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I could not remember if it was Xerox or Sun.
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djj55 wrote: I could not remember if it was Xerox or Sun.
Answer: Xerox Star
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CBadger wrote: O the irony indeed!
Why?
If you want to do something then taking advice from someone who screwed it up seems like a good idea to me.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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ChrisElston wrote: taking advice from someone who screwed it up seems like a good idea to me.
Ok you got me there, that is a really good point indeed!
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CBadger wrote: Any thoughts?
Yes. What if Oxygen is really a poison that takes about 75 years to take affect? Or to continue todays theme, What if Oxygen makes our voices deep and Helium just restores it to it's normal levels? Either way I think I'm going to stop inhaling it.
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They really do sell some good sh!t in Havant these days...
speramus in juniperus
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Just work in Havant, live on Hayling and buy my sh*t in Pompey.
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What if this is not a discussion but a statement. What if you are are under the impression that you can think and freedom is merely a way to keep us imprisoned in this sudo reality and in fact we can do much more than this matrix allows and allows us to think we can do!?
What if you are not buying any sh*t in pompey but really are just finally breaking free from your holocaust dream enthralling shell of a vessel?
Freedom to the .... *weird light goes off and brightens whole room with an eiry feeling of a slimy object reaching into your brain*
O look it a perfectly normal day without any realisation of what is truely going on for this is reality and the truth and no hidden reality whatsoever. ZZZzzzZZZzzz
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CBadger wrote: this sudo reality
Reality runs on Unix? 
(Or did you mean "pseudo reality"?)
"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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Hmmm... that explains why
pseudo apt-get update
isn't working for me today.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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Richard Deeming wrote: (Or did you mean "pseudo reality"?)
So why on earth would I mean pseudo?
Richard Deeming wrote: Reality runs on Unix?
It runs on 1's and 0's. And that is all i can say *FLASH*
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PB 369,783 wrote: What if Oxygen is really a poison
Yes, it is[^].
"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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Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey[^]
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Anyone watching this?
I'm hopelessly addicted even more so now I'm being drip-fed the last few episodes week by week like in the olden days. (I watched the first 4 and a half series on Netflix at my leisure).
I know there's a debate on Netflix changing our viewing habits because they put a whole series out there in one go, but I have to say the old way is better. You get to stew the last episode over for a whole week and the anticipation to the next one builds. You lose all this when the next episode is there instantly.
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PB 369,783 wrote: I know there's a debate on Netflix changing our viewing habits because they put a whole series out there in one go, but I have to say the old way is better. You get to stew the last episode over for a whole week and the anticipation to the next one builds. You lose all this when the next episode is there instantly.
I agree. That's why I prefer my DVR to Netflix.
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I tend not to watch many of these big dramas, but I did get hooked on The Wire which was shown in the UK on consecutive nights.
I recorded these, and tended to watch them back 2 or 3 at a time.
There are other things that I have recorded and then not got around to watching until the whole series has been recorded, not through any deliberate ploy, just having the time and / or inclination to set down and watch.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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The only UK show I watch is MI-5. Back in the day, I used to watch The Professionals (CI5) and this is just as great.
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We call it Spooks over this side of the pond
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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I have the whole of The Wire on my new lappie and I watch an episode or seven each evening. Currently back on series 4.
speramus in juniperus
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PB 369,783 wrote: Anyone watching this?
Absolutely not.
If I want to see actors behaving like small children, reciting scripts that appear to have been written for small children, and plot developments that would only be believed by small children, I'll download some Brian Cant stuff -- at least a decent level of intelligence went into his work.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Are you kidding me?!
This is one of the most well-written and well-acted shows of the last decade, if not all time. The Writers Guild of America named it the 13th best written show of all time (Majority of shows on the list are American). Bryan Cranston has won multiple Emmy's for his performance, and Aaron Paul has won a couple for his.
Guinness World Records awarded it the highest rated TV show of all time with a Metacritic score of 99/100.
You, sir, are in the minority.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Right, so:
-- Injured, high-ranking cops sitting in bed, arms folded, pouting like five-year olds, and everyone else behaving like the whole world is in a schoolyard for five-year-olds.
-- Women with no skills whatsoever stealing businesses from people by sending in someone to pretend that they're inspectors, while she's in the car looking through law books.
-- Characters acting like different people, week on week, because it's really hard to write a character who has a consistent character*.
-- Guys with 30 years' experience of being drug lords and killing people being completely and utterly outfoxed and overpowered by schoolteachers.
-- etc.
-- etc.
-- etc.
Are signs of good writing?
My wife watches it because the Chinese translation of the pathetic script is apparently more intelligent than the original, but it drives me up the wall, because every few minutes there's something that's inconsistent (either with reality, or with everything else in the show), lines of script that are embarrassingly bad, or plot developments that are contrived to ridiculous extremes.
His wife, in the show, has to be the worst-written character I have ever had the displeasure to have seen (with his brother- and sister-in-law coming close on her heels).
That the show gets such accolades says a Hell of a lot about the US viewing public.
* Is it bollocks, by the way. Writing a character who behaves consistently is the easiest thing in the world to do -- it just makes it harder for hacks to insert them into stupidly conceived and pathetically contrived situations.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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While I assume my argument will fall on deaf ears, I wanted to present my case anyways:
Mark_Wallace wrote: Injured, high-ranking cops sitting in bed, arms folded, pouting like five-year olds, and everyone else behaving like the whole world is in a schoolyard for five-year-olds.
From this I gather that you are referring to Hank when he was nearly paralyzed from the waist down... Well, I'm sorry that a man that was shot had to go through a realistic recovery period instead of being superman like in other movies/shows. Also, do five-year-olds cook/deal meth and kill people where you come from?
Mark_Wallace wrote: -- Women with no skills whatsoever stealing businesses from people by sending in someone to pretend that they're inspectors, while she's in the car looking through law books.
Not sure how much of the show you have seen, but Skyler had actually been the finance person for a small/mid-sized business before the episode that you referenced, so I wouldn't call her a woman "with no skills whatsoever".
Mark_Wallace wrote: -- Characters acting like different people, week on week, because it's really hard to write a character who has a consistent character*.
Not sure which characters you are referring to here, but I'm going to take a guess that it's Jesse. He didn't change week to week. It was a slow evolution that shows how his emotions and conscience eventually control his actions.
Mark_Wallace wrote: Guys with 30 years' experience of being drug lords and killing people being completely and utterly outfoxed and overpowered by schoolteachers.
While I will admit it is a bit of a reach for Walt to beat these guys, its not like he is just a schoolteacher. Several times in the show Walt's intelligence is discussed. He was the chief scientist and co-founder of a start-up science research company that, after he left, became worth billions of dollars, all based on his initial ideas and research.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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So you haven't seen it yet you have an opinion on it? Sorry but that makes your opinion on the subject worthless.
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And yet it is the only opinion to have been upvoted so far.
This is indeed a strange place.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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