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Interesting, didn't know there were horizontal traffic lights. Here in South Africa we call traffic lights robots.
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Indivara wrote: surely there should be an international standard for traffic lights too
There isn't even a standard visual language for traffic lights within the US -- my local municipality is constantly inventing new ones as they go. Within sight of each other they've recently installed two cross walk lights, one that blinks yellow only, and the other that has normal traffic light modes, but then a mode where two side-by-side red lights alternate (what's that supposed to mean.. stop and wait for the pedestrian train to go by?)
I swear, its as if the marching morons[^] are running the place.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Gee, thanks for reminding me how stunningly ridiculous the show is.
My missus watches it for the men's bums, so I have to sit through it.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: so I have to sit through it.
Shirrrrrrrley you do. 
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You might think it's fun (and, of course, I wouldn't deny you any enjoyment, but I reserve the right to my opinion, too), but all I see is thirty writers who've had to prostitute and humiliate themselves for the moolah, and are therefore not producing anything even close to their best.
... Except for the eight of them who really are cr@p writers, of course. They're probably as happy as sandboys.
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No, I was refering to you "having" to sit through a show and watch men's bums. 
I have never watched the show or read the books.
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Slacker007 wrote: No, I was refering to you "having" to sit through a show and watch men's bums.
I'm afraid that hairy, spotty things aren't exactly to my tastes, but I suppose that the show does have (pairs of) compensations.
Slacker007 wrote: I have never watched the show or read the books.
The missus read the books (in Chinese, no less -- God only knows how she can make sense out of those doodles), and says that the books (written by one person, who is, as always, sidelined in the production of the show) are (again, as always) far better than the shows that are rewritten and made by 450 extremely gifted people.
I haven't read the books because I can't read Chinese.
I think I'm going to make that my default excuse for stuff.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I haven't read the books because I can't read Chinese.
Well, technically, the missus hasn't either because they were written in English and the translation (as always) is the translator's interpretation more than the author's intention.
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Well no, because to whatever technical level you want to take it, she read them in Chinese.
An added bonus was that at least the spelling was correct.
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So where does G.R.R Martin fit in this bunch (y'know...the guy who's actually writing the books), according to you, given that he's still credited as executive producer?
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Jeeze, try googling "executive producer".
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So, despite having written the book series, and that he's not, strictly speaking, a writer on the show, you don't think he's got a say in what goes on in the show?
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You've never worked with entertainments folk, have you?
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Nope. Do tell. You're not gonna leave it at that, are you? 
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Oh they're all wonderful people, each and every one of them is the world's greatest genius, so they don't need input form someone as inferior to them as G.R.R.M. -- and anyway, it's Their chance to make much-deserved names for themselves, so G.R.R.M would only steal their thunder.
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Interesting. I get the sarcasm. But I've only read the first book (so far), and I thought the first season did a much better job of sticking to the book than most movies or TV series adapted from other books or book series. I take it then that the rest of it really deviates wildly. I guess I'll find it for myself whenever I get around to reading them.
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I have a job crushing soda cans. It's soda pressing. 
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I heard that Coke gives you a lot of pep, see?
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Where did you train? Are you a college aluminum?
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So, fire up VS and it tells me that I should install "Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (KB3165756)". Ok, why not? What could go wrong?
Except that when I try to run or save and run, I get a message saying the file is corrupt or invalid.
So I Fire up Chrome and Boom! Installing as I write.
Come on, MS, it's a sad day when I have to use Chrome to install an update for your software because one of your flagship applications is, well, crap. 
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