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Dalek Dave wrote: student
Well innit nice of them to count studies conducted in the pub! : )
Life is too shor
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In other news, London has been awarded the 2012 Olympics.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: London has been awarded the 2012 Olympics.
Good to know. Can't wait to see it!!!
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AD or BC?
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Delightful, isn't it? I've been using it for about 4 years now...
In other news, a friend of a coworker has been struggling with a math class in college, so I recommended the site to her about a month ago. I got word back last week that she has passed the class, thanks mostly to Wolfram Alpha. It's rare to see a truly useful service anywhere these days, and to have it offered at no cost is a major bonus. Kudos to the development team and their budgetary masters! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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It was good. thanks for sharing 
So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things.
Sibeesh
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Translation: A new herd of sheep has been moved to the field next door.
We're not that daft!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Too bad Griff. I hope this problem is solved fast. I just wonder why you are using the phone cable for your internet. Even here in fourth world county we use separate cable for the internet (optical for the chosen few).
Can't you change your internet provider ?
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Argonia wrote: Can't you change your internet provider pull your own cable?
FTFY
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OriginalGriff wrote: but thier connection is so slow (500m bit / sec!  )
500 milli bits / sec! WTF what can anyone do on a line with half a bit per second?
Just curious, cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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That is really bad news, OriginalGriff, and I propose that the Lounge, and QA forums, here, be discontinued until you are back with full access.
Without you the blandness on the Lounge would be intolerable; without your "voice of quiet reason" the hostilities may escalate into flame-wars, and I fear that many frustrated students homework-shirkers of C# preparing for examinations the night before the exam, would face disaster possibly leading even to suicide.
cheers, Bill
« I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief » Immanuel Kant
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What's all that brown nosing about, Bill?
Just being curious, ya know.
Trying to get OG to let you share a sheep or two, are ya?
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Being curious is good, Manfred; I suggest you extend your curiosity to exploring the meaning of "irony."
cheers, Bill
« I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief » Immanuel Kant
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It didn't sound like that at all.
BTW, wipe your nose.
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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We have already pointed out several times the missing sarcasm icon.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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We might be using the rolleyes  for irony. For sure, it would kill the subtlety, and is definitely not a 100% match.
I like your mental representation of sarcasm, so I second your proposition of the pitchfork.
(I hope you were not being ironical)
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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There is something rotten in your kingdom of Denmark.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Note: the CP editor is not accepting the links I'm pasting in from the Online Etymology Dictionary: so I am including them as plain text.
Hi Rage,
Really, we'd need two distinct icons to distinguish between sarcasm and irony.
Sarcasm comes from the Greek root meaning "cut/tear-off," and it is most often used with a negative intent, as an insult, as making fun-of in a belittling, or hostile, way, etc.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sarcasm
Irony can be much more subtle, and its original meaning from the Greek means the simulating of ignorance, or dissembling; in modern use, it often implies a non-negative intent, imho. It can be a form of rhetoric which implies that it is "tongue-in-cheek," or has a "mixed-message," often in a teasing way. Irony can be used with affection.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=irony
How about a pitchfork with sharpened tines dripping blood for "sarcasm," and something less violent for "irony:" a face with hand over mouth, and the eyes rolling-around ?
« I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief » Immanuel Kant
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Steely with less carbon?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Sweet. Now I can catch up to you on points. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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OriginalGriff wrote: the engineer has been forbidden access to the pole by the people in whose field it sits as they "have a dispute running with BT".
In my parts (at least), there's a degree of eminent domain with respect to the utilities (pole based and otherwise).
I guess living in a place named after a huge fish-imposter has some drawbacks.
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