was using format when printing to dot matrix printers in the early 2000s :)

... but modern perl running on mod_perl or a native server (Starman for example) is not slow at all ...

back in the early 90 MySQL and Postgresql did not exist

the pandemics are happening now: the resistant TBC, hepatitis C, MRSA, malaria and probably a few others I have not heard about yet, but the bird flu will not happen: it's a matter of biochemistry

no, I will not mock earthquake planning, but a disease passing from birds to humans I will mock any day, and the same for fearmongering

the fatal pandemic failed to take place, it's time to make public the imaginary plan of action to counter the failed pandemic ... how about the plans to respond to aliens dropping KEWs on Earth ?

Renewables are doing so well in Germany that their neighbours have cut the German grid out, got tired of seeing their transformers burn: http://www.praguepost.com/news/15258-region-german-green-energy-push-needs-a-rethink.html

and German companies are moving to inhouse power generation because they can't take the losses caused by power fluctuations: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/instability-in-power-grid-comes-at-high-cost-for-german-industry-a-850419.html

the multitasking sample got the lower scores, not the laptop using sample as a whole

just don't feed those chicken for a day, they'll plow the field better than the two oxen

get your helpful gnome back ;)

  http://mate-desktop.org/

you must be behind with your history reading, 90 years ago mortality rates of 50% among prisoners were cool, nobody gave a f....g f..k over shelling a village, shooting civilians happened by default not as an exception, and taking all the food from the civilians while armies moved about

modded "overrated" by mistake, undoing it ...

polygamy was legal in USA ?

having sex out of wedlock with multiple partners is not polygamy

+1 damn right

oh, that is simple. It's all about rationing: you don't want to have young men in their 20s blowing themselves up in the hope they will get sex at least in the after-world.