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pwasser wrote: shooting ranges
Why does that simmon up the picture of someone telling us how they deal with idiots in Texas, even without the help from hackers.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I predict a death or serious injury in the near future as one of these people blindly walks into the traffic!
Darwins ways are subtle and mysterious. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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"Think of it as evolution in action" --- Niven & Pournelle, "Oath of Fealty"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm and old SF fan, Niven and Puornelle are very much part of my past. the darwin comment also comes to mind except a lot of these have already bred!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Yes. Among each other, sooner or later becoming their own subspecies.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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"Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal and execution is carried out automatically and without pity." -- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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 I wore that book out, I'm going to have to get an ebook copy some day. My daughter wore out Friday years ago but no longer reads SF, weird.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Here in Thailand there may be less of this due to the fact that most people understand that sidewalks here ... when they are not totally blocked by street-food vendors and other sellers, or not blocked by parked motorcycles, or a motorcycle actually speeding down the sidewalk ... are traps full of unmarked potholes, abrupt endings, and other hazards, designed to ensure the continuing prosperity of local orthopedic surgeons.
And, of course, sidewalks are dangerously near the roads where the number one method of birth control and population-culling in this country, vehicular homicide/suicide, is performed by insane drivers of all kinds of vehicles.
Of course, Pokemon Go, which has just "taken off" in Thailand, may change all that.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Bloody hell I have trouble navigating most SE Asian sidewalks sober and with full concentration.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Ahh! If you don't like the way I drive, get off the sidewalk!
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I predict a death or serious injury in the near future as one of these people blindly walks into the traffic!
Ideally, before they have bred.
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You took a loan out over 72 months? Blimey. What was the interest rate on that?
This space for rent
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Just looked...6.94%. I was just happy to get approved! Now I've got to go and figure all the interest I paid! Thanks! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: Now I've got to go and figure all the interest I paid!
Easy, it will be along the lines of: "Here are two brand new trucks. We'll keep one and you have the other. Now you owe us for two trucks."
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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It's not that bad! If that's an APR (so it's calculated annually) then the interest cost will be about 1/4 of the principal over the whole period.
If it's calculated monthly, then look at around 1/2 the principal in interest.
If it's daily... he went to Wonga! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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A little hyperbole (a standard literary artifice) helps paint the picture.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
modified 11-Aug-16 3:49am.
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Let me give you a good piece of advice.
PARK THE TRUCK.
Wait a month or two. There is something in the universe that detects freshly paid off vehicles and makes them into idiot magnets. It's uncanny the # of times I've heard people like you say "yeah" then have someone rear end them.
Parking the truck is somewhat of a joke, just be super careful.
Then again, I live in Atlanta, they don't call it crush hour for nothing.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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If you pay full 72 rates for your truck you should better purchase some cheaper car .They are also use less resources as gasoline and parking space. 
Yesterday I built in my new SSD in the PC and now the PC runs smoother and faster and most: uses some 10 Watts less energy 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Congrats. Enjoy the moment 
Now start paying that car payment amount into a savings account so, in another 72 months, you can buy another new truck to replace it, but this time without a car payment
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Thanks! This is the third vehicle I have 'paid off', but it was my first new vehicle ever. Good advice on what to do with that extra cash! I was going to invest in solar panels but research shows the return would be 40 years!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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... to @Keith-Barrow, one of the geekiest, funniest bits of coding clickbait I've seen. I followed the link[^], you won't believe what happened next.
A webpage opened, and I read it. That's what happened next, so you probably would believe it.
This space for rent
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Glad I'm not involved in that particular culture...
'PLAN' is NOT one of those four-letter words.
'When money talks, nobody listens to the customer anymore.'
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Nice read! It makes me wonder how most web devs handle jquery libs...download/self-host or link to community hosted libs?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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