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by slapfrog 5y ago
Related factoid; the US Navy is the world's second largest air force.. second only to the US Air Force itself. And if you split Alaska in two, Texas would be the third largest state.
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by slapfrog 5y ago
> USPS has its own law enforcement agency The United States Postal Inspection Service is actually the oldest of all federal law enforcement agencies. It's as old as this country is.
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by slapfrog 5y ago
> They have names, addresses, This is a phrase I have seen numerous times before on the internet, always in contexts which make clear this is a call to violence.
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by slapfrog 5y ago
People expect better of scientists, but shouldn't.
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by slapfrog 5y ago
The advice on that page is to not send your rock to the people at geoscience.unlv.edu, because they specifically will keep your rock. My advice is to not send your rock to any researchers at any organization because virtually all of them
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by slapfrog 5y ago
Ignore my advice and you'll never see your meteorite again. That's really no skin off my back, but I think most people would rather have a neat "maybe-a-meteorite" sitting on their own desk instead of having it sit on t
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by slapfrog 5y ago
Whatever you do, do not send your meteorite to a scientist or university researcher to verify or examine. Meteorites are valuable and desirable, the scientist will find any excuse to steal your rock. Due to their position and perceived
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by slapfrog 5y ago
If you want to quote a dictionary's definition, you should cite the dictionary you're quoting. If you're passing the dictionary's definition off as your own, word for word, that is plagiarism.
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by slapfrog 5y ago
> > "contacted Amazon, who responded with "we'll deal with the issue and get back to you within 48 hours", which never happened" > "If you complain to Amazon that the seller is contacting you outsid
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by slapfrog 5y ago
Even if you only copied a typical one-sentence dictionary definition verbatim without attribution, that would still clearly be a clear-cut case of plagiarism...
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by slapfrog 5y ago
There are net emissions from all the equipment and processing involved. But of course, if buying carbon offsets is a valid way to offset burning coal, it is also a valid way to offset all the truck, tractors, etc associated with liquor pro
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by slapfrog 5y ago
For the most part, you're right. Monoculture tree farms with straight rows of fast growing pine trees as far as the eye can see are now the norm, for better or worse.
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by slapfrog 5y ago
> Paleoclimatological studies indicate that the last 150 years of California's history have been unusually wet compared to the previous 2000 years. Tree stumps found at the bottom of lakes and rivers in California indicate that man
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by slapfrog 5y ago
Supporting the entire food industry keeps the entire food supply secure. Shortages in one sector will raise prices in another. Libertarian madness is not a sensible way to run a country. Not even America is that crazy.
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by slapfrog 5y ago
> The oil industry seems pretty important as well. Not nearly as important as food; the only thing as important as the food supply is our supply of drinking water. Nothing else is comparably important, so you're wasting your time
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by slapfrog 5y ago
> And most of us are very happy to support supply management! "Cartel" has very negative connotations. Exactly. Having a stable supply of food is more important than having an economically efficient supply of food. Of all i
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by slapfrog 5y ago
> Cigarettes from a corner store that have been imported from a low tax country? Probably just smuggled across state lines. Bought in a state with low taxes, then sold in a state with high taxes. The store pockets the taxes instead o
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by slapfrog 5y ago
> There are more weed shops than gas stations... and the gas stations usually have one right next door anyway. In Washington state [or just Seattle? I'm not sure], there are laws restricting how many square feet the signage for a
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by slapfrog 5y ago
I hated the 'dealers system'. I didn't want to give some lowlife drug-dealer my address, nor my phone number. Neither was the idea of meeting such a person in a parking lot somewhere appealling to me at all. Consequently,
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by slapfrog 5y ago
> 2) Don’t talk to the police 2b) Don't buy phones that talk to the police.
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by slapfrog 5y ago
Take it as a lesson in critical thinking and trust. I presume this is a lesson you already learned long ago, but clearly it's a lesson some people haven't learned yet, because a lot of people seem to have believed him.
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by slapfrog 5y ago
I revisit my emacs config once every year or so, but otherwise I leave it along and focus on using emacs instead of tweaking emacs. From what I've heard, some emacs users seem to get addicted to tweaking emacs, so much so that it dis
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by slapfrog 5y ago
Just my two cents, a product having an optional app at all makes me disinclined to buy it. It's not a strict disqualification, but it's definitely a negative to me. I really dislike when companies even suggest I install their ap
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by slapfrog 5y ago
I tried long memorable passphrases for a time, but a few of my passphrases were not as memorable as I expected and I ended up having to reset several of them. Eventually I got fed up with it and switched to an offline FOSS password manage
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by slapfrog 5y ago
> Why do people assume that the Mozilla foundation is a clueless scammer? It's not an assumption, it's an evaluation they are continuing to earn by quacking like a duck.
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by slapfrog 5y ago
If doctors or lawyers fuck up bad enough, losing their license is one possible, if rare, outcome. Those professions are still very popular.
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by slapfrog 5y ago
> a habit of conversing in the tone of disputation. Thank you for putting words to this. I think it's something I've struggled with as well.
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by slapfrog 5y ago
It's also possible to put a two-stroke engine on a mountain bike and ride it on a limited access highway. But that's really not what the bike is meant for, and would almost never be the right way of going about things.
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by slapfrog 5y ago
Well I'm glad I listened to what he had to say before I came to the comments here to get discouraged. I've been using firefox since 2005, and hope to continue using firefox, but I have serious concerns about the way things are he
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by slapfrog 5y ago
An extreme instance of grafting, 40 kinds of fruit from a single tree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_40_Fruit

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