I made quite a few "real domain" cnames to my dyndns.org and was doing web hosting from a dialup. My stuff still works for the moment :)

The grandfathered in existing customers. I paid them like $90 in the 90's and still use their free services (in addition to the services I paid for only once)

Do you have a citation for this study? I'm anti alcohol, but I think this is pretty low bar for alcoholism. When I think of alcoholism, I think of intermittent-to-regular out of control (like more than 4 drinks) drinking.

Actually if you look at the study, AAD (alcohol-attributable deaths - including car accidents) were the minority. The majority were YPLL (years potential life lost) mostly death due to liver damage. http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/...

This does not factor in the alcohol is a leading cause of cancer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... and strokes http://www.webmd.com/stroke/ne...

We all know prohibition doesn't work, but more progressive measures like education and increasing taxes on cheap booze as well as promoting alternative stress reduction programs might help to reduce heavy drinking.

got a citation?

https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publ...

I'm pretty sure tobacco hornworms are a pest, not a farm-aid. At least if my memory serves me correctly they are BIG critters and demolish tomato plants. Luckily a tiny wasp (bracconid) likes to lay its eggs in the skin of the tobacco hornworm and the hatchlings devour that critter. Whenever I'd find them in my garden I'd toss them into the woods.

I guess in their moth stage they are pollinators. I did not know this.

If you don't view conditions that humans have recently created "natural" then it makes sense that the type of climate change we are seeing is "abnormal".

For instance if I dump my empty paint containers into the pond, the frogs which have adapted over millienia unsurprisingly die. We are doing this type of thing on a global scale with global impact. Species are going extinct not because they are unfit to survive in "natural" conditions, but because they are unfit to survive in artificially-induced conditions (pollution, etc) that probably aren't all that healthy for humans either.

Further, since almost all of the medicine we have created has keys in the natural world (from looking at some existing Earth plant of animal), it is in our interest to preserve biodiversity.

It works well under ChromeOS which afaict is just a customized Gentoo running Chrome.

I don't own an Intel Chromebook, but tried to get a libnetflixplayer.so (of dubious origin) to work with chrome under Debian and was not successful, although I didn't try very hard.

I think it should work (at least on processors that are like Chrome-device processors)

There are, suprisingly, a lot of adult fast food workers.

http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2014/...

Umm I have a (sub-$150) Chromebook and it runs Xubuntu just fine. Also ChromeOS sans-Internet is handy for reading and playing audiobooks (I bookmark them so I don't have to switch OS's and type xine) while I'm driving. The 9ish hourish battery life makes it fine for most drives and I don't need to plug it in.

I think there is some kind of offline Officelike package but I haven't tried it. LibreOffice works under Ubuntu. I have all my favorite dev-tools and slashem installed on mine, so it is perfectly appropriate for a train or plane as well.

I'm not telling you that a chromebook is the best device for you, but if you are saying that the device can only be used with Internet access, you are incorrect. On the Acer Chromebooks, you can even get Windows to run.

All I'm saying is I only hire lawyers who buy me Chinese food every day!

When my car had a bad thermostat the mileage (and power) of the car dropped significantly. This was during the winter. After replacing the thermostat, efficiency and power were back up!

Of course I'm not in the UK (even if I was wouldn't i be concerned with km/litre instead of m/g?) Anyhoo I drive a 2003 VW Jetta Wagon TDI (manual transmission) and according to fueleconomy.gov (http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=18793), the car gets 35 mpg city 45 mpg (avg 39) highway. From my experience it never gets less than 50mpg on highways (close to 60 driving between CT and NH), but now that I live in the city, with traffic jams, waiting several light changes in queues to make a turn, etc, I'm consistently stuck in the 40s.

This is different than fueleconomy's original rating of my car 42 city/50 (avg 45) hwy. http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg...

Based on feedback from a small number drivers my car gets an average 48.3 mpg (with some reporting as high as 62mpg). So I have no clue why new EPA estimates are considered "more realistic" although they claim make their claims here: http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg...
My suspicion is that it's just a way to make newer cars (which aren't as good in terms of economy), look better relative to old cars which are more affordable.

you will spend $0 and while some of the VHS players you get won't be work well, you are bound to get a decent one. A VHS head cleaner tape is not a bad idea though. http://www.amazon.com/CleanDr-...

Interesting chart-slideshow, but I don't see how it's relevant. I don't mean any disrespect, but that is completely unrelated to my question. What I was asking is more specific, "how are handguns primarily defensive weapons?". There seems to be an attempt to classify rifles as offensive and handguns as defensive.

Clearly bulletproof vests/bulletproof glass/etc are defensive technologies. Firearms are offensive techologies.

I actually don't understand this at all. Concealed handguns are not used. If they are used, they are no longer concealed handguns (or else your clothes and body would likely be damaged.

I don't really have bandwidth to fact-check this. There are a lot of trends and correlation is not necessarily causation. Mass shootings are defintiely on the rise in this country as are metal detectors in high schools. Also a lot of professional criminals are moving from physical to virtual crimes which may involve less gun violence.