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Munchies_Matt wrote: It isnt pleasant, to take life, to butcher a carcass. To offload that on someone else is dishonest.
No, it's respectfull to have a butcher do it, and not a programmer. One who knows what he is doing and doesn't waste meat.
Munchies_Matt wrote:
I think until you do pull the trigger, get the knife out and gut it, you havent earned the right to eat meat.
There's no way a kid here is getting a gun 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I dont waste meat when I butcher an animal.
And yes, kids do often hunt, at least here in the UK anyway.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: I dont waste meat when I butcher an animal.
I'm happy that I recently learned how to cut up a chicken in the same a similar way a butcher does*. I will never butcher a cow, since that is too much meat for my fridge. There's a restaurant near with exotic meats where I like to eat - but I'm not stupid enough to propose me killing and butchering a crocodile. The crocodile may not understand and turn the table on me 
Munchies_Matt wrote: And yes, kids do often hunt, at least here in the UK anyway.
Not a common pastime for modern kids, and not much animals to hunt in Central London. Killing something is hard. I had the luck that I could practice on fish first.
*) there's this piece called "sot l’y laisse"; I always assumed the tenderloin to be the best part, but it's not.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Not a common pastime for modern kids
You should see my nephew! 
No, not common, unless you live in the country.
I have butchered a deer before, they are pretty big.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: You should see my nephew!
At least it's a valuable skill to learn
Munchies_Matt wrote: I have butchered a deer before, they are pretty big.
That'd be a months worth of meat, probably even more 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Quote: ... a few times in their lives kill and butcher an animal for food
Or at least watch a slaughter ....
A few months ago a butcher slaughtered two pigs in Switzerland in public to show people what that means. There were big protests against this public slaughtering ... I can not understand this hypocrisy.
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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0x01AA wrote: I can not understand this hypocrisy.
Quite.
Make people damn well aware of where their bacon is coming from. It isnt pretty, killing an animal, it is grotesque, sad, ugly. It is only those who can face doing so who have earned the right to eat meat.
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"Animal rights activists cry out, threaten lawsuits and urge the government to ban the action"
Yet their purpose would be better served were they to let the event go ahead and reap the public horror and sentiment.
The fools.
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If the meat doesn't meet your needs, will someone mete out your punishment?
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It's meat, if you like it, eat it. If you don't then don't eat it. What's your problem?
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I lost some memory in my computer - I didn't mind one bit.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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have you tried paging for it?
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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Well it is prom season.
"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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That bytes!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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I once had a flip-flop go missing at the beach.
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You expect me to believe that? I binary a word of it and it's not because I have any bios against you. Byte your tongue!
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I had to give a guy twice that to get a shave and a haircut.
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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Gösta Berlings Saga - For Europa[^]
Couldn't find this track on YouTube, so it's a bandcamp link this week.
I was at work at about 17:00 last week and the rest of my team had gone home.
So I thought I'd put on a little music, opened Spotify, and it recommended Gösta Berlings Saga.
Never heard of them, not the related artists, so I don't really know why Spotify recommended it to me, but I'm glad they did! 
It's instrumental rock, progressive, psychedelic, awesome!
A very easy SOTW
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I may have seen them live once...
Good old times
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edit ...
this did the trick:
Open an elevated command prompt, execute:
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
then execute:
sfc /scannow
then run win updater, and settle in for hours of update foo.
end edit ... "Feature update to Windows 10, version 1803 - Error 0x80070002"
Been a while now since I've been living with this: posting a message on MS support led to (surprise) nothing helpful, and various messages from no-nothing other users in sundry languages I can't read being forwarded to me.
I've run the Win Update TroubleShooting thing as admin with no results: it claims to have "fixed" various things each time I run it, but the updsate error remains the same.
Researching te error message led me nowhere. No way I'm going to revert to a previous restore point, or do a clean install !
Considering the BSOD reports on this update I've read, perhaps I'm not missing much ?
thanks, Bill
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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I know this won't help you at all, but if I can just commiserate...
I have plenty of systems here at home, both physical and virtual, that have had the original Windows 10 release installed on them, and then diligently upgraded to newer versions as they came out, all without much of a hitch. I honestly can't remember any sort of serious problem while upgrading.
Since 1803 came out however, I've repeatedly tried to install it on this one system that simply refuses to complete successfully, and rolls back to 1709. It always fails at some data migration phase (I don't have the error code in front of me, but it's definitely not the 0x80070002 error you're seeing). There's plenty of free space on the drive, and there's not much else I can think of that might help (surely some log exists somewhere...but that could actually be helpful, so lets not show that to the user)...
Last night I told it to go ahead and nuke everything on it instead (if there's no data to migrate, it shouldn't even enter those steps that lead to the failure). This morning I woke up to a login screen, which now refuses all known local and domain accounts and passwords. The option to reset the password tells me I need some USB key to be connected. WTF?
Next step is to try a clean install with a USB key created from the ISO - as opposed to initiating the setup.exe from within Windows.
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I think the same team that manages Windows is also in charge of new automobile features. Remember back when you used to could work on your own car, and only had to take it to a mechanic when the job required something heavy (e.g., re-sleeve a cylinder) or maybe a special tool? Nowadays simple things like headlight or spark plug replacement require several hours to do or even a trip to the mechanic simply because someone at the manufacturer decided it would be better this way. And if you are unfortunate enough to have a new LED headlight assembly, those are replaced at the tune of several hundred dollars each. I used to could replace a head gasket in a truck while leaning over the fender well. If I was feeling adventurous, I would remove the hood and actually sit in the engine compartment and do it. That same task today, and others, requires the cab to be removed. This was deemed acceptable by some executive.
Windows used to be easy to install, configure, and use. Somebody decided that was no longer the way.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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My dad's a mechanic - I know exactly what you're talking about.
Back to modern systems - what's really starting to irritate me is laptops that no longer have an access panel at the bottom to quickly swap the hard drive. I have a bunch of spares, and I often replace the drive in one of my old laptops if, for some reason, I want/need to run an OS natively on a real machine, as opposed to a VM. Nowadays, a lot of laptops no longer have that access panel, which means taking apart pretty much the entire laptop - which I no longer have the time, patience, inclination, or finesse for. I may already have bought my last laptop because of this.
modified 15-Jun-18 15:35pm.
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