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Remember the old refrigerators with these massive doors that could only be opened from the outside? These things became deathtraps for playing children when they were put outside to be taken away to the dump. The magnetic doors can be pushed open from the inside, even by a child, but the warning obviously still is in the manual. Nothing really funny about it.
There you go.[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Holy f#!
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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My neighbor's into restoring antiques. He's got a 1950's refrigerators at his cottage with a similar door.
Perhaps I should get him one of those glow-in-the-dark trunk release levers they now have in cars, for his fridge...
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I was thinking the same thing.
I believe that California still has a law on the books that any refrigerator/freezer that you have in the garage or outside must be locked, have the door physically removed, or have holes drilled into it to prevent suffocation risk.
(Obviously, the latter 2 options are only for units not in use.)
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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Ha, but remember we live in the age of the idiot, under which everyone else is at fault and fair targets for legal action.
We won't need stuff like this anymore when the asteroid hits.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: We won't need stuff like this anymore when the asteroid hits.
Indeed. I can't wait. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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The Eskimos would disagree with that.
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Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Why would Eskimos need a refrigerator?
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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It protects children from the wind and keeps them warm.
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Fritjof Nansen brought a fridge on his North Pole expedition to keep the food from freezing.
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But we need to send a kid into the fridge so they can report back whether the light actually does goes out when you close the door.
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Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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My 4K TV adventures/chaos continue unabated.
SWMBO and I were sitting there watching a move via the HTPC, and she asked, "Why is there a dark green border around the picture?"
I had noticed it a month ago, but was happy to let it go as long as SWMBO didn't mention it. I did some research, and found that my current video card didn't have the juevos necessary to support the (almost) 4K resolution of the TV, and what we were seeing was a 1920x1080 display on a monitor that was capable of 3840x2160, which resulted in an unused portion of the screen.
My motherboard has a PCI 2.0 slot, but the only video cards capable of 4K resolutions at 60Hz are PCI 3.0. Apparently, I can still use a PCI 3.0 card in a 2.0 slot, and reap the benefits of the higher resolution. I ordered a GTX 1050-based card ($170), so I guess we will see. Funny coincidence - we currently have about $4K invested in our upgrade to 4K TV.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I am on the opposite side:The Wife barely appreciate the difference between the 4K TV and the ancient CRT one. 
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As does mine.
Except, a while ago she had to go to the guest room at look at a show on the old CRT, just to come back to me and ask what's wrong with the TV.
Apparently the picture was unsharp.
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My owner is as short sighted as I am and she's also used to watch poor quality streaming of obscure TV series which the creator failed to destroy completely... and I don't watch the TV unless she forces me in a professional wrestler headlock.
My 300€ HD ready TV is more than enough!
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: obscure TV series which the creator failed to destroy completely
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: we currently have about $4K invested in our upgrade to 4K TV.
WTF!
I got a 50 inch 4k UHD TV for 500 notes. PC runs fine into it over HDMI too.
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75-inch full back-lit here, and we needed to get a 4k-capable bluray player, a new HT receiver, hdmi 2.0 cables , and now the video card. We also got a Harmony remote because we had five remotes on the coffee table. The upside of the new remote is that SWMBO doesn't know how to make all the devices work, so I'm in charge of that (which is the natural order of things anyway).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Funny coincidence - we currently have about $4K invested in our upgrade to 4K TV.
If that's how that works, you'd better start saving your pennies now for the 8K TVs...
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I need a pdf editor that allows me to insert pages into a pdf at any point. In the past I have used pdf printers like PrimpPDF and NitroPDF but when you print to them it is slow and also you can only append to the end, you can't insert at a specific point.
That's about all I need, to be able to insert pages at a specific point of an existing pdf. I used the trial version of PDFEscape and it was great. Very fast, very nice, but they don't have a one time purchase (that I could find) but instead have a monthly fee and I don't want to do that.
I don't even need to edit the pdf using form tools or anything. Just want to be able to combine pdfs into a single one with ease.
Thanks.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I use Corel PDF Fusion, but it's not free (though they do a free trial version)
IIRC, it came free with one version or other of Paintshop Pro which is why I have it ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Didn't know Corel was still around. Does it open in less than 10 minutes?
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I just timed it: 2.85 seconds (including loading a 1.7MB PDF from my NAS).
That's on a 4GB RAM, 1TB SSD, dual core machine - so not exactly state of the art.
Yeah they are still going, still adding bugs and making software harder to use... 
Problem is, Paintshop Pro was soooooo damn good when it was JASC that owned it that I've kept with it - even Corelized it's way better than GIMP and immensely cheaper than Photoshop.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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