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Due to a number of factors I found myself awake in the middle of the night so turned my telly on to try to occupy the mind a little.
The channel that was on was showing a documentary about Meatloaf's Bat Out Of Hell album so I watched, interesting enough, they talked to Meat, Jim Steinman, Todd Rundgren, the women who had sung on Paradise By The Dashboard Light, showed performances of the songs, easy enough to watch if you like the music.
At the end the credits rolled and then it said "Produced by ISIS".
Bit of a change from their usual videos I thought to myself, just looked them up on the internet.
Is it me, or does their logo[^] look a bit, erm, Nazi-y?
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The "S" looks like the Nazi SS, certainly.
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Do you mean like KISS
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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chriselst wrote: Nazi-y?
No 
It looks like six lines placed on a yellow board.
BTW: The Teuton S Rune you are referring to is not related in any way to the 3.Reich except for that they used it.
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HobbyProggy wrote: except for that they used it.
exactly, now they own it, unfortunately.
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Slacker007 wrote: exactly, now they own it, unfortunately.
Just because everyone let's em... i mean it's just because everyone believes that 
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HobbyProggy wrote: The Teuton S Rune you are referring to is not related in any way to the 3.Reich except for that they used it.
They did not care much about history and just reinvented it as needed. No wonder they just loved the sig rune, or 'victory'. Had they preferred English, then they would have 'V' all over the place.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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heck it could have even been produced by the mossad - we'll never know
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Never mind how it looks. Are they not concerned with how it reads? I've never heard of this company before, and it certainly is unfortunate that their brand has been absconded by thugs, but wouldn't you think it's high-time they rolled out a new name?
(On the flip side, though, maybe we could alter our foreign policy strategy and take down the Islamic State based on copyright infringement -- kinda like how Eliot Ness took out Al Capone...)
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There are quite a few businesses, organisations or other entities around called ISIS.
One was in the news a few months ago because they'd decided to change their name.
I'm sure it'll be a long, long time before any new entity decides to use the name or acronym.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Yes, we send an army of lawyers and they will immediately beg for mercy.
Or behead a lot of lawyers.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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So... A win-win-situation 
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Changing the name of a registered company is expensive and time consuming so is not to be undertaken lightly. The risk of a little adverse misunderstanding is no doubt preferable to the pain of bankrupting the company crossing out the name and putting in a new one.
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The Islamist extremists you refer to have never called themselves ISIS. That acronym (one of a number) is entirely the product of the Anglophone media. Maybe the company in question thinks most people can differentiate between Isis - the Goddess of nature and magic who has been around since 2500BC and some acronym devised in 2014 by a lazy press.
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
modified 16-Dec-15 19:27pm.
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At the rate it's going, VS2017 will be released before it's done 
Software Zen: delete this;
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Same here. Takes an awful lot of time...
Edit: No it's vomiting error messages all over the place. Great job, MS.
modified 16-Dec-15 9:02am.
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It took me over 90 minutes on an 8 core SSD brand new HP...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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In these cases, I would recommend that you download the offline installers because they are much better. Also, the installer takes like 8GB data and then installs it, so internet latency matters here.
After all, I installed it last night, took just an hour or a few minutes extra on my i7 with 4MB internet bandwidth. Infact, I repaired it (because of a few components missing) and it also took just 2 hours (give or take a minute).
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It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
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I don't like web installers. They make it difficult to achieve a consistent tool-set from one machine to the next, which is a concern in my environment.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I didn't recommend web installer, I asked for offline installer. 
Anyways, I prefer web installer. Why waste 8 GB of my HDD when a month later it will be obsolete (or at least old)?
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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In 2016?
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I heard "Twin Peaks in Space" was going to be shown yesterday, but I couldn't find it on any channel. Disappointed as it sounded like a good re-vamp.
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Is that a remake of Barbarella?
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