Just out of curiosity , what issues have you encounters with encfs ? Been using it for years without problems so far.

Fair point , collage was actually free but i could've used the beer money.
And before anybody asks , no i couldn't just exchange the currency when it went downhill , the money was locked away until i turned 18.
Anybody holding large amounts of USD should whoever immediately buy something more stable , like gold.

I currently have like a gazillion $ on a type of cheque from my grandpa. Should've paid for collage. It's worth nothing after the local currency went through massive inflation.

You'd still loose gas , although at a slower pace. Hydrogen/Helium atoms are small enough that they can and do pass through the balloon material .

Let me break it down , there's two possible reasons.
One , as other readers have suggested , the article might be purposely omitting various facts or mixing up total cost of ownership with purchase value.
Two , it's not that the buyers were stupid , they might be to some extent (not knowing the market well enough to shop around for the best deal) but that doesn't cover such a deep discrepancy.
Most often than not , at least in the ex soviet block , these things are done to take money away from the institution. The buyers just agree with the sellers to up the cost dramatically and get a part of that money back as incentive to do it. And these things happen ALL THE TIME , in all corners of all public institutions. That's why these states are doing so poorly , budget wise. It's called corruption.
This may come as a shocker to you if you were brought up in some place where these are not common day activities. Criminal penalties should be enforced against such wrongdoers.
I can not emphasise enough , this is the kind of stuff that brings a nation down , one expensive toilet seat at a time.

Some filesystems allow you to store the journal on a different disk , such as a SSD

Transporting energy has losses , you know , electrical resistance and all that jazz.

If cars never "took off" we wouldn't have _proper_ roads everywhere.

Actually IRC was massively popular in Romania in the 90's. Everybody would hop on dial-up after 8:00 pm when the phone tariffs where lower. It was not just for the technical. Radio stations used to read comments and play tracks requested on IRC.
Undernet was _the_ network of servers to hang on , huge wars took place for control of popular channels. Meanwhile everybody was looking for a "non-free" email account (non yahoo/msn , etc ) so they could register with Undernet and have their ip hidden.
Later on everything moved on to msn and yahoo messenger , the victor being yahoo in the end. Currently facebook seems to rule the masses after everybody migrated off of hi5 or myspace.

Most antibiotics are to be taken just after a meal , when your blood sugar levels are peaking.
However , maybe a little more sugar wouldn't be a bad idea.

Out of my hands , haven't worked there in a while. Anyway , we had them set on top of an UPS just to avoid this kind of crap.

Yep , dead serious.

HP bought 3com ?
We're screwed , 3com switches - never had a problem
Hp procurve switches ? Locking up like it's crazy on the slightest electrical fluctuation , pos hardware.

Not like anybody would've expected that ...no way ...

Bourbon is 40% ABV.
Anything under 50% doesn't really burn directly , I'm curious what he did to make it run.
Perhaps using excess engine heat to separate alcohol evaporating it first from the content.