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Well Done!!
BW
"We get general information and specific information, but none of the specific information talks about time, place or methods or means..."
- Tom Ridge - US Secretary of Homeland Security
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Stumbled into this quote a bit ago:
He who is not a liberal when he is young, has no heart. He who is not a conservative when he's grown, has no brain.
-Winston Churchill
Well, now i'm curious as to what timeframe this operates on. See, i considered myself quite the conservative when i was about 14 - had the dogma down pat, deficit awareness ribbon and all. Since then, i've become slightly more liberal, which jives with my ever-decreasing mental capacity in accordance with this quote rather nicely. But, here's the question: does this mean i'm now growing a heart? Or does it just mean i'm gonna go back to being conservative again later in life? Or does it mean i'll end up both heartless *and* stupid?
Quite worrying, 'tis...
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Shog9
I see the way the salesmen stare into the sun
I stood and watched them as they fell off one by one...
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I've got another explanation:
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind
-Nicolas Chamfort
BuT iS It rEaLLy An eXPlanAtiON ?
Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become demons
Cowboy Bebop
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KaЯl wrote:
BuT iS It rEaLLy An eXPlanAtiON
The secred message in your lower-case letters reveals:
"u, i, tray nel anti"
which can be re-arranged to read:
"anti-unreality"
A very disturbing message, Karl.
A very confusing and disturbing message.
Shog9
The Man.
The Legend.
The Bored, Narcissistic, Whiteboard-marker Sniffing Programmer.
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One of the more prevalent descriptions, "a conservative is a liberal with a mortgage".
Mike
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Shog9 wrote:
Stumbled into this quote a bit ago:
He who is not a liberal when he is young, has no heart. He who is not a conservative when he's grown, has no brain.
-Winston Churchill
Well, now i'm curious as to what timeframe this operates on.
Variations on this quotation have been attributed to a great many people. The age at which one is supposed to become conservative is usually 30 or 40.
Quotations[^]
John Carson
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It could be that he is just trying to defend his change of allegiance through his life. During the First World War he was elected as a member of the Liberal Party (or what ever they were called - they keep changing their name) and he was Prime Minister during the Second World War as a member of the Conservative Party.
I wouldn't worry about it. When I was in high school my dad described my politics as "somewhere to the far right of Margaret Thatcher". I think I've become a bit more centred as I've passed through my twenties.
--Colin Mackay--
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but perseverance." (H. Jackson Brown)
Enumerators in .NET: See how to customise foreach loops with C#
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*** Removed, pending completion ***
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Shog9
The siren sings a lonely song - of all the wants and hungers
The lust of love a brute desire - the ledge of life goes under
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Nice one, Shog!
"How many times do I have to flush before you go away?" - Megan Forbes, on Management (12/5/2002)
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Regards,
Brian Dela
Run naked in the snow until you're sweating like a stuck pig and can't seem to catch your breath. When the flu becomes pneumonia, they can cure that with a shot. - Roger Wright
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I really like that tree maybe I should get a tree too. then someone else could get a tree and then pretty soon we would have a forest.
Later, JoeSox www.joeswammi.com The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Eugene McCarthy
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Many long days ago, i posted a message here[^] describing an informal contest to see who could put the best beard on Bob. To follow the instructions to the letter, you would cause a beard to appear on Bob's face as he stands guard over the top of the page.
Shawn Wilde is the only person who completed the task *exactly*. Others were content with providing screenshots demonstrating they had completed the task, or just providing images of a bearded Bob wandering apart from CP.
Here's how i'm ranking contestants at present; if anyone cares to correct me on my estimation of a person's skill, please reply with your take on who's best, who's better - i'll accept a 1-5 rating on each contestant :
- Shaun Wilde
Instructions: Move Mouse over me and then look at Bob when message disappears.
+5 for following rules exactly - Jason Henderson
http://www.eaglesoft.net/jasonh-xp/santabob1.gif
http://www.eaglesoft.net/jasonh-xp/santabob2.gif
+5 voted by user - Colin Davies
http://www.vmtu.com/stuff/BobBrd.gif
+3 Bob bio info - natural colored beard - KaЯl
http://potemkine.free.fr/images/bobvision.jpg
+2 story - brianwelsch
http://www.greenvillearea.net/graphics/bobsbeard.jpg
+1 creativity - Roger Wright
http://www.tstechserv.com/SantaBob.gif
+1 cool-looking beard
All decisions by me are final, unless i waffle. Any offers made may be invalid outside of the Imperial US, should offer involve my presence and my car breaks down. If Earth is swallowed up the Sun prior to judging completion, all entrance fees will be returned. No promise of relevance or sanity is made, either expressly or implicitly, unless signed in blood and legible. Don't eat yellow snow. Do run with scissors, if by doing so you get them to their destination faster. Brush your teeth. Eat your greens. Don't do drugs, unless necessary or bored. Drink your milk. Drink Coke. Drink Milk and Coke. Don't do coke. Just Do It. Don't support 3rd-world sweatshops -- support your local neighborhood sweatshop. All content copyright © 2002 Amalgamated Dental Dams, except that not copyright or copyright by other persons or entities. Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays. STFU.
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Shog9
The siren sings a lonely song - of all the wants and hungers
The lust of love a brute desire - the ledge of life goes under
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If so many people miss to complete the rules, it's probably because they weren't very clear
My vote to Shaun Wilde, the best idea so far
One small village of indomitable geeks still holds out against the invaders. And life is not easy for the managers legionaries who garrison the fortified camps of Microsoftum, Javum, Ceplumplum and Vebasum
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KaЯl wrote:
If so many people miss to complete the rules, it's probably because they weren't very clear
Oh, i agree - there's a good reason why i'm a coder & not a tech writer...
KaЯl wrote:
My vote to Shaun Wilde
+5 for Shaun from KaЯl, noted.
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Shog9
The siren sings a lonely song - of all the wants and hungers
The lust of love a brute desire - the ledge of life goes under
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Thanks Karl
I actually forgot all about this over xmas - I was 1/2 cut when I did it in the first place hence the crappy graphic
Codeproject has since changed the text output rules so onmouseover no longer works - however OnMouseUp does so I have changed the code on my pages so you now have to click the text
Technically speaking the dictionary would define Visual Basic users as programmers. But here again, a very generalized, liberal definition is being employed and it's wrong - just plain wrong - Tom Archer 5/12/02
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Shog9 wrote:
..entire disclaimer..
Nice.
BW
"If you enjoy what you do, you'll never work another day in your life."
- Confucius
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Who's the winner? what was the incredible and fantastic reward ?
Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become demons
Cowboy Bebop
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Patience... (i've been a bit distracted)
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Shog9
The siren sings a lonely song - of all the wants and hungers
The lust of love a brute desire - the ledge of life goes under
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Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become demons
Cowboy Bebop
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You really need to learn patience...
Shog9
The Man.
The Legend.
The Bored, Narcissistic, Whiteboard-marker Sniffing Programmer.
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I'm working on it, Master
Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become demons
Cowboy Bebop
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Any thoughts of an annual competition? I'm confident I can improve my place.
"Things are not what they seem. Nor are they any different." BW
CP Member Homepages
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i have a few ideas, but it won't be a Christmas comp this time...
Zno one puts flowers on a flower's grave
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Go for it, brian
You're one microscopic cog
in his catastrophic plan...
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