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I suspect it's pretty old, and it's aimed Canadaists, but I'm pretty sure it applies everywhere:
Dear Prime Minister,
Please find below our suggestion for fixing the CANADIAN economy.
Instead of giving billions of dollars to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.
You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:
There are about ten million people over 50 in the work force...
Pay them $ 2 million each severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:
1) They MUST retire.
Ten million job openings - unemployment fixed.
2) They MUST buy a new Canadian-made car.
Ten million cars ordered - Car Industry fixed
3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage -
Housing Crisis fixed.
4) They MUST send their kids to school / college / university -
Crime rate fixed.
5) They MUST buy $100 WORTH of alcohol (a couple of jugs of good wine ) / tobacco a week .....
And there's your money back in duty/tax etc
It can't get any easier than that !
Also:
Let's put the pensioners in jail and the criminals in a nursing home.
This way the pensioners would have access to showers, hobbies and walks.
They'd receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment, wheel chairs etc and they'd receive money instead of paying it out.
They would have constant video monitoring, so they could be helped instantly, if they fell, or needed assistance.
Bedding would be washed twice a week, and all clothing would be ironed and returned to them.
A guard would check on them every 20 minutes and bring their meals and snacks to their cell..
They would have family visits in a suite built for that purpose.
They would have access to a library, weight room, spiritual counselling, pool and education.
Simple clothing, shoes, slippers, PJ's and legal aid would be free, on request.
Private, secure rooms for all, with an exercise outdoor yard, with gardens.
Each senior could have a PC a TV radio and daily phone calls.
There would be a board of directors to hear complaints, and the guards would have a code of conduct that would be strictly adhered to.
The criminals would get cold food, be left all alone and unsupervised. Lights off at 8pm, and showers once a week. Live in a tiny room and pay $400.00 per week and have no hope of ever getting out.
Given that Herself works in an old-folks home, the final description is depressingly closer to reality than it should be...even in the "good" homes.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Now all they need is $2 x 1013 to bring the plan to fruition.
Software Zen: delete this;
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That's just an implementation detail! 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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I think this is already implemented:
Quote: They MUST buy $100 WORTH of alcohol (a couple of jugs of good wine ) / tobacco a week .....
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OriginalGriff wrote: I got sent this...
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Dear Prime Minister,
BRAKING NEW!!!
Holy sh*tsnacks, Prime Minister of Canada goes by the name of OriginalGriff on Codeproject.
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Hah! You fell for it! I am in fact much more important: I am a hamster...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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I heard of a cat mayor, but i never knew that the Prime Minister of Canada is a hamster
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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My 2 year old daughter hijacked my laptop and started typing. As usual, I opened a Notepad window to help her in typing and as well as protect my open apps from rogue keystrokes. It happened that she typed a long list of junk and incidentally I found this word 'icidism' in between. I thought it must be some fun word and tried to bing it only to find that such a word doesn't exist. Anyone heard of it or want to assign a new meaning to it?
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WARNING - not to prefix with 'su'.
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ICIDISM: The belief that Imperial Chemical Industries is the saviour of all mankind and should be worshiped as a God. Rarely used outside the Imperial Chemical Industries boardroom, though they wish it had been. Now redundant, it was replaced with "Akzonobeldism" in 2008.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Icidists are very secretive and live to the north of the polar circle for religious reasons.
Sent from my BatComputer via HAL 9000 and M5
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Congratulations on your bright young neologista in the making !
I think "icidism" could be:
1. a term of scorn and ridicule used by ardent believers in global warming to describe the world-view of those who deny global warming.
2. a term used with pride by those who do not believe in global warming to describe their world-view.
You could round-out "icidism" with some complementary terms, like:
1. icidivism : a term used by those who believe in global warming to describe those who once dis-believed in global warming, and then changed their minds and believed in it, but, have now gone back to denying global warming. also a term used by dis-believers in global warming to describe people who have recently converted from believing in global warming to dis-believing in it: often said as a way of indicating some doubt about the sincerity, or depth, of the convert's beliefs.
2. icidivist : an activist who promulgates icidism
3. icidismus : a state of depression icidivists are prone to after unsuccessful fund-raising events
4. icidivista : a new convert to dis-belief in global warming. used as a compliment by those who dis-believe in global warming, and an insult by those who believe in it.
5. icidosis : a state of rapture that those who believe in icidism enter when they read new weather statistics that seem to confirm there is no substance to the theory of global warming. rarely fatal.
6. icidyounot : slang.
a. as a forceful statment, or ejaculation, when used by those who dis-believe in global warming in conversation with others who dis-believe in global warming: a form of friendly banter, or "joshing," that confirms inter-group membership and builds group cohesion.
b. as a response, when used by those who believe in global warming in conversation with others who believe in global warming: a form of teasing riposte uttered when the hearer questions the sincerity, or beliefs, of the speaker. pronounced with a lilting "rising" tone at the end, as if a question is being asked.
c. when used by those who do not believe in global warming in shouting at those who believe in global warming: a form of mockery, or taunting ... often chanted rhythmically at mass demonstrations. pronounced with the accent on the syllable "not."
d. when used by those who do believe in global warming in shouting at those who dis-believe in global warming a form of mockery, or taunting ... often chanted rhythmically at mass demonstrations. pronounced with the accent on the syllable "kid."
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
modified 21-Oct-13 2:28am.
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icidism (n.): The condition exhibited by toddler-aged children when exposed to new foods or outdoor experiences, and their response is "Ick!". Colloquial form of ickidism.
Software Zen: delete this;
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icidism - the resulting behavior of a hardware-based artificial intelligence that has developed an ego. See also icidistic.
Marc
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If it's a hard c, it's the penchant to smell like a fish, obviously.
Or, if it's a soft c, the act of being in France, which is far worse.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Shameel wrote: tried to bing it only to find that such a word doesn't exist
Wow.
1. We have finally found who is that bing user.
2. "To bing" something and not getting result is the usual behavior of this search engine, so do not derive too much assumptions from that fact it did not return something usable.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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When did you last use Bing? I don't find much difference between the search results from google and bing.
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![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Chris - Fleurs et une carte, à partir de la plupart d'entre nous?
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A card maybe, but flowers? No Way!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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He is good. Very good.
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Does Sergey has a job ? (![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) Congratulations!)
"If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"
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Yes he does. His job is to post on other peoples answers telling them to look at his answer instead.
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OK, that's interesting.
I've seen stuff like that in the Q/A section, and that's primarily what demotivated me from taking part in answering. Good to know it's still going on.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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And tell beginners they haven't asked a question, or phrased it exactly right!
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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