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The Man Who Sued God
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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The Alphorn Blower's Wife
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Rambo -1: A Night At The Opera
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Last week I have mowed the lawn the first time this year which was quite necessary and now it is all white when looking out of my office window. Took me much longer than usual to get to work due to the blizzard.
The forecast was talking about rain and sleet. They failed.
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Good to know.
But I guess the weather here (400 km distance) will be different (still rather cold).
At least it has stopped snowing meanwhile.
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Jochen Arndt wrote: the blizzard
That'll be the global warming innit!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Oh no! What can I do?
We Received Notifications regarding some Recently Logs in your Account: ( xxxx@xxxxx.co.uk ), Which Might BE Block, something Unusual Suspect We at The Signing in the with the with your Account and Recent Changes.
Block of Ensure that We Will We your Account IF We do Not Hear from you . Please kindly the Click ON at The Link below for Verification Verification and RECLAIM your Account.
Thanks,
at The the Team Email This Email Un-monitored AN has been Sent from Email address. Please do Not Reply to the this Message. We are Unable to the respond to replies.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Quick! Click on the link! Your Account Might BE Block! 
It's the latest trend in phishing: by getting so bad that only a complete moron will respond, it lets them eliminate all those who will see through the scam - so they can concentrate on the f'wits who may let them empty the account.
Mind you, they are setting the bar pretty damn low on this one! I'm not convinced that anyone who might fall for it can read it unaided...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I would struggle to fall for it because it's hard to parse their sentences. It was pretty difficult to work out that they actually wanted me to click something...
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Chris Quinn wrote: Block of Ensure that We Will We your Account IF We do Not Hear from you .
Sounds like Shakespeare
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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That reads like the sort of message that should be constructed from letters poorly cut out from a newspaper.
"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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Only if that newspaper was The S*n
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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I'm sick of getting chrome "recommended" to me by sites
Even the bank, for crying out loud!
Even my bank site puts up a banner (about the same size as the #$%&*@^ ribbon), demanding that I "upgrade" from one of the most advanced browsers in the world to the cr@ppy spyware called chrome.
Who's paying them for this? Google won't be.
Or is it just an ignorant prig of a banking-world web developer? "I use chrome, therefore it's the best, therefore everyone should use it!"
It's like the free advertising that adobe gets everywhere (even on the UK government site). No I don't "need" adobe acrobat to read your files!
There are dozens of pdf readers better than acrobat (all of 'em, IMO), and there are dozens of browsers better than chrome (just about all of 'em, IMO), so why are so many idiots so caught up in giving them free advertising?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: one of the most advanced browsers in the world
Which is?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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A secret, for us security-paranoid types.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ah.
IE 6 then...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Lynx may be !!! 
Thanks,
Milind
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Pfft! IE6 was cr@p!
The best IE by far was IE4. Far superior to Edge, Chrome, and that Chinese Nutscrape knock-off Red Panda.
What I find amusing is that Nutscrape and Red Panda were the noisy boys who caused all the trouble and made all the fuss that resulted in the "browser wars", but Nutscrape died, and Red Panda is going the same way.
The come along, cause trouble, then bugger off to cause trouble elsewhere? They're the trolls of the browser world.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've used Chrome for a good few years now and have yet to find a better browser. How about letting us into the secret of which one you think is so superior?
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"Better" depends on your needs.
If you want cutting edge, go for Opera (why wait for chrome to copy their ideas?)
If you want fast, go for OB1.
If you want to interact between your different machines, go for Maxthon.
If you only want to tweet and use FB, get off the ****ing Internet.
Etc.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: one of the most advanced browsers in the world
So which one is it?
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Hey, I don't tell people what tools I use, where there's security involved.
It's like when people here ask what antivirus people use. That always looks to me like market research by hackers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What does this have to do with security? You stated that you were being hassled to switch to Chrome from a browser that you described as "one of the most advanced browsers in the world". So why do you refuse to tell us which one it is?
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: So why do you refuse to tell us which one it is?
So he doesn't need to justify the claim when we all laugh like drains, obviously!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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