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All this technology, and we end up using it to randomly interject with a "yes, dear"
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I'll send you a message about that.... later.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Procrastinators of the world, unite!
(When you get around to it...)
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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I'll add it to my list
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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I'm so lazy that I defer even procrastination.
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Actually, that is a standard function in X.400 email, and one of the reasons why the X.400 standard prevailed in some commercial contexts quite for quite long.
Note that in X.400, there is a well defined separation between the end user (either as sender or as recipient) and the mail transfer network. If you specified a delivery time for a message, it was sent to the recipient's 'local post office' immediately, or as soon as possible, but held back there until the specified time, at which it was put into the mailbox.
If the mail transfer was slow or unreliable (as it often was, 35-40 years ago), this would ascertain that the message was delivered on time, which could be of great legal importance in e.g. bidding processes or anything with a deadline (there was also a function for cancelling a message before the specified delivery time; this was also considered an essential function from a legal point of view), information that for legal reasons should be held back until a certain time, etc.
I believe that in the days of telegrams, delivered to your doorstep, you could also specify a delivery time. E.g. your 'Congratulations!' to a marrying couple would be delivered during the wedding dinner, to be read out loud to all the guests.
Another X.400 function of essential legal importance was non-repudiation: When the mail transport service put the message in the recipient's mailbox, it could return to the sender a proof that the message had been delivered, and the delivery time, so that the recipient couldn't deny knowledge of, say, your bid before the deadline. Also, you could request that the recipient's user agent reported when the recipient actually fetched the message from his mailbox (although for most legal purposes, the time when the message was made available to him, in his mailbox, was probably more significant).
This non-repudiation was also an essential reason why telex/teletext lived so long: It served as proof that an offer or bid had been given at the given time. Also common to telex/teletext and X.400: The infrastructure made it very difficult to forge a sender ID.
SMTP did get a receipt confirmation function, but many years later, and as it is handled by the recipient himself, it cannot serve as proof of anything. Sender ID is as easy to forge as ever. Sometimes I am surprised that people dare to send anything of commercial/legal importance through SMTP at all ... 
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..incoming message scheduled for: 1st april, 2525 (if man is still alive)..
"pending"
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"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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The 8-Bit Big Band - The Moon Theme from Duck Tales[^]
I stumbled upon The 8-Bit Big Band on Spotify last week while looking for some game soundtracks.
From their website: "The 8-Bit Big Band is a 30-65 member Jazz/Pops orchestra that formed to celebrate and realize some of the best musical themes written from various video games from all consoles!"
That sounds like exactly my cup of tea!
Their members are scattered across the world, but most live in New York City.
They play classics from Zelda, Super Mario, Final Fantasy and, obviously, the Moon Theme from Duck Tales (SNES).
I've played the game back in the day, but never made it to the moon.
The music is a game classic though, and I know and love various versions of it.
This one is exceptionally well done though 
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Here's what surprised me: Someone published the sheet music for this - for all the various instruments in this orchestra. Pretty Cool!
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 Meute is indeed very nice ... Also, it's a Dutch/Flemish word for "wild bunch"  , but they are rather cool and focused, which is good ...
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peterkm wrote: Also, it's a Dutch/Flemish word for "wild bunch" 
I would not have guessed that, since it sounds like 'mute' to me! Fitting name! And good music!
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Haven't had the time to respond this week.
David O'Neil wrote: MEUTE - Peace. That whole playlist is worth a listen.
Very nice!
Looking at the playlist, I know a lot of it, some of it has even been SOTW (Jamie xx, The Blaze, Bicep).
Other tracks are great too 
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Nice one!
Been listening to psytrance a bit these past few weeks, no doubt that's your influence 
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Thanks ... some of the creations in this area are indeed amazing
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Scientifically formulated!
Clinically proven!
Laboratory tested!
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"... up to 100%!" well, duh.
"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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Whenever I see 'up to', as in 'up to 40% better than the competition', my instinctive reaction is: 'So you have search the market for the very worst product you could find, and you are no more than 40% better than that?'
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Some of them specific to India are:
- Buy one get one free. Or also, Buy three, get two free.
- Amazon Great Indian Festival, Flipkart Big Billion Days.
- Upto 50 percent discount.
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Unit price: 4.50
Buy two for only 10.00!
One of the big chain stores in Norway was recently caught in several cases of this kind of advertising. When confronted by journalists, the store owners insisted that the cash register would charge only 9.00 for two. I am not at all trusting that it was the case the day before the journalists turned up
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Voted Product of the Year.
The best ever was Gerald Ratner's "Because it's crap". The company soon sank without trace. 
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Don't say anything about the Crap[^]. It rarely lets you down, but my favorite is the Crap 27SL.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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