From which it should be clear that it is a book of poems they are looking for, not prose.

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A Copy of Verses kept in the Cabinet, and only shewn to a few Friends, is like a Virgin much sought after and admired; but when printed and published, is like a common Whore, whom any body may purchase for half a Crown (Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects)

Does PostgreSQL have a command-line option similar to MySQL's -X which returns the data to stdout in XML format?

I don't know about 99%, but there are certainly plenty of sites built by developers whose only knowledge of data storage is "database", and who therefore use one for everything, regardless.

They're not warranties. They don't warrant anything at all. They're just insurance. Once you get that clear, it's a straight choice on the basis of cost vs benefit. A real warranty penalises the manufacturer for shoddy goods or inadequate service by making them make good the deficit. That is not the case here.

No question about it, the science in Larry Niven's Ringworld series boggles most people's minds and opens up all kinds of interesting questions.

O right. Like this http://i-want-sexy-gadgets.blogspot.ie/2010/02/mouse-designed-to-look-like-clit.html

Grow up

The trouble is that the implementations of X seem to conflate the visible border of the window (possibly 1px wide) with the grabbable area that ought to cause the cursor to change to the "i can move this" double-arrow. That needs to be several pixels thick for most people to grab it. The designers of Unity and other windowing systems appear to place more emphasis on "looking pretty" than on "working well".

No shit, Sherlock. Just like humans...

It's the duck liver that's the best part.

It's not just the yuck factor, it's that snails taste like shit.

No, they taste disgusting.

Wrong. The garlic butter and the bacon gravy are superb. The snails are still disgusting.

Particularly if it came from the side of a highway. During the era of leaded gasoline, lead was deposited in roadside terrain and herbiage, and it's still there, and not going away any time soon.

It's a rhetorical device called litotes, a form of irony. Not for the first time on /...

No, that's definitely Republicans. They're not allowed to suck in Florida, Texas, and some other states, let alone swallow :-)

No, common-sense went out the window with this (and the previous) generation of judges. You know, the ones who award millions in damages for trivial foolishness that the subject was too stupid to avoid, and deny proper damages in cases of genuine suffering because some company paid them to look the other way.