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If birds don't have leaves then how do you get birdseed?
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Oh you beak white!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Perhaps this is just a crop-py flight of fantasy, but I have a talon for that, but here's the answer to your question.
How do they get bird seed? They give them some videos, a little jar, and a private room . . .
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The same way that you get baby oil?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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I wasn't aware you do have leaves....
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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which came first: the seed or the plant?
well as it turns out birds are so stupid they are still trying to figure that out.
so, "how do you get birdseed?" - work in progress.
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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That's easy - I walked too close to its perch and the bird seed me and took off.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Just sit on a branch until I put down grass seed then gorge yourself. 
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... to close accounts in online systems? I have just tried to close two online accounts that I no longer use, and yet neither of them offer a simple option on the "My Account" page. Nor do they give any clues in their online help as to how it can be done. In one site I used the online chat to a CSR, and even she had to consult with someone to find out how to do it. In the other, I have had to use the secure message facility, and even there "close account" was not one of the options; I await their reply with baited breath.
In contrast, CodeProject makes it simplicity itself. 
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That's on purpose. Everybody and his dog try to pester you into signing up and do everything to keep you there once they have you. At the very least it's good for statistics. We have 15 billion users. Who cares if that's more than the world's population or that most of these accounts have been dead for years?
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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It's the Borg mentality... you will be assimilated.
No escape, resistance is futile.
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Yeah, that's what I am afraid of. 
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Goes along with stopping anything a site does.
The day you sign up, for example, the emails will be coming.
Tell customer service to stop and it may take eight/fourteen/thirty days for the contacts to stop.
Really? These are digital. There's no paper envelopes already stuffed and addressed. WTF?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: There's no paper envelopes already stuffed and addressed. WTF?
Mostly true. Companies will run ad campaigns and submit information to email blasters or other marketing companies to be sent out at a later date.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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for those I update my details (i.e. as much as possible fake phone number etc - or if it needs confirmation a junk (always ignored) email account."
Note: if it doesn't need confirmation for email change, after changing your name etc give it the email address of some one you don't like.
It's like the old ploy of giving the pesky insurance sales person someone else's business card and telling them, 'you are really interested but too busy till next month.'
finally (to avoid temptation in boring times) set the password to some nonsense and forget it.
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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Yes, I have used that ploy in the past. I just find it surprising that professional businesses (that I have happily used in the past) do not allow such a simple feature.
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If a site won't let me close an account, I see it as an open invitation for me to change my contact details so any junk they try to send my way goes to their own support email.
Then I'll change my password to a ridiculously long series of random characters and don't save it anywhere, so even I won't have access to it anymore even if I wanted to.
They can then do whatever they want with the account.
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dandy72 wrote: change my contact details so any junk they try to send my way goes to their own support email.
That's just brilliant!
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Evil symplicity 
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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When I wanted to get rid of Experts Exchange spam (about 500 mails every day, without any activity from my side for 2 years), I created e-mail account, something like ee-junk@yahoo.com, and changed my e-mail in EE. This was about 10 years ago... I hope they continue to send notifications to this account.
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I've had to deal with worse. A few years back after some site forum that I hadn't visited in over a decade and had forgot I ever created an account on sent a we were pwnd password reset email I requested to have my account deleted only to have everyone involved insist there was absolutely no way to close/delete/wt![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) an unwanted account. They continued to maintain that position until my request escalated to a rant where I suggested that if they truly didn't have that capability I'd start spamming the forum with off topic and awful material until their developers actually wrote a function to kill accounts so they could ban mine. Strangely enough a few minutes after that threat I got a notice that my account was permanently disabled.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Is there anybody out there who still doesnt have a need to look into this? (i.e living under the rock like me?  )
A quick skim through suggests it's a container service & mostly used over Linux. Looks like it provides a kind of abstraction for project deployment, sandbox type.
But I haven't cared much to go deeper. And our projects are all running on Windows servers/Containers.
Should I still look into it? Some time ago, it was rarely found in the conversations, but now it has reached alarming levels. Looks like it's time to see if it's gonna be related to our work.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
modified 22-Aug-18 7:27am.
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Vunic wrote: Is there anybody out there who still doesnt have a need to look into this? (i.e living under the rock like me?  )
Yes
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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Depends on what you want to achieve, for me it's currently no use since it doesn't support GUI applications. For services and console applications it looks good so far.
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