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I read this and shed a tear for Chris Squire of Yes. There something wrong with people living on a roundabout I for one have a very odd relationship with them. If it's painted I tend to go around it, if not I go over it (well the muppet driving an Astra behind me had something to do wwith it!).
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PompeyThree wrote: Are they there and you don't know?
Um. How would I know?
PompeyThree wrote: My question is, is this happening around the rest of the Country too?
Not necessarily on roundabouts but there are ad hoc 'settlements' all over the place. With thousands of people officially homeless, it's kinda inevitable. When I was living in Glastonbury a few years back there were four of which I was aware and rumours of more. I know of at least one on the East Devon coast and there's a site near the bypass here that would be perfect but apparently hasn't been discovered yet. If there's a wi-fi signal I might commandeer it myself - much healthier for the dog that my tiny, squalid first floor garret!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Down and out in a roundabout, future's in doubt.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: Down and out in a roundabout, future's in doubt.
Careful, many developers believe that they have to like hard rock, so Country & western pisses them off
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They don't really have roundabouts in Nashville or anywhere else in USA! USA!! USA!!! They prefer junctions. And if they need temporary accommodation they prefer boxcars to tents. So this could never be a C&W!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Walking through Cambridge today I noticed that there are more people wrapped in blankets/sleeping bags begging than I have seen for a few years.
Around 10 years ago the police in Cambridge cracked down on people begging and pretty much drove them all out of town. Hardly ever seeing a policeman/policewoman on patrol I am guessing is the reason for seeing more people begging.
One thing that strikes me is that all the people I see begging appear to have mental health issues and it is quite sad to see them out in the open with nothing but their sleeping bags as possessions talking to themselves - I do however occasionally see someone talking to them and I passed one man who had a pasty and cup of coffee, that I take someone had bought for him, so it is good that they are not completely invisible.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Time for bed.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Evolution can't have a sense of humour. God can! It requires a sense of humour to make one of these[^]. Q. E. D. 
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But do you need an engineer to make a Giraffe steak?
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Nope - but a chainsaw might help!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And some dynamite to cut it up after cooked...
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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If its a bad design, why did it evolved that way then
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because evolution isn't design
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If you reach the end of an equation and you have 1=2, you know you went wrong somewhere
If your worldview says hitler or the sandy hook shooter got away with his crimes by suicide and didn't face punishment, it cannot be a good worldview just like 1 cannot equal 2.
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does that approach work at your bible studies class?
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Does evolutionary theory work in programming?
Just keep compiling random crap until it becomes a functional application on its own? After all, evolution "is not design"
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That's not how evolution works. Really, read some books
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Arguing with evolutionists is like playing chess with pigeons. They just crap on the board and flap the pieces all over the room.
You can't even reference which books back up your stance, but I am supposed to read them. 
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Here's a simple reading list:
"On The Evolution of Species" by Charles Darwin.
Also recommended, "The Selfish Gene" and "The Blind Watchmaker" by Richard Dawkins.
"Genome, The Evolution of a Species" by Matt Ridley.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Surprisingly, evolution does work (or can work) in hardware design: On the Origin of Circuits • Damn Interesting[^] - so it's entirely possible that with the right processes, you could evolve software to do things we have real difficulty coding for!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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mkwmtie wrote: Does evolutionary theory work in programming?
Yes, very well. Its called Genetic Programming (wiki)[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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