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Dell 610, currently with Xubuntu. Also runs NetBSD and FreeBSD. Works fine. Battery lasts 20 mins. I can meet you Central Station or Nundah Station.

Not a great start-up idea unfortunately.

What is the origin of the name Chicken Scheme?

The bread-fruit tree is ubiquitous in Samoa and it is a food staple used much like potatoes. My father planted a tree in the early seventies in Fasito'outa that is still feeding fa…

Just read the Wikipedia entry for Gerson therapy. It is one of the most idiotic things I have ever read.

This has also surprised me. And it seems the main reason is that of indentation. I do not feel this is enough reason to use 'define' instead of 'let'.

This is the kind of thing sorely missing from other language teaching - once you learn the basics, how to write good, idiomatic code? Btw, I can also recommend Kent Beck's Smalltal…

Some religious institutions have been owning and leasing out property for centuries.

TIL, "In fact, the famous five and six-digit number tattooed on the arms of Auschwitz inmates began as a punch card system identification number."

Yes. There was a time when people actually tested the backups.

The Spanish government has screwed the Spanish economy up. No thanks.

Last time I looked, Rackspace (at least the Sydney, Australia centre), supports FreeBSD.

No, that's not the reason. I have come across many rural towns in Australia where business owners will not let Aborigines use the toilets, or demand a fee. That is why.

Only if you and your friends are known members of criminal gangs.

“But they should move away from disease-specific funding into health-system strengthening.” Disease-specific funding goes to research organisations. Health-strengthening funding go…

Similarly in Australia [1] [1] http://www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/private-school-no-go...

Gorse, as I understand it, was brought to New Zealand to be used as fencing between farm fields.

Their neighbours the Australians brought in the cane toad (Rhinella marina) to control the cane beetle.

The deadly animals in Australia are the same everywhere - people. The wildlife does far, far less damage.