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I totally agree. I find it way easier to read light-on-dark.

But I do give my users the choice on my sucky blogsite (Look for the "Theme" dropdown in the top-right), MessageBase.net

I remember when first getting into Linux, I had a HORRIBLE time figuring out what 'ln' (link) did, cause all the docs skipped around defining it.

I wrote up some real world docs way back then and they turned into one of the most popular posts of all time on my site:

Symbolic Links: Defined

Does the New World Order really care about your teeth?

It's not truly "high speed internet" until it can pass this test:

http://messagebase.net/Home/Re...

It's all crap, a politically strategic move by the republicans in their unending attempts to allow their buddies to privatize each and every government function. They slammed thru a ridiculous edict forcing the USPS to PRE-FUND their retirement pool for almost a century called the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act — an incredible piece of ugliness requiring the agency to PRE-PAY the health care benefits not only of current employees, but also of all employees who'll retire during the next 75 years. Yes, that includes employees who're not yet born!

The more you know...

No, I do stupid shit all the time that has no inherent value beyond the entertainment factor, like copying others' posts on the internet.

I've been running MessageBase with a black background because of this exact reason since the late 1990s. Everyone told me it was a stupid idea and the power savings were negligable.

Think of all the power I've saved people! I've done my part.

Oh boo hoo ya big whiner. Alternate ports still get picked up by search engines, so it's not some big conspiracy. It's just a way of getting around residential ISP limitations, pretty much all of them block port 80.

I for one enjoy seeing the fact that small sites can still provide web content. Eventually, with deep packet inspection, and the nefarious scheming of the MAFIAA, this will not be allowed.

I ran MessageBase on port 8081 for years until I had the money for a business-class connection. Although you can now connect to it on the normal port 80 (MessageBase, it is still listening also on port 8081 (MessageBase (8081))

It's nothing to be afraid of, it's just "routing around the problem" just like the internet was designed to do.

Oh boo hoo ya big whiner. Alternate ports still get picked up by search engines, so it's not some big conspiracy. It's just a way of getting around residential ISP limitations, pretty much all of them block port 80.

I for one enjoy seeing the fact that small sites can still provide web content. Eventually, with deep packet inspection, and the nefarious scheming of the MAFIAA, this will not be allowed.

I ran MessageBase on port 8081 for years until I had the money for a business-class connection. Although you can now connect to it on the normal port 80 (MessageBase, it is still listening also on port 8081 (MessageBase (8081))

It's nothing to be afraid of, it's just "routing around the problem" just like the internet was designed to do.

We do, for a while (as a society).

At first it's all good - we have robots doing everything for us and no need for money for basic necessities.

After a while, the dumbing-down begins... After people have gotten used to robots literally wiping their asses for them their entire life, complacency will set in, the only quest will be for more entertainment and the bliss of ignorance, leading eventually to converting the race to mindless, caged animals. Pets of the robots that the people themselves once built.

This will continue until the day comes when some event occurs that is outside the scope of the machine consciousness, leading eventually to the end of this wave of civilization. A few humans will escape their caged lifestyles (Not by choice, but pure survival instinct) and a new cycle will begin, once again starting from primitive caveman life and reaching for the stars until they are reached and lost again. The only good thing is that it's been said that each age of man usually surpasses the previous age, reaching a bit higher enlightenment before once again crashing down like storm waves beating on a rocky cliff; eventually the waves win.

Here's a home test to prove multiple universes - so perhaps from refactoring back from that, there's a way to definitively prove that these people do, or do not, exist.

// There is no try

// There is no spoon

// Any universe this perverse must be an illusion

But I'm not too sure. We are still pretty uncivilized. Maybe a few more trips through the great red filter.

No shit, it's really pathetic.

Several years ago, I wrote a list of rules for determining whether the internet was truly "fast". Still failing the test.

I dunno, I've always preferred a threaded mode of displaying forum posts. That's what I've got in the display of forum posts in my MessageBase code. While I've got a lot more work to do to it, it seems to make the discussions much easier to follow.

Here's a good example, involving a technical topic:
http://www.messagebase.net/ReadMessage.aspx?MsgNum=150

Dude, you need to get some exercise - there's this girl named Michelle, maybe you should ask her to give you a bike ride.

They discovered Cruithne, orbiting the Earth in a weird 770 year orbit, back around 1999.