I wonder if part of it has to do with us being some of the first to really have things like home taping preserving the near-past in a more visual way. I also kind of think about the whole "promised a place in a society that ultimately ended up tearing itself apart rather than let us in" thing, too.

Even working residential delivery I end up seeing a disturbing amount of piss bottles on side streets and fairly remote roads. Some of the logistics businesses I've delivered were lousy with them

Coelecanth

He's important as a convergence point and a binding agent for many of America's problems, but it's also crucial to keep in mind that all this didn't start with him and it clearly didn't end with him.

Tell her it's good when it happens to white people

Nah, I wanna become the monster I'm trying to fight. They got their whack at it, why shouldn't I?

The radio said "No, Alex You are the neocons."

And then, Alex was a has-been.

I’m increasingly losing my patience with my own ostensible peers, but I have to remind myself that most people aren’t gonna alter the course of history - hell, most groups won’t, either. That just makes the little stuff we can do all the more important.

FWIW CompuPro targeted the enterprise and scientific markets. Something like this wouldn’t be something a individual home/hobbyist/small business user would be buying.

Really more of a hardware RAM disk, but CompuPro offered a board called the M-drive for their S-100 ecosystem in the early '80s. 512k of DRAM-based storage; one board cost $1,895 in 02/1983. The potential existed to use up to eight boards in one system, which would give the user a 4MB RAM disk.

I was gonna say, this is the same exact shit internet conservatives were saying about Tumblr ten years ago.

Porky, you son of a bitch

...Oh, wait, that's with a 'C'.