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Mark_Wallace wrote: big enough to take several copies of the entire Internet
Yes, but...
If you apply Sturgeon's Law[^] to the Internet (hereafter known as Wheeler's Adage), 99.997% of everything on the Internet is crap. You could probably fit the worthwhile bits on a thumb drive or two.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: You could probably fit the worthwhile bits on a thumb drive or two.
Or on the fingers of one hand...
... Suddenly, the logic in Griff's question assails me!
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If it was just me? It probably wouldn't be a very um....kid sister friendly site. 
"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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PirateBay or one of the other torrent sites.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Is the web archive an easy cop-out or a valid answer?
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Does the site update?
(downloading of external stuff makes the difference of a torrent site and netflix)
No - you get a one time download of the site (including images) - know how or wikipedia
Yes - Netflix
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I'm going to go with the obvious, because I'm not clever and overly pragmatic.
google.com
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Except ... you can't ask it any questions, because you can only read pages, not post anything.
Otherwise the only site you'd need would be the local search and rescue! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I wasn't reading "post" as "http post", but as "send some data for update". So in my world, inquiries would still work.
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Old man stranded on a desert island when a beautiful young lady in a wetsuit swims up the beach. He looks at her and she asks if he is hungry? He says yes. She pulls a hamburger out of her sleeve and he eats it down. She asks if he is thirsty, and he says yes. She pull a cold bottle of beer out of her other sleeve. She starts taking off her wetsuit and asks if he wants to play around. He asks her, do you have a set of clubs in there?
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The Cat in the Hat may be fifty years old, but he, and Grinch, Horton, Lorax, Thing1, Thing2, are immortal: Quote: In 1954, a magazine report speculated that one of the reasons for declining children’s literacy was that books like “Dick and Jane” were boring. Geisel took up the challenge and wrote Cat in the Hat using 220 words suitable for beginning readers. It didn’t thrill teachers, but became one of the most popular children’s books in history. He later wrote Green Eggs and Ham when someone challenged him to write a book using 50 words or less.
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«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I will be reading Green Eggs and Ham to a bunch of 3 year olds tomorrow. Dr Seuss WEEK at preschool.
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I remember The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins % Bartholomew and the Oobleck ( didn't check spelling ) from about then, more words used, and a story I liked at the time.
( While Seuss did a great job, I think the idea is often overdone. If you want kids to be stupid, treat them like they are. )
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Since someone pointed me to the RootAdmin site (I'm not making a link of that, for reasons which will become obvious), the CP site has been a wreck!
Pages load with reduced functionality, or without accessing the scripts at all (as an html-only interface, it's somewhat less than optimal).
I've cleared my cache + everything_else twice (which introduces a whole new world of aggravation), with no improvement.
Not a happy puppy.
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It works fine for me!
CP is moving pretty fluidly, which is a surprise for a Sunday morning as I suspect that's "Backup time" and it's generally a little slow.
But I'm logged in to both CP and RA ATM and it's PDQ.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Wow! CP goes Retro!
Have you tried a CTRL+F5 and a browser reboot? Or did you accidentally connect via 56K?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I've tried everything except using a modem of 56k or below.
Lemme just go under the kitchen sink and dig a few out...
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And this is what happens if I'm lucky.
https://mwallace.nl/images/cp1980-2.jpg
(Note that there's no preview, no "click to edit sig", and it doesn't do anything with the pasted link)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hmm ... have you checked your adblock / hosts list? It sounds like your JS is not loading - could that URL be blocked?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Ha!
Looks like there was a Ghostery update, which knocked CP out of the whitelist.
Seems fixed*.
* Note the science-geek phrasing, there -- "is fixed" would be asking for trouble.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I was just going to ask if you use adblockers
So all good now your end?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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