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If a letter arrives with a hole in it, is it from the Post Orifice ?
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It's probably from the Polo[^] Office.
"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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For over a hundred years those items have been called Life Savers[^]
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Only in the US; over here, they're still called Polos.
"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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Wouldn't Post Orifice be AFTER the hole is gone?
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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If your mail has a hole in it, very likely someone went postal.
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Not gone - just a laid-back experience when your finished with it. It could, perhaps, remain nearby, no?
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Oi, Griff:
Thought of the day ? ? ?
Get your lazy ram-stained . . . never mind. NSFW.
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I concur.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I think Randal has just watched "The Last Jedi" ... xkcd: Unification[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Perhaps he needs to watch "Magnum Force"?
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Or take a ride on Millennium Force[^].
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I see that, and raise you...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Force
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Friday!
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ties their shoes with only one hand, and hops around on their left foot.
-- rants are the vehicle of the lazy and uninspired - JSOP 2/2018
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Slacker007 wrote: ties their shoes with only one hand, and hops around on their left foot.
I saw a guy doing that once, but then I realized he was hopping on his right foot so then I relaxed and thought that all was well. But for a moment there, I thought it was about to get real. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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It's due to a misprint in the bible.
Quote: And now abideth faith, hop, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
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OriginalGriff wrote: faith, hop, charity,
Aaaah the Johnson triplets... That was a great summer!
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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Oh - those kind of hops. I thought someone here was giving away free beer.
I guess I'll do it, myself:
![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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... who uses plural pronouns to refer to individuals or allows others to do so.
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EA Games are giving away Dead Space for a short time, so I signed up last night and grabbed a copy.
OK, the signup process was ... um ... poor. (It took three tries before registration worked without DB error messages, and I can't use "OriginalGriff" because it contains a "prohibited word or character".)
So this afternoon I went to install it.
And you have to install "Origin" - their DRM software. Great. "Steam Mk II" coming up.
The installer is a windows EXE. And it HTML encodes < and > characters. So you get messages like
... that means it's <FAST>. <<REALLY>> fast ... 
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Origin sucks, way more than Steam (which I got used to in the end). It's slower, less reliable, most games are unpalyable if you're not online or the servers are dow (which happens A LOT) because it won't load any saved game if you have any DLC installed (EA games are 10% game and 59% DLC) - you should restart from scratch with only the tutorial base game.
Dead Space lasted 3 minutes on my PC: it's a console port made with the rear end and doesn't even allow remapping of controls.
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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I dumped Origin as well, for similar reasons. I do have DeadSpace on my phone but it is hard for me to manage the controls. I guess I'm just not as hip as the young guys. 
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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I enjoy Mass Effect (1 to 3 and also Andromeda, though it's less memorable) too much to dump Origin but it's pretty much disabled on my PC until I decide to activate it.
Steam improved a lot, added to my 80+ games in library and the discounts it is a fixed presence as of now.
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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Some tech books you read just to get through and get the info.
But the best tech books you slow down so you can absorb the story.
That's what I'm doing right now with, The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk[^]
It is a fantastic book. It builds the story of Linux Programming starting out with some history of Unix, C, GNU, etc. Really great.
The author is also maintainer of Linux man-pages so he knows exactly what he is talking about.
This is one of those books that will last, because it has great breadth and depth.
Have any of you read it?
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