stan_rogers

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by stan_rogers 5y ago
...and that's kinda what's missing in the US (and large parts of Southern Ontario) right now: small towns. Instead, you have bedroom communities that depend on an urban centre to make them work at all. No, not everywhere, but in t
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
MOND has very little to say about gravity. It claims that f=ma breaks down at sufficiently low values. That, in turn, implies that the rules should still be consistent with these modifications, and that galaxies with apparently different pr
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
The lingua franca wasn't "the language of the Franks", it was an elaborate pidgin used for Mediterranean trade that encompassed a lot of broadly Romance features with a vastly simplified grammar and a vocabulary core that c
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
The most familiar attribution, original or not, would have been Yogi Berra.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Coke was Abraham Darby's doing (around 1709-1710), and that was mostly to corner the market for cheap pots and kettles. There was no way for the charcoal crowd to compete on iron, and the bronze bunch - the norm for that sort of thing
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
That series still isn't over. It just got interrupted a couple of times. The first interruption was explained in Episode 10 - that was the discovery that the way one of the wheels was divided in the remaining teeth likely indicated tha
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
I found them extremely accessible, and I was a high-school dropout. (Admittedly a very late dropout, but a dropout nonetheless.) That was back when volume 4 didn't even exist as listicles yet. And, let's face it, the sheer size
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
And they don't always work. Look up intractable pain.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
And what of the excruciatingly painful existence that doesn't come with a near-term "inevitable death". What you're advocating is long-term inescapable torture.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Time in lieu.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Torx rather sucks in comparison. Sorry if the truth hurts.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
It is the One True Screw, amen.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
It's literally called a dummy load - to the 'lectrics, it acts like an antenna, but it doesn't radiate or receive.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Actually getting condoms used to be a highly stigmatized pain in the ass back in the "caveman" days in large swaths of the world (especially in large swaths of the US). You came up in a very different environment.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
"Fourteen" (four and ten) would have been from "scoring numbers", where you get to twenty (a score), keep track of the scores separately, and start over. Up to twelve, we used a duodecimal/dozenal system (a separate
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
He never said most of the things he said.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
It made a difference long before Casio calculators, when tables were your main source of values (that would be this old fart's day). You could argue that as long as you stuck to the same table set, it doesn't really matter - but t
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
True, but the separation between grand theft and petty theft exists in pretty much every common-law country, and has for centuries - it's not a peculiarity of Canadian law.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
It's not just in Canada. Have you ever heard the term "grand theft auto"? There have been two levels in almost every jurisdiction for a very long time: petty (small) theft and grand (large) theft. The dividing line in England
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
...and flagged. It shouldn't just be a panel/plug, there should be a ginormous length of red webbing attached with a "you can't miss it" "REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT" text in white (on both sides of the webbing)
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
VLC doesn't do gapless. That disqualifies it as a reasonable music player.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Geodesics usually have flat panels as well - flat panels of limited size meeting at odd angles, yes, but flat panels nonetheless - that allow you to use conventional furnishings against or nearby to walls without unusual visual gaps in at l
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
That's the one. And I'm not fussy one way or another about the keycaps - I loved the old ones, but I can see the arguments for the "island" style as well - it's the switches underneath that were the thing.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Frankly, the old Thinkpad keyboard had the best combination of travel and feel ever put together. I can understand people preferring a different trackpad, and not particularly liking the TrackPoint, but the keys themselves were bloody amazi
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
I have to warn you, though, that not all Stans Rogers are pleasant to listen to. I come from a family full of 'em. Might I suggest Garnet or Nathan as an alternative?
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
That probably had less to do with the higher bit rate than it did a remaster. A huge amount of music that was great on the LP/cassette/8-track release, and even on the early CD (if it happened after the very early brick-wall-fil
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Session cookies (and other cookie types that are actually necessary for proper site functioning) do not require, and never have required, consent. It's all of the other crap that does.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
No matter how you parse it, it cannot be 2Tm³. The most generous reading would be "two trillion cubic metres" rather than two million. It could also be read to mean that you want to cube a terametre.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Tomatoes in North America had pretty much the same journey - from South/Central America to Europe, then back to the Americas, where they didn't really catch on for quite a while.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Likely cobalt. Most of the other blues are either made of relatively abundant elements or have very good synthetic equivalents.

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