Uh, can you name a *nix variant that won't spawn a process unless it has a certain file extension?

Go rename notepad.exe to 'ntp' and try and run it in Windows.

It's a crap shoot, really. Everybody will be a little bit different. Female birth control works pretty much the same way. You never really no how long you have to be off it until you're fertile again. Depending on the time, some can take up to as long as 18 months. Took my wife between 9 and 10 months when she came off hers.

Close.

In America whiskey can either be from rye or from corn. Corn whiskey aged in a charred oak barrel is more accurately termed bourbon, a subset of the whiskey family that makes up the majority of what's sold on shelves these days in the US.

Not good. You want your soil warm when growing plants.

Disclaimer: Grew up in a family owned greenhouse. :)

Plastics, at least the kind used in garbage bags and a whole bunch of other consumer goods, are horrible in sun light. You don't notice it in everyday life, but in agriculture that crap gets exposed to sun a whole lot. It's kinda important to the growing process.

I used to work in a greenhouse and you'd see a PVC pipe shatter into pieces if it'd been installed for, oh, 10 years, and you barely bumped it with something like a broom.

Hell the clear poly that they drape over a greenhouse is only good for 6 maybe 7 years. It starts to get brittle and weak after that.

Specter is just doing a better job of staying with the times rather than any real change in his personal convictions.

Nah, he's just avoiding the Republican primary race.

Two problems:

1) Where the heck would you even buy one?
2) Hardly any nations are going to let you into your ports with one.

Lobbying used to be illegal and was called something else. Oh right, CORRUPTION.

You don't really know what lobbying is, do you? It's not the same thing as bribery. It's quite necessary in our system too.

You can not move forward by capturing energy being used to push you backwards. To move forward would require more than 100% of the energy that you're capturing. It doesn't work.

I may having a bit of a slow day. This series of statements doesn't seem logically sound.

It's an old joke but I can't remember the source.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. :)

I thought about mentioning that in my "It'll blow up in C# and Java" comment but didn't want to get too pedantic. I made the same mistake when I went to verify that I was right and the compiler caught the error. I'm still trying to shake some Java habits after 2 years of being in .NET.

It'll blow up in C# and Java.

Never thought I'd have to explain this on Slashdot of all places.

Let's see if this makes more sense:
String tmp = null;
if (tmp.length() > 0) /* <-- we blow up right here. */
{ //Do something.
}

Good Lord, no, not the gold standard.

Just fix the money supply to the GDP with some %/year maximums in how far it can swing.

In the US, as Dick Cheney said, people get to vote every 4 years.

Actually we vote every year. Federal elections are every 2 years.