Poor Mona...I'm glad to see that they oversimplified someone's life and made them look like a poor struggling soul. That helps for pity value and gains extra credibility.
"Without an extra day to pay her bill she was facing certain disconnection, meaning extra reconnection fees and no lights or stove to fix hot meals for her kids."
"Mona's alarm woke her up--a good sign that she still had electricity. Maybe, because of the problems with the pay systems, the power company was giving her extra time. She set out to fix a hot breakfast for her children, get them dressed, and walk them to school before facing another day of dealing with customer service to buy more time before disconnection."
Yea, remember to think of the kids. Let us all shed a tear for Mona and her children.
Slashdot Mirror
Make sure it's being invoked like so:
:0.0
pidgin --display
Or at least that's what I discovered works under 8.04 (and probably 8.10 - upgrading now).
Use lynx.
...is of the Paul G. Allen Computer Science building at the University of Washington.
NPR did a story on this today. You can get audio of the story as well as video of the octopi walking at:
y Id=4561136
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor
You sound like a commercial!
No...the article says: "The population is about one million, with about 80% expatriate."
Suddenly your 6% estimate is 60%.
I guess Armadillo Aerospace wasn't anticipating problems and thus a flood of slashdot traffic.
ping -f ns1.doubleclick.net
Poor Mona...I'm glad to see that they oversimplified someone's life and made them look like a poor struggling soul. That helps for pity value and gains extra credibility.
"Without an extra day to pay her bill she was facing certain disconnection, meaning extra reconnection fees and no lights or stove to fix hot meals for her kids."
"Mona's alarm woke her up--a good sign that she still had electricity. Maybe, because of the problems with the pay systems, the power company was giving her extra time. She set out to fix a hot breakfast for her children, get them dressed, and walk them to school before facing another day of dealing with customer service to buy more time before disconnection."
Yea, remember to think of the kids. Let us all shed a tear for Mona and her children.
I wonder when we'll have Thunderfox just to make things consistent.
Splendid. Firefox crashed immediately after loading the site. Maybe they shouldn't have so many media player plugins running on their front page.