OS/2 3.0 had TCP/IP networking as standard. Remember that in the timeframe of OS/2 2.0 and 2.1, there wasn't a clear leader in LAN networking, with IPX, SNA and others also widely used in small office and enterprise networks, so it made sense for IBM to ship it as an optional addon. In the same timeframe, Windows 3.x not only didn't ship with a TCP/IP stack, but you had to get one from a third party.

But the ash in the upper atmosphere, the lightest and finest stuff, tends not to cross the equator, so the southern hemisphere won't suffer the serious crop failures that the northern hemisphere will.

Considering that the Romans and Chinese have written records of the Hatepe eruption that occurred in 180CE, I wouldn't count on that.

The eruption of Mount Tambora, which caused the 1816 "year without summer" also technically crossed the equator, but at 8deg S is probably close enough that it is to be expected.

You can grant permission for use without handing over "all rights". If the student is taking a yearbook class, and submits his photos to the class, he has a pretty good idea what those photos are going to end up used for. Making a copyright claim against the school later would be as stupid as what the principal is trying to do here.

What is with the modern obsession with renaming things? Does your boss measure your performance by the number of lines needlessly changed in the code or something? Before refactoring support was the must have feature of IDEs, we had stable APIs to program to. Now some kid that grew up with his attention span crippled by the internet and smartphones wants to change the names of everything every five minutes.

The difference between Emacs and an IDE is that with Emacs, you can adapt it to the way you prefer to work. With an IDE you have to adapt the way you work to the IDE.

2) I've been in jury deliberations twice. This was far more damaging to my faith in our justice system.

This is the main reason why most other Western countries dropped the death penalty decades ago. This particular case is not a very convincing argument against the death penalty due to the severity of the crime and the killings that were carried out during the pursuit, leaving no reasonable doubt that they got the right guy. But many other cases in the US, some which eventually get overturned in the many appeals a death row prisoner is entitled to, and others such as Carlos De Lunas which have slipped through.

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News for Nerds. Apparently nerds these days are interested in anything involving crowdfunding, bitcoin, youtube, plane crashes, police brutality, global warming, immunization and natural disasters.

It's perfectly clear from context. There is no need for revisionism in the language purely for the sake of looking down on those who do not follow your rules.

It's is a perfectly good use of the possessive singular of it, seen throughout historical texts like the US constitution. I reject the revisionism that brought about the artificial word its so that grammer nazis can start flame wars on internet forums.

If a tree explodes in the forest...

...and you happen to have a mirror handy, you might just catch it's light echoes.

Or the car handed control over to the human behind the wheel, but they didn't notice because they were on Gmail at the time.

Either you're one of those super-privileged people who live close to the center of London and Paris, or you need to add 1-2h at either end to get from your suburb to the high speed rail station.

A lot of suburban London is within 30 minutes of central London. Suburbs further out just have faster trains. I used to live outside the M25, and had a 23 minute non-stop journey, with a train every 10 minutes at peak times.

Which law makes circumventing it illegal?

Thanks for mansplaining that for me. You must be a hit with the girls.