Word: forks
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...civil right, and anyone who threatens that right deserves to be screamed at and tipped really poorly. Londoners believe a city is a noble and costly test of endurance - like a Merchant-Ivory film. Show them a studio flat an hour from the city center and they silently fork over their savings. Charge them ?8 for a restaurant sandwich or ?60 for a cab to the airport and they say, "Cheers!" But use just a little trumped-up evidence to get them to help you invade a country and they go ballistic. They're a funny people. I tell...
Harvard’s Senior Gift Committee thinks that graduating students should be hectored until they fork over some cash. Indeed, putting the screws to seniors who have reasons not to contribute—e.g., “I’m broke” or “I didn’t like Harvard”—is the committee’s official modus operandi, revealed in the “Senior Gift Solicitation Survival Guide,” which a committee member leaked to me shortly before spring break. Since being on the receiving...
...been terrorizing and murdering Haitian citizens in anticipation of a rebel assault. By Monday morning the joint rebel-police squads were finished, and Philippe rode triumphantly into Port-au-Prince in the back of a pickup as crowds chanted ?Libert?!? ?He is the second Toussaint L?Ouverture!? said fork-lift driver Andre Charles, 36, referring to the hero who won Haiti?s independence from France 200 years ago. ?He delivered...
...eating on the couch. We sat for two hours and never felt pressured to leave. The best part is that when you’re done, you don’t have to return to your dorm for the old after-meal nap. Just drop your fork and lean back...
Without copyrights the GPL would not work because any company could hijack the code (like Microsoft), extend it with proprietary code and release it as a binary only without giving others the opportunity to change the code. Eventually such a fork might discourage open source developers to write new code and the code would no longer be freely available after a short while...