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November the 5th in the UK is known as "Guy Fawkes Night", or "Firework Night", and celebrates the failure of a plan to blow up the government in 1605 - clearly governments can really hold a grudge.
Traditionally, an effigy of the main plotter - Mr Fawkes himself - is burnt on a bonfire.
But not if you have really slow broadband: BT Openreach van effigy set alight by frustrated villagers - BBC News[^]
Telstra - take notes! 
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More than that, he was a Papist!!!!!!! 
November the 5th, burn a Catholic night!
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The nations of Europe could always abrogate the Peace of Westphalia and restart the religious wars.
We could now have a three-way fight - Catholics vs Protestants vs Moslems, with the Jews caught in the middle  
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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And all the atheists can look on in dismay, just like we have done for centuries.
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I beg to differ; until the 18th century there were very few true atheists. There were quite a few non-observant Christians/Jews/whatever.
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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I dont know. I wasnt there,
But if I know British people, they are an irreverent bunch.
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It's lucky Mr Fawkes attempted this dastardly deed on Nov 5th. If the plot had been planned for the summer my neighbors would be letting fireworks off on June 21st even later in the night with the longer daylight hours.
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Don't go there. Feliway plugged everywhere, curtains drawn before it gets dark, TV on and turned up loud ... I'd ban the lot of 'em, except organised displays.
Mind you, they go wrong as well: Fireworks display in Amesbury injures 14 - BBC News[^]
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I saw that, from the video it looked like they put fireworks on the bonfire?
The bigger multi-shot fireworks should be banned from sale to the public for use in their (small) back gardens (yards)
What was wrong with the small fireworks that spewed a bit of green red and orange for a few seconds, great for ooo, ahh, ooo, ahh noises.
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OriginalGriff wrote: the main plotter - Mr Fawkes himself
Fawkes was not the main plotter, he was just the poor so and so who got caught and tortured first.
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I was doing the TL;DR bit for our non-English friends: it was a complicated plot of little interest to most these days.
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I did comment at a fireworks night I went to on Friday that an effigy of Junckers should have been burnt. It would have been most amusing!
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Ah, Guy Fawkes, the last man to enter parliament with honest intentions 
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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...where the word "file" comes from.
In the medieval times there were no such things as binders, folders or directories. They came into being in the nineteenth century.
Important papers were instead put in order on a thread.
Latin for thread is Filum.
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I didn't know that! 
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I learned about it yesterday.
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So they would just start a new thread... 
<sig notetoself="think of a better signature">
<first>Jim</first> <last>Meadors</last>
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*yarn* 
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I've always enjoyed programming. I started playing around with computers and later basic programming when I was around eleven or twelve and it kind of grew from there. When I got into highschool, I started to make friends with other people who were interested in it, and by my junior year of highschool, I along with a few friends started freelancing doing websites and webapps for local business and organizations. I had no college interests. I didn't want to spend four years being taught things I already knew / thought I could learn a lot faster. At the time, I also wanted to stay freelance forever. About a year after graduating, I realized the latter wasn't very practical. I got moved to South Carolina and knew no one (also a state with limited tech opportunities) I started to apply to entry-level / junior positions all over the country with no avail. I mistakenly though that my two years of freelance work would mean something. I ended up landing my current part-time remote contract after 3 months of job searching and 100's of applications. I thought going back to school would help my future prospects, and started at a local community college, but ended up hating it, and I don't think I want to continue next semester. It's looking like now, I might get an offer working for a state government agency, but I'm starting to doubt my career choice.
I find it hard to learn anything anymore. I may start, but can't keep concentration and end up screwing off reading Reddit or something else. It's also hard to start a project without a real problem behind it. I also don't feel like it will be a very good career. The huge push for STEM education seems to do nothing but saturate the entry level and keep those senior level positions open. I'm sure that companies will catch on and when they find out that anyone can d this job with minimal training, wages will shoot down. I find myself questioning the last seven or so years of my life and wondering if I should look into switching careers. I'm only 19, so I fell it's still possible, but have no idea what else I would enjoy. Has anyone else experienced this sort of feeling, what did you do about it?
i cri evry tiem
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Who says you have to be a programmer for the rest of your life? The biggest mistake I ever made was buying a house, because that meant I had to live there long-term.
I've been in IT for nearly 20 years and only ended up in it because I had a B.S. degree and good math skills. Now after 20 years, I'm sick of it. I am sick of where I live and what I do. I want to do something else and live somewhere else. Since I now have 2 B.S. and an M.S. I have many other doors that I can enter and don't have to be coupled to IT. I am planning on leaving IT and teaching in the next 5 years. I don't want to do it quite yet as I'm making very good money and will probably never make that much again.
As for you, go to school, even part-time until you know what you want in life. For some people, including me, I still don't know what I want. Do some freelance work and go to school. School sucks, but there are girls there and there is social life there. You will be giving those up without college and the opportunity to move into something you might love because you don't have a degree.
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Tony Foo wrote: The biggest mistake I ever made was buying a house,
Many places that doesn't matter now.
Used to be that the rule was 5 years for a house and 3 years for a condo. If you could stay put that long then getting out after that would be a positive net income.
There are quite a few places now where one can get out of a house after just a couple of years.
One cannot guess about market down turns of course. But right now most larger cities in the nation have substantial year to year gains in housing and there is no problem selling. Even Detroit is seeing an up turn. Problem isn't is selling so much in buying. And it can even be more of a problem if one wants to target specific neighborhoods.
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I see what you're saying. I felt it was a mistake because I bought the house for a woman and she eventually went her own way. Also, it will cost me real estate fees to move and as I told my Dad, it makes no sense to sell a 200k house with a tiny mortgage to take out a loan on a 300k house. And lastly, if I wanted to work in another city or country, then getting that contract and quickly selling my house would not be so easy.
I'd prefer to live in a luxury apartment, as long as I had a garage to leave the car, especially during the snowy winters.
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Tony Foo wrote: I see what you're saying...
Well yes, if you want to live in a house and live in the same place then upgrading might not make any sense.
But there are still regions where, although the housing (and employment) market are reasonable they are still less in comparison to other regions.
For example much cheaper to live in Tampa FL versus San Jose CA.
Tony Foo wrote: I'd prefer to live in a luxury apartment, as long as I had a garage to leave the car, especially during the snowy winters.
So look for a place with an "attached garage". (I know this because your post could have been written by me - all of it. And I looked to see what the apartment market looked like.)
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James_Parsons wrote: I'm only 19
Then now is the time to switch if you want to. Just remember, whatever you switch too, needs to be able to pay the bills, and afford you a comfortable lifestyle(family too, if that is a factor), for the next 45+ years.
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Joined the service.
Learned a trade.
Grew up.
Got out and went back to school.
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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