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Poor them if they would try
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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better than the budists we got here,
they'll set fire to a mountain of paper and walk away - leaving the neighbors to enjoy the clouds of smoke blowing into their homes. (the burners were smart enough to close their own windows - and no they never bother to warn even their closest neighbors.)
- it's supposed to be honoring their relatives - enriching them by burning "hell money" - made from the shittiest cheapest quality recycled (laced with god knows what) paper.
here they've made smoking a tiny cigarette illegal almost everywhere even outside on some streets, but burning a heap of stinking recycled paper next to schools (yes pre-school/child care centers too), shops, eating houses (many open air), bus stops, AND EVEN THOSE NON SMOKING STREETS... all good.
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Put up a BBQ in a Dutch city, and you have the same problems; people complaining about stench and smoke, and every year there's a few shouting that it should be illegal to charcoal-BBQ.
Outside the cities things are simpler. If you want to BBQ you don't just warn your neighbours, you invite them over to join.
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"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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Eddy Vluggen wrote: people complaining about stench and smoke Really? I love the smell of BBQ and I dislike BBQing (because a kitchen is so much easier and I don't like it outside) and I'm a veggie
The downside, of course, is that my neighbors go outside and I can hear them when I have my door open.
All in all I'm done with summer and ready for autumn
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Sander Rossel wrote: I dislike BBQing (because a kitchen is so much easier and I don't like it outside) It is easier to just order food, so why do you have a kitchen?
A small one-time-use grill costs less than 5 euros, perfect for a picnic. And best of all - almost no dishes to clean!
Sander Rossel wrote: and I'm a veggie So? Throw some unions, carrots and radishes on there, along with a potato, a portobello-mushroom and a tofu-burger. Add some pickles, good sauce, and toast some bread.
Easy, delicious, meat-free, and will taste better than a stuffed witch
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"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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Eddy Vluggen wrote: It is easier to just order food, so why do you have a kitchen? The costs don't outweigh the benefits.
I can't order healthy food where I live anyway, so I'd be eating pizza and fries every day.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: perfect for a picnic Which is outside.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: almost no dishes to clean Dishwasher to the rescue!
Eddy Vluggen wrote: Throw some unions, carrots and radishes on there, along with a potato, a portobello-mushroom and a tofu-burger. Sounds like a lot of work for eating outside
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Sander Rossel wrote: The costs don't outweigh the benefits.
I can't order healthy food where I live anyway, so I'd be eating pizza and fries every day. Pizza, when done right, is healthy. Part of the Mediterranean diet. Simply fresh bread with veggies and cheese.
Sander Rossel wrote: Which is outside. Most of the world is
Sander Rossel wrote: Sounds like a lot of work for eating outside Good food, like good software, requires a bit of effort, that's true
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"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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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Pizza, when done right, is healthy. Yeah, not my local pizza delivery
Eddy Vluggen wrote: Most of the world is Which is why I rarely visit most of the world
Eddy Vluggen wrote: Good food, like good software, requires a bit of effort, that's true And like software development I'd rather make it in the kitchen, which has a fast i7 and 32GB and all my dev tools, than outside, with a crappy i3, 2GB and Notepad
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Can't argue there
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Looks "gezellig"
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I expected a wicker man.
Of course that's a pagan (heathens!) ritual performed by... witches
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When we got married I bring a desktop with me, noways we have a desktop (for me), 2 laptops (one for the wife for personal and the other to the kids to running the local library mostly), an all in one (to the wife's work), a tablet (to play games in bed for the kids) and 2 fairly new smartphones (me and wife, but wife's is constantly abused by kids)...
(and I do not count all the electronics I gathered - a shoebox)
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Same: 1 Desktop (an Amstrad 1640) when Herself moved in.
Now ...
2 Desktops (though hers is old because she hasn't used it for years)
2 phones (plus a small bucket full of "used" ones)
Her tablet (10" Samsung)
My Nexus 7
My Fire HD (heap of pooh)
My WookieTab
Android head unit in car
Chromecast (Android)
Amazon Fire TV (Android. Ish.)
No kids, or there would be loads more I suspect.
And I give the Cat a new tablet every month ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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OriginalGriff wrote: And I give the Cat a new tablet every month ...
and the neighbors cat?
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Gets a tablet every day - cystitis.
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Everytime I buy a new desktop, the old one goes to the attic. That way when something blows up, I have a spare PC, or I can raid it for spare parts. Have been doing so for quite some time.
Good amount of IDE-cables in reserve. And network cables, phone cables, hubs, dead routers, a TV adapter for the 16-bits Nintendo. Books on Windows NT4. Can't remember the last time I actually needed an IDE-cable
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I know that feeling - I have a drawer full of CAT5 cables I'll probably never need again ...
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Off the top of my head
1) HP Proliant Server
2) ReadyNas Raid box
3) 3 Dell laptops
4) 2 Surface Pros
5) HP laptop
6) Wookie tablet ( semi dead )
7) Samsung tablet
8) Numerous Raspberry Pis
9) Numerous NanoPiM4's
10) 2 iPhones
There are only 2 of us.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Oh sod - I forgot the 2 NASes:
Acer Aspire EasyStore (4 x 1TB, RAID5): Linux
Seagate Blackarmor (4 x 4TB, RAID5): Linux
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I've always been a desktop man, my first was a 486 (the Amstrad 1512 was my father's).
My wife is on her third laptop -- and I occasionally use one of her previous tablet thingies when I want to be on the patio or something.
The Kid -- who turns 18 today! -- has an iPad, two laptops, and now a gaming desktop.
But then there's my small DEC museum -- a MicroVAX, two AlphaServers, and an Itanium all running OpenVMS.
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So where's the part about anything gone wrong?
(I'm not going to start a hardware inventory here, else there goes my Sunday...)
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We call it 'progress'.
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Our machine overlords are stealthily enslaving us!
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"Dead Kit Corner" does seem to be taking over an ever growing portion of my house.
Am I really all that likely to start taking bits out of 20-odd year-old machines?
Am I remotely likely to?
Whoever that irritating "does it bring you joy?" woman is might just have a point when it comes to old computers!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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