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ROMANES EUNT DOMUS
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Dobson founded the San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers public outreach group: http://sfsidewalkastronomers.org I used to use a favorite quote of his in my Usenet .signature file: "What's the use of somebody who doesn&#x
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I'm still bitter that the construction of their Santa Clara store on Augustine forced the demolition of the best-run Denny's on the planet. It was a corporate training store, well-run and with an excellent staff. It was my go-t
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Back in the 90s it was common for databases to implement their own file systems or memory management Informix in the mid/late 1980s initially had Shared Memory implementations in UNIX platforms that supported it. Then, the Turb
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Seeing this reminded me of how cool it felt when I got an Intel coupon for a free 80287 with the Intel AboveBoard memory expansion board I bought to add extended memory (DIPs!) to my 80286.
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never seem to think that nukes can go in both directions at once Actually, the USA's strategic defense has been predicated on this concept for over two generations, hence the Polaris, Poseidon, and Trident programs.
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We lost every simulation Japan ran in the 1930s, too. That's why we lost the war and all speak Japanese now.
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In many states, the statute of limitations clock stops running when you leave the state, so you could find the expiry date still hasn't arrived if you come back.
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No police car could 'catch' anything at these speeds. "Nothin' outruns my Motorola."
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Isn't that a felony? If it's "just" speeding, in CA, Exhibition of Speed is a misdemeanor. Slower than that is an infraction.
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youth barely impacted by the virus Symptomatic youth are still at risk of serious complications[0], even more than adults are well into the forties. Youth are also far less likely to conform to distancing rules. [0] https:/&#
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Christian, I took a quick look at the Careers page for ab-inbev, and the vast majority of listed positions in the U.S. are internships and blue-collar jobs. I was impressed, however, to see that your corporate website cookie settings defau
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I thought we were an autonomous collective.
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This is a really sloppy article. "But the amendment fell short by one vote of the required 60 votes to pass the chamber." No, it needed 60 for cloture , to stop debate. Pass/fail requires a simple majority in a subsequent
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It a no-lose situation for him. He can afford better lawyers than the county has. He can afford all levels of appeals. And to his target market , he'll look heroic, and this becomes priceless advertising.
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The US debate on the quarantine measures is so polarized it's ridiculous. That's aggravated by the inequities of application in many areas, often rooted in underlying politics. To me, it's ridiculous to (true example
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When the Democrats had complete control of the Federal government (2009-13), they did absolutely nothing toward immigration "reform". Perhaps your partisanship theory needs re-evaluation.
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honestly, there really isn't any pathway to immigration at all Honestly... the USA makes a million new immigrant citizens a year, year over year.
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"ANSI COBOL '74 vs. '68: Fad, or Future?"
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This reminds me of the time that MAD Magazine did parodies of entries in the old Spencer Gifts catalogs.
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Note that if you get a USPS P.O. Box, you can sign a rider agreement (free) so that you can use the street address of the post office itself for items addressed to you. This gives you the added benefit of receiving packages from other carri
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a great support person is not that technical to debug a tricky API issue A great support person is, and can, assuming s/he has access to source and, ideally, a build and test environment. When in Support, I used to diagnose
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Same here. One problem with building upon a framework of falsehoods is that to be a consistently effective liar, you have to have a fantastic memory to keep your falsehoods referentially consistent. When I was on the proverbial other side
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I literally did it just before I posted the comment. This was on an unactivated Samsung Galaxy Note 5.
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Biennial November elections are a minority of elections overall.
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ROMANES EUNT DOMUS
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The University of Bath minimal HIIT protocol also used stationary bikes (3 20" intervals 3x/week).
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The idea is that they should have been stockpiling them for decades Their shelf life is generally 5 years at most. Stockpiling "for decades" is worse than useless.
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they weren't given the budget to solve it When the Obama administration was consuming the GOP-created PPE stockpile in 2009 and not replacing any of it, his party controlled both houses of Congress... including a filibuster-p
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Google still asked for a phone number Asks for , certainly. Requires was the claim. Google asks me a dozen times a day to enable Location Services. Yeah, right.

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