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There are two kinds of people in the world. Those that buy insurance and those that don't. Both types are equally unlikely to suffer a major loss but only one survives with their bank balance intact if they do.
These two types also inhabit the computing world but for some odd reason the uninsured of this world seem to think it is their duty to bring the insured over to their way of thinking. 'It's never happened to me; I've never had a problem', they say as though that is a significant statement of truth rather than the mere statistical workings out of probability. By definition, after all, anything which affects a minority does not affect the majority. 'I already do everything in my power to prevent problems', they say as if this is isn't exactly the kind of thing that virus writers love to hear, the challenge which makes it worth getting out of bed, the smugness which they devote their lives to puncturing; as if the existence of things beyond their power is a logical impossibility.
They are the people who stand on the roofs of skyscrapers welcoming the aliens in Independence Day. In short, optimists, the most dangerous creatures on the planet. Resist their evangelism, my brothers and sisters. Realists, bathe in the glory of your rationality. Pessimists, hold true to your prophetic insight. And never uninstall your defences!
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I don't. I have but nowadays I figure 1) Google and my ISP are gonna scan for me, and 2) I'm careful with thumb drives and the like.
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Umpire , noisily contacting the dead Electrical engineers without a resumé , makes bubbles. (13)
I think this may be V Hard. So OG will probably crack it in 3 minutes!
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To maybe get other started:
Umpire - Ref
noisily - er or ur
contacting the dead - ??
Electrical engineers without a résumé, - some word containg cv with cv removed.
makes bubbles - goodchampagne -> could be a refractometer, no that I come to think of it.
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Of your four:
One is accurate.
One is partly accurate
One is wrong
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Just let us know which one is correct
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Maxxx wrote: makes bubbles. (13)
FartingInBath
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Thought about it, but did not dare. Have my 5.
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I think we *might* need a bit of help.
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All I can get here is Effervescence.
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I think that's it.
Umpire , noisily contacting the dead Electrical engineers without a resumé , makes bubbles. (13)
Umpire REF
noisily contacting the dead SEANCE - without the A - SENCE
Electrical Engineer - EE
resume - CV
Put it all together and you get
EFFERVESCENCE - if you add in an extra F from somewhere.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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It's that missing F that I can't figure.
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Isn't Maxxx originally Welsh, or have I imagined that?
Maybe he pronounces Reff with the extra F to get try and get a bit of extra phlegm into the word.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: Isn't Maxxx originally Welsh, or have I imagined that?
Or from New-zealand ? Arn't the Kiwis the Welsh of the Aussies ?
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Ok, I was on the wrong track since I did not expect the characters to have to be rearranged.
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Noisily - F = loud in music notation - used sneakily to make you think it was about rearranging the letters
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WINNER - sorry was in bed
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Click repeatedly on any face in the crowd
I had expected them to move under the tickling, but they remained still.
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"Stop touching me!!"
Geek code v 3.12 {
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
}
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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I need some ligaments I will kill you
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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This is like the nightmare version of "where's Wally"?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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From the first tree on the left, zoom in on the lamppost. Zoom in at 30 degrees angle to the right of it (horizontal is zero). You should see some people in white (about the width of the tree away). One is wearing a completely white hat or bandana and the guy behind him is wearing a mostly white hat (some blue). Look at the guy in black behind him and to the left. The image was mashed. Also look at the four heads to the left of this guy. They're also all mashed up.
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There is a better example: look for the road sign "Hamilton St" in the bottom left. To its right (about twice the size of the sign away) is a guy wearing a green baseball cap backwards. Look at the girl to his right, looking at him. Big blotch.
I'm guessing these are CCD defects? Or dust on the lens / CCD?
Oh, and Sean is up in the top right, wearing the mankini again.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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