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Perfect example, thanks.... In a few lines you made more sense than most news I've read about.
It's a bit annoying to see so many places talking about it as if it was some other reality where the most amazing(or disturbing) things can be found.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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Another example might be Search results (eg. Google or Bing). You can't really index the search results as they are dynamically generated. And only exist while you're looking at it (if they show meaningful content is often up for discussion )
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Nicholas Marty wrote: if they show meaningful content is often up for discussion
Couldn't be more true
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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That's a pretty clever way of looking at it...
I hadn't thought of that little "loophole" (for lack of a better word... my vocabulary powers are being reduced from staring at too much code this morning)
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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First rule of deep web, don't talk about deep web!
Second rule of deep web, don't talk about deep web!
Third rule of deep web, don't talk about deep web!
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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You just talked about the <wisper>deep web</wisper>
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it!
speramus in juniperus
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Don't tell 'em your name, Nagy!
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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Too many rules, no thanks.
BDF
The internet makes dumb people dumber and clever people cleverer.
-- PaulowniaK
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Some spooky, some down right odd.
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And, a joyous Samhain to Thee.
But, for pure terror, there's no scarier place than in your mind — as Robert Louis Stevenson said: "no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall."
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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And on a lighter note...
I've noticed it's common for people who live in, say, London to speak of living in the UK rather than England.
Is it somehow politically incorrect to reference England rather than the grand and glorious empire of the United Kingdom? Or is it just fewer characters to type UK?
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I've noticed its common for folks the US side of the pond to say England rather than the UK.
We would probably say London UK rather than London England but both are OK.
Where it gets odd is if we hear Glasgow or Edinburgh England which is obviously wrong, but sometimes heard in US TV exports.
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For me personally I would say London is in England.
But If I was to say the country on its own then I would say the UK
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Yes, it's complicated. I am English, but would generally answer that I was British. Similiar I live in England but I'm from the UK.
English as a nationality is used less these days because it goes against the idea of multiculturism. British encompasses people who live in Britain, whereas English is more of a 'race' I guess.
England flags have a slight undertone of Nationalism about them, so are generally less in favour than the Union Jack which is England/Scotland/Wales flags combined.
Britain isn't the same as the UK of course.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: Britain isn't the same as the UK of course.
Britain == England?
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Ah, well, now you're asking! Where's Dave when you need him?...
Last time I checked it was England/Scotland/Wales. The UK is that but also includes Northern Ireland.
If it seems confusing, it is to us too.
EDIT: yes I spelt Ireland wrong originally.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who lives in a complicated country.
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"...rural yokels who spend too much time with their sheep."
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Christopher Duncan wrote: "...rural yokels who spend too much time with their sheep." Or "Griff", for short.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Here we go again:
Britain is an island (plus some lesser islands round Scotland) comprising the three countries: England, Scotland, Wales. It is often referred to as Great Britain, to distinguish it from Less Britain, which was a part of Northern France a few hundred years back. That's the geography, now for the politics. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the nation referred to as UK, and is Britain plus six counties in the north of the island of Ireland. There are various other islands (Man and the Channel Islands) which are loosely connected to the UK while not being complete parts of it. Most people who live here think of themselves as British, apart from the Welsh and the Scots, and some of the Irish, and the French, and the ...
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Thanks to Andrew for reminding me about Berwick on Tweed.
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Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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Rob Philpott wrote: English is more of a 'race' I guess
Which of the races which inhabit England would you say were "the English race": the Anglo-Saxons, the Normans, the Vikings, one of the others...?
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