Who uses Ubuntu. I use
http://mirror.yandex.ru/fedora...

Everything works, has a great following too.

I live in Quebec, Canada. For the average consumer, electricity costs us about 7.5 cents/kwh unlimited use. For large users(manufacturers, smelters, etc.) the rate is around 4.2 cents/kwh. For resident homes on dual energy (heatpump/oil/gas), it is at 4.2 cents/kwh, except when temp outside is below -12C or above 32C.
When temperature is out of bounds, the rate climbs to 12.5 cents/kwh. We can help keep rates low by not heating our hot water 60 gallon insulated water tanks in peak periods, defined as hrs between the 16:00-20:00 hrs (supper time). Give the kids a bath or use dish washer outside the supper hour period.
Oh yes, Hydro Quebec is provincial government owned. Even at that rate, the government makes a great profit (waterdam energy).

ring down to earth partner, One that is warm, caring, and intelligent enough to understand love, children, family, social and job. He is, and she is, and the children are an extraordinarily happy family.

Mensa membership was abandoned decades ago.

Is it because he has a foreign name, or a different religion?

Yes, I concur with your observation.

Surveillance is ok if it is to prevent theft of material goods. Sometimes, when I worked, my brain ran dry of new ideas to solve some problems. I turned to distractions such as joke websites, or Slashdot, and perhaps a short time later, ideas came to mind.

If I need a quiet place to use the cell, in a business where all exits / entrances are badge monitored, I would use the toilet or the shipping dock, or the company cafeteria (which was also under in-security access..

If you company is that worried, are they working for the NSA? Are you working in a munitions plant or a germ warfare company? Its time to get out from those employers

The corn has nicotine in it's design so as to keep insects away. Similar approaches for other vegetables and fruit. Bees come, they are mutated, and there is no reproduction. Ergo, there is much much reduced crop fertilization.

So, where losses were low due to insects, they are now truly low due to killing the insects that did the pollination. Time to reconsider GMO and it's cost benefits, leaving aside health issues.

And I bet if in-depth research was performed, there would be an argument against GMO foods.

The NSA is one reason why, when the Russian CPUs or computers become available (built to metric dimensions), I will get one or more.
If they are really very very good, I will kiss Intel goodbye. I hate overpriced hardware.

Sometimes there just isn't that little more money. And what commercial/financial value does Codespace have/had?

The black market (detective agencies) work for many institutions where the prospects of hiring a senior technocrat or manager is crucial to that person being sparkling white lily clean.

This is going to make the detective job harder. They may actually have to visit in person, previous owners and individuals listed in their resumé

In regard to mixing SDDs and HDDs, there are some great caching programs that allow a single SSD to act as a front end to several HDDs. The driver looks at the traffic coming through, and if it is "mainly sequential writes", bypasses the SSD to write direct to the disk. For random stuff, across the x HDD drives, the SSD acts as a cache. The percentage of Sequential to Random is selectable.

  Very recently I purchased my first SDD at about $0.48 per gigabyte (128gig for $59.00) I expect that next year I should be seeing $0.35 per/gig to where I expect by next year, we will have excellent terabyte SDDs for $50.00. Can someone confirm that in SSD size measurement, we are back to 1k=1024 and 1meg=1024x1000, etc.?

In the same light, the financial embargo against Iran is helping Iran to do what it could not do in regular circumstances. It will have the bomb, and industry to not require European, American or other foreign products.

Embargos force governments to "roll their own".

And what architecture would you put into place? RISC? A competitor's chipset? This is not a challenge to you, but an RFI?

I used to program ibm360. There was no little endien arrangment for integers as is the norm in x86. Changing to big endien architecture will make for an interesting change, if it comes about, and with potential performance gains.

With conservative government wanting that pipline to the USA, the planes were meant to sway the deal. Just think, the original bill was for under 10 billion for the planes. Now it is closer to 35.

Harper likes to kiss ass with Obama. Canada does not need those planes. We need vehicles to protect our North and to keep Russia out from claiming our lands. (our ice).

rE SMOKING IS A RIGHT. In a single payer system, the medical costs of curing smoker related diseases is way out of proportion to the world of non-smokers. I wouñd like to see a law that stipulates "if you have smoked in the last 5 years, you are denied medical coverage for consequential illnesses. Got cancer because of smoking? Got money for treatment? No! Too bad. You as a smoker abused the system. Don't come begging.