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'Young Man with a Horn' (I guess the name didn't have the double meaning of today) I have vote for '20,000 Leagues Under' The Sea as well...
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Johnny J. wrote: What's your favourite Kirk Douglas movie?
Tough Guys (1986) - IMDb[^], hands down.
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Yup. That's a good one! I agree! 
Think about it: He was a senior citizen already in 1986! 
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I've seen many of his movies and loved them all.
A great actor has made his exit. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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Sorry for the tag, my hand slipped on the mouse. Is there a way remove a tag?
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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One of the true greats
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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20,000 R.I.P.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Someone in bussiness lied? 
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Inconceivable!  
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Indeed, I have worked in genetics and medical data analysis and it certainly gave me a more realistic sense of what happens when science is commerialised.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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As opposed to non-commercialized science (or other fields), where people get grants (usually paid by taxes) to play instead of doing useful things?
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I'd prefer non-commercialized science funded by grants than those funded by companies who include clauses the bury any results they don't like. If we in the US did something similar to Australia where Government (i.e. tax) funded grants are licensed and used for more research. Instead of being used by private companies to earn obscene gobs of money, especially NIH funded ones for new medicines. Yes I'm straying dangerously close to old soapbox territory but my issues is with how the system allows the companies to exploit our tax dollars for their profit.
Plus unless you think outside the box how else will you think of new, novel ideas and approaches to solving problems? If you follow the same path as everyone else you will get the same answer as everyone else. I'm choosing to ignore some of the more off the wall projects out there although the recent study about dealing with shaken beer cans[^] was quite informative. Thank you Denmark!
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Of course you have to think out of the box. Where does most innovation come from, the private or the public sector?
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There is an assumption in your statement that nothing useful comes out of play, it's not an assumption that I hold.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Not at all. Useful things do come out of play, and it's a healthy activity. My only objection is forcing other people to pay for it.
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He's not in business. He's a prof at an Ivy League (=woke) university.
It sounds like he lied to federal investigators, which is a crime in the USSA. It can be prosecuted even if verbal rather than written. Remember Martha Stewart and how everyone thinks she went to jail for insider trading? Nope. She went to jail for lying to federal investigators.
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Greg Utas wrote: He's not in business. He's a prof at an Ivy League (=woke) university.
I had to look up what woke means; didn't realize one injustice is more important than others.
And whether or not he "is" in business, I can see a clear transaction, a payment in return for services.
Greg Utas wrote: It sounds like he lied to federal investigators, which is a crime in the USSA.
That sounds weird; someone who broke the law (a criminal) is expected to be truthfull to police, because they're "federal"?
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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To me it's weird because people charged under the law weren't under oath.
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That does make it even weirder 
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I still haven't seen what they're charging him with.
Your honour, the accused was offered a research job and accepted it! Lock! Him! Up!
He went outside the bounds of a "policy", not broke a law, and the guy's a total geek, so he probably didn't have a clue about it, until it was too late for such a geek to effectively negotiate a remedy for the situation.
Shirley you have to actually commit a crime, to be arrested and have your name plastered all over the news. If "taking a job in another country" is a crime, then I'm buggered all the way up the Yangtze.
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He's not been arrested for taking a job in another country, he's been arrested for lying about it:
Quote: Lieber received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China and agreed to lead a lab there — and that when US government agencies asked about his involvement with the programme he stated that he was not a participant and denied any formal affiliation with WUT.
Maybe they are trying to stop Coronavirus from affecting US researchers via email ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Seriously?
You're telling me that lying is a criminal offence in the US? Well, someone oughtta be worried.
Shirley he made a perfect statement, and he did nothing wrong.
The second part of that sentence may well be true.
Accepting_a_job/a_fellowship/a_red_carpet_because_you're_a_genius != being_a_spy
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