Hell, json is 6 years off at this point. XML is 1 year off. Soap? Years off still... Like no formal web based apis existed.

Man - I'd hit up geocities or something.

I'm just arguing here - but dot matrix was mostly irrelevant at that point. Inkjet, bubblejet, and laser jet existed.

He can't dissolve parliament without a request from the prime minster

I'm the sense of a modern democracy, you are talking about a dictator.

King Charles doesn't have this power in a constitutional monarchy.

I think there's only some instances you can legally do it in Canada. I think in the transportation and health care sector it's possible.

Out of curiosity, is that a Thorens deck you got there?

That's when you start playing checkers with quarters tape to each piece.

This is basically a warning to him to get out of dodge.

Probably a warning to others like him, too.

There's some talk somewhere else yesterday about how PC/laptop sales are tanking. It's mostly because people don't want "AI" computer.

Out of all the things in the past 20 years I miss - it was my netbook. It was amazing in college for me too.

Some say tablets killed the netbook, but there have been so many failed tablets that are not "iPad." It's a real gap in form factor and need

Here's a message from the rest of the world: we don't care and we're sick of America's b.s. - we have your country a pass too many times. Too numerous to count.

I truly hope the worst for most Americans in the United States at this point and could care less about the pain inflicted on them as a result of their government.