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A young Programmer and his Project Manager board a train headed through the mountains on its way to Wichita. They can find no place to sit except for two seats right across the aisle from a young woman and her grandmother.
After a while, it is obvious that the young woman and the young programmer are interested in each other, because they are giving each other looks. Soon the train passes into a tunnel and it is pitch black. There is a sound of a kiss followed by the sound of a slap.
When the train emerges from the tunnel, the four sit there without saying a word.
The grandmother is thinking to herself, “It was very brash for that young man to kiss my granddaughter, but I’m glad she slapped him.”
The Project manager is sitting there thinking, “I didn’t know the young tech was brave enough to kiss the girl, but I sure wish she hadn’t missed him when she slapped me!”
The young woman was sitting and thinking, “I’m glad the guy kissed me, but I wish my grandmother had not slapped him!”
The young programmer sat there with a satisfied smile on his face. He thought to himself, “Life is good. How often does a guy have the chance to kiss a beautiful girl and slap his Project Manager all at the same time!”
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I first heard that joke in the previous millennium!
The irony. 
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One ancient joke deserves another!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The database of the future will require two DBAs: a person and a dog.
The person will be needed to feed the dog.
The dog will be needed to keep the person from messing with the database.
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I first heard that joke in the previous millennium!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Doesn't it appear in Act II, Scene 1 of "Two Gentlemen of Verona"? 
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There's a trailer, at last: Clarkson's Farm Season 3 | Official Trailer | Prime Video - YouTube[^] - and it's genuinely funny.
If you don't have Prime then Clarkson's Farm is a pretty good reason to get one! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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But I guess its bound to happen eventually. Need a new starting word now
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Me too! I blame Griff for that one.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Choice of two, and I picked the right one!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Not sure how much of this is accurate, but tada... clicky clicky!
It's about a 10 min video, but worth the watch as it covers some Windows 12 leaks. It's still early, but it sure does look legit-ish. All the AI talk aside, the idea of CorePC/Core OS and making Windows more modular is great. If you don't need legacy compatibility for a program written in the 90s, don't install it. Keep the computer clean. If you do, install it.
Edit: Holy crap on a cracker. This video suggests that for Windows 12 you can either pay for a subscription or use it for free with ads. 
Edit 2: I'm sure the data-tracking gonna get worse though. 
Jeremy Falcon
modified 8hrs ago.
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The video sure did cover a lot of ground, but I'm afraid.
The video said, "Imagine having a personal assistant who knows everything about your personal life and work" when referring to Co-Pilot.
It will also limit your ability to charge the device based upon data from the electric company? What kind of orwellian junk is that?
I anticipate a huge market for software that disables all this stuff, unless MS makes it impossible to do that kind of thing.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: What kind of orwellian junk is that?
Yeah man, I'm not really sure of what to make of it. But, Skynet is coming. Skynet is essentially the concept of the web 4.0/5.0.
Be funny if Linux became the OS of the resistance against the machines. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: I anticipate a huge market for software that disables all this stuff
Finally ushering in the year of Linux on the desktop!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yeah, now all they have to do is test it. Oh, wait! They haven't been doing that for the last, what, 8-10 years now?
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I will not even contemplate Windows 12 with or without "CoPilot" unless I have a contract that pays me enough for the frustration.
I went out to the tech support site for Microsoft. It offered a free 30 day trial of CoPilot, $20/month thereafter. Honestly, I'm on the edge ( I read a lot of SciFi where the characters have AI in their head - but MS is never mentioned  ).
but, $200+ a year?
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: I will not even contemplate Windows 12 with or without "CoPilot" unless I have a contract that pays me enough for the frustration.
Yeah, to be honest, I'd be more trusting of AI if all the data was open and not going to one or two companies that have already proven you can't trust them. In its current iteration it's a bit of an overreach IMO.
charlieg wrote: but, $200+ a year?
Jeremy Falcon
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based on the latest FISA renewal, I'm pretty pissed.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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