Charcoal grill, indirect heat. Kind of in between roasted and smoked.

I thought ChromeOS used Upstart, not systemd. When did this change?

And it's fine after you've reached a certain point of understanding of the underlying concept. Once you've learned and understand that 3*4=3+3+3+3, you can move on to memorizing your multiplication table. However, the table shouldn't be the primary method for teaching multiplication.

It sounds like a poor implementation of the standards. It's not supposed to be about rote memorization, nor does it define curriculum. It's about the student explaining their thought process. However, this is difficult to score on a test, and can lead to corners being cut to fit outdated standardized test scoring.

Critical thinking is central to the Common Core standards. If businesses are really concerned with lack of those skills, they should be promoting Common Core.

The standards really need help from a marketing standpoint. A lot of what is circling social media are complaints about weird and confusing (to parents) math instruction, and on how the standards are a big government takeover designed to indoctrinate our children (standard FUD). There are valid concerns and complaints with them to be sure, but these are not the points that should be debated.

Many carriers have such exclusivity deals with municipalities, Comcast included. This is why there's little to no competition in many areas.

Also, I wouldn't get your hopes up with any improved service, though I share your sentiment in simply wanting a choice.

Looks like a lot of Bologna.

I'll see myself out.

In hopes that the 'malicious actors' would get tired of waiting for the required binaries to be built and give up?

No...just, no. THAC0 is wacko.

Yep, completely adjustable. You can even change the voice. It's kind of complicated to describe, but I found a helpful video that walks you through the process.

Yes, but at that point, why would you bring them back? To blathe?

An "open-sores" sex party you say? I think I'll pass.

Drone season, fire!
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You're despicable.

Yeah, what a jerk. He only broke the record for the highest manned balloon flight, highest freefall and fastest freefall. How dare he only break 3 out of 4 records and narrowly miss mach!? Not to mention all the data he collected. But you're right, his guy just seriously needs to go away.

CudaTel (of Barracuda spam firewall fame) appliances are built on top of Freeswitch, an open-source PBX that I've found scales much better than Asterisk. The hardware is sized by number of concurrent calls. If you don't know how many concurrent calls you handle, the accepted convention is to take the number of phones you have and divide by 6 (or 4 if you want to be very conservative).