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You must be turning into a redneck if you are saying mercans. 
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Actually I understand that Rednecks use "merkans"! I was using "mercans" which is clearly quite different and indicates a British origin.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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..those who use thread-safe integer increment code and those who don't.
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There are 100 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and can extrapolate from incomplete data.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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I don't care how many types of people there are in the world, but I hate all of them.
Except for you, you're ace you are x
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Now that's gonna be my Skype status.. 
Thanks! 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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Google makes billions out of Europe, and pays virtually no tax whatsoever.
So yes, they deserve to either be harassed into paying lawful taxes, or hounded out of the continent altogether.
They wouldn't be missed, but I'll bet they'd miss their (unlawfully) tax-free profits.
"Do no evil" my arse.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'd miss Google: have you tried Bing? 
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I use Search Lotto, for every 25 searches you make they give you a twentieth of a lottery ticket in the next draw.
Last week I had my first win, the 16 pence has already been paid into my bank account.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: Last week I had my first win, the 16 pence has already been paid into my bank account.
That cheered I up!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: That cheered I up!
This must be that traditional English. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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That it are. West Country (the original cowboys).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Beh. They're just search engines; all they do is create minimalistic reports on work that other people have done. I don't know when people started believing that that was more important than the work itself, but it's a mistaken belief.
They're easily replaceable, and would be quickly replaced (by organisations that pay their taxes, and therefore improve the welfare of our children).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Not that easily: how many paper manuals did VS come with last time you bought it? And have you ever tried using the help from within it?
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OriginalGriff wrote: have you ever tried using the help from within it?
Back in the day (before it was called "Visual Studio", even), the docs weren't too bad, but they must have hired a bunch of really incompetent technical writers to keep them going (going down the drain, that is).
What am I saying, "must have"? It's bleeding obvious that they hired incompetent technical writers, particularly at the senior levels.
Google doesn't make the content, though -- it doesn't do the work -- it just printfs a report on your screen, giving minimal details of pages that contain the work you need to see.
Any search engine can do that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Any search engine can do that.
Yes, it can. But Google do it very well indeed.
So rather than kick them out of Europe, get the buggers to pay taxes properly, along with Amazon, Starbucks, ...
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OriginalGriff wrote: get the buggers to pay taxes properly, along with Amazon, Starbucks,...
...Dalek Dave
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Oh, come on! The impossible we do fairly quickly, but that? 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Google do it very well indeed.
Whenever I try one of those "compare search engine" pages, I always end up selecting the response from Yahoo as the best one. Maybe it's time I actually started using it.
We're having to pay more income tax and give up public services because the greedy b*st*rds refuse to pay their way, so a little bit of protestation wouldn't hurt.
OriginalGriff wrote: rather than kick them out of Europe, get the buggers to pay taxes properly, along with Amazon, Starbucks, ...
That would be preferable, but it's the one thing that you can guarantee ain't gonna happen.
Once these types get their hands on *free* *money*, there's no way in the world they will let it go, even if it means giving up their children as sacrifices.
A more functional solution would be to kick their arses out, and wait for them to come crawling back, cap in hand.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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you could convert to Yahoo
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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I remember being sceptical that there was anything Google could do that Yahoo couldn't, how things have changed.
I believe that at some [not too distant] point in the future, someone will come up with a better/faster algorithm than Google and they will take the traction out of Google's seemingless relentless advance. Facebook will definitely get butt-[REDACTED] soon with their constant ripping up of the rule book.
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I'd be impressed if they did - and I'd suspect that Google are still working on better ones.
Pay taxes or not pay taxes: they do a damn good search engine!
And Android is good, Books, Maps, Street View, Chrome, ...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'd miss Google: have you tried Bing
I use them both and can't notice any difference.
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