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January 25, 2012
My recommendation is sincere: “Mandarin. Learn to speak and understand Mandarin.”
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January 24, 2012
We exercise them without assistance. I will call these our solitary or primary rights. The freedom to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is, perhaps, the most fundamental expression of those rights.
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January 17, 2012
Two routes to get here, via Los Angeles or on secondaries, and two choices for the mode of transportation, flying or driving.
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January 13, 2012
Random comments:
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January 4, 2012
It’s a strap-on bunch of magnets, originally intended to hang on to nuts and bolts but here you can see it does just great with a set of channel plyers, my NRA knife, S&W 36 snubby and a combination straight and phillips head mini-screwdriver.
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January 2, 2012
For example, the comment, “He was an alcoholic and womanizer,” may have been stated by someone and recorded in the raw notes that I review. Does that belong in the family story?
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December 22, 2011
Open Source
Basically it means that the item, commonly a piece of software, is usually available in source code form, you can get a copy, read it, and modify it. It also says that, if you change it, you must also make those changes available to anyone and that you must do so without charging them anything.