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Replace them with a gender making 69 cents on the dollar
Outsource to the country d'jour at Latitude 69 degrees E
Move to 69th parallel and enjoy Alaska's natural cooling

I really don't recall the IRA ever doing anything so big. Their worst attrocities were two incidents where they blew up pubs.

Indeed, calling CTSS a DIRECT ancestor is a bit of a stretch. Dennis Ritchie is about as authoritative as you are going to get on the history of Unix and Unix is the direct ancestor of Linux. Read his article on the history of Unix. There you will find his quote in section 1.3 on just where CTSS comes into the genisis of Unix....it is a distant ancestor. The Wikipedia article on history of OS'es is strangely lame on this topic.

Oh yeah?

Just because you didn't know about it, doesn't mean it isn't real.
Also, a quick typography lesson for all:
Typefaces are a standard. They rarely change. The Times typeface has been in existence for decades, as has Futura, Garamond, etc, etc. They don't change very much over time. Times Roman was invented in the early 1930's.

There have been many industrial accidents that have killed thousands of people. There was an incident in India where a chemical leak killed 3,800people. In California a Dam burst killing an estimated 450 people. A naval disaster involving a ship full of explosives killed over 2,000 people. The Great Smog of 1952 killed over 4,000 people. Over 1,500 people died on the Titanic.

Chernobyl caused 31 deaths not including cancer. Because of the nature of cancer is hard to estimate the number of people who died from cancer caused by the Chernobyl disaster. My quick google search showed reports predicting between 20,000 and 100,000 deaths due to cancer. Which placed the eventual overall death toll much higher than any of the other disasters listed, however it should be noted that tobacco results in hundreds of thousands of deaths a year in the U.S. alone and has no benefit to society, yet it is widespread. I think that looking at the overall risks people take in daily life the increased danger from using nuclear power is not substantial, and it would have many positive impacts for society.

I wonder if any of the judges of the 9th Circuit have read Foucault. Discipline and Punish is one of the best original sociological works on prison surveillance. (although the Panopticon is a little less high-tech.)

I recognize the judges are required to base their decisions upon the laws of the United States, and not the sociological or psychological issues involved, but I still like to hope they are well-informed on all aspects of the topic when weighing these issues.

It had a lot of one-person wooden cabins that ran non-stop in an endless loop, one side went up, the other down.

What you describe sounds like a paternoster lift.

No, it's more like an address. Basically, the lines represent the period of a bunch of different pulsars and their distance from our sun. The idea is that if E.T. happens to know three (I think) or more of these pulsars, and happens to read binary, he might go "aha!" and find us and steal our water and/or women.

What screws it up is that the States use the same names - pound, ton - but they have different values and hence metric conversion rates. So it seems the Americans really do have to do things their own way!

Here's some links from Google, so that I can be a karmawhore.

Columbia Encylcopedia entry

World History Wiki entry

Cooking unit conversions (I always wondered what the hell a 'cup' was)

This isn't going to happen, and in a first-past-the-post system you're wasting your vote if you don't vote for one of the 2 front-runners in your area.

This tendency for first-past-the-post systems to create 2-party systems is called Duverger's Law, and a common consequence of it is the spoiler effect. For example, in the last US presidential election Nader's candidacy "spoiled" the election for Gore, by taking away enough votes from Gore in many states to give Bush enough votes to win the electors in those states.

No matter how appealing a third candidate may be and how unappealing the 2 front-runners, you must vote for one of the 2 front-runners. Often this means voting against the front-runner you dislike most rather than voting for the front-runner you prefer.

If you think this situation sucks, campaign for proportional representation, where everyone's votes count.

This isn't going to happen, and in a first-past-the-post system you're wasting your vote if you don't vote for one of the 2 front-runners in your area.

This tendency for first-past-the-post systems to create 2-party systems is called Duverger's Law, and a common consequence of it is the spoiler effect. For example, in the last US presidential election Nader's candidacy "spoiled" the election for Gore, by taking away enough votes from Gore in many states to give Bush enough votes to win the electors in those states.

No matter how appealing a third candidate may be and how unappealing the 2 front-runners, you must vote for one of the 2 front-runners. Often this means voting against the front-runner you dislike most rather than voting for the front-runner you prefer.

If you think this situation sucks, campaign for proportional representation, where everyone's votes count.

This isn't going to happen, and in a first-past-the-post system you're wasting your vote if you don't vote for one of the 2 front-runners in your area.

This tendency for first-past-the-post systems to create 2-party systems is called Duverger's Law, and a common consequence of it is the spoiler effect. For example, in the last US presidential election Nader's candidacy "spoiled" the election for Gore, by taking away enough votes from Gore in many states to give Bush enough votes to win the electors in those states.

No matter how appealing a third candidate may be and how unappealing the 2 front-runners, you must vote for one of the 2 front-runners. Often this means voting against the front-runner you dislike most rather than voting for the front-runner you prefer.

If you think this situation sucks, campaign for proportional representation, where everyone's votes count.

This isn't going to happen, and in a first-past-the-post system you're wasting your vote if you don't vote for one of the 2 front-runners in your area.

This tendency for first-past-the-post systems to create 2-party systems is called Duverger's Law, and a common consequence of it is the spoiler effect. For example, in the last US presidential election Nader's candidacy "spoiled" the election for Gore, by taking away enough votes from Gore in many states to give Bush enough votes to win the electors in those states.

No matter how appealing a third candidate may be and how unappealing the 2 front-runners, you must vote for one of the 2 front-runners. Often this means voting against the front-runner you dislike most rather than voting for the front-runner you prefer.

If you think this situation sucks, campaign for proportional representation, where everyone's votes count.

Any level of incompetence and malfeasance displayed by the DOI would fail to surprise me.

You're thinking of the Gimli Glider, an Air Canada 767 so named for its power-off glide landing at Gimli Air Force Base near Winnipeg, after a miscalculation of fuel load starved both engines on a flight from Montreal to Edmonton.

The pilot, Bob Pearson, had extensive experience in gliders, and his flying coupled with the crew's cool-headedness probably saved the lives of most of the people on board, along with several hundred on the ground. (The runway they landed on was being used for a community get-together when they landed.)

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You've obviously never heard of Pippin.