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I don't think (s)he was talking about the revolution so much as the founding of certain colonies. Massachusetts, for example.

I had a partner when I opened a computer shop back in the day. Closest I've come to having sex with him was the time I saw his wife topless through the window.

Significant Other is much more specific.

Look, it's simple:

Can the PRC arrest me if I run down the streets of Taipei naked? No? Then they don't own Taiwan.

For everything:

• vi/vim
• ssh & sshd

For everything except firewalls:

• C, C++, Perl, Common Lisp, Scheme programming tools
• lynx
• wget/curl
• git
• ksh (on *BSD)
• telnet (yeah, there's equipment that still uses telnet out there)

For a desktop:

• Emacs
• xterm
• GNU plotutils
• TeXlive
• X11 utilities (xcalc, editres, etc.)
• Atmel and Arduino toolchains
• xpdf
• KDE
• KiCad
• GIMP
• Inkscape
• Firefox
• Chromium
• Kerbal Space Program

Could be worse. At least we don't have "dubs" threads like 4chan does.

Turning dubs back on right before he left was the final middle finger from moot, I suspect.

Some kind of Pong game. I was really little and it was my grandmother's, so I don't even remember what the actual unit looked like.

Then the Atari 2600 (my aunt's), then the Atari 5200 (my grandmother's - she was unstoppable at Pac-Man and could start from Cherry and work all the way up to nine keys without dying once).

Then there was the day we rented an NES. That day changed my life.

It was Super Mario Bros. Start the game. "Oh hey, the screen moves sideways! Good lord, this is a huge game." Dies a bunch. Find pipe shortcut. "Oh wow!" Finally beat level 1-1. "Yay, I beat the game! Oh wait, World 1-2? WTF?!?!?"

It's hard to explain the feeling when the most immersive game you've ever played was Pitfall.

And I've explained several times why Hawaii is irrelevant to the topic, yet you keep yammering on about it and wanting me to "condone" the US' actions in Hawaii. What I condone or not condone has no bearing on the PRC and Taiwan situation. What the US did in Hawaii has no bearing on the PRC and Taiwan situation. You're just trying to deflect the actual argument.

Again, your argument is nonsensical and I explained in detail why it’s nonsensical.

No, you didn't. You sidestepped the topic altogether and tried to turn the discussion into something else.

China will either let people of Taiwan kick US out the way people did in Hong Kong, or they will take action to kick US out. Either way, the end result will be that US is going to lose its unsinkable carrier.

And when that day happens, the PRC will finally own Taiwan. Until then, it's just hand waving and words. Feel free to send me a "I told you so" message when it happens.

No, I'm not denying anything about Hawaii because it's irrelevant to the topic.

I don't argue that the PRC says it owns Taiwan. My argument is that, in reality, it's just words. I could walk down the main street of Taipei today with my pants down and the PRC could do nothing to stop me. The ROC, on the other hand, can.

Your civil war isn't over yet. You can blame us for that all you like, but it doesn't change the fact that the PRC does not, in fact, control Taiwan. And take this from an evil imperialist: if you don't control it, it's not yours.

Why? I've spent a good deal of time in Hawaii, know quite a few native people personally, and have read up on Hawaii's history. Yet some link from someone that searches out and posts nothing but anti-US articles all the time is supposed to change my mind? I don't think so.

Going back to the actual topic (Remember the topic? About chip availability and Taiwan being the source of chips, and how Taiwan is de facto its own country? Yeah, that one.):

You claim that the US is the reason for Taiwan not being part of the PRC. You also say Taiwan is part of the PRC. So what is it? You can't have it both ways.

Imagine what life was like when people used typewriters.

Those IBM Selectrics, especially. Hit keys (mostly) silently, hit Return, and that little ball goes BBBRRRAAAPPP! across the page all at once.

That said, I've been in offices where they used all IBM equipment (including Type-M keyboards) and after a while you don't hear the typing. That might be because you're going deaf, though.

Nope, Deuteronomy clearly states that it's only OK to murder your own kids, and that's only if they're being rebellious.

Are we sure about that though? There are a lot of other small insects that fill the same niche without biting humans (including other mosquito species).

I remember people used to complain, "what about the bats?" until we found that mosquitos make up at most 2% of a bat's diet.