to a certain extent, specific actions by one player at-for example-the Grim Hex Orbital station can affect trade for another player, but it's a level of detail I wont bore you with by typing out a gigantic wall of text.

But again, it's not fully fleshed out, and lacks a few elements, but it's not nothing, and what it is, is enough to have spawned a trade war among players, which we are having loads of fun with.

Well the good news is a Star Citizen starter pack these days runs about the same cost as your average AAA game these days, give or take a few bucks.

I don't know if I, a frequent Star Citizen player and Day 1 backer would say it lacks "everything", and am unsure if your hyperbole was just for dramatic effect but from the first executable to where we are now in Alpha version 3.4 (soon to be 3.5), we have an impressive amount of content-all things considered, especially via in-game locales and systems that have facilitated some incredible emergent gameplay among the player base.

The "Jumptown Wars" have been an amazing thing to watch and participate in, and I encourage you to go look through the Star Citizen subreddit to see some of the in-game coordination players are engaging in just to secure a static trading depot on a dead moon (diving deeper into the anecdote rabbit hole: I participated in a 12 ship assault on said depot when a pilot in the player "Organization"-SC's guild system-I'm a member of was shot down by a rival group and requested evac).

It's light years from lacking "everything". It's not complete, but it's also not near as empty of an experience as you seem to be suggesting.

Because if so, so far reading this, it seems the Federal government has a pretty solid, and measurable grip on that very activity, just from the text of the report, and it doesn't seem remarkably difficult for them since they've come up with seemingly multiple ways to delineate the different types of Federal rules from each other, and have been able to point to various methods used to come up with their final assessment totals.

None of it seemed overtly complicated or difficult, and I'm about as far removed from "well read" on government reports as a person can get.

Some were shocked to learn Corel was still around, whereas I'm shocked to learn Winzip is still around. Especially since Windows finally got around to adding native zip64 support in what...XP SP3 I think it was?