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Funny this would be posted just now - not sure when it launched but nextdoor.com allows you to organize your communities, etc. Very useful for alerts, ideas, and suggestions, but this morning there was a very ribald rant against MS and forced Windows updates. Now this guy is apparently tech savvy and listed the 3 KB articles to remove and hide to avoid MS "helping" you. I won't bore you with all of the neighbors' comments.
So, MS has been pestering me to upgrade, and I'm just not going to do it to my dev machine. If it isn't broke don't elephant with it. So, I removed the three innocuous KB articles and proceeded to reboot. And went to:
"Configuration in process. DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR MACHINE"
got some coffee, drank it, still working...
went upstairs, brushed teeth, etc came back - still working...
about this time I'm thinking, "Oh #$#$%#, MS is doing something evil to me."
after 45 minutes, it finally shutdown and booted. Ai Ai Ai 
I'm not against Win10. I have it in a VM, but no, not my breadwinner.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Thank gawd the Rude Awakening arc is over, one can only take so much fourth wall.
veni bibi saltavi
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I've started keeping my small change in the freezer – I like cold, hard cash.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That one should go back from pence it came.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I'm so poor I can't even pay attention to that.
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Frankly, I didn't peso much attention either.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Spare me the change from dollars to peso, or I'll charge you.
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Sounds like your yen and yang is out of balance.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Nah, just want to stay up to date on current affairs.
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I dream of being run over by a Rolls Royce.
I can only afford to be run over by buses, these days.
(Spike Milligan, paraphrased only because I can't remember the exact wording.)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Apparently he is the author of the funniest joke of all time:
Two hunters are out in the woods in New Jersey when one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed.
The other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps 'My friend is dead! What can I do?' The operator says: 'Calm down, I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead.' There is a silence, then a shot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says 'OK, now what?'
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He's the author of thousands of the funniest jokes of forever.
I had the chance to meet him, many years ago, on a trip to Oz, but other priorities (which were really nowhere near as important to me) took precedence.
He died, soon after, so that chance could never be repeated. I could have had a private meeting with a true genius, but passed on it.
Talk about "Regrets, I've had a few".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If I forget to put it in the freezer, is that a cache miss?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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 Of these posts, we do hereby put a freeze on (er, right where) your assets of your depositing them and will bill you for expense of our time spent exchanging responses to the same, however culpable we may be in all this transactional fodder. 
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If you take out the money and put them in your pocket, do you get cold feets then?
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"Icy what you mean", to coin a phase.
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Just got off the phone with the DVLA, allegedly I should get the form today/tomorrow but the 5-10 days is just in case the post is playing up...
... then they ask me ...
... "Have you filled in this other form? No? Don't worry I'll send you one."
Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
veni bibi saltavi
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I really, really, really feel sad for you. Have some chocolate.
Kitty at my foot and I waAAAant to touch it...
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At this point one has to wonder how close is the DVLA office and do they have a metal detector at the door? 
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If you're gonna drink and drive, make sure you have a vehicle.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Ask for the form that documents the fact that you don't like to fill out forms... 
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<smart@rse linux w*nker mode>
You should dump the car and buy a bicycle!
</smart@rse linux w*nker mode>
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Nagy, please reconsider; you are far too young to opt for euthanasia; please tear-up that Death Voluntary License Agreement, now. You are loved, and valued, by so many here. Your oscillations between the antipodes of the bell-curve of the sobriety-drunk continuum provide a valuable benchmark for those of us stumbling around the mean, the median, and the mode.
You can call me and talk this over if you wish; please have your credit-card information ready. Be assured you are not alone in feeling this way.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I just wonder: is there any job post out there in the multiverse that actually omits the bizarre requirement of "being able to work in a fast-paced environment"? Is that really and honestly regarded as a good thing? Also, is the widespread abuse of empty catchy phrases like this one that make them lose their meaning, or is it that they never had one to start with?
Anything that could possibly go wrong in some moment, will definitely go wrong in the worst possible moment...
In the worst way that could be possible! –Finagle's corollary to Murphy's Law (paraphrased).
modified 21-Nov-20 21:01pm.
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