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Nathan Minier wrote: North Korea's good name is being besmirched so scandalously
99% of crazed North Korean dictators are giving a bad reputation to the rest of them.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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What better place is there for you to make mendacious political jibes then a programmers forum?
History is the joke the living play on the dead.
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With which part of my statement did you disagree?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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What part of this is a "programmers forum" did you not understand, with the implicit statement that political commentary is not to be encouraged?
History is the joke the living play on the dead.
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"Programmer's Forum" is not the same as "Forum for discussing programs".
You imply that programmers should not discuss anything but programs.
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I'd say you were discussing NK's nuclear program.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Ian Bell, #2 wrote: nothing to do with a programmers forum
so no different then 99.9999% of the things posted in the lounge then.
"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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Political commentary is supposedly an off topic here. However, one can be forgiven for getting the impression that certain members here support and encourage US propaganda.
History is the joke the living play on the dead.
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"...that affected more than 230,000 computers in more than 150 countries earlier this year."
I was surprised by how low that number was.
Cornelius Henning wrote: Well duh! And how about spending money to upgrade your antiquated XP operating system, to something more resistant to Ransom viruses, like Windows 10?
According to Kaspersky, 98% of the infected systems were running Windows 7.
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The point is that Windows 10 is immune against the WannaCry thing, whereas earlier operating systems are not. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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United Nations company choice noisily chewed down clumsily (13)
Clue slightly expanded
United Nations = UN
Company = Co
Choice = Or
Noisily = Din
Chewed = Ate
Down = D
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modified 19-Dec-17 10:48am.
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...chomp?
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I did think of un-com-mendable as in 'mandible'
modified 19-Dec-17 10:28am.
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Not quite.
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uncompensated
uncompetitive
uncomplaining
uncomplaisant
uncomplicated
uncompressing
uncompromised
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Unco - spot on. If you get the noisily, the rest becomes a piece of cake.
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Uncoordinated?
UNCO, obviously - din + ate perhaps?
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
modified 19-Dec-17 10:47am.
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looks good, where is the 'choice' though?
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Yup.
Choice = Or.
Down = D.
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Sorry Pete just had another day from hell and I'm not used to being on two days in a row _ thanks for filling in
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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So a young friend of mine, currently out of work with rent and car finance to pay is currently in the process of applying for Flu Camp [^] (he's registered his interest and is currently awaiting medical results to see if he is suitable).
If his application is successful, he will be placed in a house in London for two weeks, injected with the flu virus, subjected to experimental drugs and monitored. For his troubles he will be given just short of £4K + free board.
So my question is, would you consider doing this? For the purpose of this theoretical question imagine you are still getting paid from your regular job - like paid holiday without losing any holiday allocation - so in affect you're getting 4K on top of your regular salary. I got to admit I would consider it.
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