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Gawd I wish that was true: this is not just a flu, it's a teenage boy flu on massive quantities of steroids that is still drunk, stoned, and tripping balls after his night out last night. And has just found the keys to John Wick's 69 Mustang and his gun cabinet.
"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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You're probably not bacon it enough.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I didn't expect to be roasted.
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Well done!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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what do you think of Turbriskafil?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - 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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Never was really a fan of the turkey portion.
Perhaps this Fine Indian cuisine would be more to my likingPassion India: The Story of the Spanish Princess of Kapurthula (Pg 295) Prepare a whole camel, skinned and cleaned,
put a goat inside it,
and inside the goat a turkey
and inside the turkey a chicken.
Stuff the chicken with a grouse
and inside that put a quail
and finally inside that a sparrow.
Then season it all well, place the camel in a hole in the ground and roast it.
Director of Transmogrification Services
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Master of Yoda Conditional
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So there's a similar recipe on youtube. Calls for a medium sized camel (ofc), a lamb, 20 chickens, 60 (!) eggs, 5 pounds of black pepper 
..and "salt to taste". So, salt, taste (all around) and adjust with a pound or so.
Not crazy enough? Read the instructions; "skin, trim and clean the camel (once you get over the hump), lamb and chicken(s). Boil until tender." I'm going to ask Guga to do a 30-day aged version of it. Sous vide.
The World’s Largest Dish – Whole Camel Stuffed with Sheep Stuffed with Chicken Stuffed with Fish - YouTube[^]
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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I refuse to eat anything whose name begins with turd
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So move to a country with a different language
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He was a Hitchcock.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Reminds me of a c**k-and-bull story, which turned out to be an idea for a fast-food chain
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She was a mathemachicken.
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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I will let you know.
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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I find it astoundingly ironic that in today's "Code Project Insider" mailout, there is this [TechCrunch article] (No cookie consent walls — and no, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body – TechCrunch[^]), which is purportedly about the report on the use of cookies and other tracking technologies by the Irish Data Protection Commission, the privacy watchdog of the EU.
However, clicking on the link one is immediately confronted with the most blatant example of a "Cookie Consent Wall". TechCrunch, by the way, is part of the Verizon group which includes the likes of Yahoo and Lexology.
This Cookie experience start with a panel offering a brief description of cookies and their potential uses and two choices, agree to everything without giving any consideration to what cookies might be placed and for what purposes, or "Manage Partners".
The Manage Partners Option leads to another panel, this time with some more babble about how Verizon's partners each have their own privacy policies and there are three categories of partner one is expected to wade through if one wishes to fully control cookie placement by Verizon/Yahoo. One is expected to independently navigate to each one and their cookie control mechanisms.
In Foundational Partners, there are 19 links to follow. In IAB Partners, there are 163 individual links to follow and, finally, there is a list of 163 Google partners the settings for which have to be independently managed in the Google "Ad Personalisation" settings.
To add insult to injury, a web search for other news outlets covering the same story initially only produces results from Yahoo and Lexology where one will get exactly the same experience.
Eventually, I was able to locate [the actual report itself] (https://www.dataprotection.ie/sites/default/files/uploads/2020-04/Data%20Protection%20Commission%20cookies%20sweep%20REVISED%2015%20April%202020%20v.01.pdf[^])
These sorts of practice by Verizon, Yahoo Et al. means that I now completely avoid any of their resources and if I ever accidentally land on one of their sites and am presented with this cookie BS, I immediately close the page without reading whatever it was they were trying to encourage me to look at.
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mmcapps88 wrote: These sorts of practice by Verizon, Yahoo Et al. means that I now completely avoid any of their resources and if I ever accidentally land on one of their sites and am presented with this cookie BS, I immediately close the page without reading whatever it was they were trying to encourage me to look at.
If they were the only ones doing that... 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Stupid EU is stupid. Those unconcerned by cookies accept anyway, those concerned set up their browser. Those who know jack and the other thing and Jack left town still don't understand what's all this about and will not magically understand tomorrow, and give access to all social media data to know what kind of vegetable they are.
But EU is concerned about banana curvatures, peas sizes, everything they can micromanage they will. Bureaucrats like the ones we never saw before, not even in Italy, motherland of pointless bureaucracy.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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And that is why, were I a UK citizen, I'd be a BREXIT supporter.
As for the main body of the comment - absolutely!
So many people I know (i.e., family, friends) don't give a crap about their browser privacy - they think I just over-reacting or something when I have and suggest they use cookie, adver, web-beacon, and other managements.
The usual reply "I have nothing to hide" - I wonder how they'd feel if they found their the mail in their mailbox already opened?
Meanwhile - there's all this anger about identity theft. Sometimes I wonder when they'll start posting the details of their stolen information on their FarceBook page.
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I use the Politician (or Hollywood big or Corporate Director) approach: what's on Google, Facebook whatever accessed with one browser and no VPN is my public data.
Anything I want private is accessed via an isolated browser, anonimously (if any data are to be inserted they are fake) under Panama VPN. No intermixing between the two.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Yes and no.
I do feel like the EU is micromanaging and meddling with affairs they should leave to individual countries.
Meanwhile, countries that break the rules like there's no tomorrow get very light punishments and pardons.
It's not all bad though, and ultimately I feel they do more good than bad.
Were it up to me there would be a huge reorganization though, like not getting bonuses for simply doing your job or even just showing up.
As for the cookie stuff specifically, I think it's good companies can't just collect your data anymore.
True, most people don't really care about it, but at least it's a start and I feel it made more people aware.
People don't care because they don't know how it works and they don't really have an alternative anyway.
If the EU did nothing you'd have no privacy left and they have to start somewhere.
Since the whole GDPR has come into effect I regularly decline cookies or at least decline all the optional ones.
Rest assured, if I do it, millions (or at least 100's of 1000's) are doing the same because we are now presented with a choice.
And now they can sharpen the rules and get even more people into not giving away their privacy.
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Well - they you're there means you have some concern about your privacy.
So you won't "patronize" the Verizon/Yahoo/etc. group.
If you have gmail, you already consented to allow them to do whatever they want with your email. Even if you didn't consent - and you send an email to someone with gmail - you are covered by their consent. They can profile you very well (indirectly) by keeping track of which of their users you send/receive mail from. Which, in multi-recipient emails you are a part of when they send. Do you see the picture?
As for that picture, how do the EU watchdogs handle that bit of privacy? Probably just more absurd fines on Google for doing what their (public) business model says they do - to fill in some of those budget gaps in the less-well-managed member-state economies.
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Maybe browsers should have a mandatory "report to privacy watchdog" button so that you can report any website easily.
Or maybe a browser plugin that's easy to install and widely reported in the news, so that the people who are interested know where to find it.
You're not going to report this website because you don't know how and you can't be arsed to find out.
If it were a simple button click you probably would and this sort of behavior could be rooted out a lot faster 
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Same story as the agreements you need to click away when running a game the first time; I'm not capable of understanding the agreement and can "click here" to run the game I paid for, so that's what I do.
An agreement that's forced onto the client, without the client understanding it (or by misleading the client) isn't valid.
Some emails have these legal texts saying I'm not allowed to "share the information"; being sent to a GMail inbox that is automatically scanned for advertising-keywords. If it is sent to GMail, then it is shared with Google, regardless of the legal demands made in the mail (which arrives and is read without you having a change to agree or disagree).
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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Wandering, quiet road is sticky and black and yellow at first! (9)
quiet ................ P
road ................. LANE
is sticky and black ....... TAR
and yellow at first .......... Y PLANETARY = Wandering
I'd thought the "easy" P and Y would be a simple pointer and that sticky and black was straightforward too; and rather liked it that the "Wandering, quiet" prefix to road helped suggest "lane". Ho hum. Will try again tomorrow then!
modified 7-May-20 8:32am.
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Not a scooby - I think you'll be up again tomorrow
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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