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With the exception of Glasgow (I felt safer in Belfast during the Troubles than in Glasgow) it's a wonderful place. Good people, good whisky, good scenery, avoid the chippy and it has good food.
And the people are easier to understand than Yorkshiremen! (I always had to hold out a handful of change in Yorkshire pubs because I didn't understand a word the bar staff said to me)
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I am attempting humor: my dad is still called Jock because of his Glaswegian brogue. Oddly, I can't hear it at all but can hear it on other people.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I didn't realize - my bad. 
I meant it about Glasgow though - not a place I would want to live...heck I didn't even like driving through the place. Had a couple of good restaurants though. This one for example I remember well for the quality of teh wine list: http://www.ubiquitouschip.co.uk/[^]
Menu - one side of A4 (Perfect! Means they concentrate of getting the dishes right)
Wine list - at least two volumes. I suspect there was a third volume, but we never got that far despite some heroic trying and serious damage to the client's expense account.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I didn't realize - my bad.
Not to worry.
I still have some family there though not been there for decades!
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Yeah because nerds and vexillologists are well known for not being pedantic about this sort of thing.
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Definitely a better name than the last one! 
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ChrisElston wrote: What should a new country consisting of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland be called?
Quebec ?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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ChrisElston wrote: what are the rest of us going to be called?
Morons ? Now that the Scotts are away, we don't fear you anymore. Gnark gnark.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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"Iew".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I wish people would learn to count their blessings.
Luton exists. If you live somewhere else, stop complaining.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Pommieland, of course. 
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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It can go back to its original name: Fintlewoodlewix.
modified 26-Nov-13 18:49pm.
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Little Britain
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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Yesterday I was wondering if we would have to lose the blue bits off the union flag.
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Oh darn, I thought William Wallace had settled this a long time ago... They did it again eh?
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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"In order to encourage programmers to take advantage of the platform, IBM is working with venture capital firms — including New Enterprise Associates — to support and fund startups using the Watson API. Right now, though, access is via “controlled invitation,” which means interested developers must apply for access here.
Aside from the computing resources to analyze users’ data and then compute answers when API calls come in, the Watson Developers Cloud also includes an SDK, an app store, a data marketplace (the more data Watson has, the more it can learn) and IBM experts to assist in everything from design to beta testing (for the time being, these services are where the company expects to make money, High acknowledged). Watson will return results of queries along with a confidence score and links to data that weighed heavily on its answer."
http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/watson_power_applications.shtml[^]
http://gigaom.com/2013/11/14/have-at-it-programmers-ibm-makes-watson-available-via-api/[^]
I guess its better than nothing, if you have an idea, you better start applying, I guess.
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So are they going to use Watson to pick likely candidates? 
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I bet that if this Watson[^] was meant to be used, they'd got a lot of applications.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Rage wrote: I bet that if this Watson[^] was meant to be used, they'd got a lot of applications.
That wasn't the Warson they were talking about?
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...reserved for those who misquote Dante
From El Reg[^]
The correct quote should be "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here".
Who lets the illiterate write articles these days?
Would never have happened in my day.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Beeing picky now 
That's still wrong: Correct would be Quote: Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate
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Beeing?
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I was just about to say the very same thing.
A precise Modern English translation would be "Leave behind you every hope, you who enter" (no "abandon", no "all", and especially no "here" -- the last has always mithered me), but I've yet to see an English translation that isn't good enough, despite a lot of ridiculous nitpickerry about which translation is best.
It's like people who argue about quotes from the bible -- which bible, which interpretation of the bible, and which translation (of a translation of a translation) of the bible?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: mithered
Have 5 for a new word, I had to look it up to make sure it was not fictitious.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Quote: ridiculous nitpickerry
I love it! I must find a place to use that phrase myself somewhere.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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