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I predict the vast majority of people will never again understand that new decades, centuries, and millenia begin on January 1st of years ending in '1' and not '0' because there ne…

Can't wait to see what happens when systemd-homed becomes entrenched across all distros. What's left after that? Systemd-gccd?

The yield increases have mainly come from two sources: increased use of chemicals for pest control and fertilizer, and genetic engineering. Both of those are problematic, with cons…

So all the available land suitable for wind turbines has been used? There's no more capacity?

Have you invited the wind farmers to put a turbine on your acreage?

When you do the research, you discover that wind is not the panacea it has been portrayed to be. Building and placing turbines is not carbon neutral, the cleanup costs of decommiss…

Why can't we build them nearer to the population centers with high energy demands, then? Why not build them on vacant land near big cities? There is a lot of prime wind farms land …

I grew up in Iowa. I inherited 160 acres of prime farmland from my grandparents and parents. I actively participated in the successful lobbying of the county commissioners in the c…

Do you think that the accountants at Google, Apple, et al. have failed to foresee this sort of pushback? I personally don't doubt they've been planning alternative tax-avoidance sc…

Each turbine consumes a minimum of one acre of farmland, and should be offset by at least a half mile from any homes. The problem there is that there are often homes every mile in …

Iowa is a terrible place to build wind farms since it still has some of the most valuable soil on the planet. Better to build these things on land with steady wind, less agricultur…

That initial 'if' is extremely unlikely. There are hundreds of jurisdictions that would love to be persuaded to pass favorable laws.

I just gave up on discord last night. Third or fourth time I came across a link to what sounded like an interesting server, then couldn't log in with existing credentials. I want t…

This is a welcome development. ProtonMail has worked well for me. Now if I could only find a way to make a Pixel phone accept that email address instead of one of my several one-of…

Now, now, don't get too frisky there or these same people might get the idea to uninstall the spyware put on their phones by the manufacturer, the carrier, the OS provider, and the…

OK, yes, but it's still the rhythm of the flashes that are being interpreted, not _ .... .. ... Plus, I am willing to bet that far more messages using Morse are sent over radio tha…

The best is G4FON's Morse Trainer, requires Windows, works on Wine. http://www.g4fon.net/ Edit: You'll have to navigate to the Morse Trainer link from the main page. Also, it's the…

Whose security? If Google can track everything I do online, that's not 'secure' in my book, so Chrome is out.

The six sides of the three record album 'Sandinista!' had a quote from the movie Alien written in the runout, "IN SPACE ... NO ONE ... CAN ... HEAR ... YOU ... CLASH!" Not a progra…

Having spent a year homeless on the streets and sometimes on friends' couches, I would say 'Fuck you.' But that would be rude.

With his Amazon warehouses, for most of his employees he's created the terrible future of poverty and misery that he allegedly dreams of saving humanity from with his space colonie…

Interesting article. I thought Bezos was just another greedy, power-mad megalomaniac. That he's also a dewy-eyed Trekkie who rationalizes his greed with dreams of space colonizatio…

This is the lunch I grew up eating in the U.S. Personally, I much prefer it over all the crap most people eat for lunch. But then again, my family is Swedish, so no surprise I gues…