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Man Dies After Being Hit in Face by Firework | NBC Chicago[^]
Quote: One witness who saw the incident said he was handling a large cylindrical firework called a mortar and was with children at the time of his death.
"He wanted to shoot one of these mortar fireworks and the fuse looked like it wasn't working right and he stuck his face over it,"
Read this in the paper today, WTF.
And yes, I'm the only curmudgeon on my block who was not playing with fireworks.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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jeron1 wrote: the only curmudgeon on my block who was not playing with fireworks
That's just un-American.
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 Perhaps!
I maintain that it's the positive outcome of having a small firecracker blow up in my hand as a 13 year old.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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But the poem doesn't work as well with your celebrate the independence of your country by blowing up a small part of it day! 
Quote: November the fifth July the fourth has come and gone,
But memories still linger.
I held a banger firecracker in my hand;
Has anyone seen my finger?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: who was not playing with fireworks.
That's exactly the point... they are not toys, they are mini bombs and "playing with" is the last one should do.
I am from one place where fireworks have a lot of traidition. We learn very soon as child that is fascinating but on the same time... that it is serious and one should always have respect and use the brain when firing them.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: ...one should always...use the brain...
If only!
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Nelek wrote: ...one should always have respect and use the brain when firing them.
That would take all the fun away from the Darwin awards candidates. Can't have that - we needs our click-bait!
(Just joking - if I never come across another article about such foolish behavior I would not be lesser for it.)
It Is The Absolute Verifiable Truth & Proven Fact
That Your Belly-Button Signature Ties
To Viviparous Mama.
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CodeProject
Falls under the category of "cute": nice but useless.
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Hmmm, actually could be useful...
bubble the company site, add a nice big heading so they know what it is, recolonise to darker/duller colours and add a meaningless score at the bottom, i.e. "Score: 10.3%, Rating: Dull."
Without being seen place copes on the conference room table just before the next marketing meeting.
- it'll keep them going for at least a day and best of all distract them from any of their own stupid ideas for products.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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I think it's broken! 
Shouldn't there be an enormous big fat bubble right in the middle with the text "OriginalGriff"? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I'm also missing "elephanting" and "CListCtrl"!
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Looking closely at the bubble, I note that someone got their 02p in, and also their 40p.
The results of inflation in the UK, presumably. 
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 can't see a bubble captioned "== null" ... probably my vision problem 
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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---- Please be Aware, mostly Google translated  and sorry for the format  ----
A woman is riding a bicycle through the city. She has two bags on the luggage rack.
The one sack has a hole from which two-euro-pieces are falling. Then she overtakes the police and stops them...
You are constantly losing two euro pieces!" says a policeman to her.
The woman is frightened:
"I have to quickly go all the way back and collect them," she says.
"Wait a second," the other policeman said, "Where did you get the money from, stolen?"
"No," says the woman, "you know I've got a barrack, right next to the football stadium, people always come and pee in my garden, I just adjusted the hedge shears and said, 'Either two euros , Or off he is'. "
The policemen laugh:
"Good idea!" Say me. "But what is in the other sack?"
"Well," the woman says. "Not all of them payed..."
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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To the "Posted spam or abusive message" member: Ok, let us negotiate on 10 Cents
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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It must have been more than 10 year ago, it was sometimes needed to to restart windows servers every week... because of resource Problems...
I still face today a lot of DBA who are thinking it is a good thing also today to do it; and the worst:
They do it automatically! No matter, that there is maybe a longer SQL Server transaction running or in best case a backup task.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Years ago, I worked for a giant chip-maker company as a software engineer. We built this service and public web site that ran on about 40 Windows servers and 1 Linux server. The Windows machine would randomly hang every few days, and needed to be rebooted every once in a while. It got so bad that we had to create a new server, which we called "Kevorkian", which would remotely kill and restart all of the Windows servers every other night.
Meanwhile, the Linux server ran so well that most of us forgot it was even there. That is, right up until its log file consumed all available disk space and caused it to crash. Then someone deleted the log file and restarted it and it was back up and running as if nothing ever went wrong.
On the other hand, you have different fingers. - Steven Wright
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TonyManso wrote: Then someone deleted the log file and restarted it and it was back up and running as if nothing ever went wrong
How do you know nothing ever went wrong? The log file got deleted.
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Good point. "Then someone deleted the log file and now we have no way of knowing if anything went wrong."
On the other hand, you have different fingers. - Steven Wright
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TonyManso wrote: Meanwhile, the Linux server ran so well that most of us forgot it was even there.
First time I heard the "reboot every night to prevent problems" was when I worked for a large company that only worked with Unix servers. They used various unix flavors and had 300 developers of which most only did server side work.
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0x01AA wrote: They do it automatically! No matter, that there is maybe a longer SQL Server transaction running or in best case a backup task.
Then they should also buy better SQL and backup products, sounds like those must be 10 years old too.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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I don't think MS SQL backup or any tool is save to be killed by forced restart
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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