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He's not even Swedish.
Then again, I am, and I don't get it most of the time.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: He's not even Swedish. Welcome to English humour.
I was going to call him German, but that would have been too obvious, and a lot of people (from everywhere except Sweden and Switzerland) mix them up, so I went with that.
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I guessed as much, it was mostly the second sentence I wanted to point out.
Swedish humour is mostly aiming for embarrassment, which isn't my cup of tea. But as you might imagine, the Office is mighty popular here.
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Mark, If you don't watch out, I will say something nice about China. What will you do then? Huh? What will you do then?
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Cornelius Henning wrote: say something nice about China
The people or the government?
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Even if you don't understand, I'm sure Mark does. His wife is from China as far as I know. I've been to China - even deep into the Hebei province, as well as Beijing and the Great Wall. Fascinating country!
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The people and the government are great. It's the party members who are like traffic wardens with too much power.
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Don't be silly.
You're American; you're programmed to jerk your knees and wrap yourself in a flag, at the mention of certain other races!
Try to put the point across that other races are just people, like the rest of us, and the knee-jerkers will start calling you names and acting like you're evil.
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Let's get serious for a moment: I have seen Chinese people at work with my own eyes in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and here in the USA. They are an intelligent and industrious people that I admire, but I will never accept the Chinese governmental system (excluding what I saw in Taiwan and Hong Kong). They could be so much more in a free society!
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Cornelius Henning wrote: They could be so much more in a free society! Wherever there's a government, there's no freedom.
... But politics is taboo ground, in the lounge.
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I am guilty of hijacking this thread. Let's close it here.
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H*j*c*i*g!
Careful with that word on the Interwebs! The men in black'll come and get you!
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I am uncontrollably quaking in my boots!
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or just get a room.
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One a.s more
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Do I detect jealousy here?
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Wull, yup, that was the joke.
Thanks for explaining it.
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Putz over there is typing the function name as "newlinkhere", which won't work. Those names are case sensitive.
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I'm in a bit of a mood today. It could have been far worse!
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Arrrgh! It's Friday afternoon. Let's just forget the bright lights in Q&A and prepare to enjoy the weekend.
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Works for me.
[Edit] 10586
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modified 29-Apr-16 15:32pm.
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Which the company I worked for purchased the source from a company in Germany.
And while running it on a test machine a file named "errorlog.txt" appeared on the root of C drive with only the following text:
In installdarpanviapropriettycode function Anybody else see the acronym "darpa" in there (right after "install")? (And couldn't they spell propriety correctly!)
Now the acronym "darpa" refers to a US Agency: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
So, code from a private company references DARPA? Maybe DARPA/NSA had someone on the inside put in a backdoor?
Wouldn't surprise me.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: And couldn't they spell propriety correctly!
Oh, the irony!
The word you're looking for is proprietary:
Nonstandard and used only by one particular organization...
not propriety:
Correctness in behaviour and morals; good manners, seemliness.
"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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LOL. But maybe they meant "correctness in behavior".
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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