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by jqm 11y ago
How many times are you going to be spending an hour to write 50 lines of code? Is the code going to stay at 50 lines? If the answer is "one or two or three" and "yes" than ya... do it however.
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by jqm 11y ago
It's easy to be self righteous when you hold all the cards though.... I mean, can you imagine a small group of terrorists being able to effectively target the US military? Of course not. So these people do what they can in an attempt t
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by jqm 11y ago
Microsoft?
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by jqm 11y ago
This is great, but I wonder if without a pay raise if they will be able to fill the ranks. Cynical me thinks maybe a large number of current cops would do the job for even less, so long as they were allowed to carry a gun and a stick and or
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by jqm 11y ago
Music Schmusic. I'm waiting for the advertisements.
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by jqm 11y ago
Ya... that shows W. Bush with over a 50% favorability rating in 2015. In short.. I'm not sure I buy it. Be that as it may, it still shows Hillary viewed unfavorably by more people than not at 43% vs 46%. And to my point, this group pr
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by jqm 11y ago
How can we surmise the 64% number is probably made up? Well, if we make the assumption that most probably over 50% of people don't know and don't care (about much of anything that doesn't have to do with their direct income)
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by jqm 11y ago
It's probably true many people in the US have an unfavorable opinion of Snowden. I would venture most of these also have an even less favorable opinion of Hillary.
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by jqm 11y ago
It's certainty easier to haul 12 Kites to site than props for a 198 meter wind turbine. I'm thinking deployment might be easier as well. Plus, if one kite breaks you only lose part of the electrical output as opposed to a large ma
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Apple certainly isn't alone in this. If we back up for a bit and think why corporations exist in the first place, why society allows and facilitates rather than criminalizes corporate endeavors, it becomes clear the idea is that they f
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by jqm 11y ago
"Apple is not required to keep society's interests in mind, that is true" Maybe they should be?
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by jqm 11y ago
It's like bars I think. Depends on what kind of people you are comfortable hanging out with. Most of the time I'd rather be by myself than hang around drunks.
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by jqm 11y ago
Agreed. But the topic was building a side project not getting users... which is certainly the more difficult part.
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by jqm 11y ago
Ya, but you could do that little bit of stuff in less time then it took to write up the spec, put up the work, sift through potential contractors and ensure what you got met your needs (going back to step 2 when it didn't). Plus you wo
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by jqm 11y ago
We like to think hard work and correct attitudes towards education, savings and investment results in being well off. And to a certain extent it does. But, many people who are well off, in fact likely some of the most well off, have an enti
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by jqm 11y ago
Fair point and maybe I read a little fast. Or maybe I don't understand what you mean by "personal knowledge". Is seeing it on TV personal knowledge or do you have to have witnessed it in person? As far as shoot first ask ques
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by jqm 11y ago
"If you are truely outraged (which should occur only when you have personal knowledge a wrong took place)" Disagree completely. Public outrage at non-personal wrongs is very important for the wrongs to eventually be remedied. It&#
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by jqm 11y ago
"You'll also be going up against big companies (e.g. Relias) that already have thousands of stock trainings on-hand that they can adapt slightly to individual clients." And thousands of public sector IT people who are making
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by jqm 11y ago
Yes, including the US. Spraying crops with airplanes is very common. Not sure where the idea it is banned comes from?
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by jqm 11y ago
While I agree that it's true "freedom doesn't mean others should have to meet your needs" I find it a damn shame we can't stand on a little piece of ground hardly anywhere without paying someone. We are born on eart
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by jqm 11y ago
The 20'th century was probably the bloodiest only because of advanced technology. Just imagine Attila the Hun with tanks and nukes.
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by jqm 11y ago
In carrots (which are densely planted like four rows to a bed) weeds sometimes do come up in the bed between plants. They usually aren't many because the carrot tops get so dense they smother most weeds out. You can't cultivate th
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by jqm 11y ago
There is another approach to weed control. Don't do anything. Let weeds come up if they want to. I remember a crusty old guy in Florida showing me his watermelon field that was full of weeds. I said something about it and he said the w
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by jqm 11y ago
This is cool but I have to disagree with this phrase from the article.... "Given the scale of farming today, treating weeds chemically is really the only practical way for humans to keep them under control". It's the easiest
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by jqm 11y ago
I've actually dreamed about really lightweight possibly robotic cultivator. There really isn't a reason to pull a multi-ton tractor over the soil when you are burning or just scraping an inch or two down. For a heavy disc or plow
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by jqm 11y ago
Here is an additional mirror. Apparently Eric is a bit concerned about potential overload on his main server. http://mirrors.edgeorbis.com/distros/slackware-live/
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by jqm 11y ago
So it does... I mispoke. But it isn't the same as yum or apt-get. (which is ok w/ me).
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by jqm 11y ago
It's simple so it's somewhat easy to take apart and re-purpose. I was able to use it to build an internet enabled kiosk for instance without a lot of extra weight. It's super stable also so it make a good server. Lack of pack
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by jqm 11y ago
Eric Hameleers is a awesome. As a Slackware user his blogs and tips have been helping me for years. "we are well equipped to keep systemd out of our distro for a while" Win! This certainly isn't the first live Slackware thoug
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by jqm 11y ago
Yes it is more work. 10 times the work seems high though. Keep in mind the cost of producing and transporting and selling herbicide when considering total "energy consumption". Not to mention in some cases removing it from the wat

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