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He is of course correct:
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." (Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man)
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My motorbike is faster than light. That has side effetcs at nigh.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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I used to have a Ducati that was faster than it's own electricity... 
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I know the Ducati are quite slow, indeed[^].
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Sounds about right for that Ducati: if you went too fast, it would die with electrical problems.
Mind you, it would die with electrical problems if there was an "R" in the month as well...
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Ducati are both fascinating and fragile.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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They are a whole load better nowadays than they were in my youth - in the pre pantah days the electrical system was constructed from dry spaghetti and the control cables from wet - but I have had an enormous amount of fun on ST2s, ST4s, and 996's over the years (even if I spent more time swearing at and mending a 750 Darmah than riding it when I was young)
I like V Twins! 
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Quote: Eisenstein's theory of relativity seems flawed
It certainly is, as Eisensten[^] was a film director who looked like Eraserhead[^]!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Eisenstein
Oh my God.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Well if it were Toronto, then I'd say it makes sense, as the mayor would probably find doorknobs to be difficult to work in a drunken coke-induced stupor.
Marc
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Well, that makes perfect sense to me. After all, we'll shortly be evolving into bipedal creatures with legs as functional as the wings on a penguin, due a profound lack of interest in walking, so we'll mostly get about on wheels. And since we're also going to be developing flipper-like appendages with tiny, pointed opposable digits suited to poking tiny images on portable, wireless communications devices, knobs may present quite a challenge. Go Vancouver! I'm all for it...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: as functional as the wings on a penguin
Um... wings on penguins are VERY functional...
Have you seen them swim? 
Also, I think a slap from an Emperor penguin can break your bone.
So I think humans forgetting how to walk are less useful than penguins forgetting how to fly. 
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...
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PaulowniaK wrote: Also, I think a slap from an Emperor penguin can break your bone.
Isn't that swans?
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Hey we know the real reason for the ban: Accident and Emergency units...
Things I have fished out...[^] (Technically SFW, but frankly if you value your innocence, I wouldn't click the link. Or become a doctor. There are some very odd people out there!)
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In Vancouver 8.0, all buildings will have to be built with baby blocks in primary colours.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If you're lucky, your knob will be "grandfathered in". (I don't want to know what that means, but it's in the article.)
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The bylaw is for new building only; there are no provisions to force people to change their current door knobs.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: The bylaw is for new building only; there are no provisions to force people to change their current door knobs.
... yet.
The next step will be to add it to the list of features that must be updated as part of any renovation when a building permit is issued. And at some point along the way legal trolls will start extorting businesses that haven't voluntarily upgraded yet.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Just wondering. Are there any other women of a certain age in here with more that a couple decades of software behind you?
Also, what is the average age of Loungers?
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stgagnon wrote: Also, what is the average age of Loungers?
That would be a great idea for a straw poll - Let's do an adhoc survey.
20 years, and about two months.
Veni, vidi, caecus
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stgagnon wrote: what is the average age of Loungers
That is a particularly difficult question as some of us are coming in to our second childhood.
I don't think CM collects age info on the profiles, and probably doesn't care as it is not a factor in the value of the contributions.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Speak for yourself. I couldn't be bothered leaving my first childhood.
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Exactly!! If growing up was any fun, I would have done it already!!
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