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I call selection bias on the sources here, but even reading the the article, this is telling:
"Paris is full of tourists! Literally, it's the most visited city in the world. "
Of course it is, it's a much better city than London. I mean look at all the great empires that have existed: Roman, Byzantine (OK Roman++), Persian, and more recently the French and the British. All have managed to leave cities with great architecture. The problem is the British Empire did this in Deli, and a few Wren Churches aren't going to balance the magnificence of the two world-class cathedrals in Paris, let alone the other architecture they have.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Keith Barrow wrote: Of course it is, it's a much better city than London
And you base this on two Cathedrals? What a one-dimensional outlook you have. I sense there is not going to be agreement here. Architecture - Next time you travel to your favourite city I invite you to compare the magnificence of St. Pancras vs. the shed they've got at the other end.
Good for baguettes mind you.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: And you base this on two Cathedrals?
No, on all the other evidence. Of which there is plenty. Even the article you cited is deeply flawed...
"A typical London breakfast is sausage, eggs, beans, toast, black pudding, bacon, tomato, mushrooms, and hash browns."
A typical London breakfast is normally some stale bread, cheap jam and supermarket cheddar cheese (all labelled "continental" - the Parisians would weep), served you by a depressed looking Eastern European person on too low a wage. Unless you want to pay a hefty "upgrade" amount for something decent, in my experience.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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My God, you're still going!
Keith Barrow wrote: A typical London breakfast is normally some stale bread, cheap jam and supermarket cheddar cheese
It is not. You're experience sounds extremely limited.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Hi All,
On the count down to the boot, I have been given something to do! I am testing graphics boards that have come back to us.
Well that's me occupied 'til lunch! 
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Nah - test 'em properly.
A couple of hours each of "Wolfenstein: The New Order" should test 'em pretty thoroughly!
And spin it out to next week...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I did do something like that with the previous gen of these boards, didn't work that well (animation moved to quick for the frame grabbing) these aren't PC cards they are for Air Traffic Control. If they let me test'em I am not flying anywhere...
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Ah! You want this[^] then.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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A mate of mine had a summer job when a student testing sound cards. All day long playing the windows startup tune from Win 95 through them.
I'm not sure he's ever fully recovered.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Can't believe your still there. I would have thought they would have sent you home and just paid up your notice. I think that's the norm at most places.
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That's what I thought, probably waiting for that 'merkin to find more faults for me to fix
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Depends how unhappy they are with you. At my current employer I've seen both being met by a guard at arrival for an exit interview with HR and then being escorted back to pack your desk, to someone who was "encouraged" to find a new job who spent a few months working full time before doing so and another month or two working half time (packing and burning down his paid leave I assume) before finally departing.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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See, this is the perfect time to start writing your Novel.
You have lots of time now. 
See my other post. I'm just being funny, unless this isn't funny. I certainly hope it is.
You don't have to test the graphic boards. I mean, what're they going to do, fire you? 
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Quote: You don't have to test the graphic boards. I mean, what're they going to do, fire you? Smile |
That was exactly my thoughts this am, however I do need a good reference from them. So do it, not quickly though.
. My novel "My Struggle with Management" might get me in trouble with Scott Adams (Dilbert)...I might have to try another one.
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"They give a seat to those standing."(10)
Nice.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Elections.
Or possibly, Gentlemen.
I think You have counted your letters wrong.
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Politician
No, I think not. 
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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"Electorate" - those who in old fashioned democracies used to decide who ran the country.
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CLICKY[^]
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Nobody reads the papers any more  - anyone who does read at all reads the scroll bit along the bottom of Sky News/BBC News/Al Jazeera
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Dalek Dave wrote: They give a seat to those standing
NOTINLUTON
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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"Oops! Google Chrome can't find en.wikipedia.org"
I feel... Brain slipping...
Ugghhh...
Ugh, me Sander, ooga ooga! You strange, me bash!
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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