vince_refiti

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 families in the area today.

It has been used for famine relief in the past. They were buried in pits and as a consequence they fermented, and the foul-smelling masi was used as food.

Best cooked baked, especially in an umu earth-oven with fish, pork and chicken. Mmmm, memories.

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 Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns is you are learning Pharo Smalltalk.

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 goes to politicians. Given the history and current state of corruption in many of these client countries, giving them money to strengthen the health system is a very bad idea.

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.

And everything in Fossil is stored in SQLite, not flat files like most other systems. Seems weird at first, until you think about the advantage of storing things in an ACID database.

In Ada, I remember reading that you can limit the inheritance depth.

Good. I missed reading it when I posted. Thanks for the info!

I am surprised you are not using OpenResty, like Lapis.

Don't they still subsidize their agricultural sector, and dump stuff on the international markets and hurt non-EU farmers? I consider that to be very uncompetitive.

The European Union should be broken up.

Are all Schemes expected to implement SRFI-1 fully? Should they all implement all the commands listed?

Each bucket looks like 5 - 8 litres. That's a lot of water. Might have to keep using to soapy water for more washing.

"I was also reminded of the Borg ofStar Trek, a hive of partly biological, partly robotic creatures with a strong destructive streak."

The Borg did not destroy. They did not delete and discard. They assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness gets added to theirs. A Borg-like race will save humanity, if it ever comes to that.

Imagine if the Chinese were able to patent the process of mining and processing the rare metals. And bombarded everyone with frivolous lawsuits. Good thing these crazy scenarios don't happen.

I started less than a month ago, and it pays really well. I will stick it out and hope to convince management to let me have admin rights to my machine.