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Site visits to underground coal mines doing software changes to continuous miners.
If the methane level was low enough, sometimes would be right at the face standing in half metre of mud with water dripping from the unbolted roof. Good battery in the laptop helps as it can be a 500m walk back to the crib room where mains power is available.
Big difference between countries - Australia very high safety standard, in the US bigger mines are OK, but the small ones can be a bit of a worry. China I just refused to go underground - they have improved a lot, but still over a 1000 deaths a year.
Miners are well paid and were mostly getting more than I was - but that was fine by me.
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Finally, enough of enough was empty.
He could tell which mirror in the endless series of reflections was made of glass, and break it.
That left only one mirror: the one he saw himself reflected in ... now.
He wondered at the fact he was actually asking his reflection: "Why am I wondering why freedom tastes both bitter as well as sweet ?" at the same time an inner conviction seemed to precipitate out of some magical nowhere/nowhen as shapes that turned into letters ... glyphs on-fire with dancing luminescent pale-blue flames against a background of ultimate black's shimmering emptiness ... which read:
"The moment you stop asking yourself this question: you are a slave again."
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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Slavery of freedom, Bill?
Humanity has been fighting for freedom since its very beginning... Yet never achieved freedom, independence til now.  You step out of one, you enter the next arena and so on and so forth. Never ending slavery maze goes on and on.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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At a certain point I lost track of you.
You needed me. You needed to perfect me.
In your absence you polished me into the Enemy.
Your history gets in the way of my memory.
I am everything you lost. You can't forgive me.
I am everything you lost. Your perfect Enemy.
Your memory gets in the way of my memory:
I am being rowed through Paradise in a river of Hell:
Exquisite ghost, it is night.
Agha Shahid Ali ... excerpt from his poem "Farewell"
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: Yet never achieved freedom, independence til now.
Slavery has simply been replaced a more complex system of corporations and money lenders. The former doesn't pay a living wage for most people, the latter ensures we owe so much in interest that we have to slave away for the former. It saddens me when I think how many people have two (or more!) jobs to make ends meet and therefore can't go to school to obtain better training and couldn't afford those schools without taking out massive loans, and so we're back to "the infinite images in the mirror." Sadly, we are still probably several hundred years away from understanding and implementing true freedom. We still don't even have governments free of religion, whether zealots or some dipsh*t politican (including the president) saying "God bless America" at the end of his/her speech. Makes we want to 
Dang, this started sort of tame, but now should go to the soapbox. Well, it's Saturday, maybe no one will notice. 
Marc
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Marc, Sometimes I think "freedom" is a ghost in chains, but it is the sound of those invisible chains clanking that is the anchor of what small degree of sanity I may possess in any given moment.
"The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness." Andre Malraux
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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Freedom from what?
The only freedom worth gaining, and, in fact, the only thing worth "winning", is freedom from death.
But that ain't gonna happen, so why try to "gain" or "win" anything else? What use will it be when the worms are making lunch of you?
I marvel at people who are so stupid as to declare themselves as "competitive" or "ambitious".
Competing for what? With ambitions to gain what?
You're going to die and be forgotten, so who gives a cr@p what you waste your life trying to "win"?
Just be happy. That's all you can have, and is the only way to play the game.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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..made me go out and buy one. Just finished some coq au vin. Basically, you drown a chicken in wine, thyme, bacon, mushrooms and onions.
Tastes like "moar".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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They are very good; very useful. Chilli's, steak and kidney pie fillings, curries, stocks, ...
I'm on my third! It wasn't replaced by the Sous Vide, but it complements it very nicely.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Wash baking potatoes before work and roll them up in foil.
Put em in the crock pot for 8 hours while you are work.
When you come home you will have potatoes soft and ready as if you had baked them.
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Wait until you get a load of what pressure cookers can do.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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... and today I went to my old answers on Stack Overflow. When I stumbled upon this answer[^],
$('#thewire_large-textarea').focus(function() {
if ($(this).val() != "") {
$(this).attr('placeholder', '');
}
});
I was like, "'' IS NOT A CHARACTER! Who wrote this?" (When it was me who wrote the answer like a year ago). Then I noticed... Oh, it is JavaScript! Not a very much big problem then. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I hope by now you've been able to decide betweeb " and ' 
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Yes, and that has caused me to get angry over JavaScript now.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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And some people get worse with age!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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By getting confused over " and ' I am getting worse. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Meh! '' is just a " that has put on weight...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Only if C# would understand this. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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It's too lean and mean to understand code bloat yet. But middle age is starting to set in...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Kuf it through, man, it is Age of Ultron! 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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It is good that you came to CodeProject to perfect your crimes
cheers, Bill
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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I would always convince myself to learn more... No matter how many mistakes I have to make to perfect myself; even in crimes!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Just go see it. It's a superb film.
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Yes, Sir!
I'll mail you the expense slip.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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