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I still get +8 points when you thumbs down my post. Awesome!! 
I am glad though, that it was you. Brings back memories of the Soapbox, and how much fun we had there.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: hat the rights of other people in the world exist and may, at times, interfere with their own rights. That their decisions may negatively impact others.
Exactly... your rights end, where the rights of the next person start.
Here in Germany is really sad to see and to hear some people.
Heck... once in the hospital, medics coming to do the daily visit and a woman asking them to come back later because she was having a phone call.   Seriously? You are in the hospital not in an ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing spa
I partially welcome the new meassures:
You want to go somewhere? You have to prove your shot, your recovering or a test no older than 24 hours. And the free tests end next month. So... if you have not had it or you are not vacunated, you will have to pay for all the tests from your own money.
You go on holidays to a not "green" place, you come back and you have to do quarentine. You have COVID and you get ill, you have medical cover but you don't get sick leave (no money for the days you don't work).
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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Got it correct there. 
Carrot
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I love these B-List(C-List?) action movies from day of old.
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Lockdowns are for prisons. Apparently Kiwis are all prisoners. I wonder if the crime they committed is trying to live free while voting for prison guards.
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What emotional dribble. New Zealand for the last 18 months have pretty much been able to live very normal lives without much concern for COVID. The lockdowns are part of that fight for our freedom!
Modern day softies have lost sight of the need to fight and protect your country’s freedoms and are now too concerned with petty self interests.
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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I hate to be critical, but that's just plain STUPID! Not saying you are, just the statement.
The mayor of New Orleans initiated a lockdown when covid first appeared. Restauranteurs and Bar owners, complained, but we wound up having the LOWEST infection rate in not only Louisiana, but all of the Southeastern U.S.
I wonder how many lives were saved?
Corporal Carrot
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Today, I was reading a Code Project article about the announcement of the new eBPF Foundation.
I was taught in English 101 that the first time an abbreviation such a eBPF is used in an article, the author, as a courtesy to the reader and for clarity, should spell it out.
Now, somewhere along the line, I missed what eBPF stood for, so I had to go searching. It turned out that eBPF is an extension of BPF. So, my question became--"What the HELL is BPF?" And this lead to more searches to discover that the author was talking about "Berkeley Packet Filter".
So I am asking people to spell out what an abbreviation stands for the first time it is used or, as my mother would say, IWCOTABYA.
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rjmoses wrote: And this leadled to
FTFY. 
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On the other hand, if you spell out what the initialism/acronym stands for every time you use it, then you might as well not use it at all. 
I used to laugh whenever I watched one of the many UK "traffic cops"-type shows, where they'd repeatedly refer to "ANPR, which stands for Automated Number Plate Recognition". If you're going to say that every time, you might as well drop the "ANPR, which stands for" part.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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You couldn't be more wrong. Only one time, when first mentioned, is all it takes.
No one can know the meaning of every acronym. Particularly when applied to the myriad of software and hardware items in the dev universe.
And Yes, with cut and paste I am in favor of doing away with acronyms.
Zaphod
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Slow Eddie wrote: You couldn't be more wrong. Only one time, when first mentioned, is all it takes.
Which is basically the point I was making.
If you give the definition and initialism on the first use, and then use the initialism from then on, that's fine.
If you use the initialism without defining it, that's not good.
But if you use both every time, that's also not good.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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In fairness to the OP ...
Quote: to spell out what an abbreviation stands for the first time it is used
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Just spell it out the first time you use it and then put the acronym in parenthesis.
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Please explain what “UK” means. 😂
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Typically when people are doing something for free, and then you turn it into a chore, they have a tendency to stop doing it completely.
Appreciate what you are given, or start paying for it.
And yes, I understand you are just offering some general constructive criticism, but when you start trying to please everyone, that's what makes it become a chore.
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Sometimes an article's author - and I'm not just talking about CP here - assumes some knowledge about the matter being discussed. It all depends on who the target audience is.
If I'm reading an article from Science magazine, I'd welcome what you're suggesting, because I'm probably not already familiar with the lingo or even some of the concepts being discussed.
But as a Windows developer who reads a lot of documentation and many articles, I could see that becoming very annoying, very fast.
But I suppose that's where HTML comes in, unlike a printed sheet of paper...if you're not familiar with an acronym, perhaps it could have some hover text that spells it out. That way it doesn't change the flow of the article and you can skip right over it if you don't need an explanation.
Somehow I was just reminded when HTML was being introduced, and a buddy of mine had a similar thought, but taken to an extreme...his idea was that HTML meant that we could have every single word in an article link to its dictionary definition. Now that is abusing a tool...
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dandy72 wrote: perhaps it could have some hover text that spells it out.
Now that's a really good idea!
dandy72 wrote: HTML
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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kmoorevs wrote: HTML
Ooooh, I see what you did there. Well played.
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As I sit here by my PC (Personal Computer), listening to music on my DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) radio - in your area, FM (Frequency Modulation) radio may still be dominant - I receive an SMS (Short Message Signaling) on my GSM (Global System for Mobile communication) phone saying that I ought to see the TV (TeleVision) broadcast tonight from BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) about people's inability to handle commonly recognized TLAs (Three Letter Abbreviations). Since the days of LP (Long Play) discs, through CDs (Compact Discs) and DVDs (Digital Versatile Discs), TLAs and ETLAs (Extended Three Letter Abbreviations) have made little sense. Streaming technology managed by HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) or HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) over the IP (Internet Protocol), with content managed by HTML (HyperText Markup Language) providet by your ISP (Internet Service Provider) may gradually replace physical media.
Here, at CP (Code Project), I suppose that anyone from USA (United States of America) and GB (Great Britain), and even those from EU (European Union) are familiar with many of these ETLAs. Yet, as a service to those who do not immediately recognize e.g. BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) or LG (Lucky Goldstar) I suggest that we make it a habit to explain such terms when referring to such terms. Remember that it may be essential even when referring to e.g. a bottle of Dr. (Doctor) Pepper, or when updating your CV (Curriculum Vitae).
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Member 7989122 wrote: e.g. BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG)
You missed a couple. 
Your post is seriously funny, and makes your point very well.
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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Agree.
Just tell us what your mother would say.
Since no one else is asking.
(I googled it and the only find was CP Lounge Forum.)
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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guess: I won't comment on the A (aim?) behind your actions
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