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Oh, bugger - I stopped trying as I thought OG was right! Now I've a got a meeting starting soon 
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I was just guessing TBH - the "mob" part fitted, but the rest was the only eight letter word ending with "mob" I could think of... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Hey! You're not supposed to post the answer til 1pm!
I was just about to get that! 
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nah it's 3 hours, always has been since DD done it. The WSO format was my inception originally - so my rules.
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Far be it from me to get involved, but OG has the rules on his profile page, and it says 4 hours there...
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Yeah god knows why he did that - I think he likes to make sure the OTD's carry on, but I wouldn't bother taking much notice of them the thing doesn't even need rules.
Somebody called Dalek Dave used to set these daily, back then if we didn't solve it in 3 hours then he 'won'.
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Bill Gates worked from like 20 to 30 years of age without ever taking a day off of work. Most people pretend to know what it takes to make it that big, but they don't really know since they themselves never did it. As such, most of the reasoning and rationale you see online in articles like this is complete garbage written by inexperienced people. Maybe he had a head start in life, but I can guarantee you he worked his butt off to create Microsoft the way he did.
So the real answer is... work. Imagine that.
The truth is simple and yet nobody admits it.
Jeremy Falcon
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Just noting that as a real analysis it basically gets nothing right.
And as social commentary or comedy it isn't very good either.
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Copy him? Do you have any idea how hard it will be to get him out of his clothes and to lie still on the copy machine?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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That's very old fashioned. Nowadays you use a laser scanner and a 3D printer.
And let's be honest - just how difficult is it generally to get any male out of his clothes?
Come on, try to keep up! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: just how difficult is it generally to get any male out of his clothes?
How should I know? Sometimes I meet some who obviously have died in them some months ago.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Clearly you are considering the wrong tools ... 
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I do, but not for every case.
If I were a robber, I would hold a shotgun into their faces and let them hand over everything they are wearing. I can later sort out what I want to keep and they will most certainly not follow me split naked. The only weakness in that plan would be that I can't get away after having gone blind.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Getting rich is about serving a need. Needs change all the time as the market changes. Which is why you can never copy anyone blindly like that since the market is different now. You have learn how rich people think and copy the thought process and find a need to serve... which is always changing. This is assuming we're talking about major stuff here. For little stuff online then copy away as the market tends to always have support for people and careless spending. But to change the world like Bill, you'll have to find your own path bro.
Jeremy Falcon
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That article doesn't seem to be accurate.
One of the very recognized drivers of acceptance of personal computers were spreadsheets. IBM machines was not a leader initially in that field and Microsoft did not have a spreadsheet for years.
The other app was word processing. Again something that Microsoft did not have for years.
So additional software sales were not the initial driving force for Microsoft. It was the OS only.
The article doesn't even address the the deal the IBM and Microsoft had that did not restrict the Microsoft OS from running on other machines which many consider a supreme blunder by IBM. It allowed the Microsoft OS to run on any clone and because of the existing software, not Microsoft software, for the IBM would run on the clones also. The ability to produce clones produced a vast market of stand alone stores and mail order manufacturers which would have not existed (certainly not as extensively) without that. And all of those run the Microsoft OS. There were alternatives but none of them ever had any significant market share.
I question the reference article about the connection to the mother as well. Certainly might have allowed IBM to find Microsoft but I seriously doubt that IBM made the decision based solely or even significantly on that. And in point of fact IBM talked to at least one other OS maker and Microsoft only became the OS provider because IBM couldn't deal with the other player.
Microsoft didn't even have an OS and basically made a promise based on vaporware to IBM. And then bought the OS from a different company.
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Long time ago, I said this phrase to an American mate appreciating him on a good work.
He didn't exactly get what I meant. He was asking me, if it was a negative remark.
Bad surprise to me. The whole language I use is completely like an "AI" learning model. lol
I just keep watching what phrase, words the native speakers use, on what context, and I re-use it similar, applicable contexts. I think I do apply them right 90%.
Okay this "Strikes again" as far as I could grasp, it definitely looked like positive gesture.
Our mate Brad Kelly has written it here.(I see it's not positive again)*
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Why this is thought as a negative remark? The mate that mistook this , mentioned something with the "Baseball". Didn't get exactly what he meant. I just explained him that I said it on a good intent. 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
modified 24-Nov-17 2:40am.
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This is generally used in a negative context, as in something bad happening again.
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As the context is often mixed, my learning module seem to have confused on this. lol
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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AFAIK this is mostly (if not only) a negative comment on something.
Like Diarrhea strikes again or bad luck strikes again.
I mean, it could be used positively but i never heard it that way before.
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Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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It does not have a positive or negative meaning per se, imho. It depends on the context, the person who is phrasing and the person who is the object of the remark.
For example, let's say you have a coworker who uses to be very clumsy; today he spilt his mug of coffee on your desk, and the report you prepared is now useless. You say "Strikes again" -> negative
Now let's say there is another coworker, a brilliant developper who often find smart ways to solve complex issues. Today he found a way to finally implement this complex functionality which will allow to satisfy the customer's needs without impacting project's deadline. "Strikes again" -> positive.
If you say that to a guy who you do not know very well, and who does not know you very well either, then it can be confusing, thus his question about your remark.
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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"Strike" Has it got something to do with a baseball? In Cricket a strike means a good hit. It cannot be seen as a negative thing.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Yes, but you can also think about a "surgical strike", or a "strategic strike", which both refer to the lexical field of war; which is a little bit less positive.
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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