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Anything that reduces the amount of advertising and marketing in the world can only increase happiness.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I didn't even know YouTube had ads.
Why on earth..... Haven't you people heard of ad blocker?
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Not YouTube! The Tube. The London Underground!  Follow the fricking link!
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OH! I didn't even look at the original link. Very cool stuff.
I hope they succeed.
Advertising is just another form of vandalism, as far as I am concerned.
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... and their lovely voices. They should make this the official theme for their TV series:
MEOW![^]
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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werewolf mask and pant like a dog . cats sound funny. I have convinced children that homeless people are werewolves
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Member 12496887 wrote: I have convinced children that homeless people are werewolves
This is an AWESOME idea! I must start doing this. The last one I did was convinced a kid that if they put their hand over their nose like a polar bear, they were invisible. That led to some excellent moments.
(I don't have kids, so take the opportunity to mess around with their heads whenever I can. LOL)
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You guys are having a 'coffee' in Amsterdam, right?
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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Do kids today know the sound of bionics?
Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh.
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Quote: BJOTD
It matters not how long I have been a CP member, I never get the acronym right at the first try. 
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
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den2k88 wrote: I never get the acronym right at the first try
Obviously it's "Brent Jenkins Of The Day" (and about time too, I say!) 
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Aram Khachaturian - Sabre Dance[^]
This weeks choice for song of the week was hard!
I've been listening to classical music a lot and there were really multiple contestants for song of the week.
Khachaturian's Sabre Dance is an uptempo piece with lots of percussion. It's from the ballet Gayaneh[^] which has pretty amazing music (never seen the actual dance).
This particular song has been a favorite since my early childhood as it was used on a cassette tape with (fairy) tales I used to listen to a lot (this song was used in "Treasure Island").
As this week was so hard I DO want to make an honorable mention of Modest Mussorgsky's The Great Gate At Kiev[^] from his famous Pictures At An Exhibition[^].
And yes, I said Mussorgsky, not Emerson, Lake & Palmer[^] 
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How was the sound quality on your machine? I found it had quite a bit of Rattle 
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Sander Rossel wrote: never seen the actual dance
Then you must![^]
That, by the way, is not Mussorgsky's Great Gate but Ravel's. Mussorgsky's version was for solo piano, so actually ELP's version being largely keyboard is, in a way, more faithful to the original.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I don't think Tom and Jerry ever featured classical music.
What? Blasphemer! The Cat Concerto and Tom and Jerry in The Hollywood Bowl are two of the most famous episodes ever. And there's more[^] and yet more[^] !
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Bluddy amateur Tom & Jerry watchers!
WTF do they teach them in schools, these days?
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Funny how I don't remember it from Tom and Jerry, but I do remember it from Disney 
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Sander Rossel wrote: I've never actually seen it listed as Ravel
As 982365 said, it was written by Modest Mussorgsky for solo piano, but most orchestral performances are Maurice Ravel's arrangement.
From Modest Mussorgsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[^]:
Mussorgsky's most imaginative and frequently performed work is the cycle of piano pieces describing paintings in sound called Pictures at an Exhibition[^]. This composition, best known through an orchestral arrangement by Maurice Ravel[^], was written in commemoration of his friend, the architect Viktor Hartmann[^].
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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I'm just going to keep on bookmark these posts you make, so I can listen to it when I come home.
Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain is also very interesting. I was first exposed to it in my early childhood by Disney - the Chernobog[^] clip. But later upon rediscovery, I went to check out more of his music. He had some interesting ideas, thanks for reminding me of his existence.
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RUs123 wrote: Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain
Nope. Rimsky-Korsakov, this time! 
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9082365 wrote: Nope. Rimsky-Korsakov, this time!
Nope!² It is Modest Mussorgsky.
Night on Bald Mountain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[^]
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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Mussorgsky wrote the 'toon' yes but what you heard in Fantasia and all you'll ever hear in the modern concert repertoire is Rimsky-Korsakov's reworking. We simply have no way of knowing how much, if any of it, can reliably be said to belong to Mussorgsky.
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9082365 wrote: We simply have no way of knowing how much, if any of it, can reliably be said to belong to Mussorgsky.
According to Night on Bald Mountain - Rimsky-Korsakov's fantasy: Night on Bald Mountain (1886) / Composition history[^] Rimsky-Korsakov himself claims to minimal "interpolations":
With Mussorgsky's material as a basis, I decided to create an instrumental piece by retaining all of the author's best and coherent material, adding the fewest possible interpolations of my own.
But, yes, mostly what everyone hears under that name is the Rimsky-Korsakov arrangement/composition.
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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