Political Graphics 2023

[Smokin Joe]

I long for the days when this thread was about Political Graphics....

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[240B]

[240B]

[Hoodat]

This is very, VERY, common. When senior corporate types are faced with innovation, it scares the shit out of them (at least it used to).

John Antioco, the former CEO of Blockbuster, also turned down an offer to purchase Netflix outright for $50 million.  He now sits on the board of a frozen yogurt company with 50 stores.

[240B]

[sneakypete]

Respectively asked.

Dukes of Hazzard actor John Schneider called for public hanging of Joe Biden

@Slide Rule

I  sure am glad I am not him!

He may be rich now,but I suspect he is going to be bankrupt by  the time the legal fees for his defense are paid.

[sneakypete]

What a weirdo. I have no idea what this day-drinking babbling nonsense is supposed to be? If I 'like' what? If I don't like what?
What the HELL are you talking about. Your incoherent response has nothing to do with my post.

However, I am CRUSHED and SHOCKED that you have decided to no longer be responsible for my ego or my mood swings. This is devastating news to me! What am I going to do without this @sneakypete freak taking care of me. LOL!

BTW: Were you ever Special Forces in Vietnam? Could you please tell me again? You haven't talked about it for a day or two, so now I am becoming unsure if it was you or some other poster.

@240B

I was SF before VN,during my tour of VN,and when I returned  from VN.

And I don't give a rabid rats ass what you believe or don't believe.

[sneakypete]

Nah... not McAffee....

Gates bought DDOS (Down and Dirty DOS), otherwise called 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products _ a one horse back yard outfit... A guy named Patterson or the like. That DOS was all but a direct rip of Digital Research's CP/M, which would later become DR-DOS -There were DR-DOS Easter eggs found in all versions of MS-DOS

Anyhow, Gates bought out DDOS, rebranded it to MS-DOS, wrote a primitive IDE and editor for it, and peddled it as his own... A method that later became a trend.

@sneakypete

@roamer_1

Most of what you wrote will remain a mystery to me. Yes,I DO have a vague idea what DOS is,but that is all I know about it.

[sneakypete]

I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made

-M. Jagger-

@Hoodat

One of my favorite Rolling Stones songs.

[sneakypete]

@240B

I see no reason why a religious property wouldn't be taxed.

[roamer_1]

@roamer_1

Most of what you wrote will remain a mystery to me. Yes,I DO have a vague idea what DOS is,but that is all I know about it.

DOS was, roughly speaking, what came before Windows. It was largely just a command line interface - You type in commands and it returns what you asked for... However, even in DOS there were graphic programs and rudimentary menu systems that approached what Windows and other modern OS do... Point and click...

But at the time, there was pretty much only DOS and Unix, and neither one was graphic yet.

[sneakypete]

DOS was, roughly speaking, what came before Windows. It was largely just a command line interface - You type in commands and it returns what you asked for... However, even in DOS there were graphic programs and rudimentary menu systems that approached what Windows and other modern OS do... Point and click...

But at the time, there was pretty much only DOS and Unix, and neither one was graphic yet.

@roamer_1

Thanks.

Truthfully,if  someone hadn't done that,there is no way I would have ever bought a computer. I was just too busy working every hour of every day I could work to bothered with  learning about something like computers.

Truth  to tell,I suspect that if it hadn't been for games like Doom and Duke Nukem,I probably wouldn't have even bought a computer. I saw my first Duke Nuken game while visiting friends that had just bought a computer,and and thought it was be "fun" to do that.

That was when I learned that the words "Fun" and "Compulsion/obsession" have nothing in common.

[Cyber Liberty]

LOL!  I am old enough to know what a TOS is...

[roamer_1]

That was when I learned that the words "Fun" and "Compulsion/obsession" have nothing in common.

No kidding, @sneakypete . The last game I played was Doom. The stuff is like crack to me. I can't put it down. And then once I have fairly mastered it, I have to figure out how to hack it... It's a whole thing in me.

So I don't play computer games at all. There ought to be a 12-step program.

[Cyber Liberty]

No kidding, @sneakypete . The last game I played was Doom. The stuff is like crack to me. I can't put it down. And then once I have fairly mastered it, I have to figure out how to hack it... It's a whole thing in me.

So I don't play computer games at all. There ought to be a 12-step program.

Doom was also my last video game.  Same reason.  I got a modern cocktail table version of the old games like Pac Man and Galaga.

[DB]

Doom was also my last video game.  Same reason.  I got a modern cocktail table version of the old games like Pac Man and Galaga.

A friend and I still play Unreal Tournament 1999 head-to-head over the Internet...  I think it came out in 1999... Originally we played head-to-head via dedicated 128 kbps ISDN lines going to each of our homes without using the Internet...

[sneakypete]

No kidding, @sneakypete . The last game I played was Doom. The stuff is like crack to me. I can't put it down. And then once I have fairly mastered it, I have to figure out how to hack it... It's a whole thing in me.

So I don't play computer games at all. There ought to be a 12-step program.

@roamer_1

Ditto!

It is like whiskey to me. I can either drink alcohol,or NOT drink alcohol. There is no real "in-between".

I DID manage to down a Miller Low  Life several years ago after weed-whacking for a few hours in the hot sun,though. It was out of a six-pack I had bought a couple of years earlier when I was still drinking,and it was in my refrigerator all this time and practically freezing cold.

I don't know how I managed to drink just one and then stop,but clever planning was never a part of it.

BTW,the other 5 are still in my refrigerator,along with half a fifth of Jim Beam that I was drinking out of when I finally figured out it was either quit or turn pro,and quit. I discovered that it is easier for ME to kill any cravings if I have what I crave on hand and know that any time I REALLY want it,there it is.

What always drove ME nuts was wanting it and not having it on hand.

Sometimes life just ain't as simple as you would like it to be.

[Smokin Joe]

@roamer_1

Ditto!

It is like whiskey to me. I can either drink alcohol,or NOT drink alcohol. There is no real "in-between".

I DID manage to down a Miller Low  Life several years ago after weed-whacking for a few hours in the hot sun,though. It was out of a six-pack I had bought a couple of years earlier when I was still drinking,and it was in my refrigerator all this time and practically freezing cold.

I don't know how I managed to drink just one and then stop,but clever planning was never a part of it.

BTW,the other 5 are still in my refrigerator,along with half a fifth of Jim Beam that I was drinking out of when I finally figured out it was either quit or turn pro,and quit. I discovered that it is easier for ME to kill any cravings if I have what I crave on hand and know that any time I REALLY want it,there it is.

What always drove ME nuts was wanting it and not having it on hand.

Sometimes life just ain't as simple as you would like it to be.

I get that. When I quit smoking I left a half pack in the drawer....

[corbe]

    Believe me, I drink enough for all of you, so don't ever feel guilty about not subsidizing the liquor industry.

[240B]

Do not understand why all this is happening under Political Graphic? ... but whatever

Doom is still an active thing in the online gaming world. Here is a list of all Doom releases in order.
You can get most of them off of Steam.

https://www.technewstoday.com/all-doom-games-in-order/

[Right_in_Virginia]

[Right_in_Virginia]

[sneakypete]

I get that. When I quit smoking I left a half pack in the drawer....

@Smokin Joe

I had such good luck quitting alcohol  that a few days later I decided to quit smoking,too.  Same deal as with the alcohol. I  kept a pack in the house and left a new carton on the dash  of my truck to remind me that I COULD have a cigarette any time I wanted if if I REALLY wanted it.

Finally figured it was safe to give them  away,and I must have rode around for a month with a whole carton of off-brand cigarettes on the dashboard of my  truck,trying to find someone that would take them for free. Seems like everybody I knew were tobacco connoisseurs who would not let an off-brand cigarette touch their lips,so I may have just thrown the damn things away.

I am one of the VERY lucky people who can be around people drinking and smoking,and not even be a little bit temped to participate. And make no mistake about it,it has to do with  genetic luck,NOT will power.

I have a great deal of sympathy  for people I know who have tried over and over for years to quit drinking  and smoking,and were never able to do it. NONE were able to quit smoking,but several were able to stop  drinking  for months at a time,and then for some odd reason fall off the sobriety  wagon,and stay  blind drunk for weeks at a time.

Addiction just hits some people harder than others. Will power/determination doesn't seem to have a damn thing to do with it.

As I have  noted before on TBR,being lucky is  the best damn thing you can be. Beats being rich or anything  else you can be.

[sneakypete]

Do not understand why all this is happening under Political Graphic? ... but whatever

Doom is still an active thing in the online gaming world. Here is a list of all Doom releases in order.
You can get most of them off of Steam.

https://www.technewstoday.com/all-doom-games-in-order/

@240B

YIKES!

That damn game must have earned the creator billions of dollars by now.

Kinda makes me wish I had bought  a little stock in that company back then. After all,it  ain't like I didn't know it was addictive.

[Right_in_Virginia]