w2tpmf

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[–] w2tpmf 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The big irony is that it lasted so long.

[–] w2tpmf 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They survived by digging a canal system to bring water from rivers far away. Those same canals are what feeds Phoenix it's water a milenia later. We just added cement to them.

[–] w2tpmf 4 points 3 months ago

Yup. Evaporative cooling was popular in AZ before electricity was available. In the late 1800s to early 1900s there were many homes and building with cooling towers on them. People would hang wet sheets across them and the cooling effect would create a current as it fell down the tower which would on turn create more draft across the cooling cloth.

[–] w2tpmf 15 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Horse shit.

It was never abandoned. The valley was steadily habitated for thousands of years by a number of tribes before American settlers forces the Yaqui from the land.

None of them had air conditioning, and they thrived until a foreign invader took their land by force.

[–] w2tpmf 4 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Boing is starting to have a bigger mysterious trail of bodies around them than Hilary Clinton.

[–] w2tpmf 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My wife would be super freaked out and disgusted if I was reading a Bible.

She'd sit down and flip though the naked ladies one though.

[–] w2tpmf 8 points 3 months ago

The main issue with Vista was an absolute garbage HAL and driver stack.

It was incapable of working with hardwarw that XP did out of the box. Even if you managed to find a working driver it would likely crash once a day.

Also the active desktop that would always crash leaving you with an IE error page for a wallpaper.

[–] w2tpmf -2 points 3 months ago

I would expect bespoke software and OS in a $200 device to be way less impressive than what a multi billion dollar company develops.

[–] w2tpmf 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

You do know you can listen to a whole album on Spotify, right?

[–] w2tpmf 3 points 3 months ago

Yay for slacktivism.

[–] w2tpmf 6 points 4 months ago

the vast majority of venues have exclusive ticketing contracts to only use Ticketmaster.

It doesn't even end there. Live Nation has been buying up major venues all over the country.

[–] w2tpmf 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Valid point. But at least he was an asshole who thought for himself instead of attempting to force the will of his imaginary sky daddy.

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