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by erbo 9y ago
This shows why I've long said, "Put not your faith in stock options." Like it or not, options are basically Monopoly money. You can't get your landlord to accept them, or the grocery store, or the credit card companies.
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by erbo 9y ago
Coming down on its jets, the way God and Robert Heinlein intended!
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by erbo 9y ago
That's like the British joke about which three football teams have swear words in their names: Arsenal, Scunthorpe, and MANCHESTER FUCKING UNITED. :-D
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by erbo 9y ago
Of course, there also wasn't as much you needed to know back then. I look at something like a modern "Roadmap to becoming a Web developer in 2017" [0] and I wonder how anyone is able to get through all of that. [0] http
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by erbo 10y ago
They don't do anything Google Drive, Microsoft OneDriveol or Apple iCloud doesn't do AFAIK, neither Google Drive, OneDrive, or iCloud will work on Linux.
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by erbo 10y ago
"Profanity is the one language that all programmers know best." - Troutman's Sixth Programming Postulate
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by erbo 10y ago
PG-13 movies are allowed two uses of the word "fuck." The Martian had Matt Damon use them fairly early on, first, when Watney yanks the piece of the antenna out of himself ("FUCK!"), and second, when he makes up his mi
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by erbo 10y ago
Or, as Raymond Chen puts it (quoting Douglas Adams), "It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway."
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by erbo 10y ago
Where she ought to end up is in jail for fraud, but that's probably wishful thinking.
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by erbo 10y ago
http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/
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by erbo 10y ago
Maybe it's time to revive this little ditty: http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00259.html
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by erbo 10y ago
And now Pathfinder is just sitting there, waiting for Mark Watney to come along and salvage it to use to contact Earth...
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by erbo 10y ago
I submitted the following: "I would Make America Great Again by forcing the medical monopolies to break up, by prosecuting them under 15 USC (the Sherman, Clayton, and Robinson-Patman Acts), which the President can direct to be done on
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by erbo 10y ago
I'd have expected Hillary to send in the Federal troops and shut down marijuana sales, simply because she's been in the pocket of the pharmaceutical industry and they're already complaining about how cannabis is cutting i
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by erbo 10y ago
Compaq later created similar promotional license plates with the number "LINUX," and yes, they still said "Live Free or Die" on them. I managed to wheedle one out of a trade show representative, knowing the history of th
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by erbo 10y ago
Back when Steven first stopped writing USS Clueless, I was concerned that the content would go away. He sent me, at my request, an archive of the site, which I hosted at Electric Minds for a time. That archive is now available on my sit
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by erbo 10y ago
If you're interested in this sort of thing, look for Wendy Carlos' album Switched-On Bach 2000. She revisits the material of her classic electronic music album with modern synthesizer equipment, and uses authentic Bach tunings
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by erbo 10y ago
He'd probably appreciate it more if you made his science fiction books hits, as he's been trying to get back into SF writing recently, and has joined the indie publishing revolution (after getting talked into it by Sarah Hoyt).
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by erbo 10y ago
I posted a link to the Foundation's Web site to Jeff's Facebook page. (He's been busy getting his house in Colorado Springs ready to sell, as he and his wife are moving to Phoenix for health reasons. Facebook is about all h
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by erbo 10y ago
I'll echo what Bill Quick said[0]: "Yep. Just the sort of thing you'd expect to see from a healthy, booming Obama economy. But #NeverTrump. Because we need more great news like this." [0] http://www.dailypun
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by erbo 10y ago
Nope. I will never do business with Netflix, because they sent me unsolicited commercial E-mail. I do not do business with SPAMMERS.
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by erbo 10y ago
And his entire Medium account is gone, too.
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by erbo 10y ago
This gets me wondering: how close is this to, say, the Raspberry Pi GPIO connector? Could someone make a Pi-to-GeekPort converter? Would that even be practical for anything?
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by erbo 10y ago
Agreed. The state of my health is between me, my doctor, and maybe my fiancee. AND NO ONE ELSE. Certainly not my employer, or anyone connected to them. They may claim they protect the privacy of your information, but recent history ha
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by erbo 10y ago
I came here to say, "How do you say 'Streisand effect' in Turkish?"
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by erbo 10y ago
I'm reminded of the description of KFC in China in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age, where the restaurant was referred to as "The House of the Venerable and Inscrutable Colonel." "Venerable" because of the
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by erbo 11y ago
IBM rule #4: All rules shall be composed of series of nonblank characters, separated by blanks.
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by erbo 11y ago
A tiger can't change its stripes, even if it proclaims that it's now a harmless little kitten. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Don't trust Micro$oft. Let them die.
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by erbo 11y ago
"Line up offers" only works if you already have a job, I suppose. If you're unemployed, you generally have to take the first offer you get, or you lose your unemployment benefits.
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by erbo 11y ago
And meanwhile, the banks commit outright fraud and are rewarded with bailouts.

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