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Lopatir wrote: Go figure, our tech and powerful machines are just not up for matching the work that was acheived with hand tools centuries before.
<sarc> Ah, but they didn't use hand tools; the aliens (who also abducted Elvis) did the work for them. </sarc>
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Have not watched it for a couple of weeks. Has anything happened yet? Have the Vagina brothers wasted enough of their own/the production companies money? Has anything tangible been found? I wish they'd just go straight down through the money pit and see what is there instead of pissing about everywhere else. Find the water ingress ports and block them off to drain the pit - or is that too obvious? Not tenable?
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Oh, it's been really exciting!
They've found at least three bits of wood! (in a forest.)
And half an ounce of coconut husk, on the beach, that some merchant ship had obviously dumped overboard which is an obvious indicator that a huge amount of treasure is buried under the island!
And a really HUGE discovery was that they found one of the tunnels that someone else had dug!
Could this mean that they're really close to finding the lost library of Alexandria! Or even Atlantis!*
I'm on the edge of my seat, here, waiting for the next episode!
Actually, I'm quite worried that they might not know how water works -- i.e. that it can find its way through even the tiniest cracks in rock, and doesn't need a complicated structure of man-made sluices to get from one place to another.
* For the uninitiated: A good fifth of their airtime is spent repeating questions like that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I assumed that wasn't a real show, just fake promos designed to make me giggle during Forged in Fire commercial breaks.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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I don't think it would be easy to make a spoof of the show that's as hilarious as the show itself.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I might need to have a look then.
Thanks!
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Watch the whole thing from the first episode of the first series, though.
I mean, what makes you so special that you should suffer less than the rest of us?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"Just finish your peas, dear ... and I won't" [^]
When I was a kid the evil monkeys in "Oz" gave me the willies for months, but this thing ...Quote: Raibert describes Handle as an “experiment in combining wheels with legs, with a very dynamic system that is balancing itself all the time and has a lot of knowledge of how to throw its weight around.” He adds that using wheels is more efficient than legs, although there’s obviously a trade-off in terms of maneuvering over uneven ground. “This is the debut presentation of what I think will be a nightmare-inducing robot,” says Raibert:
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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The next world war is going to be interesting.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Interesting or not it will end fast.
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last time the world went to war, the Germans and Japanese lost (and a few allies were smacked down too).
Next time the world goes to war, the world will loose.
(Is that a draw then?)
Sin tack ear lol
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I've always said that we (Catalans/Spaniards) are far from any interesting place so we are relatively safe...
Nowadays we are not safe anywhere...
Last week I read something like "this is the worst moment in humankind history as we have the power to destroy the world but not the capability to leave it".
No idea who said that, but seems from Hawkins (or from Sheldon) but it looks mostly right...
But let's be optimistic and hope war will not happen at least the next 200 years... I think this will be OK for most of the guys/girls here no way we will live that long drinking coffee and programming... 
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Marvel at the APOD's posted by R. Giskard Reventlov, and realize how insignificant our existence really is.
Dammit, now I don't feel like getting up tomorrow, what difference would it make?
Sin tack ear lol
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Quote: the world will loose lose
FTFY 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cornelius Henning wrote: the world will loose lose
Well, what would be left could only loosely be called "world", so I guess loose works too in this case! 
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"May you live in interesting times."
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. - Albert Einstein
Jeremy Falcon
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I love pointing out how he is wrong - the third one is about economics, demographics and resources.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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As if not most wars would not have been abot those things in the end.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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While I do agree Einstein isn't correct in some areas, the more you come to understand him, the more you come to understand just how far ahead of his time he was. It's always easy looking back after humanity advanced somewhat to pick out things he's incorrect about... in a few hundred years we may be saying the same thing about Hawking or anyone else for that matter. However, the man was truly gifted intellectually and the world is a better place for his existence.
Anyway, what you speak of is the reasons most wars are started, that and religion. But his quote refers to weapons. So it doesn't quite invalidate the quote, which is about him not fully aware of the weaponry that'll be used.
Edit... and I say this as a person who does not agree with some of his ideologies surrounding war or relationships.
Jeremy Falcon
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We won't have to wait long to find out...
'PLAN' is NOT one of those four-letter words.
'When money talks, nobody listens to the customer anymore.'
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Too bad we (the humankind) won't be around to enjoy the view 
modified 19-Nov-18 21:01pm.
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Oh, I think "interesting" isn't even in the same ZIP code as this...
Department of Defense Announces Successful Micro-Drone Demonstration[^]
This is not some quaint little Chinese Curse.
Think about who controls this now and dig into your thesaurus.
How about: terrifying, horrifying, terror-inducing...
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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..and all Hollywood comes up with is sharks with lasers 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Have any of you seen that original Star Trek that visited a planet where all wars were done by simulation.
The simulation decided who got killed in the war.
The unlucky ones were march off to killing chambers.
Leaves the planet intact, reduces the population of both sides, etc.
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