DISQUS

The real problem with the Linux house is that the bathroom has a two foot long bathtub and the refrigerator is stuck at 68 degrees below zero. Also, it's 95 degrees outside, and you can't install AC on this particular flavor, unless you buy different hardware, which unfortunately doesn't have stairs.

When you mention this in a forum, someone shouts "Well if all you wanted from a house was to take a bath, you should have bought the Windows house". Several others will tell you how to install a better bathtub, none of which will actually work. Eventually, you realize your Linux house is just a customizable version of the Win98 house, explaining once and for all why your neighbors paid for the Windows house rather than take the Linux house for free.

Yeah, I never really liked Starbucks, but It was a lot better before - although the Massachusetts shops all seem the way you remember. Either way, I think it helps preserve the little shops, as weak as they usually are.

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I don't think you understand how Luxembourg works. It is a tax haven for the ultra wealthy. They claim residency there, though they don't live there, and avoid paying the same taxes as an authentic citizen. Most of the so called "citizens" in Luxembourg have never even visited the country.
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UK, Canadian and Japanese debt have always been higher than ours. In fact, there's much wrong with the outside world you rarely, if ever see. The average Briton loses 5 months pay a year than an American - about an extra $5,000 a year. That certainly doesn't help them much. Much of Canada's debt lies in expensive housing. No one seems to understand what is wrong with Japan, except that no other nation has ever had a problem quite like theirs. It has a lot to do with an incredibly expensive cost of living, making their wealthy businesses and well paying jobs weak in the economy.

Silly. Anyone with admin privileges can view a locked out folder. Use FolderGuard for Windows, and even the admin can't get in it.

Are you going to deny your wife admin in a shared computer?
Mine are packed as a 12 gb rar file, which opens with my file manager with a password.

In the US, "grammar school" is the first five years when you're a child. You can imagine the confusion.

I've always felt prisoners should sort trash for a living. The consumer should have only two kinds of trash, one for biodegradables, one for everything else. The food garbage could be ground and used as fertilizer, and the rest could be sorted by prisoners for recyclables. You would then be left only with things that are not biodegradable nor recyclable. Even non recyclable plastic can be melted together and used as building materials.

The electricity wasted by the production of aluminum is disturbing.

The advantage to the prisoner idea is, you could have them working in three shifts around the clock, meaning only two thirds of the prisoners would be in the jail at any given time - enhancing their capacity by 33%.

Well, the bottle would have long since been crushed - it's the plastic I'm wondering about. Essentially, the garbage is ripped apart by construction vehicles with metal wheels about 8 feet wide and 14 feet high, with giant cleats that look like a meat hammer, each about the size of a microwave. Bulldozers continuously mix the garbage, and this process extends for a month while the sun and air (not to mention thousands of seagulls) degrade the trash. It is then buried with soaker hoses which continuously add water and air to the pile for two years. It is then dug up, mixed around again, and buried for another ten. The finished product is used as fill for construction. Some more modern landfills simply shred the garbage as it comes in.

One construction project involved dumping 400,000 truckloads of this fill into a valley over the course of 3 years. They then plowed the surrounding hills into it, and created a 3 square mile plot of flat land - in a place where flat lands don't exist. In theory, the garbage shouldn't degrade further to ever sink again, and suposedly the fill is clean enough to not contaminate the groundwater, as the new houses have individual wells about 300 feet deep.

Does this refer to a modern sanitary landfill? Or simply dumped garbage?

A modern landfill is a complicated process designed to accelerate the process.

I support this decision.

Moore knows what he's up to, and just playing games. I spend a fortune on health care, and I say it's worth every penny.

If I had "free" health care, myself and those I love would likely be dead.

I'll pay top dollar for top medical care, rather than drop dead in the emergency room.