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Yes, in 1291 on 1st August the Swiss confederation was born. 
It was very small country compared to today's size ( !!  ).
And today it is raining and storming... 
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Arrgh! No! The Gods of Chocolate, Cheese, and Cuckoo Clocks are angry!
Run away! 
That'll put a damper on the fireworks shows, then - I remember some of the shows on Lac Léman being pretty impressive in the Nineties when I was there last.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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yes, damp the fireworks! They'll BING, BANG, KABOOOM until one o'clock in the morning, 
And I've already eaten 200gr of chocolate (this will be a loooong day...  )
PS: still raining...
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Pah! You old curmudgeon! Earplugs...
Mind you, I don't like 'em any more either - they terrify animals.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Chuck Norris donates blood to the red cross, twice a week.
But not his blood...
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JimmyRopes wrote: Chuck Norris is Coming
It's going to be known as the third Ice Age.
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Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!
Dogs are man's best Friend,
Cats are man's adorable little serial killer
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WE MUST RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!
LOLOLOLOL
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - 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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Now that's funny, loved all the quotes.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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I'm used to getting and deleting the various scam emails, banks in first world countries that have lost my details, people in third world countries that want to give me money, game sites that have lost my credentials, delivery services that cannot find my condo and a myriad of others.
This is the first time I have been notified (via google docs of course) of a Homicide Suspect. ID'd as posted on the APBnet but I need to download the doc to get the details - in NYC.
If these silly buggers injected a little humour into their attempts it might be more interesting!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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One of my clients keeps getting a summons to appear in court...it's phrased very legal sounding and intimidating...always comes from suchandsuch@something-lawyers.com ...I had to add a bunch of Spam Assassin filters in the cPanel to filter out all the various permutations of *@*lawyers*.com to get rid of them.
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I did another night-time time-lapse the other evening, when the ISS was going over.
Unfortunately...
My sense of direction (and, to be fair, the compass on my iPhone) let me down, and the camera was initially pointing in the wrong direction.
My angle estimation was way out - it seemed to be a lot higher in the sky than I had aimed the camera!
My focussing skills are letting me down. I have found that the 'maximum' focus on my lens seems to be slightly further than infinity  so I have to manully focus just a bit short of the lens stop. I got it wrong, so the photos are all somewhat blurred.
I moved the camera as soon as the ISS appeared, so at least got a few frames with it in!
I left it going after the ISS departed, and when I looked at the photos, saw that I had also captured a UFO (it was, I am sure, a shooting star, but as it was so blurred all I know is it went from out of the field of view to below the horizon in < 45 seconds (it is on three frames, each with a 15 second exposure) - but that sounds like a long time for a meteor!
Perhaps it was :alien: checking up on me
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Do you get just a blob of light or can it actually resolve the shape of the ISS. Not being a camera nut and living in a city that washes out 99.9999% (I can see about 5 stars) with light pollution I am curious as to what you get.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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The ISS looks only like a very bright star with the unaided eye. You can see when it is passing over by going to http://heavens-above.com/[^]
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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We are scheduled for the shuttle to come over tonight, 1 Aug, at 17:45. It is a 6 minute sighting so if the weather cooperates it should be a good one.
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The weather didn't cooperate. Totally overcast, couldn't see anything in the sky.
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Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
modified 1-Aug-14 9:41am.
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 That is still my most favourite xkcd up until now. 
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A man and his wife were getting a divorce at a local court but the custody of their children posed a problem.
The woman jumped to her feet and protested to the judge that since she had brought the children into this world, she should retain custody of them.
The man also wanted custody of his children, so the judge asked for his side of the story.
After a long moment of silence, the man rose from his chair and replied: "Your Honor, when I put a coin into a vending machine and a Coke comes out, does the Coke belong to me or to the machine?"
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Apparently someone hasn't found a girl friend yet, now I know why!
"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
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I've been looking at this article for the last couple of days (OK, since yesterday): Why many programmers don’t bother joining the ACM[^], and I couldn't think of anyone I've ever known that was a member of the ACM.
Do they exist? Anyone here? Is there value in it?
TTFN - Kent
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There was mention of it when I was in college (late 80s), but as I create software, rather than hardware, I have never been interested.
Similarly, as I'm not an engineer, I'm not interested in IEEE.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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FYI, the ACM is not a hardware organization, even though its name would imply otherwise.
Gus Gustafson
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Anyone here? Is there value in it?
I liked the ACM journals but the price was fairly expensive in terms of consumer journals that at least at the time were providing similar material. Not to mention that the consumer journals were a lot easier to read and had a lot more information that was useable day to day.
The journals represent a significant store of research material but it is hard to utilize, because as noted in the article, one must pay to access it, and it isn't cheap. It has been quite a while since I attempted to use it but at least then searching it required that one basically knew what one was looking for in the first place (and it wasn't long enough ago where I would have expected that.)
As per the other part of the article the comment about the usefulness is that I can't say that I can ever recall seeing anything that was objectively useful. But there were certainly articles that were interesting. I would have probably subscribed to even more journals, but again the cost was prohibitive (and this is from someone who spent a lot on non-fiction literature in the first place.)
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