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Some crash some don't. I wonder if it is more of a bad memory problem that Linus Torvalds has been harping about. Or may is just some installed junk.
In my case it was a brand new laptop. Engineering quality that they gave me 5 months ago. They had done a clean install so it had none of the HP junk. Just Office and Visual Studio and corporate stuff.
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
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I have yet to actually crash VS2017. I've had components inside it crash but not VS as a whole.
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I had to get a tooth extracted that was beyond salvation. Dentists suffer as much as I do when extracting my teeth, as several have told me that my "bones are extremely hard" and consequently my teeth are very, very difficult to work loose.
Well today my dentist was a petite young thing, 5ft tall and weighing around 100 pounds. I took one look at her and thought "Oh sh@t!". But she surprised me. She turned out to be very competent. She drilled and broke the tooth into 3 pieces, since it was impossible to get it out in one piece. I really suffered through the procedure, but no more than I did in the past on previous extractions. I don't blame her for a moment. She offered to put me to sleep, but I am too chicken for that. I rather stay awake and suffer!
She gave me a prescription for hydrocodone for the pain, which I picked up on my way home. So here I sit, no pain but having a nice buzz as I write this!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 13-Jan-21 21:10pm.
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Went for a root canal treatment this week, but that did not work out as planned, the dentist said the canals were too narrow so I will have to go to a specialist for further treatment 
On the positive side, it was painless ...
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Cp-Coder wrote: She drilled and broke the tooth into 3 pieces, since it was impossible to get it out in one piece.
Better that than her 6' 6" 220lb colleague who is certain that he can "just pull it out", and ends up dislocating your jaw...
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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Do tell. 
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Reminds me of a song by Spanky and our gang called Garbage man.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Oh man, I'm living in The Netherlands at the moment and had a similar experience at an emergency dentist on new years day. Similarly sized dentist and I had similar concerns, especially when she said "do you want me to try the anesthetic, it probably wont work well due to all the infection". We got there in the end and she told me to take some paracetamol, if I needed it later. I went home and self-medicated
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Cp-Coder wrote: She offered to put me to sleep, but I am too chicken for that. I rather stay awake and suffer
You let her break your tooth in three pieces, extract it, without putting you to sleep   How did you not faint ???
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Despite a close call a day or two before Christmas, where the available instruments were just long enough to complete the root canal, I've managed to get away with just one extraction and that was about 30 years ago.
That ended up with the dentist half way on top of me with his knee on my chest and a set a pliers that could easily have been a car mechanic's.
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I had a tooth extracted years ago (late 80s) and the dentist and his assistant were taking bets on how many pieces it would come out in.
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This really isn't an issue with FedEx per se. It's actually remotely related to Griff's message. I recently ordered a small work table at Amazon but I didn't notice it was coming from China. They immediately assigned it a FedEx tracking number when they received the order. A while later I finally got tired of waiting so I looked up the number at FedEx's site and it turned it out to be invalid. It seems that what this company does is assign the number so the item is considered "shipped" and then you can't cancel the order but they never actually shipped it. I sent them a nasty-gram and demanded they cancel the order and they replied that it already shipped (obvious lie) and they would "try to ask UPS to call back the package." That would be the package with the bogus FedEx tracking number. In the end, Amazon refunded all payments.
Watch out for scammers like this.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Yeah, I've had that as well - Paypal is pretty good about it, although it took quite a few weeks before the refund hit my account.
"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
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modified 13-Jan-21 12:32pm.
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I've had it happen as well.
As a side note, it seems ebay items from China to be taking a much longer time getting here. They updated their expected delivery date to 3 months in some cases.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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This type of behavior is common among Amazon suppliers: I had several experiences where companies created real shipping labels but did not actually ship the items for days, sometimes weeks. Of course this is done so they can claim payment immediately and you cannot cancel the order. In my case the correct goods were eventually shipped in all cases. Nevertheless it irritates the hell out of me. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Simple solution - quit ordering stuff from China.
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Reading comprehension is obviously not one of your strong suits.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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... and the discounts are huge - up to 99%. It's from a Household Name UK sporting goods store that I get our trainers from, so not expecting much I thought I'd have a look.
Leather gloves - £0.54! Extreme weather mittens - £0.27!
I thought I'd give it a try.
Add 'em to the shopping cart, and go to checkout - expecting a ridiculous delivery charge to be the Elephant in the Room.
But no! It's simpler than that. Apparently actual orders of one item gets you the error "Quantity exceeds maximum allowed."
Ah.
Won't be bothering then. 
"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
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OriginalGriff wrote: Won't be bothering then.
It seems you have confused shopping with purchasing.
A bit like the difference between playing (as in "thanks for playing") and winning.
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If they're sold out, they should say so, not that you're only allowed to order zero of them! If that's actually the case, it's rather unethical.
EDIT: Report them to the Serious Fraud Office.
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Maybe you can still buy them one glove at a time. Try placing two orders with a quantity of 0.5 each...
(and as luck would have it, watch two gloves for the same hand get delivered at your door)
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It's a pity it's not shoes - I do have two left feet ...
"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
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Buy none, get none for free!
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They were just after your data.
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I have determined that the amount of "evidence" of a rat "E" is equal to the mass of the Rat "m" multiplied by the square of its' food consumption "c".
That's right: E=mc2 is my theory of Rat Activity ...
"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
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