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We've been very, very hands off on the Soapbox but frankly this forum has lost its meaning for us. The goal was to provide a place where members could have a good old rant about stuff that affects their daily programming lives. It's become a place to bait and troll.
The anger, the pointless ribbing of other members, the general darkness here is not making me proud of what we've built. There needs to be a change or we will just walk away and close the doors on this forum.
So:
1. No personal attacks. I can't even believe I need to write that one out on CodeProject.
2. No trolling. No deliberating picking something you know will upset others just for entertainment.
3. No hate talk, racism, sexism, anything that's just outright unpleasant. We're not asking you to be angels, but we are saying you need to apply basic decency to your discussions.
4. Threads that seem designed to inflame pointlessly will get locked.
5. We're the final judge. There's no debating if we kick you off the forum or off the site. We are very lenient so you know we don't do that on a whim, so if you're off you're off. We won't be giving you the pleasure of a public fight about it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
modified 7-Feb-18 22:55pm.
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Are are pygmies not allowed in nudist colonies because they keep getting in everyone's hair?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I'll brush that comment off as a bit short-sighted, and thus dwarfed by many others.
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They are very self conscious and tend to hide in the bushes.
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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... there's someone smoking weed. 
"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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Or the jet trail of a Russian SAM.....
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Well, he's a lot luckier than a journalist or other dissenter in Russia - still breathing an all that.
This, of course, seems to be rather on the upswing since Putin purged his country of anything approaching "vocal" freedom of thought.
No wonder The Hump admires him so!
The Twit(ter)-in-Chief must get wet dreams thinking about how he'd like to be able to similarly silence any the descent he receives. "Your Fired" seems to only work on his dubiously qualified appointees. Damn FBI/CIA/NSA - they won't help him restore order at all - just a bunch of commies, that's what they are.
Слава богу за совпадения!
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W∴ Balboos wrote: No wonder The Hump admires him so!
The Twit(ter)-in-Chief must get wet dreams thinking about how he'd like to be able to similarly silence any the descent he receives.
I have rarely read anything so childish and silly. Really.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: I have rarely read anything so childish and silly. Really.
So childish? So Silly? And yet, so true. So very very true.
You never read anything truer. It's the truest there ever was.
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Of course, you know Trump intimately.
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Of course not!
Even Melania would deny knowing him intimately.*
* There's limits to what anyone would do for money!
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Well - that deserves a little round of applause - you know - with small hands.
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He has a wife, you know.
"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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W∴ Balboos wrote: No wonder The Hump admires him so!
As did Hilderbeast. Just saying...
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A foolish person who knows little about the alleged poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal
will ponder the absolute incompetence of supposed Russian assassins. Those who have been following events and all the accompanying absurdity will chalk this up as just another feeble attempt to promote anti-Russia hysteria and another cold war against Russia under false pretenses.
History is the joke the living play on the dead.
modified 5hrs 15mins ago.
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Out of curiosity. Do you consider this self defense or not:
Self defense or not?
I was sent this by a buddy of mine, because I practice some Martial Arts.
I definitely have my opinion on this, but I was curious about yours.
How would you have tackled it?
Fire away 
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I've seen that before. Probably not self-defense in the legal sense, but he just took him to the ground, it's not like he punched him or did anything to injure him, and you could also argue that he thought the potential of violence was imminent to preemptively stopped it in the most "non violent" way he could. He could have just walked away, but who was the say the guy wouldn't have just started on someone else, someone less capable of dealing with it.
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Yeah, f*** him, he was asking for it.
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I would probably have walked away from the loud non-violent idiot.
There'll be a huge difference in how a court reacts between shouting some insults and using force. The one who initiated the physical exchange would be jailed here.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I do not, and probably in the legal sense it is not also... which does not mean I wouldn't do the same...
But in any case no real danger to him even the fat guy decides to sue, as no physical harm done...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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