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On a news site I heard a recording of a man as he was beaten to death.
It would have been offensive but they took care to *bleep* out the swearing.
The insanity of that is difficult to process.
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What??? Why??? What???
People are every disturbing. 
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Remember what the MPAA says; Horrific, Deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words!
"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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Who are we and what have we become? We have made progress with technology, but we seem to still be in the dark ages when it comes to civility and morality.
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My gripe is that NOBODY would want a recording of a relative/friend/co-worker being beaten to death out on a news site. We don't need to hear that and it is cruel to those that loved the victim. It is hoggish.
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I remember the first beheading I saw on national TV (and in South Africa it is still quite conservative) of a man called Nic Good (I think). It happened in the Middle East many years ago and was quite a stir all over the world. I was so shocked and sickened that I wanted to go there and kill everyone remotely affiliated with the religion involved. I did calm down by the end of the week, but what has been seen can never be unseen.
I know it still happens a lot to this day, but I was also hoping that we would have evolved past this barbarism by now.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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Absolutely, positively agree. It's disgusting that the media broadcasts things like that just to make a buck, never mind how it affects people.
I feel the same way about 911 calls. Do we really have to broadcast some poor person's worst, most tragic moment just to bump ratings? It's exploitation of victims for money, ought to be a crime.
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Dan Neely wrote: spend a few hours over xmas break playing around with some of the new features in VS2015
 You're doing it wrong.
Jeremy Falcon
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I'm not touching a computer over my Christmas break...all of one day off. 
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Amen brother, and at least you're rocking it right.
Jeremy Falcon
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I fully agree the situation is elephanted; but I need a lever to overcome "but VS 2010 still supports the version of .net our customer uses and we'd have to buy new re#er licenses if we upgrade to a new version". Assuming it does half of what it promises, the new feature added to the latest 2015 preview that will generate a complete set of working unit tests for an existing project combined with the number of minor regressions the customer demanded IA tail chasing created that we didn't discover until the pound on the keyboard test, will probably give me that lever. The ongoing maintenance budget is far too small to retroactively write a test suite for the entire legacy codebase manually; and I have every reason to suspect another round of IA tail chasing to produce a fresh stream of petty changes that will cause random edge case problems in strongly coupled code (again no money to redesign) that won't be found out until the acceptance test. (We do have a very exhaustive, and resultantly time-consuming and expensive one of them.)
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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Oh, we'll if it's to prove somebody wrong, then rock on man! 
Jeremy Falcon
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Basically I need to sell it to my PM well enough to get his support in battling the bean counters.
If I can get a win8.X VM there're a few things I'd also like to try; just to see what happens. The odds of my being asked to port a WinForm app to either Metro or WP8 are very slim this side of changing employers; but I'm still curious to see how much I'd need to hack at backend code to make legacy non-UI libraries compatible. Hello WinForms would be useless for this; and InsertRandomFossWinFormAppHere would suffer from my not understanding what the backend code does or how it does what it does. Spending an hour or two chasing compiler errors in a codebase I know well would be much more informative; but again that requires a level of co-operation with my current employer.
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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Sounds like you need a few tips from Simon Travaglia!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I noticed that some of the features in VS2015 are from Resharper, i.e. remove unused variables or using statements.
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Couldn't you have put Windows 10 preview onto a VM with VS2015 and then not have had to worry about license costs?
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IF they didn't support (and hence didn't allow on their network) Win8 a year after release, and the person I talked to had to get back to me on if they've gotten around to supporting it since then; I'm certain that they'd ban a win10 VM from their network. And since I made the mistake of trying to things the right way I can't do it on my own and then claim ignorance if/when I get caught. 
The same goes 100x over for copying a work codebase onto a personally owned computer that I could otherwise use as a testbase.
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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Holy hell, it's starting. So much for home schooling or tutors, let's just pretend we're robots. Sheldon would be pleased.
Jeremy Falcon
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"Your plastic pal who's fun to be with" ? 
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Go stick your head in a pig.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Reminds me of the south park episode Awesome-O 
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