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*completely unrelated* *tearful* *Antarctic salute*
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Well... Kent Sharkey! Praise be upon you.
My favorite so far is (I star the ones I like in my inbox):
Wikileaks founder Assange reveals his next target: Google
Free information gets its latest teaser trailer.
If Kent Sharkey does visit upon this thread, tell me sir, do you write the serious line followed by the funny line? Or do you do all the serious lines first and then a day later add the funny line? I want to know....
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Nish Nishant wrote: AI bot located in a top secret location in Antarctica
Ah, that'll explain the shrinking icebergs down there... and occasional cooked penguins that keep washing up in Australia.
Sin tack
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Lopatir wrote: and occasional cooked penguins that keep washing up in Australia.
I thought Kent liked his penguins rare, or was that Sean?
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I only know that the ones for sheeps is OG 
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Apparently Kent can grasp more than Mark Zuckerberg's 'limited' understanding of the future of AI.
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Ssssssh! You'll give him a big(ger) head. It's hard enough sharing an office with him now. 
Thank you, kind sir!
TTFN - Kent
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Oh, we were talking about the other Kent Sharkley... 
I kid. I kid. They're actually funny.
Jeremy Falcon
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The one in the Mankini?
"It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something."
-Ornette Coleman
"Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently."
-Anon.
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No, that was @sean-ewington, the previous (and occasional backup) editor of the insider.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Munchies_Matt wrote: We need to put a tax on electronic goods so they can be recycled properly.
Yeah, that's it. Everything is going to be pink and fluffy.
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There already is in Italy.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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I'd suggest concentrating on the middlemen whose forged documentation lets them pose as responsible recyclers to buy ewaste from places where there is a mandate to safely dispose of it and who then smuggle it to the 3rd world to create an environmental catastrophe. Increasing the number of places with requirements to safely dispose of it won't do any good when its impossible for the companies collecting it from consumers to be sure that the people they sell it to aren't crooks.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Yeah, you are right, this needs to be tackled too.
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You can't legislate morality no matter what the tax.
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We already pay taxes for that in the Netherlands, and it does not change anything. Waste is going to the cheapest place that claims to recycle it, and there is money to be made with dumping.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Munchies_Matt wrote: We need to put a tax on electronic goods so they can be recycled properly.
Like how Apple add a stupidity tax?
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<og_accent>There is no dark side of the industry really. Matter of fact it's all dark.
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Surprised nobody commented on this slightly mangled quotation from "Dark side of the moon", originally said in a Welsh accent. 
Oh well, no accounting for some folks tastes. Or maybe they just never heard it. 
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Most developed countries have a "green tax" on electronic devices.
What we need now if to have companies that makes electronics have a clear and demonstrible plan to recycle their products.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Wish I could find the article I read a few years back but even electronic recycling programs are not always what they seem.
Long story short, company charges you to take your e-waste, tells you it will be recycled responsibly, loads them into shipping containers, dumps them in poor areas and then buy the scavenged raw materials for cheap. In the end they make profit on both sides of the process with no real 'recycling' going on at all.
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RJOberg wrote: dumps them in poor areas and then buy the scavenged raw materials for cheap.
It is recycling. They leave waste in a plant with organisms that live separating the raw materials, obtaining the materials back.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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reminds me of another joke, "carbon tax"
(joke was so damn easy to get "carbon tax credits" the coal power stations wouldn't actually pay tax for next 20 years - which they could also mitigate [in advance] by throwing up a windmill or two, or even promising to maintain their distribution system to reduce loss due to old wiring etc.)
Sin tack
the any key okay
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