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It's probably just as well, it's a terrible movie. Well, at least the Nicholas Cage one. But I'm just being redundant by pointing that out.
Interestingly, both of them have the exact same rating on IMDB (6.5). What are the odds?
I could've sworn the original was a Steve McQueen movie. I must be thinking of Bullitt. Maybe the original GISS also was pretty bad. At this point I have a hard time telling movies apart, especially when I've only seen them once years ago.
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Update: He's fully recovered now!
Ba-tish!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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Is that the machine that makes corduroy pillows. They were making headlines too!
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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It was satin - obviously to cover chairs.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Police have asked the public to keep an eye out for hardened criminals!
Ba-Tish! Almost weekend now!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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No link is no hard evidence!
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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I hope they will get a stiff sentence.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I see hard times in these guys' future.
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They're making Viagra in a nasal spray now.
It's for Dick Heads
Monday starts Diarrhea awareness week, runs until Friday!
JaxCoder.com
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Coca Cola is putting it in a soft drink.
It’s called Mount and Do
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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no VR headset - let your pet travel too, back to it's homeland etc
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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Brewers drink before post round (7)
It goes without saying
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TEAPOTS?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That it be
It goes without saying
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And the solution for those that didn't get it:
Brewers
drink TEA
before
post POTS
round (anag)
TEAPOTS
Nice, simple, clean - well done!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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How does "round" mean anagram?
(keep in mind I am still half-asleep so use simple words please)
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Quote: round
/raʊnd/
adjective
1.
shaped like a circle or cylinder.
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2.
shaped like a sphere.
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noun
1.
a circular piece of something.
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2.
an act of visiting a number of people or places in turn.
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adverb
1.
so as to rotate or cause rotation; with circular motion.
"a plane circled round overhead"
2.
so as to rotate and face in the opposite direction.
"he swung round to face her"
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Voyager – Runaway[^]
I've known this band for a month or two now, but this week their new album kind of clicked with me.
Voyager makes progressive metal with electronics mixed in.
The singer has a very nice, clean, voice.
The result reminds somewhat of Vola, who has been featured in the SOTW a few times before.
Runaway is the last track on the album and it blew me away (it also reminds of Vola's last track on Inmazes).
I find the sound somewhat poppy, but I fall asleep to extreme, psychedelic, black metal so maybe I'm not one to talk
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His voice kind of reminded me of the singer of Tears for Fears.
Tears For Fears - Shout - YouTube[^]
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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I had not yet made that connection
Love that song though.
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On the drive up north for an appt. this morning I was thinking about knowledge and all the things we built with it - the vast concrete corridors that crisscross the nation I live in - the technologically amazing vehicles that navigate them, the alloys they are composed of, we've come a long way from Babylon, itself a far cry from the caves we painted. None of what follows is intended to minimize all of the considerable good that we have achieved.
And yet I look around at some of the hell that followed it, like nuclear bombs, massive pollution, and overpopulation. And since I'm posting this on the Internet it's only fair I address the medium: Right now we're staring down the business end of some bad choices we've made collectively with respect to privacy and with respect to national discourse (in the UK and the US at least that I've noticed) if not caused by the Internet then exacerbated by it.
And all of this makes me wonder if knowledge by itself is sufficient to continue human advancement. What about wisdom? I think we need it in conjunction with knowledge to achieve understanding. Just because we can do things doesn't necessarily mean we should. Just because we have the technology doesn't mean we won't harm ourselves with it, and the more powerful it is, the more damage it can do.
How do we move forward wisely? The more we advance in knowledge and the technology that follows, the more we need that wisdom, and looking around lately I feel like it's sorely lacking. It feels like the west is losing the plot, and the tech feels like part of why.
Knowledge is not a neutral thing. Nor is it necessarily all good. It is a complicated, useful and dangerous thing to have, all depending on how you employ it, which I think is where wisdom comes in. Are we getting more wise, or just more knowledgeable?
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: of some bad choices we've made collectively We didn't make those choices collectively; the world is not a family, but competing individuals divided in groups. If our group doesn't take advantage (even if it costs the global community), some other group will. That's why we're a tax-haven and some companies can cut deals with our tax man.
honey the codewitch wrote: Just because we have the technology doesn't mean we won't harm ourselves with it, and the more powerful it is, the more damage it can do. Goood. I want a bigger stick to hit than my neighbours have, and I want my nation to have bigger sticks than the neighbouring nations.
honey the codewitch wrote: Are we getting more wise, or just more knowledgeable? We are, in essence, competing apes. Technological advanced apes, yes, but I still wouldn't accept the Austrialians to rule our country with all their wisdom.
We won't change our ways until we are forced, and we will resist any change. Global cooperation requires a global dictatorship, and that would favor their local powerbase over other individuals. So no, I don't see any chance for collective decisions based on wisdom.
..and don't even bring up the idea we could trust scientists
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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