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A Japanese Geordie couple is arguing about how to perform highly erotic sex dinner:
Husband: "Foreign food? Where's my proper tucker!"
Wife replies: "Aw man! I've been cooking all day"
Husband says angrily: "I'll take a rod to you, you stupid * (bovine)!"
Wife, on her knees, literally begging: "Don't hit us again pet!"
Husband shouts angrily: "The cat can have it - I'm going down the pub!"
It does help to drink lots of Newkie Broon[^] when trying to decipher it 
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Thanks, that made my day.
Newkie Broon looks good. Too bad I can't get some here in Thailand.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
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JimmyRopes wrote: Husband: "Sukitaki.
I assumed her name was Aki. Didn't need to read the rest.
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Okay, I admit I haven't been terribly productive in the software department for the past twenty years; other things keep popping up to distract me. Like having a job which pays a real salary and offers benefits. That's scarce around here, and there's no one paying for software. Recently, though, I've experienced a real compulsion to get back into hardware development. No, not silicon stuff - everything I know about that is obsolete - but real hardware. To that end, I ordered this[^] a couple of days ago, and expect delivery on Thursday. I've wanted one for 40+ years, but never allowed myself to buy one. Lately, though, I see old friends dropping dead weekly and I have to wonder, "what am I waiting for?" I think it really doesn't matter all that much if it makes economic sense for me to buy this, it doesn't matter if I ever make a product to sell with it. What matters is that I can finally afford it, and I want it. Isn't that the real reason I worked so hard for so many years to learn what I know today, and get paid for sharing with my employer? What other justification do I need? Why do I feel slightly guilty for indulging myself?
Will Rogers never met me.
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Um, mind giving us, juniors, a little introduction to what does this hardware do? 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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This hardware gives one the ability to whittle steel into whatever shape one needs. A mill is one of the fundamental machine tools required to fabricate nearly anything from metal or any other rigid material. The other basic machines include a lathe, for turning metal extrusions into radially symmetric shapes and making threads, and the brake, for making bends in metal sheets. Various other tools add refinements, and make many tasks much simpler, but these three encompass the foundations of a machine shop. I have lost count over the past 40+ years of the inventions I envisioned, but was unable to prototype, only to watch others profit from making what I invented long before.
One day soon I would like to retire, but I don't want to stop working; I just want to stop having to show up for work every day. I think when I'm done doing electrical engineering, I'd like to try gunsmithing. This tool is an excellent investment toward that end.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Oh, good luck for that sir.
Many times this happens, you get to see your idea being formulated into a reality and people making their fortune from what you were expecting to get your chance in life, just because of financial support as well as time budget. Mostly, people lack in either time or financial budgets... Some get a vault full of them.
May you get a chance to accomplish what you start next time and may it profit you.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I read all of that as "f*** 3D printers, this is the real thing".
And to that, I say: 
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Roger Wright wrote: Why do I feel slightly guilty for indulging myself
Don't!
If it makes you feel good, and doesn't hurt anyone, do it.
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Congratulations on your purchase, I hope you'll enjoy working with it!
I'm occasionally doing micro scale hardware stuff and I know it's fun - happy chipping 
/Sascha
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Roger Wright wrote: Why do I feel slightly guilty for indulging myself?
Roger Wright wrote: What matters is that I can finally afford it, and I want it.
You see? You answered yourself! You're a free man! Also it is WAAAAY better than my indulgences, which aren't creative (with the due exception of books of course).
Geek code v 3.12
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--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I use 1TBS
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Interesting. My day job is writing software that computes tool paths for milling machines. Only the milling machines I'm talking of are slightly bigger. You won't be able to put one in your garage (unless you have a very big garage and pick a very small model) - see here: http://www.starrag.com/index.php/marken-starrag[^]
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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That's a nice piece of kit for the price.
:jealous:
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That is super cool. Some of the happiest times of my life were spent building parts in a machine shop. I'm jealous.
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Nice, but a whole lot more money, and CNC is only worth the cost in a production shop.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Which is gives you more money running the website or blogs?
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Neither. I only make small money by writing quality code.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Well said, Brady.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Brady Kelly wrote: I only make small money
You are a founder and yet earn only "small" money?! 
Either you are a pessimist or I must be earning negligible amount then. The later seems more likely. 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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I am a realist. I have been constrained to "founder" by CP, where i would simply prefer "owner", and I really only own the name, i.e. it is a registered company name I trade under, not an empire.
I charge a reasonable rate, but life as a sole trader is not the high life.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) is watching you.
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It depends on the website. If you run a scam website such as the online gambling ones then you'll make more money than if you blog about the bowel movements of your cat. The latter is going to appeal only to a very niche market.
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Develop a website for blogging
Happy Coding...
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OK, so I asked the question earlier about brain teasers.
I just got off the phone with a "screener" for a position. He asked me this[^].
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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