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I now have no hope for the human race... 
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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Indeed, how did you create your sig ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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√(-1) 2<sup>3</sup> ∑ π
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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Still don't understand 
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That's the HTML character codes needed to create the symbols in my sig.
The rest is just plain text.
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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“It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England. It took the Americans only three hours to get home. This seems unfair.” - Yet another reason America is better. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Man you just can't fix stupid!
Kinda like the Deer Lady[^] on the radio!
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Message Closed
modified 9-Oct-13 2:35am.
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Even half blind, I could spot SPAM a mile away.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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BBC to promote programming again![^]
I don't know if I would be working in IT if it wasn't for the BBC Micro, so I have a fondness for the idea...
Now if the BBC could get a programming device developed - maybe a BBC-Pad - aimed at being easy to program ...
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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I learned about the BBC Micro from that article. Looks like it was a nifty machine!
BBC Micro[^]
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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It certainly was!
From it grew the Archimedes and the ARM chips which dominate the mobile market today.
For a bit of funb, you can get a BBC emulator here[^] then download my game, PooperPig here[^]
Then marvel over how poor games were back then! (PooperPig was No. 1 in the Ceefax Download Charts)
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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Ceefax Download? I remember there being some short listings on Ceefax and could remember our teacher (?) hooking up a BBC to a Ceefax tv, don't remember a modem being used...my class mates now don't remember this, was it possible?
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So I do remember correctly... 
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Yes, it felt like it was way ahead of the field in its day(even ahead of the speccy in my opinionated opinion ) - I learnt to program Pascal on it and it was a solid piece of kit.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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_Maxxx_ wrote: maybe a BBC-Pad
Given that everyone in the BBC buildings considers himself to be an artist (how correct they are in their thinking is not even worth the effort of discussing), and that 90% of them are gay, which hardware do you think they'll be promoting?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: 90% of them are gay, which hardware
Feeling a little homophobic todat?
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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Feeling a little too PC todat(sic)?
The ability to speak facts, unencumbered by ridiculous social mores, does not imply anything other than contempt for ridiculous social mores.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote: Peer reviewed study, please
As long as I don't have to include pictures... 
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote: as an LGBT person comments like your one above feel quite nasty
Sorry, but if someone has misplaced or over-heightened sensibilities, then I'm afraid there's nothing I can do to fix that.
What I will do is the same as I do for every other person I encounter -- i.e. treat them as people.
If someone wants special treatment because of life choices, sexual preferences, because they only use apple products, or for anything else that they wrongly think merits special treatment, I'm afraid it ain't gonna happen.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to get back to knocking accountants for being boring and untrustworthy, tories for being sexual deviants, and Welshmen for shagging sheep -- because people are capable of laughing at themselves, and I treat people as people.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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No special treatment is required - just a little care and thought.
Thoughtless remarks can cause unnecessarily harm to vulnerable (who by definition are likely to have "have over-heightened sensibilities" through no fault of their own).
Worse, they influence others to do likewise.
Please at least try to be more thoughtful.
Anna ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Tech Blog | Visual Lint
"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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Mark_Wallace wrote: If someone wants special treatment because of life choices, sexual preferences,
because they only use apple products, or for anything else that they wrongly
think merits special treatment, I'm afraid it ain't gonna happen.
So it is quite ok with you if 90% of the stores could refuse to sell you anything because of your skin color? And also ok if 90% of businesses refused to hire you because of your religion choice?
And certainly ok with you that if 90% of people decided that they found you personally offensive for something that they thought that you might do in the privacy of your own home that they could insist that all businesses refuse to do any sort of business at all with you?
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As always, you are intentionally interpreting what I say as the exact opposite of what I say.
Try reading the words I write, rather than listening to the little hate-filled voices in your head.
It's getting a bit tedious, y'know.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You said "If someone wants special treatment because of life choices, sexual preferences...I'm afraid it ain't gonna happen".
It wasn't clear to me, especially in the context of your other comments, what exactly you think "special treatment" is exactly.
Certainly some people do in fact think that "special treatment" is a law that disallows people from doing exactly what I said (and which does happen without such laws.)
Mark_Wallace wrote: ...than listening to the little hate-filled voices in your head.
Certainly possible that we are saying the same thing but I am rather certain that term does not apply to me. Especially not in a discussion about what 'gay' means in the current vernacular given that I first spoke out publicly for homosexual rights in 1974.
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