a [...] laptop [...] that is compatible with linux.
That seems to be pretty much all laptops nowadays. I've been running Linux on laptops for 22 years now (starting with a DEC HiNote) and there was a time when it wasn't always so easy. In the past i've had problems with no Linux driver being available for components which were very recent and from uncooperative manufacturers, but there's always been a workaround.
There is a technological solution to it: pressure equalizing earplugs.
I've always wondered if Americans shout a lot when they're at home, because they certainly tend to talk very loudly overseas. I was walking down a busy street in Kabul, Afghanistan, ten years ago with an American friend. She was talking at the usual American overseas, ear-splitting volume, which made me feel a bit self-conscious. When i suggested she might like to speak a little less loudly, she was surprised - she had no idea she was shouting. Security in Kabul wasn't too bad in those days, but foreigners did get kidnapped now and then, and it seemed smart not to draw too much attention to ourselves - particularly with an American accent.
You seem to be asking a question, but it's not clear exactly what you're asking. I'd suggest you look at the html source of your comment (try "inspect" in Chrome) and then google "rel nofollow". That might help. It might at least stop you pointlessly spamming forums.
... the entire poll is the joke!
(I'm serious, the ambiguity here is too high to make a correct decision)
My impression is that they've decided they're going to redesign the web site and they've thrown us this poll to make us feel like we asked for it.
Burning qur'ans.
Chuck bibles in the furnaces too, for extra power. And every other book of religious mumbo jumbo too.
Or those who don't wish to be destitute and homeless should their house catch fire
Destitute? Do you keep all your money in your house in banknotes?
[......] what do you figure the odds are someone won't give it a good kick or otherwise find ways to abuse it?
This is London we're talking about, so it's guaranteed that will happen. A lot. The other thing that's guaranteed to happen is they'll get stolen - then probably sold as scrap.
Agree. Useless poll, not worth my voting.
Are you implying that some Slashdot polls are not useless?
I'll give you a clue... It'll be powered by cold fusion.
If 24C is a suitable medium and the men would prefer 21C, doesn't that imply that the women would prefer 27C - that's sounds pretty hot.
I'm a man and i'd prefer 30C.
I often have to go outside and stand in the sun to thaw out - luckily i work in Darwin (in the Australian tropics) and it mostly is about 30C outside.
"Western" is reserved for North and South America since it is "west" of the Atlantic. Eastern would be China, Japan, India, etc.
"Western" is a euphemism for ethnically European.
It is quite distinct from the "western hemisphere", which is a euphemism for the Americas. Technically speaking, parts of Europe and Africa are in the western hemisphere, as well as part of Russia and some Pacific islands, but when people say "the western hemisphere", that's not what they mean.
To them, one cold remedy is the same as another.
To anyone who knows anything much about health, one cold remedy is the same as another. A cold is caused by a virus and, apart from interferon, there is no remedy for viral infections like that. All cold remedies are placebos.
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