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by qbrass 4y ago
62 football fields worth of astroturf. 25 if it's real grass.
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by qbrass 4y ago
Kevin Bacon, you know what to do.
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by qbrass 4y ago
Onions and garlic are allium. Nightshades are tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, and peppers.
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by qbrass 4y ago
The motto was "Don't be evil." It said nothing about how much evil you were allowed to do .
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by qbrass 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer They were sued again. Apple Computer won the case.
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by qbrass 4y ago
Jesus couldn't even do that, what chance does BigCorp have?
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by qbrass 4y ago
There's still hope for binary. 0 * 0 = 0, 0 * 1 = 0, 1 * 1 = 1. Done!
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by qbrass 4y ago
If they end up being junk, Cummins makes generators.
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by qbrass 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame:_Singularity The game explains it better than I can.
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by qbrass 4y ago
Radio jamming is much easier and the tank can't adapt to not having a signal as well as a drone can.
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by qbrass 4y ago
No, it's because he never applied for a job there.
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by qbrass 4y ago
GM and Ford have been trying to shed their dealer networks for the better part of a century, but even in Michigan, dealerships have more lobbying power than they do. They're obviously not going to stand for Tesla doing what they'r
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by qbrass 4y ago
They forget how it ends, though.
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by qbrass 4y ago
It's the Dark Souls of game titles.
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by qbrass 4y ago
They claimed to have 650 miles of shelf space as of 2009, so 1/443 of that. They have 140,000 comic books on file. Assuming they average 1/8" thick, the stack of them would be twice the height of that plane.
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by qbrass 4y ago
There's no defined altitude. The laws are too generic and basically say "spacecraft in orbit". Satellites are covered by that in general. The US military doesn't consider aircraft or missiles flying over their borders to
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by qbrass 4y ago
11,000 years or so, canonically.
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by qbrass 4y ago
Keep telling yourself they aren't. Eventually you'll know it's true.
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by qbrass 4y ago
Just let them give you $20 a day.
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by qbrass 4y ago
A secret HAARP-like device that causes directed earthquakes was literally from the movie The Core . It use is what kicked off the plot. Being able to say that the Earth's core stopped just like what happened in the movie makes the ear
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by qbrass 4y ago
The average Montanan is a cow, there are twice as many of them living there than people.
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by qbrass 4y ago
200yd for a regular M&M, you'd have to run down and back (600yd) for a peanut M&M. You'd have to walk roughly 2.5 miles to burn off a bag of either since there are fewer peanut ones in a bag.
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by qbrass 4y ago
As long as they didn't bring a saw.
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by qbrass 4y ago
If you have 12" wide objects to stick into a 23" wide suitcase, you can't stick two of them side by side, so you have 11" of dead space because you're an inch short on making them divide evenly. If you can roll it i
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by qbrass 4y ago
It was supposed to be a warning, not a handbook!
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by qbrass 4y ago
I share the same name as a semi-famous, semi-local musician. That made for a couple interesting phone calls over the years.
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by qbrass 4y ago
Bill and Andy's law says software gets slower at the same rate that hardware gets faster. Wirth's law says software gets slower more quickly than hardware gets faster. There are other similar eponymous laws, but they're b
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by qbrass 4y ago
The defect was a huge deal for a long range telescope because the distortion makes up a larger part of the image the further out you go. At Earth to spy satellite distances, it's like 1/4" and probably below the resolution of
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by qbrass 4y ago
Stable was mummified, Testing was musty, and Unstable had the opposite problem and was named Sid for a reason. Ubuntu used to fit between Testing and Sid.
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by qbrass 4y ago
Silicon Carbide LEDs were the first true blue (not blue-violet) ones, but they were horribly inefficient. Doped GaN made blue LEDs viable, and LEDs in general more available.

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