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I know your post (end even cited from it).
OriginalGriff wrote: Possibly, it's for the rep points
<sarcasm>Then they are stupid. Reporting first gives another chance of final approving doubling the rep points.</sarcasm>
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Have I ever accused a rep point hunter of being intelligent?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sometimes I wonder if instinctive self-aggrandizement is not an innate feature of Homo Sap.
Is that reflected, in English, when we use the word "pay" with "attention to" ?
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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OriginalGriff wrote: Seems there are some - probably new - moderators who just hit "Approve" without reading anything at all. Possibly, it's for the rep point
I just looked into the criteria to approve/disapprove the article and think found the root cause. I have raised the issue into the forum for tweaking.
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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The three sons stand around the open grave, looking down at their father's casket, after the ceremony is finished. A gravedigger stands by holding a shovel, unsure if the sons will want to do the customary throwing of a handful of earth in final farewell.
The bereaved mother comes rushing up, to tell the sons that their father's last wish was that they should each put a one-hundred dollar bill in the grave. The sons are baffled by this, but, of course, they will respect the last wish.
The oldest son, an engineer, takes a one-hundred dollar bill out from his wallet and drops it in. The second, son, a doctor, does the same. The third son, a programmer, takes out a sheet of paper, writes on it, then drops that in the grave.
The rest of the family looks disturbed: "What did you just put in the grave," the mother asks in an irritated tone of voice. "Always had to be different, that one," said the engineer; "Why the hell didn't you put the money in ?," said the doctor.
The programmer, looking baffled by these questions, said: "I put in the formula for compound interest at the current rate, and gave him one-third of what the balance would be after two-hundred years, which is one-thousand dollars."
note: this is my own take on a very old story usually involving a doctor, engineer, and lawyer.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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I was expecting that he put only a reference for the real dollar bill instance. 
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Yeah, I was expecting the paper to be the "address" of where the money is located, passing the money by reference rather than by value...
Er, I can't think of a funny signature right now.
How about a good fart to break the silence?
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BillWoodruff wrote: "I put in the formula for compound interest at the current rate, and gave him one-third of what the balance would be after two-hundred years, which is one-thousand dollars."
Thank goodness he wasn't buried at sea, because you get no return on a sunk cost
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I don't get it 
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There was a fourth son - an accountant - who removed the bills and replaced them with a cheque for $400...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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First thought was the third son put in a "bill" (invoice) for $100.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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I've always heard that the third guy (lawyer) puts in a check for $300 and takes out the $200 cash.
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I know this joke with the a cheque.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I think now you know both versions.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I'd ask to see the spec.
What's the deadline?
Can't I remove one of the other bills and then toss that one back in?
Once I have tossed in a bill can't I then remove it?
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Thank you for rocking my morning!
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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Nice one, but I still prefer Poison (because that's about his only song I know)
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This one's a personal favourite of mine because it reintroduces Steven (who last appeared 15 years earlier in Welcome To My Nightmare). Also, while the lyrics are quite dark, it's a catchy riff.
This space for rent
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I really can't choose between "Freedom!", "Brutal Planet" and "Love is a loaded gun".
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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Sander Rossel wrote: The melody also reminds me of Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber
What are you smoking ? That video is nothing but visual titillation and a bunch of loops.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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BillWoodruff wrote: hat video is nothing but visual titillation and a bunch of loops.
I never said anything about the video... 
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By the way Bill, so far you've only let me know what music you DON'T like.
So what DO you like?
I know it's nothing with a beat or distorted guitars.
The only thing you had to say about Samuel Barber is that I must be smoking something so I am inclined to rule out classical music as well.
You didn't reply to my jazz track of last week, so you either didn't listen to it or maybe you actually like jazz?
Whatever genre you like will be my song of next week (unless it's really something awful, like ballads) 
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Hi Sander,
I owe you an apology for ragging on your song choices too much. So, there, I apologize, and I appreciate the warm dignity of this response to my tresspass !
Musical tastes are just that: "tastes," and they should be respected. And, our tastes do change with age. I had the good-fortune-and-curse to come of age in the halcyon years of the 1960's in California,and to hear, in person, some of the greats including Janis Joplin, Beautiful Day, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, John Maclaughlin and Shakti, Ali Akbar Khan, Procul Harum, Jeffeson Airplane, The Eagles, The Beach Boys, Little Richard, James Brown, B. B. King, King Crimson, Neil Young, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pandi Chaurassia, Paco de Lucia, Al DiMeola, Sabicas, Montoya, and so forth. But now, with around 900 moons mileage on this sack of bones-and-meat, my tastes have really shifted
By the way, I love Barber's Adagio, and I've always felt it was "near in spirit" to Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor.
Here's an example of the kind of music that interests me most these days:
Cerik Erdogan playing a maqqam on fretless guitar: [^].
I really enjoy the music of the Norwegian composer Oystein Sevag, and his often frequent collaboration with guitarist Lakki Pattey, as on this track: [^].
And, I like listening to "ecstatic music" from the "middle-east:" like this concert by Hossein Alizadeh & Hamavayan 92 [^].
My favorite music "to program to" is the album by American composer David Parsons, "Ngaio Gamelan," very influenced by his deep immersion in Balinese music [^].
So, you may see, now, why I don't post a "song of the week," and I will shut-up about yours
cheers, Bill
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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