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Bernie Sanders for President of the United States in 2016
Please get involved now! Tell everyone you know that Bernie is the only real candidate in this election who has the integrity and competence to truly help America. We need a political revolution in this country involving millions of people who are prepared to stand up and say, enough is enough, and I want to…
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Major breakthrough (Stylish & userstyles.org)
It all started with being annoyed with websites. One major annoyance was a change to the design of the BBC website. The main story column got narrower. Fonts got ridiculously bigger. There’s a certain threshold of space-wasting that goes beyond what I can stand. Recently many websites have gotten notably worse. Then I found out…
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Ultimate Cygwin Setup Guide (Part 1)
This is Part 1 of the two-part Ultimate Cygwin Setup Guide. Install Open File Explorer and create the directory C:\cygwin64 (or C:\cygwin if you are running 32-bit). Visit cygwin.com in a web browser and select the “Install Cygwin” menu option on the upper left, then download setup-x86_64.exe (or setup.exe if you are running 32-bit) to…
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Please help me become President
I would like to become President of the United States. I know that I would make an excellent leader who could take America from darkness to light. Before becoming President I am willing to serve at the local and later the state level. I would really appreciate any support, suggestions, or feedback about this. One…
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Here are the best new jdramas of the season
Liquid This is only a three-episode series and is, quite frankly, one of the best dramas if not the best I have ever seen. The acting is superlative and the story is sublime. I could not help but crying during many scenes – mostly from the awe, beauty, and inspiration. In keeping with other great…
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Best line from a drama ever
I’m not sure if we should go with hepatocholangiojejunostomy or choledochoduodenostomy. –Dr. Morita Ishitachi no Renai Jijou ep04 37’51” Dr. Morita (center right) is operating on Dr. Kondo’s mother for a bile duct stricture. Dr. Kondo originally came to Koyo Medical University Hospital with the hope of being able to eventually operate on his own…
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Shipping logistics is amazing
Today I had to send a warrantied laptop in for depot repair. I called the 800 support number yesterday afternoon and before 10 a.m. this morning an empty box had arrived from Memphis, Tennessee. At 16:12 this afternoon I took it to a UPS store. An hour and a half later it left the store…
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Partitioning with gdisk including Intel Rapid Start Technology partition
Setting up a Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1 and one of the first things I’m doing is basically reinstalling everything clean from scratch. The first thing I did was go into the Lenovo Solution Center -> Restore Media which had the option to copy the System Restore partition to a USB drive. With that out of…
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Boom cars
Boom Cars Summary A boom car is a vehicle equipped with an audio system that produces excessive sound pressure levels (SPL). The pounding bass noise can be heard and felt over a wide distance, rattle windows and travel through walls. Aftermarket sound systems were originally marketed as a means to enjoy improved sound quality and…
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Debian is so cool
Just found out that the Debian have officially released the newest version of the OS, codenamed “Jessie”. As always, documentation is excellent. Am reading through the “Upgrades from Debian 7 (wheezy)” chapter now. Debian is alive and well and I am extremely grateful to all the Developers and everyone else who participates in the project…