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MarcusCole6833 wrote: (I am right handed)
Worries me that you felt the need to state this...
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Why else do laptops and codeproject exist?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I still try to pay attention to the meeting. With my last boss I could bet on him having a reason, sometimes political, sometimes for me to learn something new.
I do not draw, since it looks like you're a bored kid who cannot be bothered to listen for a few minutes. Imagine spending a lot of money (>100k) on a product, sitting down with the devs, and then see two of the devs drawing pictures like they prefer not to be there.
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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If I am needlesslty in a meeting, why would I need or want to keep my mind occupied?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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That should slow you down. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Interesting! The possibilities are endless; BOSD, crippling updates, ads, etc..
Got my site back up after my time in the woods!
JaxCoder.com
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This is solid proof of the pi's paramount place in the hobby market.
The only reason to go to all the effort of squeezing winio onto a pi is as a hobby task, because no sane non-ms-employee in the entire world wants it there.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Oh boy. 1gb of ram - running windows 10. What a satisfying experience that must be.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I really wonder if the tiny error in this response to a youtube video about killing a rat was intentional or not:
Quote: this is contrary to animal rights. I will complain to you.
Lady, you already are complaining!
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Maybe she should have written: I will rat on you! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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It sounded better in their head
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Rats, cockroaches and complaining women are about equally high on my list of what I let into my home.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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What that sounds like to me is probably not what you meant it to mean.
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Right, a Texas rattlesnake would be lower on my welcome list.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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You dirty rat!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Prepositions are extremely troublesome - maybe the last thing you learn to get right when learning another language. Closely related languages may use surprisingly different prepositions, and everyone thinks that their preposition is the only one that tells what is really going on. What's the time? Ten to eleven? Ten in eleven? Ten on eleven? Where do you go to school? in school? on school?
In lots of cases, two++ alternate prepositions are both correct, but with different meanings. In Norwegian, you can go "på" (on) some school, in the sense "the school you attend", and go "til" (to) school, in the sense be on your way to the school buildings.
I was preparing some course materials, in English, and in one PPT I was uncertain about my choice of preposition. I asked the English lady in our group. She rejected my choice, and told the right one. This was overheard by the American guy, who said No, no - you must use xxx! (I don't remember who had which proposal). This made so much noise that the Australian guy came to give his contribution, which was a third proposal. Those three people, all native English speakers had a real dogfight (although verbal only) about which preposition to use, neither of them accepting the two other proposals. The only thing they could agree on was that my proposal was totally wrong.
So they would all complain about my proposal. Or complain on it. Or complain with it. Or whatever preposition would be right in their respective Englishes.
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Dialects make things even more complicated. The truly amazing part was seeing two people having a chat, one of them from Hamburg (northern Germany) and othe other from Munich (southern Germany). Both the local dialects can be hard to understand and sound totally different. Yet both were somehow able to understand what the other was saying.
And here we have an example , how Bavarians do not speak:
Sheldon The Bavarian[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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A book called "Big blunders in international marketing" tells about a joint project between a British and an Amercan company that wasn't very successful; they had significant problems in communication and cooperation. Before one of their meetings (this was in the days of physical meetings...), it was asked that the cooperation problems "be tabled" at the meeting.
However, at one side of the Atlantic, "to table something" is to lay it down on the table face down, don't look at it, don't bring it up. On the other side of the pond, "to table it" is to lay it out on the table for everybody to see, and seriously consider. So the one group repeatedly tried to bring up the problematic questions - they had agreed to have the air cleaned, hadn't they? The other group did their best to evade these questions - they had agreed postpone those issuses until some other time, hadn't they? So after the meeting the relationships beween the groups were even worse than before...
(I don't have the book at hand, and cannot remember for certain if it was the Americans who put the isssues face down and the Brits who wanted them face up, or the other way around - I guess you Americans and Brits know. The point of the story is unaffected by it.)
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I haven't noticed Nagy Vilmos in quite some time. Did he run out of Gin or just move on to other pursuits?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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The poor sap got a job where he is expected to actually work rather than booze all day.
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A fate worse than death in other words! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Shares in Gordons fell dramatically on the news.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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So now is the time to buy shares in Gordons and then hack a bank?
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