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Talking of which, the EU is in a mess. English is its most popular 'vehicular language' (there are three, English French and German). Loads of documents are in English, and most of the schooling for EU govt kids at the school in Belgium.
But with the UK leaving, they will have to drop English. This means every EU govt worker has to learn French or German. Fluently.
It is such a crisis they are trying to convince Ireland to change its official language to English.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: It is such a crisis they are trying to convince Ireland to change its official language to English.
Nice. I've got a friend who lovingly gloats about each new iteration of the cluster elephant from England; but am clearly missing some of the glorious trainwrecks on the EU side.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Munchies_Matt wrote: This means every EU govt worker has to learn French or German. Fluently.
So you're saying this would've been a solved problem by now, had we simply sit back and let that guy from a few decades back achieve his goal...
Not that anyone would worry so much about having to learn French...
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Well, dont you think the EU actually IS a German empire?
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Is it? I was trying not to put words into anyone's mouth...
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: British English, not american. Let's hope so.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RIP!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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RIP J.H . Heard him during 2000s. Fairly good collections.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Goodbye, man on the train.
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Do you really want every dumb ad server to know all about your activities and interests?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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No, but this is their own internal systems: they already know what I look at, and what I buy.
So if they put the two together, less of their emails might go in the bin unread ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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And, more to the point, they ought to have some concept of the durability of the products that they're selling.
Chances of someone buying a washing machine wanting to buy an identical one within a month - somewhat minimal.
Chances of someone buying washing powder wanting to buy more of the same within a month - somewhat higher.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Some people actually argue they do. I'm not one of them.
My favorite from Amazon is still the fact that they spam my mailbox almost daily for stuff I might actually want, but they won't ship to my address. You'd think they'd send that through some filter...
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While we're at it, can they make a usable UI/UX for AWS?
veni bibi saltavi
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Yeah, so I'm bored at home right now. What does that mean for you @Marc-Clifton? Well, it means you're gonna suffer. @chris-maunder too since we're taking a trip down memory lane today.
I present to you one of a zillion reasons why JavaScript and web development is awesome.
BAM!!![^]
Read it and weep. The background music is actually coming from a YouTube video. No joke. And you'll need to watch until the end.
One day... one day Marc... you'll accept JavaScript. One day.
There's a slight chance the background image may not load btw. It's my first time using CodePin like this.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: <div class="name">CodePrject</div>
Really?
And you do realize you could make it simpler. "Marquee" for life!
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
modified 6-Dec-17 2:36am.
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Oh snap. We need to bring back the blink tag man.
Jeremy Falcon
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Write a Java applet that does that and embed it in HTML using applet tag.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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And write an article about it.
Jeremy Falcon
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Misspelling of CodeProject aside, a big shout out for 311ERock.
This space for rent
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Amen to that brother. Ever since you linked to him the other day I make it a point to swing by his channel.
Jeremy Falcon
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I enjoy 331ERock but I think Leo Moracchioli is better - he made some covers that are way better than the original songs!
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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With 331Erock, I like his sense of humour.
This space for rent
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Happiness = Awesome
Jeremy Falcon
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