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It was the story behind the song "Dancing in the moonlight" written by Sherman Kelly.
An interview with Sherman Kelly was shown in the Dutch TV program "TOP2000" where he told the story of how this song came about.
Despite the joyful sound about a place of joy and harmony, where everyone gets along dancing under the moonlit sky, the background of this song is rather unexpected.
After a trip to the Caribbean island of Saint Croix, he decided to sleep on the beach with his wife, but was attacked by natives with baseball bats and left for dead.
While he was recovering from his injuries, he wrote this song. "I envisioned an alternate reality," Kelly wrote on his website. "The dream of a peaceful and joyful celebration of life."
The TOP2000 interview can be viewed (probably only for Dutch viewers) at 39 mins in:
Top 2000: Top 2000 a gogo gemist? Kijk op npo3.nl[^]
The story can also be found on his website: Sherman Kelly[^]
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Should we blame Freud for the title of your posting?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You are a keen observer, of course it's always Freud 
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Or a cigar ?
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Those are quite horrific too 
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Anyone know if the old newsgroups from Microsoft et al are still available - couldn't find much googling
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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pkfox wrote: - couldn't find much googling
have you tried binging? maybe ms blocked google
(or youtubing if you don't mind fake-newsgroups)
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https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forumsearch/microsoft
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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Here's a link to "all 13578" items under Microsoft.public.* (or so it's claimed).
Or at least that's Google's archive of them. MS itself has closed them down years ago (I remember the announcement in favor of some web interface).
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I bought a Razer gaming mouse...
And it feels like its software wants to update like twice a week....
Sometimes I even have to "log in" to start the software (needed to change DPI on the fly, I think)
And now the update process needed me to restart...
What a bother! 
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It sounds like Microsoft! 
<sig notetoself="think of a better signature">
<first>Jim</first> <last>Meadors</last>
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Certainly not their Mouse and Keyboard software (drivers + config utility). I was surprised to get an update for that a few weeks ago. The last time that thing prompted me to update it was in 2015 (I still have the timestamped downloads). And even then, that might have been me proactively seeking it out.
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No, I was thinking about the incredible amount of forced updates that we like to complain about...
<sig notetoself="think of a better signature">
<first>Jim</first> <last>Meadors</last>
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Try Linux. It neeeever updates anything... Or Android apps...
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That's gamification for you
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WOW-what does that mouse software do? transfer your system use to other party?
I do not fear of failure. I fear of giving up out of frustration.
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add a firewall rule to disable access to internet to the updater exe
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
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I get the impression that it might be just slightly over-engineered.
Is it compatible with Alexa?
...
Ah. A quick web-search shows that it uses "cloud-based configuration", meaning that it might even have a built-in web browser (because that's what hardware manufacturers think is an efficient way to access web files), and a ridiculously bloated update mechanism.
I second Nitin's suggestion: block it from accessing the Internet.
If it still thrashes (because it can't get access), dump it. A mouse that consumes more than a few K of system resources is a joke, and will be cr@p for gaming.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Super Lloyd wrote: I bought a Razer gaming mouse...
Obviously you didn't quite understand what it was for.
They're playing with you!
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Is it possible to create web application with both webforms and mvc?
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A very simple search revealed this.......Mixing WebForms and MVC Razor Views
I'm sure there are others, but maybe you need to start with "How to search" before getting into fancy pants topics like mixing webforms and mvc.
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Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
-Yoda
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I have fairly powerful PC (8 core FX-9370 AMD with 64Gb), and had no problem to run anything even together, but now I installed Andriod Studio to start a new project and when Android Studio running the CPU never goes under 20%...
It is a Java thing or some Android Studio problem?
Any experience with this?
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Task Manager's Details tab should be able to tell you which process is hogging one of your cores. Sorting by CPU should make it obvious.
Process Explorer from Sysinternals might be able to show a little more details. But typically Task Manager is sufficient.
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