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by surlyadopter 16y ago
Premium single malt Scotch whiskey. Some of my best ideas have come to me while drinking Scotch. Nota bene, some of my worst ideas have come to me when drinking Scotch.
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There are 5,057 janitors in the U.S. with PhDs(chronicle.com)
179 points by surlyadopter 16y ago|144 comments
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
"I talked about a number of things. I started out talking about Geocities, and how it was a very real thing, a place that I grew up in, and how it was lost too easily." Geocities was the first digital Iram of the Pillars.
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
“The Greek people never learned to pay their taxes. And they never did because no one is punished. No one has ever been punished. It’s a cavalier offense—like a gentleman not opening a door for a lady.” The article makes it clear that for G
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Greeks are sure of one thing: they can’t trust their fellow Greeks.(vanityfair.com)
157 points by surlyadopter 16y ago|86 comments
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
Selling meat products to people who post on the internet is like shooting fish in a barrel, but this is still an impressive use of discounts to attract new customers.
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How a business increased their sales 18 fold by using online promotions(reddit.com)
2 points by surlyadopter 16y ago|1 comments
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
Kudos to the government for not just burying their head in the sand and actually opening up about this breach.
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How to tell when your boss is lying(economist.com)
2 points by surlyadopter 16y ago|0 comments
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
Well there you go. Even if we could it probably would not be a good idea (except in the hearts of our states Ron Swansons).
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
Property and sales tax in CA are both very high(varies by county but most are up there). The LA county sales tax is 9.75%! You are right that CA has a lot of potential. The double whammy of decreased revenues from the recession impacted con
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
I believe both entities can declare bankruptcy. There have however been rumblings that if a city were to declare bankruptcy the county and/or state can do something to either block it, or block the judge from invalidating the employment(ie
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
Great summary of (mostly) how California has screwed itself. This: "California must shift its public priorities away from lavish pensions for bureaucrats and toward the infrastructure critical to reinvigorating the private sector." needs t
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
Interesting app but I disagree with the "going to Web sites on your phone to find information is a pain" assertion. On the iOS devices I've never found "web searches" that difficult. Am I the only one? I do like the zero-click for informat
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
Striking a blow against jerk customers who don't pay their bill, I like it. Also, obligatory "lol, Gobble"
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
Great post. My feeling went from "this guy needs to get out more" to "oh god that sounds exactly like me" in a few paragraphs. Mah pa-al ka-el indeed.
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Mozy rolls out a clever new campaign(youtube.com)
1 points by surlyadopter 16y ago|0 comments
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
After having spent quite a few years around not so well funded labs I can assure you that any piece of equipment older than a decade that still posesses a manual is a rare sight indeed.
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
Hey, I wasn't a weird loner. I was a trend setter!
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
We await silent Tristero's empire.
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
Ditto. The day after campus IT borked Morpheus, 2 DC++ networks sprang up. Good times.
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
The caption on that picture in the article is perhaps the most apropos comment I have seen regarding the iPhone 4.
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
Show of hands. Who actually uses public trackers?
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
Hey Peter, ever hear of a little thing called willpower and self discipline?
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
Ever since discovering that SpaceX was going to charge around 1/3rd what the Russians charge per kg to GTO I've been waiting to see an increase in launches.
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
I think weev is the first person to have crossed the trolling event horizon.
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
I think that is the same line of reasoning some warez/piracy sites used to put those "if you are a law enforcement personnel you are not allowed to view this website" messages.
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
No, he has a glorious neckbeard. He fits my stereotype perfectly!
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Hacker (possibly) behind the AT&T Ipad breach has been arrested. And it's weev.(news.cnet.com)
70 points by surlyadopter 16y ago|58 comments
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by surlyadopter 16y ago
Speaking of having fun with radiation. I've never had the opportunity to point a geiger counter at the stomach of someone who has just eaten a banana, but I have "tracked" through walls and around the corner a co-worker who had just taken r

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