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Quote: Side note: you said that when sputnik was launched there was no toilet paper in whole of USSR. I need to correct you: it was called "Pravda".
You have an excellent grasp of what happened in USSR back then 
Quote: Perhaps not yet available that fare east
No, the diversity on the shelves nowadays is almost as in western countries. It's mentality that stayed the same. So I still have to educate my parents on that perfect option. Although it's plenty of toilet paper here so I doubt we will buy more in the nearest time.
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Did you notice that the media always quotes raw numbers of sick and of deaths rather than pointing out that there is a 94% CHANCE THAT YOU WON'T GET THE FLU?
aHHH, POLITICS AGAIN SHOWS THAT REALITY MUST BE AN ILLUSION.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Rage wrote: What a stupid thing to say.
Actually, no it's not. Should we stop driving cars because we might die? No, so just settle down a bit. Geez!
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Should we stop driving cars because we might die?
You're really good at really bad analogies. What level did you study it to?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The paranoid stick together. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Should we stop driving cars because we might die?
I find interesting to ask if we should stop dying because we might live.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Perhaps you should start to consider that people, how you work together with them and how you treat them, might just possibly be more important than money.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Pardon me, if I've misunderstood you but it seems to me that you're implying that you can't choose both treat people right and care about the financial wellbeing of yourself and your family at the same time. These are not mutually exclusive things.
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Feel free to keep making up arguments like that, to cover yourself -- but don't expect an invitation for dinner.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
Perhaps you should start to consider that people, how you work together with them and how you treat them, might just possibly be more important than money.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
yEAH, oN THE NEWS THIS MPRNING IT WAS POINTED PUT THAT DUE TO THE SOCIAL ISOLATION, SUICIDES ARE INCREASING AND IT APPEARS THAT MORE PEOPLE WILL DIE FROM SUICIDE THAN FRON COVID 19.
tH GOOD NEWS IS THAT i CAN CONTROL SUICIDE.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Quote: Try 1918 (not a movie):
But the first Tarzan movie came out in 1918. Tarzan of the Apes[^]
this year pales in comparison: a chinese rendition of winnie the pooh[^]
same on the outside, exact opposite on the inside
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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Easy! You'll get CP blocked in China.
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(Sorry about that, I couldn't resist)
Is a Mother Superior who can slam-dunk Nun of the Above?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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isn't that the cardinal rule?
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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Did you say slam drunk nun?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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At the risk of sounding preachy, a bad habit to which I confess, I'd like to vesper the answer to you, but lack such a font.
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You are a veritable fount (or at least a drip) of ideas.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Oddly enough, one of my sisters-in-law IS a Mother Superior (in the Dominican Republic). She would appreciate this, but would want it for soccer....
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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What are the other choices?
I'm gonna have to guess 'C'... 
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Is realizing you have already cursed someone before Deja Voodoo?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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is wishing a tail on someone cursing or cursiving them?
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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[^]Quote: Hanrahan was the lead architect of the team that created the complex software known as RenderMan, which lets filmmakers turn images into photorealistic animations that can be blended with real-life scenes. Rendering determines which computer-generated images are visible on the screen for every frame, assigns them colors, and draws them. It brings an animation “to life.” In 2001 RenderMan became the first piece of software to win an Oscar. It has been used in 44 of the last 47 films nominated for an Academy Award in the Visual Effects category. Hanrahan later returned to academia and is now a professor at Stanford University.
Catmull’s contribution: From 1970, Catmull was part of the University of Utah’s ARPA program, where he came up with the first method to display curved surfaces on a computer. Up to that point, computer-generated images were all straight lines and polygons. While at Utah in 1972, Catmull created a short film called “A Computer Animated Hand,” which is one of the earliest examples of computer animation.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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TIL, Catmull is a real person.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: TIL
I hate abbreviations. It doesn't help that english is not my mother tongue, and that I'm not overly familiar with US, UK, or other english based pop culture.
Thankfully there are websites for that, but those are'nt often helful, when you find that a simple abbreviation can have dozens of meanings. See TIL - Definition by AcronymFinder[^]
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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It's not an acronym I recognise, but if I had to guess based on the context it might be "today I learned".
But if someone uses unrecognisable acronyms they probably don't want you to understand what they mean.
Regards
Nelviticus
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