dr_u

Yeah, it's funny-- I don't think piracy has ever gone away, but it's no longer the choke-point for international commerce like it used to be. Nowadays, nations use economics to fuck one another's cash flow over.

Have you read Neal Stephenson's Baroque Trilogy (the sequels to Cryptonomicon)?

Not very-- I think it's going to be what passes for a down year here at Kansas: 3rd in the Big 12 (after Texas and Oklahoma), possibly 4th (after Oklahoma State), losses to Missouri and K-State, and a 6 seed in the tourney. We'll go to round of 16 and loose honorably to a Final Four bound team.

By tournament time, we'll be starting at least 3 freshmen, if not 4. So, yeah . . . we're not making a serious run at a Final Four this year.