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specialbat

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    Comment #23828362

    Posthumous execution?

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    Comment #23557136

    I use a $20 salton rice maker on warm (not cook) setting into which I put a 2 litre glass jar of ingredients brought to 90 degrees F beforehand. No sterilizing. Takes about 10 hour…

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    Comment #23330582

    Accountants don't run the business. They provide accounting information to those that run the business.

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    Comment #22916700

    Agree, he is not some crank. I don't understand the flagging system on this site at all

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    Comment #22719118

    You can't have a free market when there is a monopolistic producer

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    Comment #22558140

    Anyone else see the similarity to Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death

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    Comment #22426062

    Desktop app to keep track of time spent on different jobs

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    Comment #22380507

    So the rich can burn all the carbon they can afford?

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    Comment #22314550

    How do they know you didn't lose or destroy the notebook?

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    Comment #22153629

    We still have a multi user desktop application that uses the Borland database engine and dbf files over a windows file server. The BDE is no longer supported but it still works

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    Comment #21400718

    How about a device that pedestrians could optionally carry that would broadcast their presence to all vehicles

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    Comment #19228496

    Glamorous? How is fishing in the toilet bowl for your wallet glamorous? I don't think he portrayed as anything but squalid. He was certainly unapologetic about it.

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    Comment #16552534

    There are extensive diamond mining operations in the Canadian arctic. I always thought it ironic that people choose for a symbol of their love an object that necessitated destructi…

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    Comment #16332806

    They don't speculate how the lowly Shakespeare could have got access to a courtier's unpublished manuscript.

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    Comment #14185940

    Not as bad as APL in 1978. It turned me off the idea of programming for 10 years