I can see how that would be relaxing, and I have an application at work where I may try this: cleaning up a mess of a telecom closet when I have some spare cycles to burn.

I never got a landline because I always needed a cell anyways. That and with my cell came free long distance. At the time (late 90's) Long distance was expensive. It still is.

Wow... I've seen lacing over the years but never gave it a second thought until reading your link. Interesting, thanks!

I believe they recently announced Star Wars theatrical releases for BluRay.

I never did like vi. to damn complicated to remember all the shortcuts. Pico worked well when i needed to save or change something it was always obvious what key needed to be pressed and it allowed me to stop and think to avoid needlessly long run on sentences that users of vi tended to devote long hours to perfecting the stream of thought typing ignoring the simple fact that puncheon is important too.

Yes that was done on purpose.

Perhaps if you call and ask them to turn off the malware filter for your connection...

We haven't had strategies for decades, why start now? The only difference is this time we're lobbing missiles first, before committing boots to the ground. Last time we went on an adventure in Iraq we figured we could Han Solo the mission as we went along, and we saw how well that turned out. At least so far we haven't sent any ground troops to die.

There is another hitch too the 3-10 years it takes to get to the target mine before you can setup operations.

Until we figure out faster space drives even mars is a long shot. The best bet to start off with is finding water and oil on the moon (oil to give a reason to go there)

A big chunk of Ukraine was part of Poland, the people there still speak Polish and self identify as Polish. Poland is part of the EU, therefore Ukraine should be part of the EU.

It all makes sense!

Those who are dead via saline solution can be told once they're... ummm... undead.

I am a man, and I completely agree with your female friend. Wikipedia doesn't seem worth much investment of my own time and energy, especially given my experience contributing to technical topics like round-robin DNS . Hell, I've got the Slashdots for that! (Plus the other stuff, all of which is usually taking place, when I can turn my attention to the Slashdots; where my karma is what it is).

Best solution: Have all 100,000 claimants file in small claims court instead.