As a man in his 50s it's become painfully obvious that I'm never retiring.

"Why is piracy on the increase?!"

-media corporations

My machine can't handle that upgrade and I've not gotten any popups, thankfully.

Interesting. Newsgroups are literally what i used last century for my piracy. But back then you got newsgroups (and other services) included with your internet.

I check my srt files for that kind of thing and just remove it. But i don't download as much material as many people, perhaps.

I'm with you on this. Almost all jokes re: Halloween are in poor taste so I'm not sure why this one is off limits suddenly after years of indifference.

I mostly listen to jazz, blues and classical. I use rutracker which has everything I want and in lossless formats. Mp3s too but I'm more interested in lossless.

Do they have a good healthcare plan? If they don't...well just never get cancer or something.

Where is this from that there were just these six options for plates? Stores had dozens of plate varieties and they changed from year to year.

Well unless their ideology is baked into the programming I'm not sure why it would matter. It certainly doesn't matter to me.

Well he represents the very noisy conspiracy nuts in Toronto.

I use torrents almost exclusively because of the price (free) and convenience. That is, I can get them easily where I live for no additional cost beyond my low speed internet. I have no extra money at all, at this time in my life, unfortunately.