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heh. gotta love when algorithms offend people. software lacks social graces.
88 is a common white supremacist "signal" - as is 14 (as in 14 words)
coupled with BrownBomber i could see it being a bit off putting especially given recent mass murders in the states, including the austin bomber.
the whole thing could be seen as unsettling to someone a bit sensitive i guess.
but who the heck is Joe Louis? 
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the monster, codewitch wrote: heh. gotta love when algorithms offend people. software lacks social graces.
88 is a common white supremacist "signal" - as is 14 (as in 14 words)
coupled with BrownBomber i could see it being a bit off putting especially given recent mass murders in the states, including the austin bomber.
the whole thing could be seen as unsettling to someone a bit sensitive i guess.
We're in Australia where all of these numbers mean absolutely nothing to do with racism.
honey the monster, codewitch wrote: but who the heck is Joe Louis?
American Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World 1937 - 1949. Nicknamed the Brown Bomber.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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ah, i don't really follow boxing but i recognize names like Sonny Liston because he's in a song I like. Nothing about joe louis though.
I don't know anything about australia, except that I'd probably be more offended by the local fauna trying to eat me than I would be about my default passwords. 
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Michael Martin wrote: We're in Australia where all of these numbers mean absolutely nothing to do with racism.
What? Is Australia outside the US?
Impossible! There's Nothing outside the US!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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In Germany you´d have to know sooner or later...
88 stands for HH (eighth letter in the alphabet) which you can well enough google for yourself (sometimes I feel like even mentioning Hitler can be punished - laws are somewhat strange strict here about that)
14 I don´t know, but it´s also about that specific Hitler person. As well as 204 (his birthday) etc. etc. etc.
At latest you´ll know about such things when you want to buy a car license plate and they tell you the letter combination you´ve chosen is illegal. My sister´s initials were NS till she married - forbidden, too. Her colleague´s initials were SS - which is even worse. And they still keep adding combinations up till today - only some months ago additional initials and numbers have been added 
So Germans have to be a bit more sensible about such things, except you´d like to be watched by defence of constitution...
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It's seeing and hearing things like that when I wonder *when* is the Darwin theory going to strike...
As an ex squadie, snowflakes like that wouldn't have lasted 30 seconds, our humour was (and still is) brutal, but that's how life is...
It's more like survival of the weakest....
p.s.
If anyone takes offense, tough, get over it...
Who the f*** is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?
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Two weeks ago there was a lot of fuzz here in Norway about a satirical animation, addressing the use of offensive words: Two scrabble players, one is ready to lay out a long word that will make him win the game. The word is very offensive to his opponent, and he ponders for a long time whether to use to word to win. He decides NOT to, and his opponent proudly declares "Then I win the game!"
Even though the player with the offensive word decided that he would NOT offend his opponent, but give away the victory, and his opponent was gloating over a victory that was (by the rules of the game, which knows nothing about offensive words) at least half undeserved, representatives for the group that the opponent belongs to got so upset that they forced this animation off the website.
I wonder: If I teach my kids "No, you can NOT hit that xxx kid in his face just because he is an xxx!", can you then attack me for hate crime, because I as much as mentioned "xxx", even if it was to tell that it gives my kid no reason to attack that other kid? The very idea was exactly the opposite, both in the way I want to raise my kid, and the intention of the satirical animation: You should respect your fellow man, even if it sometimes mean that you loose the game.
Some groups are so super sensitive that they never comes close to even consider such an interpretation. Anything that can be twisted around to be interpreted as an attack on the group they belong to, will be twisted around that way. I must admit that there are groups that I highly respect, at the outset, have such a history of "crying wolf" all the time that it strongly affects my respect for the group.
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Just reply to all (and add a few, e.g. his line manager) with this link[^].
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Are you sure your name isn't David Thorne[^]? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Write an email claiming extreme offense at the suggestion you wrote anything other than a reference to the famed Joe Louis and then put in a claim for compo due to emotional stress.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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In the UK the only BrownBomber I am aware of is the high strength laxative capsule they tend to give you in hospital if you answer the question "Have your bowels moved today?" in the negative. It's a dark brown capsule, about an inch long, and it certainly opens the bomb bay doors!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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What's everyone having for dinner tonight?
/ravi
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Pasta with guanciale lardon, roasted nuts and a little bit of cheese (forgot to get some more from the store) and basil.
t'was nice; I should have put some chili flakes in it.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Nothing, working late. 
Tomorrow though, going to Las Vegas where I will more than make up for it! 
"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
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Beef Stew made by the Crock Pot with biscuits.
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Beef roast, mashed taters and strawberries. And a Snickers Ice Cream bar after! Yum
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Sorry I am late. I had peanut butter pizza. Yum
Lou
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I had beef skewers and chicken stew, fries and a chocolate and hazelnut ice-cream cone.
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Last night was a potato and chickpea curry, with leftover roast chicken from Sunday, served with a Peshwari Naan.
The curry was very nice, but I bought in the Naan as we don't have a tandoor and it was gawd awful. Stodgy and tasted like a mince pie.
Tonight Herself is cooking, so it'll probably be bought in kebab in a raw pitta full of coleslaw.
As you may have guessed, she's not interested in cooking. 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
modified 13-Aug-19 1:54am.
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Wow, have we reached that deep level of conversation ? I think that after all these years, we are heading straight to the counselor 
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Lobster Thermidor aux Crevettes with a Mornay sauce, Served in a Provençale Manner with Shallots and Aubergines, garnished with Truffle Paté, Brandy and a Fried egg on top and Spam
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cheers
Chris Maunder
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