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http://legacy.sweetmarias.com/stovepopmethod.php I've been roasting coffee stovetop for about a year. Takes me about 10 minutes to roast 12 ounces, the result is great, and it only…

If you completely ignore risk then what you say is true (especially with interest rates so ridiculously low). However, if we're talking about improving lives, I personally find val…

Because a) it's the default, b) nobody remembers (or knows) to change it, and c) only folks like us even care.

Server also can be hit-and-miss if you've got any irregularities in your setup...I had a rough upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04 a few weeks ago (died halfway through, system left in hal…

The owners might also have to pay the piper with regards to their mortgage holder unless they own the property outright - I'm pretty sure my mortgage prohibits commercial activity …

For the record, I switched to DDG in part because of the duck. (All right, so it was a very small part, but the point remains--the duck is awesome.) :)

Slight nitpick - the article said that the collision and missile test increased the amount of debris by 60%, not that they were responsible for 60% of debris in orbit. Still a lot,…

The effort required to photoshop such an image (or paste your own picture on top of a stolen ID) is trivial compared to the effort required to forge or steal the ID in the first pl…

I don't know much about replication, but I'd like to learn. Can you recommend any books/courses/tutorials that address the sorts of design decisions you're talking about?

Nor lambdas (in all editions). (Here's why: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jaredpar/archive/2009/08/26/why-no-l... )

First one was in 2002 and I was 20. Last one was about 21 months ago. I've heard that a lot of rules have changed as well, but I don't know how much changed after I got the last on…

Everybody says this, but I've obtained three different mortgages in my lifetime and never had a credit card. In lieu of credit history, the bank has just asked for other evidence t…

I would have been very interested if this had gone to court to test the GPL purely in the context of themes/plugins, because to me that's the grey area. As it is, I wish (for the s…

True, which I originally pointed out. Although I don't have my mortgage contract in front of me (and am open to correction here), my recollection is that a foreclosure is the defin…

It seems if one were to listen to those social experts, all of society would become a game of incentives and disincentives where the goal is finding the mismatched pairs (i.e. acti…

I thought of this. However, I think in the abstract that's not a material difference, because (at least in theory), the "punishment should fit the crime"...society agrees that X pu…

Ethically. I'm ok. This is because a mortgage has pre-arranged clauses in the contract that outline what the exit criteria are for the bank and the borrower. It's a contract with a…

Note: despite the title, this is not actually about hosting sites on a box out of your basement; it's about VPS hosting. (I was looking forward to seeing what kind of bandwidth he …

In these situations the expiration date idea wouldn't work either because they would either find a workaround or refuse to install your software at all, knowing that it forces them…

I think that while these extreme cases certainly exist, there are actually a lot of "normal" companies out there. I've worked for three (two small and one big), and while none were…

Did you put it on textured walls? From their video, it looked like the material was very thin, so I wonder how well it works on any but the smoothest walls.

I've been in their shoes, so that's where my arguments are coming from. For context, I'm in Washington state. To address your points: Regarding speeding: that's a good example. Yes…

I agree that it certainly should be legal to record public servants in their duties, but let's get a grip here. There's zero punishment to them for abusing authority - I mean they …

> Yes, if you don't put anything too private [on Google Docs], it's ok (according to him), he also said in another interview that it's ok to use Facebook as long as you don't put a…

Thanks for the link. What I take away from it is that Stallman's full opinion on SaaS is internally inconsistent, either that or I am completely misunderstanding him. The "Distingu…