Correct. Like “plunge” without the “lu”.

That reminds me of the court scene in Ghostbusters. “It’s true, your Honor. This man has no dick.”

There was also a kids’ animated series and action figures based on Toxic Avenger, which is definitely not a kids’ movie.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Nl-Gouda.ogg

A bit like “khow-da”. Also acceptable: gow-da. US: goo-da.

I listened to a Dutch person pronounce Gouda (cheese) and now pronounce it that way, much to the dismay of my fellow Americans.

They qualify as priests, collecting tithes while convincing people to pray for an artificial intelligence savior to solve problems that human intelligence willfully ignores.

Blue Man Group: The Complex Rock Tour (favorite track: Rods and Cones)

Kellyanne Conway, U.S. Counselor to the President, in 2017.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts

Of course companies wanted people to share the free demo versions but some full games did have annoying protection schemes in the '80s. Obfuscated data and purposely “bad” sectors on floppy; cardboard decoder wheels; asking for word #x from line #y of page #z of the game’s manual, or, similarly, a page of codes printed in black ink on dark maroon paper to prevent photocopying… leading to folks distributing cracked versions and the cracking tools themselves!

To be fair, it was a pretty ridiculous time. Computer club meetings just turned into floppy-copy-fests.

I got to meet Legaia’s creator Hidenori Shibao. He also created Lennus (“Paladin’s Quest” that I enjoyed on SNES in my youth) and its sequel.

The company that made my TV is engaged in copyright infringement, you say? Transmitting copyrighted images over the Internet for profit?

Huh.

Die Antwoord - Orinoco Ninja Flow (Wedding DJs Mix)

It’s why Google is telling billions of users to replace their passwords with much secure passkeys.

Much secure. So passkey.

God can’t seem to get much done without the US Military 😬

Yeah… Bad headline; this is completely precedented.

Religious zealots can’t be allowed to have nukes. You have to at least masquerade as a well-adjusted nation while you develop the nukes and slowly massage your zealots into positions of power over a few decades. Those are the rules.

You have packages held.

Debian user: shudders

Washington Death Cult

Problem is that they would still need to have some kind of authentication to avoid offline backups becoming clone factories. I used to give away Mews and Celebis by trading them and then restoring my cart’s SRAM with a portable backup device.