@TareG: Good luck, and I sincerely hope my government finally get themselves on the right side of history.

@PeteeWJ: Ditto.

@codyw: NOPE. Unless they set up wireless jamming on every non-official channel (at incredible cost) they can't block sat-based communications. Anyone with satellite-based connections is probably in high demand in Egypt right now.

Someone could seriously do some infrastructural damage to the clampdown by smuggling in a few pounds worth of sat-cards and distributing them.

@Pirandello: Yeah, got a red/blue scheme running in my current desktop.

@jupiter.is.sentient: I've been considering a new (portable) gaming or HTPC rig, and getting into some more intensive case-modding. Lian Li is where I always wind up, no matter what site I go to.

@DukeOfPwn: A couple of fraternity brothers were Alienware loyalists (one had a $1700 machine, his roomate spent almost that much), but another guy built his own, and regularly outstripped their FPS on 7+ star maps in "Sins of a Solar Empire" sessions.

@zzzaap: Ditto.

@sp00ks: Ditto

@SkinnerDude: Ditto. First thing I did when I sourced my phone.

Got my front-end box doing 1080p, Netflix, Hulu, a ton of emulators, and a remote 1.5TB of media, all for under $250. You don't need to spend any more than $200 for a half-decent frontend, or any more than about $350 even if you're DVR-ing from cable.

@str8jackit: It would likely come in the form of an international treaty organization, probably through other large NGO's. If governments wanted to be sneaky about it, they would put it into multiple, mutual trade agreements between pairs of countries.

@PTTSeven: Ditto.

I've never spent more than $500 building myself a machine; conversely, never paid less than $1000 for a OEM machine.

I'm pretty sure that a lot of my high school classmates and current neighbors still believe in something akin to this model.

The one on the left, the assumed-real one looks a lot less 'developed' than the one of the right.

If this is from Denton, then it's likely someone stole it to sell for parts, or it was a bunch of drunk rednecks who want to be the jackasses with the biggest 'gun' in the neighborhood.

Did anyone else read the title as "Fapping" instead?

@beanperry: One word: CUPS.

@Fanwashere: Yeah. Funny story about this: back when NGE was playing on Cartoon Network in the late 90s/early 00's (whenever it got over here), me and my baby brother were hungry for any anime that could come our way out in the American hinterlands.