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He just went out to check on his goats and pigs, and when he came back, his dream was over, crushed by agents of the state: [^].
A farm, a million cockroaches, the future in the palm of his hand: he had it all.
TBFTGOGGI
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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That's a lot of bugs! 
/ravi
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Instead of us fixing bugs, bugs fix us. 
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What does a million cockroaches eat?
Anything it wants!
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Like Bricktop said:
never trust a man with a pig cockroach farm
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I just couldn't even imagine living next to a roach farm and a million getting loose.
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Yet another good reason I don't want anything from China on my china.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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"These are not the same ones you see in your home, those are German cockroaches," he said. ... It is native to Guangdong province."
"German" cockroaches native to Gunogashitz province in China. Yeah, sure[^]!
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Uhm, not quite.
From the article: <layer>"These are not the same ones you see in your home, those are German cockroaches," he said. "There are hundreds of species of cockroaches, but only this one has any medicinal value. It is native to Guangdong province."
these, this one, it = the cockroaches he farms with.
those = the cockroaches you find in your home.
What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
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"In the beginning a few got away. But since we covered all the windows and doors with mesh, they have been well trapped,"
Mesh?
Mesh?!?
I'd want eyeball-reader hermetically-sealed doors and a moat full of sharks with frikkin' laser beams!
Mind you, if you go to the Beijing night market, you'll have your eyes opened over what is and isn't food -- a little protein [^], anyone? Or are you in the mood for some seafood[^]? (NSFL*)
* Not Safe For Lunchtime
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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[^] 'Twas time for fun with PhotoShop CS6.
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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 ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif)
speramus in juniperus
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Looks like a CafePress opportunity!
/ravi
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Hi Ravi-ji,
I'm a little confused: I Googled on "CafePress Opportunity" (never heard that phrase before), which led me to: [^].
But, they don't have my size.
What should I do ?
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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Hi Bill, I meant this[^].
/ravi
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Where can i buy one? 
I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p)
"Given the chance I'd rather work smart than work hard." - PHS241
"'Sophisticated platform' typically means 'I have no idea how it works.'"
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I'd pay for one of those!
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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What is that orange thingie between his legs? 
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Surely you have always thought of CodeProject as well endowed ?
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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Eldest is studying a youtube video and taking lots of notes on keypress sequences, shell commands, github addresses etc etc. for how to install Ubuntu and office software onto her chromebook.
She just showed me a screenshot of a shell terminal and asked what it is. I showed her the windows equivalent and a few basic commands and she went a bit hyper... 
I am playing footy later, so dare say when I come home it will be a "Chromebook evening".
Oh, and in case you are wondering, she is 9.
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That is impressive§
Meanwhile here in Norway, one of the articles in one of the news papers are suggesting that drinking would improve the life quality of the youth (adress is bt.no , but it requires a paid subscription to view, just to show you that Im not kidding). 
9 would perhaps be 9 years too young to start on the bottle though 
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Kenneth Haugland wrote: 9 would perhaps be 9 years too young to start on the bottle though
I'm not so sure about that.
I was bought up in Luxembourg and was given my first glass of wine with water at the age of eight.
I didn't particularly like it at the time, but later was bought cider and beer in the hot summers by my mother to drink with meals in my mid teens. I never drank alcohol outside of meal times or on my own and it was freely available.
It was a very healthy move, as I would say as an adult that I have a healthy relationship to alcohol.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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To clear up what he meant, it is that young people is far to stressed out (botox, iPad, clodes, sport, school, and WTF not). If you cant really relax perhaps we could either
1) Change the society a little?
2) Start drinking at a younger age
or something along these lines...
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/ravi
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You'd better lock your toolbox away; once the first electrical appliance is opened..
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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