With Linus surrendering to the forces that will consume Linux, it’s time to rethink a few things and make some decisions now that could save our nerd bacon, at least locally. This
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Taking a stand against popular opinion is always a hard thing. Taking a stand against your monarch’s public opinion is writing your own death certificate and hand delivering it to the carnifex
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Ricardo’s example: “To produce the wine in Portugal, might require only the labour of 80 men for one year, and to produce the cloth in the same country, might require the labour
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Rafael Sabatini was Italian/English writer that penned some of the best adventure novels of the late 19th century. As a son of two opera singers turned teachers, he was exposed to the
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“When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt” Since this was mentioned under my previous post on Two Years Before The Mast I thought I’d quick one on it. Kipling knows how
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“The SKS is a Soviet semi-automatic carbine chambered for the 7.62×39mm round, designed in 1943 by Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov. Its complete designation, SKS-45, is an initialism for Samozaryadnyj Karabin sistemy Simonova, 1945
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When the Germans rolled into Poland with over 40,000 troops, they were expecting little resistance from the Poles. What they got instead was the Polish Thermopylae. The Polish army had been building
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Or, How to Succeed When Everything Goes Horribly, Horribly Wrong In Every Way Possible. Xenophon may have embellished a bit to cast himself in a better light and the situations direr, but
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The vast body of Western literature is replete with many marvelous gems. Some are well known, some are forgotten. This is one of the forgotten gems. Written by a young man who
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You do have an axe, right? Even just a camp axe? No? Get off your ass and buy one. The axe is one of the most useful tools a man can own.
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Sometimes doing your best leads to spectacular failure. Shakespeare’s tragedies are always marked by death. Hamlet ends with most of the main cast dead. Macbeth sees everyone important killed off, including the
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