@djsundog reminds me of this http://www.dj-rooms.com/soundwagon-record-player/ who needs Bluetooth.

@colon_three Thanks for that. Gosh!

@bumi Depends a bit on your OS of choice, I would have thought. I'm a Mac guy, but I'm not sure I would buy a MacPro if I was going to run Windows or Linux in it most of the time, nice though the machine is.

@caffeinatedgeoff and did they call in armed response? More specifically- soldiers?

@sydneyfalk @dadegroot indeed. I'd be interested in hearing from any Hebrew scholars though. I very much suspect that there might be a few early examples that count as acronyms lurking in Kabbalah, for example. As for 'common use' - well, I guess you need to have a literate population. Interesting, though.

@sydneyfalk Anno Domini? I bet we can find some longer Latinate ones that appear in religious texts.

@dredmorbius Except that it doesn't really answer that question does it? Unless the answer is 'the larger message size is useful for kanji users

@Elizafox Werp Werp.