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And even that has it's problems, as Tarzan was marooned on the west coast of Africa, and Swahili was spoken in East Africa ... 
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And in the movies, he named his monkey after a cat.
At least he named "boy" correctly.
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I was determining whether I wanted to install WSL to check it out.
[X] Correct version of Win10
[X] It told me I needed to insure that Developer Mode is on I knew I already had that turned on (from UWP development)-- but when I went to check that setting suddenly I saw the following:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/fVSoH.png
See the spinner at the bottom? 
That is odd that suddenly Win10 is installing something because I checked the setting
Finally, I saw this:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/rEawy.png
Remote tooling for desktop is now enabled.  ????
That feels very odd. Just weird that checking a setting causes something to be installed.
Microsoft, get your act together!!
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Microsoft just knows what's best for you
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Yeah, they just add stuff.
Microsoft: open wide, we'll just shovel this stuff in.
Customer: <gasp> wait...what is it? <cough>
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Soon you will see: "Please wait, Windows is updating your system. Do not turn your computer off, do not pass Go, do not collect $200" 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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raddevus wrote: Remote tooling for desktop is now enabled.
That's so that someone working from a script in India can remote into your computer and fix what the "developer" broke.
Or maybe it just changes the colors of the metro screen tiles to B&W. "Developer", get it?
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Those two guesses are as good as any others about what Microsoft has done to my machine.
Marc Clifton wrote: changes the colors of the metro screen tiles to B&W. "Developer"
I think that second one is probably the correct one. 
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I think they needed to install (thus download) the developer mode package 
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Message Removed
modified 5-May-18 8:21am.
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Annual Plagiarism for today:
Most people don’t know that back in 1912, Hellmann’s mayonnaise was manufactured in England. In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment scheduled for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after its stop in New York.
This would have been the largest single shipment of mayonnaise ever delivered to Mexico. But as we know, the great ship did not make it to New York. The ship hit an iceberg and sank, and the cargo was forever lost.
The people of Mexico, who were crazy about mayonnaise, and were eagerly awaiting its delivery, were disconsolate at the loss. Their anguish was so great, that they declared a National Day of Mourning, which they still observe to this day.
The National Day of Mourning occurs each year on May 5th and is known, of course, as Sinko de Mayo.
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:groan: 
I've deleted your Lesley - I assume it went to moderation...
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Thanks
finger check.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Seconded - :groan:
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Shocking, did not know that, but Wikipedia says Hellmans was made in New York.
Like Hellmans btw, over here we put it on French fries 
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I prefer it to homemade mayo.
And not only because it cuts the time to make a sandwich down from half an hour to something reasonable...
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RickZeeland wrote: btw, over here we put it on French fries
no worries putting it on french crap, maar niet op je frietjes, euuuuw
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Dammit! They canceled the Alderaan flight! I'd better call Aunt Padmé Amidala and tell her I'll be late...
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I have a bad feeling about this...
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Pre-Twitter, Disney would already have filed the lawsuit.
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Flight duration now less than 12 parsecs
Unfortunately, somebody doesn't know that a parsec is a measure of distance, not time.
a unit of distance used in astronomy, equal to about 3.26 light years (3.086 × 1013 kilometers). One parsec corresponds to the distance at which the mean radius of the earth's orbit subtends an angle of one second of arc.
Although bizarrely, a parsec has time in its definition.
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Quote: Although bizarrely, a parsec has time in its definition
No, an arcsecond is just a 3600th of a degree. Just like an arcminute is a sixtieth of a degree, which happens to be part of the definition of a nautical mile.
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These days at the office I'm in charge of emailing license activation keys to customers who request them if, say, their machines can't access the internet to do automatic activation after a new install.
We have a dialog box that shows users their license key, a unique machine code, and a text field in which they're expected to paste the activation key we generate for them. There's clear instructions on that dialog box that they need to email us their license key and machine code, and there's a button to copy those values to the clipboard.
Every once in a while someone will send us a screenshot of the dialog box showing the key/machine code. Which means we have to type in those values. Neither are exactly short strings, so there's always a risk of us mistyping something - this is why there's a "copy to clipboard" button, so we can copy them from a plain text source.
When interacting to customers, I always go out of my way to be a nice guy, but sometimes I'm very tempted to respond in kind, by taking a screenshot of our licensing software showing the activation key they have to paste, with the note, "now you know why that Copy button is there".
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