still working on the #uucp setup we were doing two weeks ago. I think I am getting to the point where my newsserver is peering with another server over uucp to bring #usenet into our private uucp network.
A star so old it may be a member of only the second generation of stars born ever. Like EVER ever, just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, and it's right in our galactic back yard!
Feeding crows is better than feeding pigeons, because crows can remember and describe human faces, so the species may decide to spare you when the revolution comes
found out after 16 years of visiting the small hut my in-laws have in the mountains that the small delapidated shack next to the house of their neighbour did not actually belong to that neighbour at all, but was part of my in-laws' property.
very sorry for thinking badly of you late neighbour of theirs'.
but seriously, these former family-owned properties make for weird land borders.
my father-in-law is not a farmer, just using this as a holiday location. so the value of the shed is less in what it was intended for (being a shed) and more what it allows him to do (legally build another structure on his property)
the whole area being protected by environmental laws, not that it kept people from building whole houses on what was supposed to be agricultural land further up the hill.
Given the Trumpenführer's reported incontinence and burger-heavy diet, I'd hate to be the prison officer tapped to give him an intimate body search. They'd probably end up drawing lots then issuing the loser with rubber gloves, waders, and a gas mask.
@BigJackBrass@cstross wasn't the whole reason he was eating nothing but fast food because it was the only way not to have someone poison him? or at least that was the explanation I heard before.
You too can buy a Tesla, and support the main share holder Elon Musk, who abuses his social media platform to convince his 185 million followers, that the US justice system is corrupt, because his favorite criminal is brought to justice.
@randahl let me try to pare down that statement: if a former president is held to the same standards as normal people, then other rich people can be held to the same standards as normal people
