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If yo are threatening us with an article in order to extort candy from us, it should be 'Article or treat!'
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Are you suggesting his article is going to be that bad?
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It better be, otherwise there would not be much candy coming.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Hahah, thanks for correcting me! 
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I just spent a week travelling in Yunnan, China. A truly spectacular place where the people are more tibetan than chinese. However Google search is mostly blocked, on rare occasions I could get a valid search but most times the site was unreachable. Really annoying when it is your home page on all your devices and the default browser is Chrome.
I had to revert to Safari (I think) and Bing.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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gotta love China, almost everything electronic is made (or duplicated) there,
yet somehow within China it feels like technology has been rolled back 10+ years.
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Once you get outside the major cities it does seem like a 3rd world country. I loathe the Chinese city culture, especially where it is directed at tourists. The money grabbing is just so aggressive and really in your face.
Yunnan on the other hand was fabulous, the people are not focused on extracting every penny from the tourist like most places.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Close to me; sort of. I'm currently on holiday in central Thailand. I know VPNs are illegal in China, but did you consider using Tor? I've been using Tor for accessing sensitive websites or websites that are only accessible in America. Tor is very slow, though.
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Nah there was nothing sensitive about it, just the usual travel info that I wanted to look up. Searching for how to say hello in Tibet caused my wife's tablet to crash, she wasn't game to search for Taiwan information .
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Bing
Bing works in China? I thought neither Google nor Bing did!
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Worked for me, not what I am used to but at least it was worked .
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote:
I had to revert to ... Bing.
Gads, that's painful!
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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It is a bool operator.
A boooooolll operatooor.
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Coast to coast, L.A. to Chicago, It's a bool operator.
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I'll never be able to hear that song without "bool" ever again 
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"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley
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well evening started of fighting outlook interop in a detaching/archiving app.
in short: some code that failed testing a message ref, adding a call to the output a "." to the log file straight after the failing line fixed it(???), replaced that with a sleep - broken again, replaced that by testing the reference for != null [that wasn't the error and it'll never be null to have got this far anyway] fixed it again (???)
okay... (remembered the boy scout motto: sure way to break a working camp fire is try and improve it.)
figured only way to cap off that weirdness: binge watch the new Twin Peaks (S3).
(and in the meantime the apps been burning through a [smaller] 40GB pst for 3.5 hours without hiccup [yes it's slow - it's running and a clients non-SSD machine].)
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Well my evening started by having to emergency-defrost my fridge after not shutting the freezing compartment door properly before going out and when I returned I couldn't close it because too much ice had built up.. 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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I'm familiar with the ?? operator, but ??? is knew. Care to explain?
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Oooh yes, thanks. Twin Peaks is something to binge on, that I haven't done so yet. I think I'll re-schedule for much sooner.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley
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A mate loaned me an video and I want to return it to him, but I can't find my MP4 rewinder - anyone got one handy I could borrow?
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Nope, you will have to watch the video until its very end, and take profit of the fact that MP4 videos are automatically rewinded once they have been watched.
And I've read on Mp4VideosFacts that trying to rewind a video before it has been fully watched can dramatically damage the bytes of which it is composed. Better safe than sorry, so.
selfish adj. Defines someone who does not think of me.
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Can you not stick a pencil in it and spin it round or connect it to a drill to do it quicker....
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Make sure you get one for the right region. I understand that US reminders don't work in Europe, and vice versa.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Make sure you get one for the right region. I understand that US rewinders don't work in Europe, and vice versa.
"...and vice versa" spot on!, they go the other way around ... that'd be like an unrewinder.
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