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  • The ones most suited for thoroughfares are generally the best ascetically, and have the fewest noise/pollution/emergency vehicle tradeoffs but are generally also the most expensive and create least aggregate reduction in speed. in short, as usual tanstaafl.

    Matthew Yglesias » DC Cop Urges Pedestrians to Avoid Inconveniently Colliding With Illegally Fast-Driving Cars 2009

  • Of course tanstaafl is not Russian, but it is a fine book, and Heinlein has fun combining Russian and English in the dialect of his joint moon colony.

    languagehat.com: MORE DISAPPOINTMENT. 2004

  • Now, it is possible that tanstaafl is a tax preparer, or perhaps files a very simple 1040

    Christian Science Monitor | All Stories 2010

  • Can someone tell mw how to get them back to opening in the preview pane when clicked / tanstaafl

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  • Can someone tell mw how to get them back to opening in the preview pane when clicked / tanstaafl

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  • Is there any way to force TB to look up email addresses in my address book before sorting them? tanstaafl

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  • Is there any way to force TB to look up email addresses in my address book before sorting them? tanstaafl

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  • A new section was added to the Thunderbird 3.0 Knowledge Base article, explaining how to use the same profile alternatingly with TB 2.0 and TB 3.0 (thanks to Spage and tanstaafl).

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  • Keep posts here in the Forums instead and we all learn. tanstaafl

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  • Is there any way to force TB to look up email addresses in my address book before sorting them? tanstaafl

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  • I remember this from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.

    July 19, 2007

  • There Ain't No Such Thing...?

    July 19, 2007

  • acronym for "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch" - popularized in the Science Fiction novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein.

    July 14, 2009

  • Actually, it's an acronym for "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch".

    I don't think it's spoken often, but I've seen it in writing several times this year. Not counting the times it was used in Robert Heinlein's story "the Moon Is A Harsh Mistress".

    July 18, 2009