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UncleSlacky
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  1. Aren't they a Beatles tribute act?
  2. Anybody want a peanut?
  3. Opera 3.62 seems to be the latest browser available for Win 3.x, though I think Dillo might also be a possibility:

    https://computernewb.com/wiki/How_to_browse_the_web_on_very_...

  4. Also /r/The_Leftorium...
  5. The electron-as-trapped photon model goes back a ways, to at least Roger Jennison (one of my old profs):

    "What is an electron?": http://gsjournal.net/Science-Journals/Journal%20Reprints-Qua...

    More recently, Larry Reed has developed a theory very similar to that mentioned in the article:

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364333320_Quantum_W...

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390318893_Origin_of...

  6. "A is sometimes F"
  7. George Cayley would beg to differ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cayley

    (or Leonardo da Vinci, for that matter)

  8. I'm sure that I used to play this (or something very similar) a lot in the late 70s - I don't remember there being much "background" but the extremely bloody shark graphics were memorable!
  9. TL;DR: When in doubt, update the BIOS before doing anything else.
  10. > The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

    Hence the title of this book:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ragged-Trousered_Philanthr...

  11. Then include the sales tax in the sticker price, like every other country does.
  12. They could do what every other country does, and include the sales tax in the shelf label price.
  13. And the Mastermind variant "Word Mastermind" came out in 1972:

    https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5662/word-mastermind

  14. .is is Iceland, not Israel (that's .il).
  15. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
  16. Macbeth II of Scotland, but also Macbeth I of England...
  17. As LBJ famously put it:

    "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

  18. Another good site about early (electromechanical) television, including restored off-air recordings made on discs which couldn't be played back at the time:

    http://www.tvdawn.com/

  19. "It turns out, Fortran is actually pretty good at translating formulas."

    I'm hoping they know that the language's name comes from FORmula TRANslator...

  20. There's also Exe GNU/Linux if you prefer a Devuan base:

    https://exegnulinux.net/

  21. He also gave the inaugural BBC Reith Lectures, available here:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00hgk62

  22. His (ex-)wife Dora was my wife's neighbour, she was quite a force in her own right (and lived to 92):

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Russell

  23. My great-grandfather was part the team who selected the site for Oak Ridge (the only civilian, together with four military men - he was the TVA's chief mechanical engineer at the time), and he also selected the separation method to be used. The town of Oak Ridge even named a day after him when he retired.
  24. Could be the reason that the B-29 was never used over Germany.
  25. Also, Japan had been hoping that the Soviets would act as a go-between for surrender negotiations with the US, but the Soviet declaration of war on Japan put an end to that possibility.
  26. The "Philip Cross" controversy is relevant here, I think:

    https://wikipedia.fivefilters.org/banning/

  27. It hasn't worked for me (in terms of accessing my Spotify account) for several months now, I wonder if Spotify have changed their API?
  28. You can as long as it "works out" (i.e. you find a job) within 3 months.

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