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Let me explain how many times I went back-and-forth with the opticians about "is this coating/feature optional?"

By the time I started staying up late, it seemed that most United States-based stations didn't "sign off" much at all.

However, the "border blaster" stations in Mexico would sign off precisely on schedule, playing the Mexican National Anthem [audio] with men's chorus and brass band.

The radio stations were required to broadcast "The Mexican National Hour" in the Spanish language, which turned Sunday evenings into a series of special-programming blocks.

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Isn't there a substantial overlap with the copyright holders?

[citation needed]

If the WMF had a dollar for every proposal to spend Endowment-derived funds, their Endowment would double and they could hire one additional grant-writer

Spammers and pirates just got super excited at that plan!

"Non-paywalled" ad-free link to archive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment...

It's an Internet trope — we could link to knowyourmeme, or link to the HN Guidelines

A sola scriptura republic

I recommend that commenters shell out and pony up for a thesaurus before its import duty is magnified sixfold.

US Consumers pay in fungible dollars, and so if your company paid for three pizzas eaten by an AWS team, and I paid for 1 ounce of Maersk fuel oil, and our Starbucks venti latte purchases paid to rethatch Juan Valdez's hut, who can even trace the serial numbers on our $1 bills?

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

  A tariff or import tax is a duty imposed by a national government, customs territory, or supranational union on imports of goods and is paid by the importer. Exceptionally, an export tax may be levied on exports of goods or raw materials and is paid by the exporter.

  The economic burden of tariffs falls on the importer, the exporter, and the consumer. [Wikipedia]

Who can forget the billboards that launched a "career"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelyne

Ah, now you’ve captured the F/OSS zeitgeist!

The point was how they gained absolute power, and I would also say that there were multiple factors at work, and I doubt that the GP meant that “abusing free speech” was the only method or reason, but was it not a factor at all? There is often so much “not this but that”, folks should consider “both-and”.

It is okay, because most American voters cannot identify the capital of Africa on a map.

Perhaps you mean “prefixes” such as they are assigned by registrars, and announced by routing protocols.

The instructor of my Cisco classes said that the only module that caused students to break down in tears was VLSM.

Joseph Goebbels would have been disappointed to learn that his office was superfluous and irrelevant!

Saul Alisnky’s Rules for Radicals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals#The_Rules

This is a milder version of “Shake to Reboot” which is standard for all Etch-a-Sketch models

This is close to a recipe suggestion on Bob’s Red Mill Muesli.

I would assemble it the night before, so that the berry juice moistened the oats.

Cardamom or cinnamon, honey, or plain yogurt can be added.

Alcohol has adverse interactions with psych meds, and THC is becoming the recreational drug of choice.

First-person plural is the preferred pronoun for gods, monarchs, scientists, and CEOs.

I can read that for free, and even hang on to it for a couple of weeks, as soon as the library opens today.

Actually I don't need to wait, because it's available immediately over the Internet in eBook format, with my library card.

There are also CDs, DVDs, and on-demand audio/video available with a library card.

I visited a library across town, and many sections were given over to video games for various popular console systems.

The person on the right side is sitting in a more elevated position, and so with their shoulders relaxed and upper arms at their sides, they only need to extend the forearms to reach the keyboard.

The "numeric keypad" hazard also illustrates why I was motivated to switch my Sun mouse to the left-hand side, and I reversed the buttons in my X11 mappings. This was a reliable way to perplex my coworkers.

A top-10 list indicates 6 primates, cat, dog, and cow. While there has been a lot of testing done on primates and dogs, they are much more sympathetic for animal-rights groups, and the general public, when protesting vivisection, breeding, and confinement.

Anatomically and behaviorally, primates would still be the top choices there. And many, many disciplines experiment on animals, where results don't come at the genetic level.

Good, the genetics match closely. But mice (or rats: see the idiom "lab rat") are also considered vermin, prolific breeders, fit in your hand, short life-cycle, and easily obtained. So they join fruit flies in the lab experiments.

Interestingly, pigs are used in many types of medicine while not enjoying that genetic similarity. In the 1950s and 60s, your insulin and thyroid meds were often derived from pigs.

When the sections are stored above ground, they can make for some really gnarly skate parks. You've heard of the half-pipe, now see the attempts at full-pipe!

The Thirteenth Amendment makes it clear that it is permitted only by exception.

Along Interstate 5 in 1980s-90s Southern California, there were large signs, black-on-white, which showed a pictogram of a family running.

The English text above read "WATCH FOR PEOPLE CROSSING ROAD"

The Spanish text below read "PROHIBIDO"