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Can I send it to you? 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Eh, sorry, but I'm a little busy right now... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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It died today with Lemmy[^] (at least that's what he thought) 
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Sad news - saw Motorhead several times over the years, from '81 at Leeds Queens Hall to Glastonbury this year (where he looked very frail) - also saw him reunite with Hawkwind at their 30th anniversary gig at Brixton Academy.
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Tragic indeed, leaves me wondering what the next generation is going to use for permanent ear-damage.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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RIP ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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According to the forecast it will be around 5 degrees at daytime in the next few days with rain, and I was wondering...How do you warm you house at winter?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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It's so hot down here these days, it's 28 °C now, at 11h10, but by 15h00 it should be over 30 °C. Yesterday it was 33 °C just after 18h00, at elephanting sunset! This is an average day and on bad days it goes up to >= 35 °C.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. - Liber AL vel Legis 1:40, Aleister Crowley
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Air conditioning (run as heating). If the temperature drops too far for this to work properly, electric blow heaters.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Yes. Air conditioner is good - as long as you have electricity, and no-one can promise it in the middle of nowhere...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: as long as you have electricity, and no-one can promise it in the middle of nowhere...
This year, the electricity company couldn't even keep the electricity running in the center of Israel.  At least in Modi'in (where I live), it's been reliable.
(Now that I've mentioned it, I expect a massive power failure...)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Now think of me - I'm living in the middle of a forest (some 40 minutes south of Jerusalem)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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So there's plenty of wood to burn? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Central heating or fires. We live in a climate where we expect sub-zero temperatures at this time of the year. Strangely, this year we are not getting them, and today it will be above 10 or 11.
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We get it to put on a big woolly jumper, mittens, a scarf and a hat.
Then we make it a HUGE cup of hot chocolate and hope for the best...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Central heating. I have floor heating through the house, so no ugly radiators.
And my house is new and very well isolated, so when I turned down the heating yesterday (over 12 hours ago) it was 22.5C and now it's 21.5C.
I'm not even heating the rest of the house and it's between 18C and 20C.
Then again, it's pretty warm over here for the time of the year, around 10C.
A year ago on this day we had below 0C (which is how it should be).
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Sander Rossel wrote: it's pretty warm over here for the time of the year, around 10C
Everything below 15C is cold, under 10C is very cold and under 5C it is freezing 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Someone once said to me "there is no bad weather, only bad clothing."
I agree on the cold spectrum, about anything below 25C.
Anything above that and you can't take off any more clothes, it's just hot and you've got to live with it.
Anyway, 10C is pretty doable, I'm usually pretty cold, but with 10C I can go outside for short periods of time without a coat on
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There is a corresponding quote, Danish I believe, which says: If you're cold, wear a hat.
Having said that, it's 2.30 am here and about 25 degrees celsius. My winter woolies are firmly locked away for at least the next 6 months.
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Central heating and an Aga
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I have free underfloor heating. The guy in the flat below keeps it Saharan. I haven't switched on a heating device in the two years I've been here!
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: How do you warm you house at winter?
Snuggling. 
Marc
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Consider an organization comprised of humans who are...
- Highly Intelligent
- Diligent
- Thrilled by improving their own skills
- Striving for the company's good
- Delighted with their workplace environment
- Eager to see progress, both personally and corporately
That same organization has a website which...
- Doesn't help anyone (sales, H-R, vendors, customers, anyone)
- Overwhelms the viewer
- Absolutely eliminates human concentration
- Has a structure so complex that nobody gets it
- Increases calls to support
- Confuses almost everybody who views it
What do you believe are the factors which cause this ?
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And a pain in all the diodes down its left side?
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I think one reason might be responsibility and organization. You need to make clear decisions to get a good structure if there are a lot of people working within the same environment to prevent bloating. If you can't figure out how to integrate in the current structure while adhering to this you might have to increase the scope and refactor. Those that work have to recognize this and have access to managers / eight balls that can take a decision to do what's necessary.
I also think that this site probably has had a lot of stuff added to it as time progresses without watching it from the users perspective. Someone came with input that adding A would be good and the diligent workers did so, then someone wanted B and C which also was added without looking at the needs these functions fill or how they would be used.
I would look at the site from the perspective off each type (sales, H-R, etc) and create scenarios on what they want to achieve with each visit. Complement this list by querying users to come up with different scenarios. Then have someone that doesn't know much about the site try and navigate each of them too see what problems comes up.
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