Or it could be Nazi Germany and you could be a certain famous Jewish patent clerk turned physicist.

If you haven't broken a hundred screwdrivers you haven't done any real work.

Your victrola is probably an exceptional outlyer. It's remarkable because it's so old and still works. Nevermind the million other busted victrolas in the landfill. I've gone through plenty of old stuff that was busted and not worth fixing for any practical reason. Old does not necessarily equal good. Sure manufacturing quality of consumer goods is hit or miss but that's nothing new either. You think nobody sold junk 100 years ago? Yeah right.

It wasn't very long ago that; guess what? NOBODY owned their telephone! That's right, you RENTED it from the phone company! In fact it was ILLEGAL to third party phone. In fact some people STILL RENT their phone. Their ROTARY land line phone.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2006-09-14-phone_x.htm

Funny how quickly people forget. As they say in china, there's nothing new under the sun.

My understanding is that it's easy to spread READ ONLY postgres load accross multiple servers. WRITING is a bottleneck with postgresql though because it enforces consistency, while other DBs like couch kick the consistency can down the road to the application. But I haven't seriously looked into it in years.

Hurrrr! Get off my lawn!

That's the point. Guillotine don't care. Guillotine doesn't give a shit.

Can you really say that Keanu Reaves is an actor?

Images are normally loaded even before the HTML

I think I may have misunderstood but how the hell does a browser load images before loading the html that tells it what images to load?

FIFY. I've been around the world and in my experience people from other countries know as little about the USA as people from the USA know about other countries. Also America is a pair of continents, not a country. Canada, Mexica, and Brazil are all in "America".

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Canada is tilted about as far away from the sun as populated areas on earth get. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

Canada is more susceptible because they are closer to the north pole where charged solar particles are drawn in by the earth's magnetic field. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

2 decades? More like four. Wages flatlined in the early 70's.

Word for word this short essay served to improve my coding more than any other document, and not just in C. Most of the essay is applicable to any language. Pike elegently and concisely explains the most important principles of good code style and software architecture. The sections "Programming with data" and "Function pointers" are particularly sailent. The section "Complexity", also known as "Rob's Rules", is outstanding and ought to be burned into the brain of every software developer. It's a free online classic and I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet. http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/pi...

A typical oceanographic trawl winch will part 9/16" steel rope like it was nothing, which requires a force of about 27,000 lbs, and the ship doesn't even notice.

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