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They don't refine crude into bunker oil so the ship's engine can use it. They do it to strip more valuable products out of the oil before using what's left to power the ship.

Intentionally? I've only ever "used" it when trying to copy a link to an image.

The option with the most text is always the correct choice. Both for the diagnosis and the solution. At least until problem 11, which I can't advance to because it tells me I have …

Don't give them ideas.

I remember when it was Romneycare.

Relays were standardized. Other parts were sourced from outside suppliers, which also supplied the same or similar parts to other automakers. Some of them were direct replacements,…

The set the limit to 85 in 1999 because people turned the state into a race track.

If you're at the top of the buffer, guG will lowercase the whole thing. So if you open a file, go to type G to jump to a line, but accidentally hit g, then try to undo it with u ou…

Yes, you don't make that 4 percent bigger unless you get people who don't use Linux to use Linux.

They didn't accumulate "problem" users, they drove off everyone else. Throwing their fans under the bus to try and get new users has been Mozilla's tactic for the last 15 years. Wh…

From the same Wikipedia page: "On July 15, 2003, Time Warner (formerly AOL Time Warner) disbanded Netscape. Most of the programmers were laid off, and the Netscape logo was removed…

They make better parabolic reflectors than Faraday cages.

Imagine a disc spinning clockwise, the top edge is moving to the right, the bottom is moving to the left, and the right edge is moving down and the left edge is moving up. By mount…

The sun contains 99.86% of the solar system's mass. Jupiter contains .2%. The other gas giants make up the rest, and everything else combined rounds down to zero. You could dump ev…

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopy_bed

I'm not laughing because it won't end with this lawsuit.

Just as many as on Mars, but hardly any compared to Venus.

I get why they changed it, but they could have come up with something better than a horned yoga ball to replace it with.

A bunch of people who didn't watch their commercials and don't have that feeling about Burger King just got a reminder that they still exist. In spite of your hatred for them, you …

Oddly enough, zip files are a supported playlist format in VLC, so you can just have them open the zip file. I don't recommend it, but it's technically a solution. Making an actual…

1: agreed 2: they did that two and a half years ago and you apparently just noticed so maybe they had a point

They'll compromise on willingness if need be. Just like they did two centuries ago.

>They were regularly beating Lexus on quality surveys at that time. Not saying that Porsche didn't improve their quality a lot, but it was Lexus that really dropped the ball there.…