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I want to build a cannon for firing birds at a high proportion of light speed at asteroids.
Do you think I can get kickstarter backing? Or should I approach "Dragons' Den" directly?
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Absolutely.
But you need a good answer when they ask you why.
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FOR JUSTICE!
Of course.
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That might work for a kickstarter.
How about the dragons den?
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Hmm ... 23% of the company for $1.2m? Dropping to 15% if they get their money back after 2 years?
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Details.
You should bother about more important things, like whether the birds should be frozen or not.
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That's an implementation detail - they are "big picture" people.
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All you need is this[^].
Quote: The Type E spinal mount throws the largest crowbar in any ship yet constructed and is the weapon of choice for mass destruction.
Exactly what you are looking for, if it were not for the price tag:
Quote: Cost: 26,102,205,500 talents
You think that this is a Star Wars ripoff? You are right. Under other circumstances this would have been the Imperial Star Destroyer. FASA wanted to have a Star Wars license for this game, but did not get it. It was expensive as long as people were interested in Star Wars.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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...unless you're ready to handle the reaper cushions! 
Ba-tish! Finally Monday!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Scraping the rough stucco of the bedroom wall to create a smooth surface for wallpapering seemed like a daunting task at first.
But a new filler knife with a sharp edge made all the difference, in only a couple of hours the wall was smooth enough for wallpapering.
And I can proudly announce that the wall now is completely covered in a stylish gray brick pattern Shared album - Google Photos[^]
modified 29-Sep-19 14:58pm.
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Nice - and since they're not real bricks, you avoided a lot of hod work...
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Mortar the point, he avoided stone walling.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Ick - I can't win - I think I'll just throw in the trowel.
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Nonsense - that's just spackle-ation!
/ravi
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Nice!
/ravi
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Looks really great! Congrats on hard work completed.
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Nicely done
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
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Looks good. However, I can't remember the last time I saw wallpapering in a home.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I can't remember myself, in my previous houses I always painted the walls. But wallpapering science has progressed a lot, you don't need a table to glue the paper anymore just put the glue on the wall.
Also the wallpaper structure is improved, there is even strong glas fiber wallpaper nowadays
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I am using Startdock Start 10 to replace the ugly, disorganized abomination called Windows 10 Start Menu.
I was sick and tired of applications that keep adding shortcuts to my nicely organized Start Menu without asking for permission or providing a simple user-friendly checkbox giving me the option to not add shortcuts so I denied write privilege to Administrator group to my Start Menu.
In general this accomplished exactly what I wanted but what I discovered along the way totally blew me away!
Apparently, there are developers/companies who think that failure to add a useless Start Menu shortcut is a sufficient reason to fail the entire installation and roll it all back. A program would install and run just fine but after it failed to add the Start Menu shortcut it would display an error and when you click on the OK button it would roll back the entire installation and remove the program. The offenders so far are NordVPN, Boxcryptor and Quicken.
I am totally flabbergasted and cannot comprehend how could supposedly intelligent developers decide that if their completely useless Start Menu shortcut cannot be created, already installed and fully functional program must be uninstalled.
Can someone try to explain how could anyone, ever, think it is somehow a good idea and it is acceptable to not provide users with the ability to skip adding Start Menu shortcuts and on top of that fail the entire installation if shortcuts cannot be created? What in the world are these people thinking?
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It might be a:
try
{
install();
}
catch
{
rollback();
}
I would not say stupidity, probably lazyness or even more probably, not thinking that someone could ever do what you did.
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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netizenk wrote: The offenders so far are NordVPN, Boxcryptor and Quicken.
Generally I'm all for naming and shaming offenders, but that's a rather broad brush you're painting these particular developers with.
Most people don't bother rolling up their own installer (do you?) and use a third-party just to take care of the installation process. I'll bet in a lot of cases, handling your particular scenario is out of their control.
Blame the installation software, not the software being installed. In which case, I would agree, if their bread and butter is to anticipate anything and everything that could possible go wrong with an installation (and they should, they should be experts at this), then they've totally dropped the ball.
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I have a few desktop apps packaged with InstallShield. Those installers are configured to add shortcuts to the start menu. Honestly, I have no idea what would happen if I (or one of my clients) denied write access to the start menu but I will be checking thanks to this post.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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