On 10/19/2015 06:05 PM, Charles Dickman wrote:
The farmers I know aren't any different than thier grandfathers.
Modern technology just makes them much more productive.
"Farmer" can mean different things, for instance, growing stuff up by
Booneville. (right, Fred?)
--Chuck
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
>>> Does it correlate with the decline of actual FARMING?
>
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> On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, Charles Dickman wrote:
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>> FARMING hasn't declined, only the number of farmers.
>> (Not a farmer, but surrounded by them.)
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> Is modern "agribusiness" really
Does it correlate with the decline of actual FARMING?
On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, Charles Dickman wrote:
FARMING hasn't declined, only the number of farmers.
(Not a farmer, but surrounded by them.)
Is modern "agribusiness" really "farming"?
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
> Does it correlate with the decline of actual FARMING?
FARMING hasn't declined, only the number of farmers.
(Not a farmer, but surrounded by them.)
huck Guzis [mailto:ccl...@sydex.com]
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On 10/18/2015 12:46 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
> Later, it began to be used for moderately open land, with collections
> of other
On Sunday (10/18/2015 at 03:26PM -0700), Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Oct 2015, Dave Wade wrote:
> >I can see that Antenna Farms is an older term, dating back to at least 1950,
> >but of course as antenna's are usually in fields..
>
> It gradually evolved from agricultural to ANYTHING,
> and the
On Sun, 18 Oct 2015, Dave Wade wrote:
I can see that Antenna Farms is an older term, dating back to at least 1950,
but of course as antenna's are usually in fields..
It gradually evolved from agricultural to ANYTHING,
and then from fields to ANY space.
Does it correlate with the decline of ac
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> Guzis
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> On 10/18/2015 12:46 P
On Oct 18, 2015 3:08 PM, "Chuck Guzis" wrote:
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> On 10/18/2015 12:46 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
>
>> Later, it began to be used for moderately open land, with collections
>> of other stuff, such as a group of windmills became a "wind farm"
>> (Altamont pass).
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> I recall a room full of a hundred or
On 10/18/2015 12:46 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Later, it began to be used for moderately open land, with collections
of other stuff, such as a group of windmills became a "wind farm"
(Altamont pass).
I recall a room full of a hundred or more disk drives being referred to
as a disk farm--but I don'
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> Hi, all. I'm looking for information on slang terms with the word "farm"
> in them, relating to computaters; especially the origins of such terms.
> I've known "cube farm" (a bunch of cubicles where office workers work)
> and "render farm" (a clust
So, does anyone know what the first such "farm" slang term was, and when
and where it originated? And how about other terms with "farm" in them?
(I came across a new one the other day, but of course I've forgotten it
now.)
Going back a ways, it originated with growing crops. Then, it began bein
> [...] just recently I found a reference to "link farm" as meaning "an
> incremental backup consisting mostly of links (most likely hard
> links) to the relevant files in the preceding iteration of the
> backup"; but this page [...] says "a website with little or no
> content, consisting of mostly
>
> So, does anyone know what the first such "farm" slang term was, and when
> and where it originated? And how about other terms with "farm" in them?
> (I came across a new one the other day, but of course I've forgotten it
> now.)
Not likely to be used much now (well, not outside members of thi
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