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Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism, and others.

Anything by Kim Wilkins, Freda Warrington, Storm Constantine or even Starhawk should be fairly interesting to anyone who's interested in depth to their characters. The genre is (mostly) "Dark Fantasy".

Speak Freely End of Life Announcement posted by its original creator.

However, many of the issues mentioned don't exist now. It is possible to buy router/firewalls for as little as $3 after rebate now (did that yesterday) that can be programmed to deliver specific ports to specific computers behind a NAT.

Clearly, more developers are needed.

Good point.

Native people I know don't "celebrate" this country's history as is encompassed in the myth of "Thanksgiving" or it's twin, Columbus Day. They instead mourn for those whose lives were taken so long ago. The story as has been told in school rooms for decades is fallacy that doesn't hold water. It glosses over the horrors that people of the First Nations were subjected to in the Americas. By just focusing on Tisquantum (or Squanto) you get a glipse of what hundreds of thousands of more people would eventually be subjected to. A good television series that goes in depth on what the Wampanoag Nation experianced is "500 Nations", available on DVD at the usual places.

It would great if the geek brethren that assembled here on /. would take it upon themselves to dig beyond the official history and into reality's sad truths with as much zeal as we use in picking apart the latest FUD coming from the Micro$oft.

More on Tisquantum:
http://members.aol.com/calebj/squanto.html

And here's a more personal account of how one Native person spends the day with her family:
http://www.purewatergazette.net/nativeamericanthan ksgiving.htm

In the pilot episode, there's a brief conversation between both when Nick asks Greg if he has a Dreamcast. I got this from "Elyse: CSI Site" (http://members.aol.com/JRD203/csi-episode-000.htm ): "Nick is apparently a videogame buff. He asked Greg if he'd gotten the NFL-2K for Dreamcast yet. Of course he had. He got it the day it came out! Greg's team is the Falcons, while Nick chose Randy Moss." -C2

Bird flu: Doesn't exist at the moment in a form that can be passed from human to human. The fear is the virus will mutate to gain this ability.

Poodles: Weren't around at the beginning of time, and now they are. Most other breeds of dogs we see on the street are the same. Many of the varieties of flowers in your garden likewise came into existance in recordable history, some within the past 50 years.

Can I reduce the argument against evolution to something as flippant as likening it to refuting the existance of poodles?

On ID theory, it seems like very little new ground is uncovered than was in William Paley's teleological Watchmaker analogy http://members.aol.com/plweiss1/paley.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmaker_analogy of 1802, and of William Derham's of 1696.

Easy :)

A while ago there was some research into giant tinfoil equipped satellites which could redirect sunlight onto the earth during darkness. Applications included agricultural (think world's biggest hydroponic setup) and emergency situations requiring 24hr illumination.

I don't know what happened, however between this and Solar Power Satellites transmitting solar generated electricity to earth via microwave I wonder if the research has hurricane implications.

That is, if they could construct an enormous sun-reflecting hurricane death-ray which could be projected/reflected into the eyes of hurricanes, or over oceans to heat the air/water before Hurricanes can form.

Playing with weather... Won't that annoy the hippies!

Marion's Attic radio show is a good source:

http://members.aol.com/marionweb/

Actually, the address is http://television.aol.com/in2tv/

(18:06:10) AOL System Msg: The group, aim bots, has been deleted from your buddy list. This group contained bots, screen names that provide automated responses. To find out more about bots, go to http://aimtoday.aol.com/aimbots

I use Gaim. Right click, delete. (15:52:51) AOL System Msg: The following bots are no longer available and have been removed from your buddy list: moviefone. To find out more about bots, go to http://aimtoday.aol.com/aimbots No thanks. These bots just don't go down without a fight.

AOL System Msg: The group, aim bots, has been deleted from your buddy list. This group contained bots, screen names that provide automated responses. To find out more about bots, go to http://aimtoday.aol.com/aimbots

Imagine what we could do with a beowulf cluster of these!

Has anyone figured out a way to cluster Ataris yet? You can cluster Apple IIs, but a search on "Atari cluster" turns up nothing useful.

NFTFA : The link you get when you delete one of the bots from your contact list

From the link : "Let us know what you think at megabotfeedback@aol.com"

Now let's go /. a mail server farm.

Rest assured, these Bots are ethical. The Managers at AOL made everyone take an ethics class before installing themselves into your AIM.

Granted, AOL doesn't describe what these robots actually do or how they work. But don't worry, you're safe. Because we took an Ethics class today.

This makes me wonder: Does AOL know when I remove someone from my AIM Buddy List?

I submitted the story about Texas trying to do this (almost this EXACT story) but with ACTIVE RFID and yesterday and it was REJECTED! WTF!?!

If anyone cares, here's two write up on Texas' attempt from a both sides of the political aisle:

http://journals.aol.com/republicanjen/RepublicanJe n/entries/1451
http://www.houstondemocrats.com/archives/2005/04/n ow_this_worrie.html

"... about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."

" NTSC is 720x480, not 640x480."

Its neither of those resolutions.

Take a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC#Technical_detail s

and you'll see that while NTSC allows for up to 525 scan lines, only 480 are used due to their use for specific purposes (i.e. sync, vertical retrace)

For the horizontal resolution, the limit is really how small the dots that can be made, but in practice, that amouts to 440 (http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/vidres.htm).

Thus, the maximum resolution of NTSC is 480x440.

Testing techniques abound - unit testing, integration testing, data flow testing, and mutation testing to name a few. Scripting tests makes them repeatable, and if we test and test again, we can have some certainty of the reliability of the software. How? Software reliability engineering. See the book by John D. Musa. (See his web site, too.) It's all about using statistics and probability to analyze the likelihood of another failure in a certain amount of time. We all know it's cheaper to fix a problem earlier, so it's best to design the system so that, given the frequency of observed failures during testing and the cost of a failure, you set an acceptable risk and build the software to match the risk.

The next day, newspapers across the country carried stories of terrorized people hiding in basements, panic flight from New Jersey and New York, stampedes in theaters, heart attacks, miscarriages, and even suicides. During the months that followed, these stories were shown to have little if any substance, yet today the myth of War of the Worlds stampedes and suicides persists as part of American folklore.

-Prof. David L. Miller, Introduction to Collective Behavior and Collective Action.

Here's the passage online.

This guy actually seems to have built an 8-processor parallel computer using Apple IIe mainboards! With a custom networking system using the game port! Then, over the top of that, he used the machine with other custom software to make an 8-voice sound synthesizer system, using the native hardware (where each "voice" has 5 virtual bits of sample playback capability using PWM square-wave modulation of the native speaker output)!

Ultimately, I know at a deep level that this guy hasn't done anything spectacular or special - his machine won't change the world. However, the sheer chutzpah of doing it! This is the hacker spirit at work, and this guy should be commended for it! This is "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters"!

I just don't know which is more insane - the fact that this guy has built such a system, or the fact that I want to build one, too, in order to run a 16-color Mandelbrot set generator I wrote in highschool as a parallelized implementation!

This guy actually seems to have built an 8-processor parallel computer using Apple IIe mainboards! With a custom networking system using the game port! Then, over the top of that, he used the machine with other custom software to make an 8-voice sound synthesizer system, using the native hardware (where each "voice" has 5 virtual bits of sample playback capability using PWM square-wave modulation of the native speaker output)!

Ultimately, I know at a deep level that this guy hasn't done anything spectacular or special - his machine won't change the world. However, the sheer chutzpah of doing it! This is the hacker spirit at work, and this guy should be commended for it! This is "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters"!

I just don't know which is more insane - the fact that this guy has built such a system, or the fact that I want to build one, too, in order to run a 16-color Mandelbrot set generator I wrote in highschool as a parallelized implementation!

This guy actually seems to have built an 8-processor parallel computer using Apple IIe mainboards! With a custom networking system using the game port! Then, over the top of that, he used the machine with other custom software to make an 8-voice sound synthesizer system, using the native hardware (where each "voice" has 5 virtual bits of sample playback capability using PWM square-wave modulation of the native speaker output)!

Ultimately, I know at a deep level that this guy hasn't done anything spectacular or special - his machine won't change the world. However, the sheer chutzpah of doing it! This is the hacker spirit at work, and this guy should be commended for it! This is "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters"!

I just don't know which is more insane - the fact that this guy has built such a system, or the fact that I want to build one, too, in order to run a 16-color Mandelbrot set generator I wrote in highschool as a parallelized implementation!

This guy actually seems to have built an 8-processor parallel computer using Apple IIe mainboards! With a custom networking system using the game port! Then, over the top of that, he used the machine with other custom software to make an 8-voice sound synthesizer system, using the native hardware (where each "voice" has 5 virtual bits of sample playback capability using PWM square-wave modulation of the native speaker output)!

Ultimately, I know at a deep level that this guy hasn't done anything spectacular or special - his machine won't change the world. However, the sheer chutzpah of doing it! This is the hacker spirit at work, and this guy should be commended for it! This is "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters"!

I just don't know which is more insane - the fact that this guy has built such a system, or the fact that I want to build one, too, in order to run a 16-color Mandelbrot set generator I wrote in highschool as a parallelized implementation!

I've found that parallel computing has provided an excellent means to avoiding obsolescence by allowing the creation of massive computers that have the potential to crush comparitively tiny, "modern" systems. While the prototype AppleCrate is just a small, tentative step in this direction, a future system comprising NES subprocessors in addition to the "Oregon Trail"-codenamed CPUs could spontaneously develop mech-transformative properties, allowing the weapon-aided destruction of systems not puny enough to be crushed by sheer mass.

Seriously, AppleCrate rules. Check it out. It is not much of a parallel computer since the nodes are, well, they're Apple IIs, and even if that wasn't a problem, I think I could outtype the interlink.

Did you somehow accidentally click a link that brought you here, when you were intending on getting to the People magazine website?

Here you go: http://people.aol.com

I'm not sure what you mean by "add -geocities.com to your terms"

aol pictures at http://pictures.aol.com/ provides one click auto red eye reduction, color correction, cropping all in one active x control free for anybody. what else do you need

But that theory goes head to head with the traditional protestant morale: substances are bad, they are evil, and once you get them in your system, they control you (evil is something separated from the human nature that can go inside or outside of you, like a spirit).

One of the biggest problems with Wikipedia is that they give special preferences to anonymous vandals who use America Online to carry out their misdeeds. The Wikipedia block user interface specifically suggests to "keep blocks in these ranges to 15 minutes or less" when blocking a vandal within AOL's IP range. No other ISP in the world receives this sort of favoritism from Wikipedia; repeat agitators from all other internet service providers are blocked for hours, weeks, days, months, and, if necessary, indefinitely.

Maybe he didn't actually say that...

http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/vonbraun. htm

This CD distribution system on AOL isn't half bad.

http://music.aol.com/songs/new_releases_full_cds

Myabe that's what the article meant?

Does the T|X or the Z22 play at least two gigs of music

Add a 2GB MMC card, and then you have your answer.

Does the T|X or the Z22 have instant messaging?

There's a Palm AIM client, and the T|X has WiFi (didn't read about the Z22), so the answer is yes.

Xara is a tool I've often wished that I liked when I tried it. Can't recall the last time I tried a demo or a copy from a magazine disk, but the following things from FreeHand I'm not finding equivalents to in my quest for a replacement for FreeHand and Altsys Virtuoso:

  - snap to document-setup-page (AI in particular doesn't do this, and it irritates me a lot and wastes a lot of time when trying to get art set to a standard size for a job)

  - ability to place bezier curve points, and move just placed points and constrain and control off-curve points with a single tool

  - easy deletion of nodes on a bezier path

  - quick selection of stacked objects (Freehand allows one to Control-click through a stack, AI makes one use a contextual menu or the layer palette, or if it's only a two-deep stack and you want the bottom, select both, then deselect the top)

  - easy expansion of a selection (in FreeHand just tap the tilde key (`) and a sub-selected path's selection is expanded to the compleat object)

  - sensible alignment of objects (AI in particular has bizarre rules for this --- so bizarre there's a plug-in to address this)

  - ability to align sub-selected bezier on-curve points to objects while not altering any other points in an object (AI can't do this)

  - use PostScript code for strokes and fills --- especially nice for doing dimension lines (Canvas has this built in though, while there're plug-ins for AI)

  - graphic find and replace

  - OpenType and Unicode support and a decent Type palette (Adobe Illustrator CS and CS2 really shine on this front. The nifty opensource program Cenon (http://www.cenon.info/ does quite nicely in its Mac OS X incarnation using Apple Advanced Typography). See http://members.aol.com/willadams/gnustep/type/inde x.html for a discussion of this sort of thing.

William

No, The The

I don't read a lot of RSS feeds, I generally visit the sites. But as odd as it sounds, I still think AOL has one of the better feed readers: here's the link

You may as well just pull out all of the The Gashlycrumb Tinies.

Here is another report of an attack on a surface boat. http://hometown.aol.com/smsjjh/myhomepage/huntfish .html
It is just a report and I have not seen much documentation. Maybe these critters can hunt near the surface.

Girls can be quite fearsome.
Even the french ones.
http://members.aol.com/hywwebsite/private/joanofar c.html

Direct supporting evidence for any theory as to how the huge blocks were moved is sparse at best. To date, no text or relief (chiseled drawings) have been found describing how the Great Pyramids were built. Most Egyptologists agree that the wheel had not yet been invented, and the first recording of large blocks being moved with wheels is dated about 750 B.C.-some 2000 years after the Great Pyramid was built. The first wheeled transportation was introduced until the Middle Kingdom when the Hyksos brought chariots to Egypt between 2040 and 1786 B.C.

It is also interesting to see the most popular web sites. Start by typing www. into google suggest. The top 10 are:

1. www.yahoo.com - Search/Directory
2. www.hotmail.com - Email
3. www.google.com - Search
4. www.ebay.com - Shopping
5. www.msn.com - Portal
6. www.aol.com - Portal
7. www.ebay.co.uk - Shopping
8. www.irs.gov - Government
9. www.mapquest.com - Maps
10. www.amazon.com - Shopping

Typing one more letter shows you the top sites for that letter. Here is the top for each letter:

• a is for www.aol.com - Portal
• b is for www.bbc.co.uk - News
• c is for www.cnn.com - News
• d is for www.dictionary.com - Reference
• e is for www.ebay.com - Shopping
• f is for www.food.gov.uk - Government
• g is for www.google.com - Search
• h is for www.hotmail.com - Email
• i is for www.irs.gov - Government
• j is for www.juno.com - Internet service provider
• k is for www.kbb.com - Consumer information
• l is for www.lyrics.com - Music
• m is for www.msn.com - Portal
• n is for www.nick.com - Kids
• o is for www.orbitz.com - Travel
• p is for www.pogo.com - Games
• q is for www.qvc.com - Shopping
• r is for www.rotten.com - Information
• s is for www.sears.com - Shopping (sorry slashdot)
• t is for www.target.com - Shopping
• u is for www.usps.com - Government
• v is for www.verizon.com - Telephone service
• w is for www.weather.com - Weather
• x is for www.xanga.com - Blogs
• y is for www.yahoo.com - Portal
• z is for www.zappos.com - Shopping

This is some random commentary to make sure that my post has enough characters per line on average to get by the lameness filter. Just a few more words should do it. Then I will be over the limit. Maybe you would like to hear a bit about my projects: Attesoro - A internationalization editor for Java programs. Coinmill - A currency conversion website with many currencies, and features such as abilty to parse English sentences asking for currency conversion. Java Utilities - Utilities for common task in the Java programming language such as parsing CSV files and string manipulation.

It is also interesting to see the most popular web sites. Start by typing www. into google suggest. The top 10 are:

1. www.yahoo.com - Search/Directory
2. www.hotmail.com - Email
3. www.google.com - Search
4. www.ebay.com - Shopping
5. www.msn.com - Portal
6. www.aol.com - Portal
7. www.ebay.co.uk - Shopping
8. www.irs.gov - Government
9. www.mapquest.com - Maps
10. www.amazon.com - Shopping

Typing one more letter shows you the top sites for that letter. Here is the top for each letter:

• a is for www.aol.com - Portal
• b is for www.bbc.co.uk - News
• c is for www.cnn.com - News
• d is for www.dictionary.com - Reference
• e is for www.ebay.com - Shopping
• f is for www.food.gov.uk - Government
• g is for www.google.com - Search
• h is for www.hotmail.com - Email
• i is for www.irs.gov - Government
• j is for www.juno.com - Internet service provider
• k is for www.kbb.com - Consumer information
• l is for www.lyrics.com - Music
• m is for www.msn.com - Portal
• n is for www.nick.com - Kids
• o is for www.orbitz.com - Travel
• p is for www.pogo.com - Games
• q is for www.qvc.com - Shopping
• r is for www.rotten.com - Information
• s is for www.sears.com - Shopping (sorry slashdot)
• t is for www.target.com - Shopping
• u is for www.usps.com - Government
• v is for www.verizon.com - Telephone service
• w is for www.weather.com - Weather
• x is for www.xanga.com - Blogs
• y is for www.yahoo.com - Portal
• z is for www.zappos.com - Shopping

This is some random commentary to make sure that my post has enough characters per line on average to get by the lameness filter. Just a few more words should do it. Then I will be over the limit. Maybe you would like to hear a bit about my projects: Attesoro - A internationalization editor for Java programs. Coinmill - A currency conversion website with many currencies, and features such as abilty to parse English sentences asking for currency conversion. Java Utilities - Utilities for common task in the Java programming language such as parsing CSV files and string manipulation.

who seceeded over his financial abuse.

Wow, way to outright lie. Lincoln's own sordid past aside, 6 of the original 7 states that seceeded BEFORE Lincoln became President on March 4th, 1861 either specifically named slavery as one of their reasons for leaving the Union or referred to themselves and other states as "slaveholding".

Since people like you generally can't rub enough neurons together to operate complicated websites such as Google and demand "sources" in an attempt to redirect attention while covering your ass and fleeing, here we go:

South Carolina, Dec. 20, 1860 (specifically to protect slavery)
Mississippi, Jan. 9, 1861 (specifically to protect slavery)
Florida, Jan. 10, 1861 (specifically to protect their right as a state to allow slavery... an interesting way to twist this into a "states' rights" issue given the unamended-at-the-time Article IV, especially section 1's specification that "the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.")
Alabama, Jan. 11, 1861 (refers to itself as slave-holding)
Georgia, Jan. 19, 1861
Louisiana, Jan. 26, 1861 - The only such state not to state slavery as a cause in any official documentation
Texas, Feb. 1, 1861 (specifically to protect slavery and specifically in protest of nullification of fugitive slave laws in northern states... funny, SC's attempt to nullify the union's tariff laws is often cited as the reason all this happened... I guess it's only fair play when a Southern state does it!)

Of course, the first sign that you were a Faux-libertarian (other than being anti-free market and anti-personal rights, as both slavery and bribery are counter to both) was that you immediately leaped upon the government and advised cutting off all it's powers, while hiding the fact that incorporation itself is a power of government that has become out of hand.

who seceeded over his financial abuse.

Wow, way to outright lie. Lincoln's own sordid past aside, 6 of the original 7 states that seceeded BEFORE Lincoln became President on March 4th, 1861 either specifically named slavery as one of their reasons for leaving the Union or referred to themselves and other states as "slaveholding".

Since people like you generally can't rub enough neurons together to operate complicated websites such as Google and demand "sources" in an attempt to redirect attention while covering your ass and fleeing, here we go:

South Carolina, Dec. 20, 1860 (specifically to protect slavery)
Mississippi, Jan. 9, 1861 (specifically to protect slavery)
Florida, Jan. 10, 1861 (specifically to protect their right as a state to allow slavery... an interesting way to twist this into a "states' rights" issue given the unamended-at-the-time Article IV, especially section 1's specification that "the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.")
Alabama, Jan. 11, 1861 (refers to itself as slave-holding)
Georgia, Jan. 19, 1861
Louisiana, Jan. 26, 1861 - The only such state not to state slavery as a cause in any official documentation
Texas, Feb. 1, 1861 (specifically to protect slavery and specifically in protest of nullification of fugitive slave laws in northern states... funny, SC's attempt to nullify the union's tariff laws is often cited as the reason all this happened... I guess it's only fair play when a Southern state does it!)

Of course, the first sign that you were a Faux-libertarian (other than being anti-free market and anti-personal rights, as both slavery and bribery are counter to both) was that you immediately leaped upon the government and advised cutting off all it's powers, while hiding the fact that incorporation itself is a power of government that has become out of hand.

who seceeded over his financial abuse.

Wow, way to outright lie. Lincoln's own sordid past aside, 6 of the original 7 states that seceeded BEFORE Lincoln became President on March 4th, 1861 either specifically named slavery as one of their reasons for leaving the Union or referred to themselves and other states as "slaveholding".

Since people like you generally can't rub enough neurons together to operate complicated websites such as Google and demand "sources" in an attempt to redirect attention while covering your ass and fleeing, here we go:

South Carolina, Dec. 20, 1860 (specifically to protect slavery)
Mississippi, Jan. 9, 1861 (specifically to protect slavery)
Florida, Jan. 10, 1861 (specifically to protect their right as a state to allow slavery... an interesting way to twist this into a "states' rights" issue given the unamended-at-the-time Article IV, especially section 1's specification that "the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.")
Alabama, Jan. 11, 1861 (refers to itself as slave-holding)
Georgia, Jan. 19, 1861
Louisiana, Jan. 26, 1861 - The only such state not to state slavery as a cause in any official documentation
Texas, Feb. 1, 1861 (specifically to protect slavery and specifically in protest of nullification of fugitive slave laws in northern states... funny, SC's attempt to nullify the union's tariff laws is often cited as the reason all this happened... I guess it's only fair play when a Southern state does it!)

Of course, the first sign that you were a Faux-libertarian (other than being anti-free market and anti-personal rights, as both slavery and bribery are counter to both) was that you immediately leaped upon the government and advised cutting off all it's powers, while hiding the fact that incorporation itself is a power of government that has become out of hand.

who seceeded over his financial abuse.

Wow, way to outright lie. Lincoln's own sordid past aside, 6 of the original 7 states that seceeded BEFORE Lincoln became President on March 4th, 1861 either specifically named slavery as one of their reasons for leaving the Union or referred to themselves and other states as "slaveholding".

Since people like you generally can't rub enough neurons together to operate complicated websites such as Google and demand "sources" in an attempt to redirect attention while covering your ass and fleeing, here we go:

South Carolina, Dec. 20, 1860 (specifically to protect slavery)
Mississippi, Jan. 9, 1861 (specifically to protect slavery)
Florida, Jan. 10, 1861 (specifically to protect their right as a state to allow slavery... an interesting way to twist this into a "states' rights" issue given the unamended-at-the-time Article IV, especially section 1's specification that "the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.")
Alabama, Jan. 11, 1861 (refers to itself as slave-holding)
Georgia, Jan. 19, 1861
Louisiana, Jan. 26, 1861 - The only such state not to state slavery as a cause in any official documentation
Texas, Feb. 1, 1861 (specifically to protect slavery and specifically in protest of nullification of fugitive slave laws in northern states... funny, SC's attempt to nullify the union's tariff laws is often cited as the reason all this happened... I guess it's only fair play when a Southern state does it!)

Of course, the first sign that you were a Faux-libertarian (other than being anti-free market and anti-personal rights, as both slavery and bribery are counter to both) was that you immediately leaped upon the government and advised cutting off all it's powers, while hiding the fact that incorporation itself is a power of government that has become out of hand.

who seceeded over his financial abuse.

Wow, way to outright lie. Lincoln's own sordid past aside, 6 of the original 7 states that seceeded BEFORE Lincoln became President on March 4th, 1861 either specifically named slavery as one of their reasons for leaving the Union or referred to themselves and other states as "slaveholding".

Since people like you generally can't rub enough neurons together to operate complicated websites such as Google and demand "sources" in an attempt to redirect attention while covering your ass and fleeing, here we go:

South Carolina, Dec. 20, 1860 (specifically to protect slavery)
Mississippi, Jan. 9, 1861 (specifically to protect slavery)
Florida, Jan. 10, 1861 (specifically to protect their right as a state to allow slavery... an interesting way to twist this into a "states' rights" issue given the unamended-at-the-time Article IV, especially section 1's specification that "the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.")
Alabama, Jan. 11, 1861 (refers to itself as slave-holding)
Georgia, Jan. 19, 1861
Louisiana, Jan. 26, 1861 - The only such state not to state slavery as a cause in any official documentation
Texas, Feb. 1, 1861 (specifically to protect slavery and specifically in protest of nullification of fugitive slave laws in northern states... funny, SC's attempt to nullify the union's tariff laws is often cited as the reason all this happened... I guess it's only fair play when a Southern state does it!)

Of course, the first sign that you were a Faux-libertarian (other than being anti-free market and anti-personal rights, as both slavery and bribery are counter to both) was that you immediately leaped upon the government and advised cutting off all it's powers, while hiding the fact that incorporation itself is a power of government that has become out of hand.

who seceeded over his financial abuse.

Wow, way to outright lie. Lincoln's own sordid past aside, 6 of the original 7 states that seceeded BEFORE Lincoln became President on March 4th, 1861 either specifically named slavery as one of their reasons for leaving the Union or referred to themselves and other states as "slaveholding".

Since people like you generally can't rub enough neurons together to operate complicated websites such as Google and demand "sources" in an attempt to redirect attention while covering your ass and fleeing, here we go:

South Carolina, Dec. 20, 1860 (specifically to protect slavery)
Mississippi, Jan. 9, 1861 (specifically to protect slavery)
Florida, Jan. 10, 1861 (specifically to protect their right as a state to allow slavery... an interesting way to twist this into a "states' rights" issue given the unamended-at-the-time Article IV, especially section 1's specification that "the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.")
Alabama, Jan. 11, 1861 (refers to itself as slave-holding)
Georgia, Jan. 19, 1861
Louisiana, Jan. 26, 1861 - The only such state not to state slavery as a cause in any official documentation
Texas, Feb. 1, 1861 (specifically to protect slavery and specifically in protest of nullification of fugitive slave laws in northern states... funny, SC's attempt to nullify the union's tariff laws is often cited as the reason all this happened... I guess it's only fair play when a Southern state does it!)

Of course, the first sign that you were a Faux-libertarian (other than being anti-free market and anti-personal rights, as both slavery and bribery are counter to both) was that you immediately leaped upon the government and advised cutting off all it's powers, while hiding the fact that incorporation itself is a power of government that has become out of hand.

I'd love to find an emulator and a copy of it.

Play Rocky's Boots on a PC using an Apple II Emulator.

Rocky's Boots was originally designed for the Apple II computer, but can be run nowadays on a PC using an Apple II emulator (such as AppleWin) and a disk image of Rocky's Boots.