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Well, the US has the federal government, so....
".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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Too bad for all that delicious Uruguayan beef that's in the freezers, I had one some weeks ago and it was one of the best steaks I ever tasted !
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OriginalGriff wrote: How do you design a system where a single failure can affect so many systems?
It's not the how, it's the why:Quote: It came as people in parts of Argentina were preparing to go to the polls for local elections.
We wouldn't want the election to go in Argentina like it went in Venezuela! That wouldn't be great! You wouldn't love it!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Must be Neo and Trinity trying again to reach a place that is impossible to reach 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Back in the 60s, a single little switch brought down much of the northeast of the US and a large part of Canada. Strangely, in 2003 another one happened that covered pretty much the exactly same area. The latter affected about 55M people from what I was just reading. The 60's one would have as well, but there just weren't as many people to affect at the time.
But, India is the all time winner, with one in 2012 that apparently affected 600M+ people. We barely have enough people in the US to match that if we went for a nation-wide failure.
Explorans limites defectum
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Dean Roddey wrote: India is the all time winner, with one in 2012 that apparently affected 600M
What that does not say is that 200m of those people barely have electricity at all!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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tHAT'S NOTHING NEW, Venezuela HAS MADE an art form of living without electricity, but Maduro insists there's no problem. It seems like he wants them to live without food or mdecine, as well.
ActuaLLY IT'S GENIUS, IF THERE'S NO FOOD, YOU DON'T NEED MEDECINE.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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BTW greenland lost a lotta ice...while u were sailing...let us know if you found some...lol..
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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That went in our Gin and Tonics.
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Beautiful indeed, but my memory of our holiday in Bretagne is that it rained most of the time. After camping there my uncle swore never to go on a camping trip again 
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We had a day and a half of rain, but a lot of cloud and wind, but then for sailing you dont mind so much, because you are at least going fast.
Had a day and a bit of solid sunshine though, so all in all a pretty good holiday.
Five mates on a boat drinking for a week anyway is always going to be a hell of a laugh! 
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Oh do tell me more! I have my eye on a 41' Cheoy Lee.
Were you the captain? Tagging along on a cruise? Curious about the currents in the area.
Jealous in a good way....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
modified 16-Jun-19 14:48pm.
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As the most experienced (been sailing since I was 4) I had the final say, though two others on the boat had experience, one a recent convert to sailing, and very keen, who had organised the trip, tended to run things minute to minute. But I was happy with that, he wants and needs experience. So I would take the boat in and out of the pontoons for example, or stand by while one of the others had a go.
The currents were surprisingly not too bad, given the massive tidal range there (up to 14 meters), we had a fairly lowish tidal coefficient (half moons) and had at most a knot of current, with a bit of confused water round one headland (but we were very close in sight seeing).
It is a fantastic area to learn to sail though, and navigate, more rocks, bouys, markers and lighthouses than you could want, and also very pretty, with good food!
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Munchies_Matt wrote: it is a place of such impossible beauty you would think it man made for a theme par
So what would the theme be?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I know today's one only too well ... 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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The scrolling thing is annoying 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I believe Garfield broke a lot of records
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I totally get the last one.
Why do they put the current year as the default selection? Do they expect newborns to use it most?
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Yes. But it beats the alternative.
"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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