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Previously owned now set free (flew away) probably. Although by choice or not is another thing.
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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DaveAuld wrote: Somebody said in Qatar the bird would have fetched around $10k, so some of the guys were disappointed they let it go!
Glad you let it go, as at the risk of being superstitious there is a certain poem about a particular bird and the sea.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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DaveAuld wrote: Then I saw the pictures, and surpised that no one got eaten alive or their eyes torn out.
or, unless that coverall is made of very heavy duty fabric; just getting their arm torn up...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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It is a light weight summer overall cloth. So yes, it left marks!
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Just to be a downer, I hope health and safety don't see the pictures, a bird of such proportions (or any bird) taken into a workplace will have then shitting bricks.
Impressive beastie, I have a photo of a wallaby hopping through our garden, taken from the home office window. Nowhere near as impressive 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It is the middle east, health and safety has different meaning here.........not once has anyone ever said, put a lid on that cup in the 2.5 years I have been here!
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In an earlier post Blown Off the Face of the Web[^] I noted how my appearance in search engines was hijacked when an on-line gambling site bought the previous domain when I released it and grabbing up my 14+ years activity. The new version of the site was disappeared.
This may be in part to my changing the intra-site links to full paths rather than the simpler name (which mapped to the real host). Maybe.
Well - it finally reappeared in a search. The tiny crack I was looking for. Clicking through and paging and lingering. It was still there later. Now, I'm mobilizing an small army of users to search for it, click through, and browse. Let Google stats take care of the rest. I also warn the growing army to absolutely not click on the Thai script version out of curiosity as it will aid the enemy.
Since the search is of interest to only a comparatively small group, click-throughs and browsing should lock it on page one of the search rather quickly. It's been two days and it's already at the top of one search, mid-page on one that failed completely last week.
Hopefully, now it's my turn. Nah hah hah!
[update]
2017.09.28 - apparently they noticed my site above theirs and fought back. I'm not surprised; just wondering if it's with a bot-army or poorly paid meat-bags?
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
modified 28-Sep-17 10:41am.
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"Satellite comber is top sheet." (9)
Good luck.
Andy B
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MOONRAKER
(but I have no idea why)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Well done - it's your turn tomorrow.
I'll let others have some fun working out the full solution.
Andy B
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Moon = Satellite
Raker = Comber
The uppermost sail on a fully rigged ship is the Moonraker.
This space for rent
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Well done Peter, but just pipped by your namesake for the answer.
Andy B
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But a sheet is a rope, not a sail! 
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Well you live and learn! Thanks Matt, luckily the clue solvers managed to work around my error  .
Andy B
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Spent many days sailing since I was a kid!
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I had MOON and RAKER, just couldn't see beyond 007 for the meaning.  Thanks!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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So today Google turns 19. My oh my... it seems like yesterday when I first saw Google on the screens of the youngsters. Of course I refused such new fads! Clung on to Altavista like mad for a year or so before I gave in. Anyway today the logo click got me to this nifty little thing:
Chrome Music Lab
Worth a spin.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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It seems only about 15% of us consider .NET Core as platform for development, the question is why?
1. Either no interest in multiplatform
2. Or does not consider .NET Core as a good choice for that
Any opinions?
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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I am so glad I write in C still. I can remain blissfully ignorant of all this latest must have technology.
Imagine the time spent learning COM, all wasted. Java too, gone by the wayside.
Good old C, it lasts forever!
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Me thinks C++ try you should. I never looked back.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I use C++ in MFC for writing test apps and the odd cpl applet, but so much of what I do is process based that C really is the best language.
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C IS good, indeed... Maybe C++ a bit better... But there are lines of development you can not use them... Not without spitting blood at least...
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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Of course, fortunately I dont go anywhere near those lines of development!
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Lucky you! 
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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Benefits of working in the kernel, it hasnt really changed in decades, seriously.
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