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[Novena]

A grand piano has a collective string tension of 20 tons.

Bösendorfer pianos have 92 and 97 keys instead of the standard 88.  These extra keys are at the bass end.

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Biblical Hebrew Israelites today are The African American and Caribbean peoples. But there are others.

Who told you this crazy stuff?

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New Hampshire has no income tax, sales tax or capital gains tax.

is this true?

fuck this im moving

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I wear a live rattlesnake as a condom

you sir are a mans man

[LiftEaTsLeEpRePeAt]

If you put a picture of yourself on Getbig it will be photoshopped to show you having sex with a gorilla faster than the speed of light.

this

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Throwing hardware at the problem is frowned upon in computer circles as amatuer but consider:

a programmer day costs about 500 $.

A 8 cpu pc with 8 gig ram and 1 terabyte disk is about $500

so instead of 10 coders and 20 workdays a month

you could give 1 coder 20 workdays and have 180 new pc EACH MONTH  -- each pc acting as a server 24/7 for your website/apps/whatever. 

[Pandemic]

Even better, set up a virtual machine host, create virtual machines, and save yourself from managing a ton of physical devices, plus cooling and power costs.

http://www.vmware.com

http://www.xenserver.org

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/solutions/virtualization.aspx#fbid=cA3Mxt0fJEa

[Pandemic]

When you are born, you have only two fears:  of falling and of loud noises.

All other fears / phobias are learned throughout your life.

[The Ugly]

When you are born, you have only two fears:  of falling and of loud noises.

All other fears / phobias are learned throughout your life.

I'm sure hairy nipples registers as well.

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jack vance's Tales of the dying earth inspired dungeons and dragons creator gary gygax, who modelled the magic rules on the stories almost directly

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Even better, set up a virtual machine host, create virtual machines, and save yourself from managing a ton of physical devices, plus cooling and power costs.

http://www.vmware.com

http://www.xenserver.org

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/solutions/virtualization.aspx#fbid=cA3Mxt0fJEa

actually virtualization is a scam

name based virtual hosts let you serve 1000 website from one box if you want

commodity raid 10 storage and skipping virtualization are way to go, saving you the mess of poorly planned virtual amchine fleets created by unthinking developers

crappy things like chef and puppet were invented to fix the messes caused by virtualization

discipline and skipping both virtualization, proprietary SAN, and puppet and friends are way to win in modern computing

simply skip the crap

[T-REX007]

Babe Ruth was the greatest baseball that ever lived

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many women make more in divorce than they ever earn in a job