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by pasbesoin 8y ago
An engaging story to follow. The most effective learning materials I encountered had this. At the beginner level, two older examples: "French in Action" "Destinos" Once you have some level of fluency, you can pick your o
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
My local farm style cafe is cash only. Has been for the two decades I've patronized it. They're about 200 feet from the police station, and some of the cops come in for breakfast (they open quite early; also a legacy of the farm
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Just a thought: I wonder whether shopping surplus would get you a "real" unit for an affordable price -- and with the ability to find a spec sheet online that confirms what it can do.
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
What happens when you throw the motion of somebody's head and/or eyes into the mix? When you are not viewing from an absolutely fixed position? This isn't a troll. I don't know, so I'm asking whether it can be a f
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
That cap's been there for a while. IIRC, it was implemented some months after T-Mobile started the "race to unlimited data"... was that the winter before last? Speaking of the U.S. marketplace. I never read an official exp
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Babylon 5 has this. Available in the U.S. on Amazon Prime (no affiliation; just know many have an account) as of a few months ago. I'd never seen it coherently, all the way through. I really enjoyed watching it again, and fully.
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
My Great Uncle Joe served in World War II. 4 years tromping around Europe. In his 80's, he still woke up at night, screaming. So his wife would tell us; he never spoke much about that. She lost her first husband, Fred, to the war.
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
You want a clear sign that the U.S. is failing? Here's one. It's the short, statistical version of a thousand thousand tragic individual tales.
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Yeah, I didn't, in my first comment. I guess I was a bit afraid if they got popular they'd "go away" or something -- even though they are "buffered" by YouTube. -- This one is still working: https:/&#x2F
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
There are a couple of high def web cams of busy Japanese lines just outside stations, that stream live on YouTube (with good sound, as well). (Unfortunately, the recent typhoon took out the one by the Italian Park in Tokyo.) I've foun
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
An injury and the result of subsequent surgery left me with severe, chronic congestion. Actually, the injury just made the airflow uncomfortably asymmetric. It was the surgery that really stuffed things up. I lost my ability to achieve &q
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
A couple of years ago, I needed to find a limo service for an old family friend, for a memorial service. It'd been some years, but I knew of and used to use one of the top two limo services in my metropolitan area. (In my area, in a
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Leaf blowers I can tolerate. Those fucking car stereos with their sub-woofers, that serve no other purpose than to demonstrate testosterone and dominate the environment with sound? Evil. -- P.S. For the downvotes, I'll add Harleys a
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I'll RTFA, but you know what else helps? Changing the physical environment. Getting away from severe, chronic stressors. Getting to a community that provides services and allows for mobility. "By your bootstraps" doesn&#x27
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Some people here may have a tech-heavy, skewed perspective of what "contracting" is, these days. A lot of "contractors" are people working for a middleman company. Whatever Google's reimbursement rate, the actual w
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
All I got was an HTML page, but an archive link worked: https://web.archive.org/web/20180925191008/https://www.cia.g...
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Yeah, talk was kind of on its way to being the next AIM. Then, BLAM, metaphorical bullet between the eyes...
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Wave solved problems I encountered in commercial (large scale corporations) work. It could prevent "submarining" of communication into email chains and instant messaging conversations inaccessible to those not addressed or cc-ed,
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Make no mistake: Big oil, coal, etc. will move to "green" energy. However, this is how they want to do so: - Maximize returns on existing investments: Mineral rights and leases and options and equipment. - Maintain and gain con
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
"Power hugs" (my off-the-cuff term), in various formally defined and social settings. (Not as in mutually energizing; rather, like a couple of levels worse that the aggressive hand-shaker.) Ugh
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Add in the "sneakernet" of communication: Heading over to another's office or cube, and the event/conversation/information never gets captured in a form that can nor is communicated further. "Oh, we talked abo
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Opinionated personal experience: If you need to meet face to face, it's because you have to "arm twist" people to get things done. And/or it's because you have a knowledge/learning/teaching impedance -- a
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
This is perhaps too simplistic. I ran across it on a magnet from a company that specializes in graphic presentations of quotes. Quotable Quotes, I think that company may be called. Anyway, this one has stuck with me, as I consider and try
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
One venue of coverage I seem to recall as being arstechnica.com . That would make sense in that they had and still have a strong presence in Chicago. I'll look later for some old articles, if I don't get too distracted. I'll
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Seriously, could Microsoft work any harder to drive me away? People are going to look at their bottom line and decide this money-grabbing maximal-ism just makes them greedy, unconscionable bastards. Of course, that's never stopped thei
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
No, this wasn't with regard to merger approval, as far as I recall. This was a separate negotiation: State level tax breaks and other concessions, in return for the commitment to deploy "universal" high-speed Internet acces
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
People are worried about "socialized medicine". In my metropolitan area, almost all doctors are working for one of three very large and expanding private networks. And more and more insurance offers are forcing members to pick a p
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
It was around that time; I no longer remember what name they were carrying at what points during that process. They subsequently acquired the remains of AT&T; a few other things, and the name with which they subsequently rebranded thems
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Ameritech/SBC, now AT&T, received, IIRC, circa $750 million in incentives to deploy universal access to high speed Internet throughout Illinois. The ink was hardly dry when they turned around and lobbied the Illinois legislature to
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
There was nothing to be gained, this time. Interference would only reinforce and strengthen Trump's critics and doubt about Trump. (And by naming "Trump", I include all in that camp, that is promulgating policies/initia

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