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bradlinder · 1 day

Anyone in the US working to distribute this? Probably easier for me (and others) to buy from a open source friendly US company than a Europe one. Yes I know they will ship anywhere, but customs can be a problem.

sin666 · 3 days

Probably a while, as Wayland seems to be linux only. *BSD will probably maintain X for a long time.

sin666 · 3 days

That depends. This is open source, so it will only run if someone who cares makes it work. I would guess that you are the only one in the world who cares, so you better get busy hacking.

philasurfer · 3 days

There is the viewpoint that is sometimes useful: the contents of your digestive system are outside of your body. From this point of view yoga is not cleaning you out.

laplandsix · 4 days

That is part of the show to make you think you ripped them off.

Birdoftruth · 4 days

A bullet fired parallel to the ground and a bullet dropped next to the muzzle hit the ground at the same time.

Technically that isn't true: the fired bullet will jump up a slight amount when it leaves the barrel. Also the earth is curved, so it has slightly farther to fall anyway. These are insignificant, but they are factors.

In order to reach 5 miles you'd have the point the barrel into the sky.

Which is what people who don't understand gun safety are likely to do. When they are pointing the gun at the dog, the truck, houses, or even friends!

Birdoftruth · 4 days

That is the point though: people who have not had gun safety. (which appears to include some of the other posters here) to not realize that their gun is still deadly at 5 miles. It never occurs to most people that there could be any harm in pointing a loaded gun up in the air.

Birdoftruth · 4 days

You will not have much luck hunting with the wagon. Not to mention most people moving west at that time included people like "grandma" - someone who wasn't very able for a hunt. (but far more able that what most of us think of as grandma today - diet and exercise helped a lot.)

hongminhee · 5 days

Tip: uncrustify is much more powerful than indent for C like languages.

Birdoftruth · 5 days

Yes, but only if you make it frugal.

There are a lot of hunters who hunt more for fun than the meat. They spend a lot of money on gadgets to make hunting more fun. All of this adds up: they never will make it cost effective, but it was fun and they can afford it so who cares.

Since you are frugal you will be spending money on a solid gun (perhaps several, but only after carefully considering why each is worth it) that will last a life time and be passed down to your decedents. You might spend money on butchering equipment, but again with an eye to using it for the rest of your life. You will be happy with a cheap tree stand, or ground hunting. The first year will be expensive. After that your costs will bee cheap: license and ammunition.

Birdoftruth · 5 days

The problem is something else found the meat while you were carrying your first 200lbs back to the wagon. The family would be willing to help, but there isn't much they can do.

Not that this would matter much. Your wagon didn't come equipped with a freezer - they wouldn't be invented yet for a few years. You could not safely keep even 200lbs of meat for very long, much less the full weight of the animal.

Birdoftruth · 5 days

Start looking.

Craiglist often has them. If you live in a large city you might have to look at craigslist for the next city over.

Ask at farmers markets, and/or your local CSA. These exist in almost every area, and you really should check them out. Some are not worth the bother (hint: nobody is growing pineapple in their backyard in Ohio), but some are really good.

Birdoftruth · 5 days

As others have alluded to: you don't have to pay for butchering. Butchering alone will take you a long time, cost a lot of equipment, and be boring work. Butchering with a group is a lot of fun, you can talk, tell stories...

Find experienced hunters who butcher their own meat. It is much easier and faster for 7 guys working together to butcher 13 deer, than 7 guys working alone to butcher 7 deer!

Find your butchering buddies before the season starts. Most have a rule that if you help butcher you get meat. Every year someone will go out hunting and not see anything. Because they help with the hard work their freezer is full.

Try to get one of them to help you field dress the deer. It isn't hard, but having help is always good.

If you find a group that does all the butchering, you only need one meat grinder for the group. Because you only need one you can get together and buy a small commercial grade grinder, which will work much faster. Odds are in your group someone already has this. Likewise, you can also buy a good sausage stuffer, a handy tool to have. 1000 foot rolls of butcher paper will last the group a long time, and are cheap as well.

Birdoftruth · 5 days

Well I personally prefer bow hunting, but for meat rifles are generally best - but check your local regulations. Some areas only allow some guns, it would be foolish to buy a great gun for cheap and then discover you can't use it.

The problem is a bow is the range is so short that you need to use the full season to get something, while a rifle can take down a deer 5 miles away if your aim is that good (hint: it is not) and you have permission (hint: there are almost no places in the world where you can find a safe shooting lane that long). Even if you stick to safe and reasonable ranges, the chance you will see a deer within 200 yards of you is a lot higher than the chance you will see one within 30 yards. (Yes experts can shoot a deer much more than 30 yards out, but if you were an expert you wouldn't be asking this question). This range can be an advantage in the case of a bow. A rifle can accidentally kill someone 5 miles away if you don't follow perfect gun safety rules. I could safely hunt a city park with a bow without making people leave - assuming I can get permission.

Birdoftruth · 5 days

Depends. Some land is public hunting ground, some is not. It varies by year, and who controls that area. Some administrators have a romantic notion of the wild, and badly mismanage their land in a misguided effort to make it natural. (this is referring to more than hunting - most wild lands would be much healthier if they would light some forest fires)

Birdoftruth · 5 days

Ask the next land owner. There are some who see hunters as money. There are others who see hunters as someone who is willing to do for free what they would otherwise have to pay someone to do: get rid of those pesky hogs.

Birdoftruth · 5 days

In Minneapolis/St Paul they are such a nuisance that any MN deer hunting license is (which is normally valid only for a tiny area) is valid, and it doesn't count against your limit in the area in the area your license is for. You still need to find a place to hunt though, which isn't easy. Getting permission is easy, finding a place where you can safely shoot is hard (pretty much bow and arrow only - even then you will have to pass up some easy shots).

Deer tear up yards, which annoys people. They also ruin cars when hit. There is serious danger that if the population doesn't drop *all will starve to death the next cold winter. (They herd all eats just find until mid February, then the food is all gone and so they all die)

Check with the law. They change the regulations each year. You still need to be within hunting season.

Vailhem · 7 days

You are driving that Prius places the electric car will not go today. Maybe there will be infrastructure build to allow long drives in the future (charging stations - just like gas stations exist all over now), but they don't exist today. While I can believe that most of your trips are in range of an electric car, the numbers make it clear that you made a few trips that is too far for an electric car with today's infrastructure.

That's a $10,000 car the performs much better than most $25,000 cars

I'm not sure what you mean here. I think you are claiming that you can buy an electric car for $10,000. From what I've seen electric cars are closer to $25,000, and they compare to cars that cost around $15,000. So I have to call BS and put the ball back on you: where is your cost for the car coming from?

saves days waiting for repairs to be performed and gas tanks to be be filled.

Electric cars will still break. Other than the engine parts are pretty much shared, and those are parts that can break. Tires wear out, as do shocks, brake pads, door handles - all at the same rate as your Prius (handy of you to have one since you get regenerative braking saving wear on the brake pads). Of course you don't have a engine oil changes, but that is pretty cheap. Timing belts wear on some engines - but electric cars may choose to use parts that wear out as well...

Sure you don't wait for the gas tank to be filled - but a fast electric car charge will take longer than a gas tank fill, so I'm not sure what you think you are saving.

Vailhem · 7 days

Those cheap solar lights that I buy all over for $10 would be easy to install in Africa. Not much light, but then a candle isn't much light either.

sidcool1234 · 7 days

For the near future, you have to assume that only by having both WebM and H.264 can you reach your customers in html5. If you want to reach the largest possible userbase you need to support flash as well.

Anything other than supporting all 3 will result in an important market left out. Flash isn't on iPhones. H.264 isn't in free desktops browsers. WebM isn't on portable devices.

Of course even all 3 will miss some users, but that number is small - and more importantly they know it won't work because nothing else does either.

Of course in the future things will change. The future doesn't pay the bills today, so better put some effort into all 3. (If you have a prediction of the future WebM or otherwise, then by all means put more money/effort into making that perfect)

Vailhem · 7 days

If you are going to claim that my math is bad, then please tell me where. I looked over my numbers, the calculations look right to me, and the numbers are reasonable.

yaserbuntu · 7 days

What is this "customer visit time" are you refering to with boxed software? Do I visit Microsoft regarding their Office release?

Microsoft visits customers. Or at least they should (When I get cynical I say that Microsoft prints their newsletter on a line-o-type). They don't need to visit them all, it only takes a few customers to get the feel for what customers need.

shedang · 7 days

The letter is pretty much meaningless - they can send them for free. Once you get a few letters you realize that there is some form of template.

omlet · 8 days

Your body needs cholesterol. It is an important part of all cells. If you eat healthy your body will use all your cholesterol for repairs.

There is a hypothesis that cholesterol used to repair the body, and thus high cholesterol is only a problem because it indicates there is damage the body wants to repair. This is supported by the observation that drugs that only reduce cholesterol levels result in people dieing sooner than the controls.

xylon · 8 days

I will fully agree that no country is likely to actually do this.

They can, and they have. However they typically avoid it.

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