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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012. Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico. Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.

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The threat of civil war hangs over an isolated ficticious southeastern Oklahoma town.

Rantburg.com and Borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents Newtonville, his first, epic novel of love and betrayal set in the turbulent late 1960s. Click here to buy

Don't Raise the Bridge; Lower The River
2008-09-09
Posted by: badanov

Incredibly long discussion on Slashdot about Microsoft and its claims for "Five Nines" level systems.

The Funniest reply:

Maybe they should shoot for 9 fives instead. When the problem is too hard, just lower the goal posts.

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