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One is "if anything can go wrong, it will" and the other is thinly slice cabbage and carrot in mayonnaise.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Is that all you have to say? I still get 12000000 C-bills from you. 
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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Insightful comparison right here! 
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Don't forget O'Toole's Law :
"Murphy was an optimist."
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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I can't believe the series made it this far! Number 2 in a series of ... well, probably 2.
If a "smart egg tray" didn't get you out and buying boldly, perhaps this will.
Ladies and germs, I give you: i.Con - the World's First Smart Condom[^]
Ignore the name - iCon doesn't mean it's a con trick, no - not at all.
And ... it's not a condom.
It's a device you ... ummm ... apply to your Gentlemen's Vegetables and it measures what you do. So you can review it, possibly during, but more likely after. And compare with others (assuming they manage to sell two).
Well, somebody thought the world needed it... 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Darned thing started laughing at me. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Waiting for the vibrating upgrade.
Maybe I can get my wife a Cl**Bit.
modified 9-Sep-18 20:27pm.
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Snapchat[^]
Well, it made me laugh. Little things, I guess! 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Been using a copy of IBM's July 1978 DCF user guide to stoke my imagination re: "markup functions".
Thought I would incorporate a "write to file" function; however, the "output file (dd) name" keeps derailing my thoughts...
Quote: When SCRIPT/VS processes the .WF [Write To File] control word, one
or more input lines are written to a SCRIPT/VS file named
DSMUTWTF.
• You can insert one line into the file with:
.wf contents of the input line
.
. wf .ce Text to be centered.
• You can insert a number of lines into the file with:
.wf 5
.in 3m
.ce 3
These are the
lines to go
into DSMUTWTF.
• You can also insert a number of lines into the file with:
.wf on
.
Many input lines
.
.wf off
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Reminds me of my DOS Edlin days, brrrrrr 
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The file name ends ...WTF Kinda says it all.......
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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What would you really lose?
I mean is the web really that innovative?
Most of the Web : Not Useful
Most of the web is completely not useful to the point of only being a distraction.
Not Just Talking About Twitter and Facebook Uselessness
And I'm not talking about Twitter and Facebook.
I would definitely miss CP. I learn a lot here. But real daily useful functionality...there ain't much of it on the web.
Headline: Restaurant Inspires Man to Rant
This rant was inspired by a restaurant chain which allows you to put in your dinner reservation.
Well, not really. Instead it is just a distraction.
I went to the site and it said,
Put in your name to make your reservation. If your party is larger than 7 then call.
Ours was 8 so I called.
Me: I'd like to put in a reservation for 6:30.
Restaurant-Worker: We don't do that. You can do it online.
Me: well, the web page says to call if party is larger than 7 and we have 8.
Restaurant-Worker: Oh, well, just put in 7 and then change it when you get here. Note: she said 7 which is incorrect, since max is 6.
Me: [A vessel pops in my forehead and I'm rendered speechless.]
I go back online and the "reservation" is really just a put-off.
You cannot put it in ahead of time. You can put in a request right before you want the seats. It has no ability to add a time.
It's just a technological put-off so people don't call the restaurant and bother the workers. 
Useless.
Just like most of the web.
The Web (Waste-land) Not Internet
And, keep in mind, I'm saying the web, not The Internet. The Internet allows me to watch television on-demand so that is good.
Seriously For One Moment
What would you really lose?
The ability to pay your bills, maybe. On sites that also don't work well. 
Not much else.
Oh, sure devs wouldn't have StackOverflow. But that would probably be better. I liked books and esoteric knowledge.
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Most likely, I would lose my sanity
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James_Parsons wrote: Most likely, I would lose my sanity
Interesting so :
Your sanity is linked to the web.
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Restaurant web sites deserve their own Dante's circle of hell.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: Restaurant web sites deserve their own Dante's circle of hell.
Obviously you are an experienced user of these sites. They are terrible.
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I don't think I could do my job without the web to look things up. The last few days I've been writing reports with DevExpress' XtraReports. Awesome tool, insanely quirky to work with. Without being able to "ask a question", I'd be soooo lost. And the crazy thing is, the questions that I ask are 99.99% ivory pure "asked before" questions. Go figure.
Most of the web is completely not useful to the point of only being a distraction.
The thing is, what's a distraction to me is useful to others. Probably a lame example, but I hardly ever look at videos of people playing games, whether they're online games or board games. But people actually make money on these videos!
I could just as easily say that most books are completely not useful, to me. I have the books I like to read, and probably those would just be a distraction or useless to someone else.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: I could just as easily say that most books are completely not useful, to me. I have the books I like to read, and probably those would just be a distraction or useless to someone else.
Hey, hey, hey... you're kind of ruining my rant, by making good points.
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Marc Clifton wrote: I could just as easily say that most books are completely not useful, to me. I have the books I like to read, and probably those would just be a distraction or useless to someone else.
I couldn't agree more.
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You don't make judgement about the web just for a few unpleasant experience you had. You could blame and make judgement to the folks involved in planing and building that nonsense websites. Most of these nonsense web site fails because they lack understanding the need and comfort of consumers. Sure, there are tons of websites that are nonsense and useless - agreed. However, there are also tons of websites that are useful.I love books and read books, but I mostly rely on the web because it's easy to access everywhere. Online articles, videos and forums are surely very helpful.
I wonder what's your point of view on CodeProject website. Is it nonsense too?
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Vincent Maverick Durano wrote: what's your point of view on CodeProject website. Is it nonsense too?
The site is ok. But the Forums are total trash and garbage and I never go there.
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Vincent Maverick Durano wrote: However, there are also tons of websites that are useful
Oh yeah, well name 100 of them. 
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raddevus wrote: well name 100 of them.
The're too many to mention. But here's your first 100:
for(var i = 1; i <= 100; i++){
Response.Write($"Good and Useful Website { i }. <br/>");
}
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Vincent Maverick Durano wrote: for(var i = 1; i <= 100; i++){
Response.Write($"Good and Useful Website { i }. <br/>");
}
Do I detect JavaScript?!?
Garbage! Trash!! Outcast, unclean!!
More proof of the Web-garbage.
I know it's C#. I'm just being reactive!
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