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donalm

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    Comment #39798355

    “I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too” https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/queen-elizabeth-s…

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    Comment #20875939

    If the carnivore wants food, something will have to eat the plants.

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    Comment #8384879

    Here's the site for the new system - http://www.eircode.ie/

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    Comment #5186976

    Another advantage of Mercator is that if you display the map from latitudes of about -85 degrees to +85 degrees you end up with a perfect square, which makes chopping the map into …

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    Comment #5111024

    I hope this results in them improving Simplenote. I find it pretty buggy.

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    Comment #4479690

    The problem with just turning cookies off (in the UK anyway) is that with the new cookie law every second site now has an annoying message telling you about their cookie policy and…

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    Comment #2513304

    You could use it to test if the value has been changed.

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    Comment #1966030

    That's because Ireland has low corporation tax (12.5%) so multinational companies export their profits there and artificially inflate the GDP.

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    Comment #1347067

    Its two negation operators. The first returns false is the object exists and true if it doesn't and the second flips that around. So you get true if the object exists and false oth…

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    Comment #971926

    Flot requires excanvas.js to simulate the canvas in IE. Internally excanvas.js uses VML.

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    Comment #760954

    Try The Art of Travel.

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    Comment #721156

    Not completely useless... Its pretty handy for disabling javascript, changing forms from POST to GET, viewing form fields and trying different browser window sizes. Otherwise thoug…

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    Comment #581463

    Not really... They send you a letter asking you to pay and you send it back saying you don't have a TV. That's all I had to do. They'll probably ask me again in a few years, I supp…

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    Comment #563248

    The main reason that SGML allowed closing tags to be optional was that it was 80s technology and storage was expensive. To omit tags you needed a DTD that allowed the parser to inf…