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No mystery at all: it is just another secret rover.
Maybe the NSA is looking for more people/aliens to spy on, they do like to be well prepared.
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10500000 members exactly when I started typing this post...
Half-way to 11 million! 
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Someone's going to do it so it might as well be me. Halfway to 11 million would really be 5.5 million. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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No, no - he's not counting sock puppets....
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Yes, I could name a few people who have contributed greatly towards that 10,000,000 number.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I have a few suspicions...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: No, no - he's not counting sock puppets....
 .. Good one
Be careful with the puppet master!!
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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Hope your code is more carful than your maths
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Quote: Hope your code is more carful than your maths
Or your grammars.
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Quote: Hope your code is more carful than your maths
And his spelling...
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Ha! I didn't even notice it. Too funny.
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"Maths" is correct.
As ex-British convicts, the Australians use the real English language, not the hideous mutation that you 'merkins use. 
"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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We're not all convicts! 
Quite a few free settlers came over as well (as British officers, servants, adventurers)
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From http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/maths?s=t[^]
"noun ( used with a singular or plural verb ) Chiefly British" - Therefore I concede. You are right, and actually so wrong at the same time. 
I can't help it if we took English and made it better. We don't use any of those phony accents those silly Brits use. Except for our southerners and our northerns, and some of the midwest.
Tea? ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: I can't help it if we took English and made it better ruined it.
FTFY.
RyanDev wrote: We don't use any of those phony accents those silly Brits use.
Well at least we don't use phony platitudes all the time - "have a nice day, y'all!" and so on.
And we don't describe everything as "AWESOME!!!!!" (whilst pronouncing it "arse-um").
And we don't call women "you guys".
RyanDev wrote: Tea?
No thanks. Can't stand the stuff. I'll have a ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) instead.
"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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Quote: whilst pronouncing it "arse-um"
Yes, American English is terrible I admit. However, arse-um? Who the heck says it that way? Perhaps the people that also say Washington as Warshington. But I have never heard arse-um.
Quote: And we don't describe everything as "AWESOME!!!!!"
You must have seen the Lego movie recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StTqXEQ2l-Y[^]
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RyanDev wrote: But I have never heard arse-um.
Here you go[^].
"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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That sounds like arse-um to you?  There's no r. You r silly.
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Yeah, we don't tend to put as much emphasis on the "r" as the 'merkins and Canadians do.
- American: /ɑɹs/
- Proper English: /ɑːs/
"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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maths is short for mathematics, and is ubiquitous everywhere English is spoken.
grammar isn't short for anything.
Apparently some less well educated people overseas mistakenly use the word 'math' instead of 'maths'
They are wrong.
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Good call - stick to smileys as your grammar is obviously 2nd rate.
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It's not a smiley you silly.
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Either
It's not a smiley, you silly!
or
It's not a smiley. You are silly!
And it is a smiley.
"a digital icon, a sequence of keyboard symbols, or a handwritten or printed equivalent, that serves to represent a facial expression"
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