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Interesting - but notice that three of the bigger entries are all Waltons.
Putting that aside, I'm still awaiting Willy Gate's answer to my offer of allowing him to adopt me.
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Wow. That's a lot of money out there. If only I could figure out how to tap into that. 
Marc
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The amount of times that, in my imagination, I've picked up the my keybaord and - snapped it in two, smashed it against a wall or thrown it vigorously across the room has to have reached the hundreds of thousands mark.
I suppose I should be thankful that I deal with stress within my head rather than abusing my poor keyboard.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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That reminds me of the movie "Wanted", i always wanted to do that smash the keyboard to the face move, sadly my collegues won't play the one i smash it into ... 
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Breaking the keyboard doesn't work.
Anyone in hollywood can tell you that if you want to kill a computer, you shoot the monitor.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Or videogames, for that matter. Hey, they emit light.
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I abuse my keyboard, from time to time. I go to meetings.
Hmmm, I feel I have said too much.
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Is this your Keyboard[^]
SFW 
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It didn't do it dude.
I feel so bad for it's little self. 
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Why not your mouse or monitor though?
Or, even better, the people who got you that worked up! Coworkers, boss, Bill Gates... 
My blog[ ^]
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In the days of the CRT monitor I used to keep a foam baseball bat on the desk so I could beat the crap out of the monitor, didn't want to hit the cpu, I might have damaged something. Very cathartic, now days I just scowl at a minion, they usually laugh at that.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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My last few days have been blighted with doubts about why things often seem to happen on a flat plain in space. As I understand it, which isn't very well, the planets orbit the sun on pretty much a flat plane.
I'm wondering why this is, and why shouldn't there being planets going over and under the sun rather than obediently around it. (I think Pluto may make some vein attempt at this). I suspect the reason is the same for the rings of Saturn (why not a sphere) or Galaxies apparently also being quite flat.
I have a number of theories, all crap. Anyone cast some light on this?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I watched the movie 'Interstellar' yesterday (good movie) and they depicted a black whole as a sphere.
I thought it was a nice switch from the usual flat disk that sucks everything up.
As to your question:
No clue
Tom
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I haven't seen Interstellar but have read some articles about the science.
The depiction of the black hole was quite interesting. The accretion disk is actually fairly flat. In the movie it looks like a sphere because of the bending of light around the black hole. As I understand it, the light from the far side of the accretion disk that you would expect to go over the top of the black hole and not enter your eye is bent by the warping of space around the hole. The light from the far side enters your eye but appears to be coming from above the black hole and so it looks like there is accretion disk above. -- A little like a normal mirage where light from the sky is bent and appears to be on the road ahead. --
Apparently, they had to write their own rendering software because all existing software assumes light travels in straight lines, which is vastly not true near a black hole. The story goes that they set their new software an overnight rendering job to see what the accretion disk would look like. There was surprise at first when they saw the result but worked out why they got the result when they thought carefully about how light would be bent near the hole.
(Found a link http://www.wired.com/2014/10/astrophysics-interstellar-black-hole/[^])
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Interesting.
The movie has a few scenes in it with the black whole. At first it was very strange and somewhat difficult to understand what your looking at.
I like movies that challenge the way you think
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Light does travel in straight lines.
It is the space that is curved
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I only know that when I drink too much I go down flat and everything starts to orbit. 
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You are not drunk as long as you can still lie on the ground without holding onto something.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
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If you get sufficiently drunk and lie down, you will find the room rotates instead.
There is a solution to this: tie the room down. Get some rope, tie one end to the room, and the other to the only stable thing in the universe - youself. A foot is good. Now when you lie down, the room will be unable to rotate because it can't drag you round and it all stays still.
Try it, it works.
Important note: try to remember about the rope round your ankle before you make a trip to the loo in the dark...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I actually enjoyed the ride when I got home and fell into bed.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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MTMI 
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No, I never did this at the Medical Technology Management Institute.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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I think the key to Saturn's rings at least is accretion discs. I.e the material that makes up both the planet and its discs was a rotating mass before the planet formed.
Once rotating, the equator of a body has a larger circumference than one that passes through each of the poles. This then helps to keep the rings bound to the same plane as the equator.
Not sure about galaxies or solar systems though - however I suspect that similar forces are at play.
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On a side note, while looking for an answer I discovered that one of Saturn's moons is emitting some 1000kg/s of water vapour from it's South pole, which is then ionized and rotates around Saturn. Neat stuff. Thanks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetosphere_of_Saturn[^]
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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