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PowerShell is awesome. Simply amazing. Easy to learn. Get a copy of Windows Powershell Programming for Absolute Beginners. You will learn it easily, and never look back at that ugly CMD Prompt again.
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The only time I ever used it was to 'really' remove Windows 10 Apps that were unistallable.
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I have been a linux user since the late 90s. Whenever my arm was twisted to work on on a windows setting (all to often  ) the first thing I always did was install cygwin on it before anything else. bash saved me from early insanity. I never looked at PowerShell, maybe I have missed something. Next time I'm young I'll try it, promise.
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Is there really anything else ever needed if you have bash, awk, sed and grep?
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For miniscripts no, those will usually be sufficient. if not then python, perl, tcl... whatever.
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PowerShell works great once you learn its syntax and quirks. I've only had a few commands that don't transfer over exactly from the command prompt to powershell and all you need to do is type "cmd" in PowerShell go get the normal command line so it's not that big a deal that it's now the default in Windows.
I highly recommend watching at least the first video in the Microsoft Virtual Academy on PowerShell to get an idea of the basics. Microsoft PowerShell Tutorial & Training Course – Microsoft Virtual Academy[^]
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I used to find that I could do anything I wanted to do in Python, and more easily - but recently I've been working in a locked down environment without python, but with Powershell, so I've forced myself to learn. I initially found it odd to work with - but it is making more sense over time. Syntactically there are still some things I find quirky compared to for example Unix shell scripting.
I'm a whiz at batch files . . . but now I'm finding that I use batch less than Powershell. . . so it must be growing on me.
. . . and it does seem to be the future for Microsoft.
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Heard that phrase on the radio this morning and it occurred to me, if you're insane, how can you plead not guilty using "reason"? Seems rather contradictory to me! 
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Catch-22
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Yossariane would be proud! 
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That is a Major Major truth.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Here we go! 
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I prefer 42 
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?
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Because a lawyer is entering the plea, and (if you believe them) lawyers aren't insane.
".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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The term 'reason', as used in this phrase, does not refer to the ability to reason of either the lawyer or the defendant, but the cause for the defendant of not being guilty (because of not being able to intend to perform a crime due to insanity).
Having said that, it would have been clearer to just say 'because' rather than 'by reason of'.  The hilarity simply emerges from the convoluted ways of expressing stuff in legalese.
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it looks like "reason" is a homonym ...
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I'm surprised you're allowed to use the word "homonym" because it has the word "homo" in it.
".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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Yep .. it seems to be allowed, and only now I am fully aware of the risk I took
( excluded, banished from the Lounge, not allowed to talk in SOTW, etc ...)
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wow ... until now I never heard of heteronyms but distinction based on sound seems fuzzy to me,
- spelling is well defined, but sounds ... this would mean that a homonym can also sometimes be a heteronym, or did I miss your point ... Cheers,
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It was mostly a play on words :rim-shot:.
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Oops ... in some way I thought so. It would be thus "learning by playing", which is BTW quite a good outcome ...
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Tachyonx wrote: "learning by playing"
I had to; my wife has a Master's degree in English .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Actually something I mull over now and then.
For a lot of criminal acts, you's have to be insane to even try them (various reasons). As an example, killing someone for their sneakers. Animal cruelty is another.
On that basis, it really is a guilty plea. OK - so we won't send you to prison, but since you're that crazy, we'll never let you out on the streets again. Much to dangerous and unpredictable.
Case closed !
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Not necessarily insane, just immoral.
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