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So that's the reason author went back so far - she was thinking people already forgot the history of the roman empire, so will believe anything...
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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There are many, many theories about the cause of the collapse of the Roman Empire and they are all wrong, mainly because it could reasonably be argued that it never actually collapsed at all, or if it did, not when everybody thinks it did and not as a single extinction event.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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The article dismissed the defeat at the Battle of Adrianople was not "because [Valens] grossly underestimated his adversary’s belligerence." Uh, yeah he did. Massively. His entire battle plan was a total fail and that of the Fritigern, and the Goths, simply brilliant.
Yes, the battle was precipitated by corruption by Roman officials, but had the Romans not been defeated, the long term outcome would have been different.
Plus, as pointed out, the Roman empire never did really fall. The western empire became the Catholic Church, the eastern empire became the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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I had a call this afternoon, one which has led to me having to be inside working and not outside enjoying the sunshine and/or epic quantities of G&T.
If that's not abuse, then I would like to know what is!
veni bibi saltavi
modified 8-May-16 12:38pm.
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You need to set your spam filter on incoming calls a bit higher and relate it's aggressiveness to the niceness of the weather.
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It's always the same, the sun goes in and I finish my work. Right, I'm orf for a light supper and a heavy drink.
veni bibi saltavi
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I make it a point not to answer work calls on the weekend, unless I've been warned ahead of time and agree.
Marc
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That's all well and good if you actually have enough work. Having nothing much for a year means I have to take what I can.
Also it was a good friend who set up the contact.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Having nothing much for a year means I have to take what I can.
Ah, that's definitely a good reason!
Marc
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Actually, I think he ought to leave his wife out of it... 
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
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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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Laundry, sweeping, vacuuming, yard maintenance (1 acre), cleaning gutters, and annual preventative maintenance at the rental property is on my TODO list today.  I'd rather be writing code! C'mon Monday! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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All I can say: ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Found myself cleaning the back of the fridge, replacing water filters, onto grilling and replacing lightbulbs 
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Ha! I work Sundays! I win... erm. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Since I have been self employed (poor as dirt), I have become fond of Mondays and fearful of Friday as Monday gives me new hope for incoming (revenue) and by Friday I'm like "crap I need to get this all done today now and there's no tomorrow". Unless I want to work on Saturday, and I don't.
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Which is the first of many signs that a divorce is looming.
Marc
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You can pay people to do most of that, you know?
It's not even a bad deal, your time is worth more than you would be paying them.
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Hi,
I have received an abusive email from this site in response to my programming question. however, the message is not visible on the site, only the email. Please advise.
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Someone posted a message which kicks off an email notification then deletes there message, which is why you don't see it.
If the message is really abusive and not just hurting your feelings, then I would mention it in the Bugs & Suggestions forum .
Edit: your screen name looks a bit spammish. Are you a spam account
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I have searched the forum you suggested, and found his username already deleted, that's why
Slacker007 wrote: If the message is really abusive and not just hurting your feelings
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There is a very big difference between abuse and hurting ones feeling, if you happen to be sensitive.
Since I didn't read the posts/comments in question, I can't tell. There are people here that are so hyper-sensitive that they will mark you post as abuse, if you hurt there feelings.
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It consisted (IIRC) of 5 words, two of which were offensive, and was expecting a strong (and otherwise unprovoked) dislike of his user name.
You don't have to be sensitive to find that abusive if you don't know the other person at all.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: You don't have to be sensitive to find that abusive
Of course not. If foul language directed at another person was used, then of course that is abusive. Like I said, I did not read the original "offending" post(s).
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One reply to his posting (which didn't look spam-connected) was very abusive about his username.
I agree that the username worries me, too, but I wouldn't have used such bad language unless I were kidding.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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