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My laptop's power brick just completely failed. No more power comes from it, and my new one won't be here until Friday. 
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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There are a few websites that I go to that don't seem to work for folks outside North America, and HotSpot Shield has worked well in defeating this; however, HotSpot seems to be turning to the Dark Side and demanding a subscription.
I figure the community here woukd know the best free alternative, so I am interested in hearing about them.
Thanks
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It's not entirely free, but TunnelBear[^] does have a fairly useful (to me, anyway) free plan.
Plus, bears.
TTFN - Kent
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I don't know about browser extensions, but I think you could configure tor to choose an exit node located in a specific country.
If I were in your position, I'd pay for a subscription for this HotSpot thing because you've been using it for a while and it's clearly been working. If the price was unreasonably high, I'd understand. Otherwise it's the easiest thing to do.
If you choose another app or extension, there's no guarantee that they won't move into a subscription sometime in the future. Everyone has to make a living, right? 
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Are you the CEO of HotSpot?
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NordVPN works well for me. They had a promotion this year where you could get a year-long sub for US $36.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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If it's just websites could you use Opera as it has free VPN?
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I don't use Opera, and have not been closely following its developments. Why don't you visit the Opera site and do some research ?
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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How do I access the setting in Opera for this?
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Just saw this on Craigslist:
How To Apply
Send an email message to the Craigslist anonymized address for this posting. The subject should read
Re: Software Developer/Consulttant Candidate firstName lastName 2016 nsb
Replaced firstName lastName with your name.
In the body,
write a concise statement describing your qualification for each item listed in the above section titled The candidate is expected to have exposure to the following.
write a paragraph telling us a color that you are fond of and why.
Do NOT attach anything to your email message.
Do NOT include your resume anywhere in the email message.
So you DON'T want my resume, but you DO want to know my favorite color???
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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They must be trying to hire millennials. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Kevin Marois wrote: So you DON'T want my resume, but you DO want to know my favorite color???
I'm surprised they didn't what to know what your quest was. 
Kevin Marois wrote: Consulttant
Is that their typo, or yours?
"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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Theirs
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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At a guess, it's to prevent bots flooding them with applications, or at least weed them out.
They will have a brief summary and your email, so if they think you have the qualifications, they can get back to you directly for the full resume.
And the colour may serve to make them decide "we can work with this" or "what a tedious person to sit next to for eight hours a day".
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They're probably trying to step the flow of garbage applications from completely unqualified pplicants who barely bothered to read the job posting.
The part about the favourite colour seems dumb. but if the responses I've seen to job posting in the past are any indication, there will be a shockingly high intersection between the set of people who notice it, are amused by it, and comply with it and the set of people who end up being a good fit for the role.
If I were in the job market, I'd take the colour paragraph requirement as a strong hint that at least somebody at the company has a sense of humour, and might therefore be someone I'd enjoy working with. 
I also like them asking applicants not to include a resume. Maybe my experience is atypical, but the vast majority of resumes I've had to review for software dev applicants have been horrible. And for the good applicants, the resume barely mattered because they used their cover letter to explain how their experience will enable them to solve my problems.
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Mauve. It has the most RAM.
This space for rent
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Mauve. It has the most RAM.
Mauve is a colour? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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He's married, you can tell.
Ask him about "taupe". Apparently, it's important...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: taupe
It is spelled tape with a leading "duct".
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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Wow, so others remember this too!
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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Actually, I like it.
It'll cut out all the "Oh, I took a course in how to write the Perfect CV*, but didn't pay attention in any of my other classes", and the "I read a web-page about how rto BS in my CV" types, who spend a HUGE amount of time working on the CV, but essentially know only a tenth of what they claim.
For the colour, let them know that you know that they're kidding. I'd go with something like "cerise with a strong hint of orange, but not too light, so more like a muddy brown, really".
* I used "CV" because I couldn't be bothered to type out the accented characters for résumé"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'd tell them my favorite color is #00FFFFFF, then wait to see if anyone gets the joke.
If they don't, I don't want to work there.
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Transparent white, not bad.
Personally, I would go with neon plaid or 'I find the light at 651.23 THz particularly striking' just to see the reaction.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Or even #FC0FFF.
Hell, new computers are 64bit, now, so why can't we have colour codes like #FUK0FF?
I'd love to see what colour it is, and I'm pretty sure I'd use it a lot.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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