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Is what still a who?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OK...
FOOLSCAP
All the rage when I was young... haven't seen or used it in donkey's years. Of course American foolscap is a different size to UK foolscap!
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Amazon still sell it (though not to me)!
You are up tomorrow
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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in 3 line 5/7/5 syllable form ...
can you make choices
you haven't seen looking in
a rear-view mirror ?
today's fresh catch of
still wriggling truth will keep
me from half starving
i half-way blindfold
my gods so they will half see
love's blind half clearly
wise men wag their heads
arguing over what makes
fairy tales' magic
when i'm a well-paid
cat, working at home, my mice
will write purrfect code
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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in 3 line 5/7/5 syllable form? what the hey. explain
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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a stanza is a unit of verse. each verse here is 3 lines long, the syllable counts in the three lines are 5/7/5.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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fortune is a song ahead of its time.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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my turn just for fun apropos of nothing just something i wrote long ago re/ a particular subject matter .
shown Crick and Watson
as meteors through the stars
did they come from Mars ?
the old rule of thumb
to have the best DNA
choose your parents well
reproduce the same
bacteria people alike
first unzip their genes
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Wordle 816 3/6
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 816 5/6
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 816 2/6
🟩🟨🟨⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 816 4/6
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟨
🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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The is clearly working well this morning ...
Wordle 816 2/6*
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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There might just be the chance of a spoiler there!
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I don't think so. It wasn't intentional if there is.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Wordle 816 4/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟨🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 816 4/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜
🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜
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“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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🟩🟨🟨⬜🟨
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 816 3/6*
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Wordle 816 4/6
🟨⬛⬛🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟨🟩🟩⬛
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Wordle 816 5/6
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟨⬜🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Before any of you criticize or go lounge on me, let me propose a question or challenge for you.... Umm, USA area code, it's relevant.
Two months ago, I received a call from an individual who really wanted to purchase a car I need to sell (estate issue). Due to other reasons, the car has not been sold, it needs to go, and if ANYONE wants you to be an executor of an estate... well.
He calls me, he'd love the car, and for the life of me, God and Jesus and whoever you worship area codes in the us no longer mean anything. My DIL is from New Jersey and is now in Kansas.
Why is this important? I have no way of searching my phone (an iPhone) to figure out what the elephanting #### the number is. It's useless.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Area codes mean less and less all the time. Mainly due to mobile phones.
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We (Norway, that is) abandoned area codes 30 years ago, in 1993.
Cellular phones were rapidly catching on, and almost by definition, area codes for mobile devices make little sense. Even for land lines, we could transfer a given subscriber number to any other national number (including a cellular number) a few years earlier. I used to prefer my landline phone to the cellular phone when at home, but when I went on vacation, I transferred the landline number to my cellular.
The entire landline network was closed down a while ago. If you have a cabled phone today in Norway, it is an internet phone. Internet is not aware of the hierarchical structure of the POTS network. (It has its own hierarchies, but they are different!)
So there is no technical justification at all for area codes today. Why would we want them?
In the old days, car registration plates had an "area code" first letter. If you moved to another county, you would have to re-register your car in the other county. (Also, if you sold your car to your neighbor, he would have to get new, different registration plates for it.) Today we have plates with two first letters; they do indicate where the car was first registered, which may be in the town you bought the car, not the town where you live. If you move, or sell your car, it keeps its plates.
The change to location-independent car plates came about in 1970. The only noticeable loss was for the kids in the back seat on summer car vacations, keeping a roll of how many cars from each county we could see on the road. That used to keep me and my sister entertained in my early childhood. (We also counted cars of different colors - that is still available to bored kids of today. Maybe the iPad is more attractive to them .)
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trønderen wrote: We (Norway, that is) abandoned area codes 30 years ago, in 1993.
The US finalized conversion in the same way in 2004.
However many people still refer to the numbers after the country code (if they are even aware of the country code) as the area code.
Depending on how long one has had a number and if one has not moved then the area code might reflect that.
And at least in some circumstances new phone numbers allocated by certain providers will still have an area code that reflects where it was allocated. There are telephony management (not hardware) reasons for that as the providers request blocks rather than individual numbers for allocation. Additionally there are marketing reasons since a brick and mortar business might prefer a number that reflects the physical location.
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