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He was. Presumably he wanted to save a little more money. At least the fool was hoist on his own petard.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Tha Titanic is a graveyard LEAVE IT ALONE !
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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In this I disagree. People visit graveyards all the time - from the interments in Westminster Abbey to view the graves of the important to a small village graveyard to view the graves of their ancestors. I don't see why the Titanic should be exempt merely because reaching it is dangerous and requires more money than any of us is likely to spend.
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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It's hardly a stroll down the local graveyard is it, millions of $ spent on trying to find the thing, and built by a man that refused to listen ( and dismissed ) to experienced people - it was an avoidable disaster.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Somewhat disagree.
In a graveyard, we can actually pinpoint to the grave to visit and pay homage. In case of Titanic, cannot pinpoint to the exact grave of the person; rather the whole thing is a graveyard.
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Thank you 
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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If that's the case, then you'd be against any archelogy. We cannot pinpoint any exact grave, nor do we pay homage particularly, when exploring the past. Without that, we'd not know of dinosaurs, the history of the Earth, etc.
Jeremy Falcon
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What I meant, in the overall sense, was:
Comparing adventure and safety, safety should not be given second preference, especially when unsuspecting customers are involved. For example, when I was a student of Engineering about 30 years ago, they used to hold conferences on estimating the residual life of an aircraft, and the structural testing, non-destructive evaluation needed for this estimate, and hence part-replacements, repair schedules, etc. An aircraft undergoes a load spectrum from take-off to landing, and each such cycle does affect the structural integrity of the aircraft, for which periodic checks are needed. Here again, the Titan vehicle had made about 20 trips to the Titanic, and we're not sure of the structural evaluation done after each such trip. When a person goes blindly after innovation, and gives a cursory preference to safety, testing, residual life, etc. then it's a problem, and often ends in such catastrophes. I would call it foolish innovation.
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100%. I'm from a family of scuba divers and (in theory) I'd love to dive the Titanic shipwreck. I've dove other shipwrecks that were mainly tourist traps (sunk on purpose at the end of the ship's life) and quite frankly... nothing gives you a healthy respect for the sea like doing a shipwreck dive.
Jeremy Falcon
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He wasn't hoist with it, he was sunk.
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Counterpoint against the small boat Mr Jolson (12)
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Unfortunately not, but definitely right lines.
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Unsurprising, because I had no idea how phonic would be a small boat!
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Nice!
"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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Not one for sufferers of Spoonerism ...
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contrapuntal
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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You're up tomorrow.
modified 22-Jun-23 11:42am.
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Thanks to Code Project staff who posted the article in the Insider this morning, on a workaround for Outlook freezes! This Outlook issue has been driving me nuts!
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
modified 22-Jun-23 11:23am.
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I'm deputising for OG as he's asleep
Where's the CCC 
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You forgot the at-code: @Pete-OHanlon
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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My apologies. I've been stuck in meetings since 7 this morning and completely forgot. Give me a minute.
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I don't know how to Paul
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Follow a member's name to his home page - just click on it from any post.
At the top of the home page, just under the username is the at-code.
For example, your home page shows:
pkfox - Professional Profile
The at-code is @petepjksolutionscom - type that into a post (or copy'n'paste it) and CP will convert it to a link and notify the member that he's being talked about / to.
"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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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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