FF crashes on Kubuntu daily for me, usually when it is just sitting in the background. Thunderbird is the only other program I use which is that crash-prone.

What a great idea! We could weight it down with gold or uranium or something.

Or we could build furniture, houses or other long lasting useful stuff out of the good timber and use the charcoal made with the rest to improve the soil.

Solresol has some fun features.

Also dump verb conjugation.

Alfred Korzybski made some important observations I think.

And finally, to replace English your language will need to become the official language of a World-spanning empire like those of Britain and America.

There is a fine documentary on this subject called "China's Web Junkies".
All the young lads (they are all midteens) are put in these boot camps by their parents at great expense. They are not government re-education camps, there is no political angle to these kid's problems. Nor are they hackers of any kind.
The main point to realise is that they are not addicted to the internet as such but to online gaming in particular. And they really do seem to be addicts. Their bragging about regularly playing for 24 or 36 hours straight might seem to be exaggerated but when some of them escape during the film they are quickly recaptured... at the nearest internet cafe.

How do you kill ants with aspartame? I was unable to persuade them to eat it.

IIRC only one isomer of thalidomide does bad things.

Well, everyone with those very rare diseases certainly had the vaccine. But so did everyone without those diseases, except the ones with polio.

I have read practically everything by Heinlein and "I Will Fear No Evil" is without doubt the worst load of crap he ever wrote, and he wrote a lot of crap towards the end. In fact, after "Stranger" only "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" and "Friday" are worth bothering with. To be fair, he was ill when he wrote it and the publisher wouldn't wait for him to recover enough to fix it up. OTOH it may not have been salvageable. The premise has already been used in at least one movie anyway.

The size and shape of a piece of A7 paper. 74 x 105 mm for a roughly 5" diagonal in a 14:10 aspect ratio. 1280 x 905 pixel resolution would be adequate.

No-one has ever made such a screen...

Try a cubieboard2. I've run a hard drive off the USB without any problem in Cubian (a version of Debian for cubie).

The Balfour Declaration notwithstanding, the foundation of Israel was contrary to Britsh foreign policy at the time, hence this.

Belgian, not British.

This makes for interesting reading: US foreign jaunts

Polar Bear Expedition

Odoo is commercial, and Open Source.

As an Odoo user and developer I would be happy with a 'release' every two years or more. I can pull bug fixes from the VCS to keep my current system running.
The 'releases' are for big changes and spiffy new features which require a data 'migration' and code 'porting'. Neither I nor my clients want to be doing that every three months. It is an ERP system not some simple desktop app.

This venture, it seems to me, is just a way to legitimize the payback for services he has already rendered while he was at the NSA. His 'clients' already know who they are, and they will expect to get nothing more concrete for their million per month than his continuing influence (or perhaps silence) in certain matters.

+1 for Charliemopps. I had the same problem as you; it would work when BT came to test it, but sometime it was shit. After a couple of visits I made the connection with the rain and on their third visit I suggested to the BT guys that they replace my underground wire with an overhead one from the handy pole outside. Problem solved.

I suspect they are somewhat less resistant to machetes, which is what most miscreants around here will be carrying.