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Well the inmate can hope they will get out ...
"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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You have too much time on your hands - 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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pkfox wrote: You have too much time on your hands
After so much time slipped through my fingers ... i'm glad some of it sticks .., now that i am past my use-by date.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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You and me both
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Panama?
Leaves and vegetable matter. Guessing.. Psychotria viridis and a monoamine oxidase inhibitor.
Just guessing 
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 cat was a mule?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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BillWoodruff wrote: 24/7 exposure to a playlist of Sander Rossel's favorite tunes
Not even I would keep my sanity 
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Reminds me of the David Lynch version of Dune[^](*). The Harkonnens have Thufir Hawat hostage at one point and have injected him with a poison. He is connected to an IV that comes out of a tank containing a cat and a rat bound together in an apparatus that somehow manufactures an antidote for the poison. As long as Hawat takes care of his 'pets', he lives.
(*) Like it or hate it, you have to admire Lynch's chutzpah. He was the first to try and film the novel and visually it was pretty amazing. The acting by Everett McGill (Stilgar) and Kenneth McMillan (Baron Harkonnen) were good, and both Patrick Stewart (Gurney Hallock) and Sting (Feyd-Rautha) of all people make appearances.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Hi, I'm a fan of Lynch, starting with Blue Velvet (1986), and I think his Dune is superior to the remakes.
Enjoyed Twin Peaks back in the day, but, tried watching it again, and stopped.
fwiw: I perceive Lynch as not having "sold his soul" to the Hollywood Borg, like Tarentine and Robert Rodriguez.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Hmmm ... car catting happens, but cat catting  , this is new 
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... up to a lap dancing club in New York's web site - I sure you were only thinking of my mental health in the lockdown - but it is a little disconcerting to get emails with the subject line "Die Happy Tonight!".
I'm sure the free membership they keep offering will come in really handy should I decide to fly 3,500 miles to just look at pretty ladies who clearly need a larger clothing allowance. 
"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: hould I decide to fly 3,500 miles to just look at pretty ladies who clearly need a larger clothing allowance.
They'd probably deny you a visa, claiming that you were entering the United States for immoral purposes...
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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There is nothing moral about this country. We accept all kinds, clearly.
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Why didn't I think of doing that? 
OriginalGriff wrote: to just look at pretty ladies who clearly need a larger clothing allowance.
I swear, the smaller the thing is and the less fabric it uses, the more expensive it seems to be.
Had a similar argument over my new glasses; tiny piece of plastic to hold lenses, is bloody expensive due to "design". Asked him if they had any without "design". They didn't.
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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Quote: I swear, the smaller the thing is and the less fabric it uses, the more expensive it seems to be.
My dad's exact words describing "Haute Couture"
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You're welcome. I did the hard work, you just need to book your plane tickets.
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No need for that as you already have a laptop dancing cat 
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OriginalGriff wrote: look at pretty ladies who clearly need a larger clothing allowance.
I hope you mean more money to by clothing and not money to buy larger clothing.
Please clarify.
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Well ... let's not be sexist here, it's cold outside this time of year: Sandra & Woo - Armour[^]
"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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It's not about sexism - it's about chafing.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'm sure the free membership they keep offering
Thank God for that - I was envisioning you getting a job offer!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Did you mean I'd just like to thank ? or am I reading it wrong ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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So I have an a$$ton of work going on. Multiple VMs zooming along, editors all over, yada yada.
Converted a project from ancient VS to VS2019. I was prompted to update VS2019. Now I have this Installer prompt that says:
"Success! One more step to go. Please restart your computer..."
Why? Seriously, why do I need to reboot? It's just a holdover from the "reboot Windows" it might fix it history. Or is VS really doing things to the OS that requires me to reboot? I'm not being sarcastic here. Help me understand.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I don't know for sure but I suspect that it is genuinely very likely indeed that it has updated an OS component that (ideally) needs a restart.
The problem, to my mind, is that so many OS updates still need a restart. I seem to remember that this was supposed to have been solved back in the Vista or was it 7 timeframe. And yet, no, OS restarts after updates seem to me to be as common as ever.
Windows now has epic amounts of virtualisation built in, so can't this technology be used to help avoid the need for restarts due to OS component upgrades? Apparently not, so far.
Instead of new icons (sarcasm aside), architectural updates to avoid the need for restarts at seemingly every Windows Update session would be a major step on the right direction.
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When I start an OS update, I think it's reasonable that I might have to reboot. It's the OS.
Visual Studio is an application. It has no business needing to reboot. Or maybe MS developers suck (sarcasm). Still wondering why.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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