Good deletion, I'm afraid. An answer that can be seen as giving legal advice or a legal opinion, written in a definitive and authoritative tone, needs to be qualified. (Acronyms like IANAL and IAALBIANYL get used for a reason, folks.)... [
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Angry people on the Internet lashing out at moderators who, trying to pound some civility into the message boards on which they vent their rage, stifle the expression of their anger? Not new. Never mind "MeFi doesn't do
x well," the... [
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I've been on the other end of this, where a young dog suddenly turned up in a neighbour's home and started making all kinds of noise (including howling when no one was home, especially when the dog could hear us in the next unit).
If I were your... [
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But it was big in Japan!
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languagehat, don't take the passage out of context (I did link to it above):I looked for the book, but booksellers consulted their computers and shook their heads. And then I forgot about it. I wanted to forget about it. I didn't really want to read... [
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5 months ago
See this. [
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6 months ago
There's only one David Imus. (There's only one Tom Patterson, for that matter.) There are
pretty good maps of Canada produced by the Canada Map Office, as well as maps of Ontario, Quebec, Atlantic Canada, B.C. and the Prairie Provinces, that... [
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I would hazard that game threads derail out of the gate about "Windows only" when the original post talks
in universal terms about a Windows-only game, as was the case here. I imagine the same thing can happen with links to YouTube... [
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If Jupiter were at the same distance from the Earth as the Moon, the Earth would not get ripped apart by tidal forces, because it would still be outside Jupiter's Roche limit. But we'd be slaughtered by Jupiter's radiation: Io, which orbits Jupiter... [
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You really should read this article on developmental topographical disorientation and how GPS may be making our ability to navigate atrophy. [
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"Rarely fatal": please understand that hemotoxic venom, such as rattlesnakes', induces tissue necrosis. Venom essentially starts the digestion process before eating. There are not a few venomous snake keepers out there with less than 10... [
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You may be getting the idea that in the past grammar wasn't so much corrected as used to identify your socioeconomic origins. My Fair Lady. Correct grammar for its own sake, rather than using it to signify your good breeding, is a relatively recent... [
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Teddy Roosevelt was only 50 when he left the White House, but I don't imagine Obama's post-presidential life will be nearly as ... colorful. [
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I also have an autoimmune disease, and have some idea of what he's going through. The period after diagnosis is not fun, because you have to come to terms with no longer being healthy, with suddenly having a chronic disease for the rest of your life.... [
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What you describe is not new to me, and is something I've associated with kingsnakes for a while. Not that other snakes don't try to bite or swallow themselves -- I had one garter snake do just that in the past month -- but I've had more than one... [
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Chandler is your standard for prose? Um.
Gene Wolfe has been called the best writer in the English language today. Not SF writer. Writer.
Gardner Dozois is better known as an editor, but his stories have been accused of having very,... [
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Requiring a Reason to break up only means that relationships suffer and struggle until a Reason presents itself, which it always does. The interim is usually spent ... unpleasantly.
Honestly, six months in, if they're not electrified by you yet,... [
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tryniti:
We get approximately 15 applications a week, and usually 10 of them are rejected.
The point that shelters miss — and the point that Yoffe makes — is that shelters rejecting applicants doesn’t prevent them from getting a dog or a... [
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The Food Network has crawled up its own asshole and is largely concerned with the celebrity status of its own stars. (Someone will have to answer for Guy Fieri. IN HELL.) It has, essentially, become the MTV of food, to the point where it has spun off... [
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FML Listings
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I'm more concerned with the effect outdoor cats have on the native bird population
This. (And the native snake, frog and other little prey animal populations too.)... [
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I was interested to see Yoffe make the connection between overzealous rescues and hoarding. She notes that 25 percent of the animal hoarder cases reported each year involve “purported rescuers.” I’m given to understand that it’s an article of faith... [
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misha: That was me quoting madajb, but whatever, I'll respond.
Domestic cats are not native to North America (for example), and certainly not in their present numbers. Conversely, species native to North America, with few exceptions, have seen... [
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Creative and smart people tend to have interesting hobbies. They don’t hang out; they
do things, or at the very least talk about things.
If you read a lot, your choice of reading material might suggest a direction for you to take.... [
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It’s the difference between
being experienced and
having experienced:
Experience
in nuclear fission, circa 1945: physicist working on the Manhattan project.
Experience
of nuclear fission, circa 1945: resident... [
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The problem with using pure oxygen in the Apollo cabin wasn't the fact that it was pure oxygen, it was the pressure. In space the cabin was pressurized at 5 psi, which isn't all that more dangerous than regular air; on the launch pad, to maintain... [
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I assure you that reptiles are quite capable of feeling fear. An "angry" reptile is basically afraid for its life and is trying to save itself through bluff and bluster -- yes, that goes for rattlesnakes and cobras too.
And speaking as... [
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Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition: “Although the symbols ® and ™ often accomany trademark names on product packaging and in promotional material, there is no legal requirement to use these symbols, and they should be omitted wherever possible.”... [
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If you actually get to the end of the article, you'll notice that this has been adapted from a memoir, so maybe the snark about how the author is only talking about herself is, you know, kind of moot. It's a memoir. She's talking about herself.... [
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Are you hearing yourself at all? Why do you think people are not graduating? Do you really think it has nothing to do with the declining marketability and increasing cost of education ...
Since I know not a few of them personally, I have... [
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Don't fixate solely on the living-with-the-parents thing, or the not-married-with-kids-by-25 thing, which I can appreciate cuts too close to home for a lot of people here.
What's really interesting (and alarming) is the difference in education... [
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Actually, it's called the Rifters trilogy, and the books are, in order, Starfish, Maelstrom and Behemoth.
The "different" short story was "The Island," and it won Peter Watts the Hugo Award for best novelette last year... [
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Absolutely not a mud snake. Almost certainly a species of water snake. If you made me pick one, I'd say the Midland Water Snake (
Nerodia sipedon pleuralis).
Other water snake species that have been found in the Memphis area include the... [
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Ball pythons can be a bit of a crap shoot in that if you buy one that was farmed, rather than captive-bred, it may not be as easy to get feeding. Ball pythons feed on gerboas in the wild and don't necessarily recognize domestic mice and rats as food;... [
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Another report on the event from Benjamin Kabak.
Self-link: A year ago I published a guest post from Mark Ovenden, author of Transit Maps of the World and Paris Underground, about the New York subway map thing, which you might find relevant to... [
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If I'm out in the back-country I don't necessarily want to abandon my plans to go help out some idiot fools who got themselves into trouble by being unprepared.
And if
I'm out in the backcountry and something goes wrong, I don't... [
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You know, if you had put as much effort into the original post (five words, one link) as you did into complaining about its deletion (617 words, five links), it might not have been deleted in the first place.... [
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Civilization, in one form or another, has been in possession of my brain for the past 20 years. I find turn-based strategy games a lot easier to deal with than first-person shooters or real-time strategy.... [
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It's a patent, not a feature. Lots of patents never make it into shipping products. Wake me if this one ever does. [
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