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I'll just leave this story here: http://www.chernobylinfo.com/voice-chernobyl-1.php

~730km for me. Fun fact: application of Lugol's iodine for thyroid blocking was a genuine Polish invention. Civil defense manuals refer to iodine tablets, an that's what the government had stocked -- but as usual, in insufficient amounts and without a distribution network. Fortunately...

Metal casing? I solved this disassembling the tablet and covering the PCB near the charger socket with insulation tape.

Concorde was a net loss because the initial R&D cost was never recovered, even if operation was above breakeven (which it probably wasn't). Concorde was designed assuming an oil price of $20/bbl (2014$), because this is what the oil price was for decades before the project was even initiated...

Yes. Because Mars orbit is larger then stellar parallax observed on Mars will be larger. This is however of no practical importance (unless you are trying to measure the Universe). More elliptical orbit means that the Sun, as seen from Mars, will traverse different signs of the Zodiac with...

Automatically download and install collections of Windows/Office patches: http://www.wsusoffline.net/

Meanwhile in Poland

NB remember to use this version: Orb::Connect::Web 3.19 it is backwards-compatible with 2.1 but has some bugs fixed.

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Get into embedded programming. :)

This is why you don't keep the backup volume mounted between backups. Mount, copy, unmount.

The problem with telecom is that enormous CapEx required to build the network favors a natural monopoly. So you need a regulator to artificially create competition by forcing the companies to open their networks against their own interests. There's no such problem with space access, all you...

Mechanical computers still operating on Polish railways (switch on English subtitles)

Because the business model of telecom companies changed. You see -- Ca. 1995 in Poland the situation was that you had local ISPs which could afford to lay a city-wide fiber, but it could not afford to lay long distance fiber. So -- They were renting long-distance data transmission circuits...

Nah. Even if most of the EULA is invalid, the software is still protected by law, i.e. you still have to pay for it.

Yes they do.

Amateur. ;) The real fun begins when you find out that you can virtualize the virtualization platform.

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Lyrics from 13th century set to music by a 20th century composer adhering to 18th century musical tradition, sung by the band from 21st century which specializes in interpreting modern compositions with 10th century vocal techniques. Or, 1500 years of music in 3:39.