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Didn't you know? Bakker Bluemink is huge in America 
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In Norway, Black Friday has been big for maybe two or three years. Some stores overdo it, making it "Black Week". Of those who still call it "Black Friday", a large fraction extend the sales to last through Saturday, and Sunday if they are open then.
The last two to four weeks before Black Friday, the newspapers monitor the prices of products expecting to go on sale, reporting when the price are raised to allow the stores to claim artificially high "Was: xxx NOK". (I believe that the the claimed "Was" price must have been effective for at least four weeks for the claim to be legal.)
There was a big discussion this year: One electrical appliances chain store had a lot of signs like "Black Friday - Only 499 NOK", for a lot of products in the store. They didn't claim that the price was reduced, and it wasn't. Of course most people thought it was a special offer, with "Black Friday" and the price stated on the same sign. Is that deceiving (hence illegal), or is it perfectly OK?
Most of the products on sale are those that people didn't want to buy earlier, so the only way to have them sold is to reduce the price. If I didn't need it or want it before, I don't need it any more on a Black Friday. So I didn't waste any money on Black Friday.
(Sidetrack: In Norwegian, "blakk" is a slang term for "out of money". So one newspaper warned: Don't let Black Friday give you a 'blakk' Saturday ... Is "blakk", or something similar, used as a term for "out of money" in any other languages? I suspect that it originates in colored people traditionally often being poor, but I have found no real evidence for this.)
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It would have been funnier if the White House response had been "Fake News! Sears and JC Penny are bankrupt!" They should have included Radio Shack too.
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...my homing pigeon on EBay!
Again. 
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and who said, "the Horn of Plenty is a myth?"
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Now, that's just what every bloke wants: a bird that keeps on giving.[/Michael Caine]
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Good thing it wasn't a stool pigeon!
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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Mike Hankey wrote: Good thing it wasn't a stool pigeon!
Is that a pigeon that nests in the crack of your ass?
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The very same!
And there's even a bus to haul it off. Stool Bus[^]
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I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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What is your returns policy?
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I just deleted a comment in QA, but on reflection I thought maybe it was worth saying. So I clicked the edit icon, pressed submit, and voila! my comment is restored.
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Hallelujah again (decided not to delete that after replying to the wrong post, luckily it's a pretty generic reply) 
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I've just checked (a manual approximation and with an accurate tool) and my finding are: exactly as cool as my monitor.
Please note: my monitor does not wear a baseball cap backwards, or sunglasses indoors, nor does it wear it's trousers round it's knees.
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I would have measured it myself but we are all out of cucumbers.
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I've got 2 different sized ones...
seems to be some variance between the large monitor and the minotaur.
just sayin.
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It's cool. 
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0) Kodi continues to freeze up the entire machine at random times. I had logging turned on this time, and everything seemed normal in the log until the very last line, which was nothing but a long string of zeros. I'm going to post that and see what the Kodi people say.
1) I've developed an intense (bordering on violent) dislike of UEFI BIOS and secure boot. On my next motherboard, I'm going to disable UEFI AND secure boot from the outset.
2) I had previously installed VMWare because everyone said that it was a better choice than VirtualBox, but even with giving the VM 16GB of RAM and four of the available six cores on my CPU, performance was REALLY crappy, so I installed VirtualBox. Performance is much better, but I'm having other issues, namely the inability to mount the Guest Additions ISO so I can install that in the guest OS ( I get the generic error "VERR_PDM_DRIVER_NOT_FOUND". I'm still looking for a solution.
3) Last night, I went to use Kodi, and every movie I tried generated a message saying the media file couldn't be found. It turns out the media server box had frozen requiring a hard reset. When I rebooted, it couldn't find the boot drive, and upon inspection of the BIOS settings, the drive was in fact not listed. It turns out that the boot drive was connected to my add-on SATA card. I moved it to the motherboard, and all was well... It looks like I'm gonna have to spring for a new motherboard with (more SATA connectors), CPU, and RAM.
4) I finally got Thunderbird to see my profile folder. I honestly don't know what I did different, but it's working now.
5) I'm going to start trying to find a way to make Linux handle the numeric key pad the same way Windows does when trying to select text. The fact that it's different really bugs the hell outa me.
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SUDO :smile:
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Well at least you can console yourself with the thought that Linux is far superior to Windows. 
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Well, I've updated Linux once (right after I installed it), but the Windows7/SP1 VM is currently installing its SEVENTH round of updates and has had to be rebooted five times. So yeah, so far it's superior.
I have one app-specific issue to resolve (VirtualBox) and one OS issue (selecting text with the numeric keypad). All in all, not bad.
Oh yeah - with Linux, I didn't have to pay someone for the privilege of having software issues, like I did with Windows.
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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: the Windows7/SP1 VM is currently installing its SEVENTH round of updates and has had to be rebooted five times.
I didn't bother doing the windows updates (turned off), your mileage may vary but my reasoning:
- used the most recent ISO I could find
- there's been no OS functional updates for win 7 in the last few years (i.e. nothing new)
- linux already mitigates most vectors via it's firewall (and it has the spectre ect already)
- * my private stuff (i.e. internet banking) done in the linux
OK, yes linux also has it's issues, but way less:
- * inherently more secure (mostly due to properly segregated kernel and userland)
- many times more hackers target windows, there's just way less people attacking it
- most windows attacks are vectored/delivered via applications, the * entries above mitigate that
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Well, I'm using Win7 so I can still write code for Windows, and I'm going to install VS2017 installed in the VM. This means I have to keep updates turned on (I set it to notify only).
".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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Yeah I know it's not Q&A, but...
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: 5) I'm going to start trying to find a way to make Linux handle the numeric key pad the same way Windows does when trying to select text. The fact that it's different really bugs the hell outa me.
your friend will be xmodmap. check the man page on how to use in interactive (for testing) and when you've got the codes figured toss them in a .Xmodmap file and it'll be auto done on login.
to get you started here's my .Xmodmap
keycode 79 = KP_Home Home
keycode 80 = KP_Up Up
keycode 81 = KP_Prior Prior
keycode 83 = KP_Left Left
keycode 84 = KP_Begin Begin
keycode 85 = KP_Right Right
keycode 87 = KP_End End
keycode 88 = KP_Down Down
keycode 89 = KP_Next Next
keycode 90 = KP_Insert Insert
keycode 91 = Delete Delete
the way to find the keycodes is xev,
above first column is the key pessed without modifiers, 2nd column shifted (and there's more columns for ctrl &/| alt if needed.)
Basically I've made the shift-keypad entries the same as the Shift-non-keypad namesakes (except Delete which I've made always Delete)
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But Shirley at least 4,000 people have already made the changes that John requires. At least one of them must have made a script for it.
That's one of the things that's been good about windows, over the years; if someone thinks of a time-saver, he makes an app for it.
Unfortunately, MS itself only does that nowadays with time wasters.
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