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Dude, Windows 7 is over a decade old now. Let go already! There is no point in holding onto antediluvian technology.
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Quote: antediluvian
Wow! A new word for me. I had to look it up, since I only know little words.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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'antediluvian' as in 'before the flood' is a good adjective!
I installed windows 10 and uninstalled it after about one day.
It has been described as a privacy nightmare but what also annoyed
me was no pop3 mail client, only imap (perhaps there is now)
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I use POP3 on Windows 10 so I know that was patently false. Talk about 'antediluvian', pretty sure POP3 is older than me.
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Camilo Reyes wrote: pretty sure POP3 is older than me.
Unfortunately, I can't say the same. I even pre-date POP1!
POP1 was specified in RFC 918 (1984), POP2 by RFC 937 (1985). POP3 originated with RFC 1081 (1988).
"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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So I was at the bar last night when the waitress screamed "does anyone know CPR!?"
I said "hell, I know the entire alphabet!"
Everyone laughed...
Well, everyone except this one guy.
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Having been in a situation just like that, I don't find this funny.
I was with some of my friends when an older man had a heart attack and collapsed, one waiter yelled out "Does anyone here know CPR?". One guy made that quip, and some laughed, but my friends and I jumped up, raced over and started doing CPR on the older man until Paramedics arrived.
He would have died otherwise. He was celebrating his 95th birthday with his family. He survived the incident and ended up living to 101.
Someone having a heart attack is a very serious and (usually) deadly matter, it is no time nor place for joking around.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Lighten up BA, it was a joke, marked as such. It is only in bad taste because of your personal experience and yes the guy making the quip was a douche because when it happens it is not a joke!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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100% agreed
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And I agree 100%... with Brinsingr.
Just because it's a joke, and marked as such, it aint funny.
Life is too shor
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: I don't find this funny.
Don't ever go into a hospital staffroom then. The guys and girls that deal with this kind of stuff everyday tell jokes far more scabrous than this!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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It's funny because 'C', 'P' and 'R' are 3 letters of the alphabet, and the guys is saying he knows all the letters of the alphabet, not just those 3!
It's a sad world when you have to explain simple jokes to people like you...
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From the responses, it looks like we need a moderator of all jokes, an omnipotent one who knows what is funny for all, who'll be PC, take into account all scenarios, religions, ethnicities, etc....bullsh*t, people need to grow an ever so slightly thicker skin and not whine about things so inconsequential as this.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The moderator disapproves of your post!
Then again, I get that people don't find such things funny though.
I didn't enjoy The Hangover. Alcohol destroys lots of lives (although that's not why I didn't like it, it's just not my humor). That one became a mega success though
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I get it too, but I don't need to post about it. What is terrible for one is hysterical for another, so what. God Moderator forbid we should be different.
p.s. shouldn't that Moderator.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Nice.[^]
(Just to help provide a better mood than from my previous post.)
[edit] The "companion video" mentioned in the post is really amazing. [/edit]
Marc
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Is that your cat?
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Not being a geek, but I would like to see some visualization of gravitational waves someday.
That's one hot topic out everywhere.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Yesterday, my gf accidentally left the front door open and one of our cats decided to take a walk. A long walk on what turns out to be the coldest day of the year -- last night, -14F.
Yesterday, the septic backed up. $540 dollars later, we can use the toilet again. Did I say "crappy day?" What a mess to clean up.
Our other cat is throwing up everywhere, time for a vet visit tomorrow and probably another $600.
And the furnace pre-blower sounds like metal on metal, maybe a bearing, maybe something else, but still $$$.
Oil furnaces are sort of useless when it gets this cold. Takes in -14F air and heats it to maybe 50 or 60 degrees. I guess it keeps the pipes from freezing.
So much for any today. I feel like joining my cat (running away or throwing up, can't decide which.)
Marc
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mate, sometimes it seems tough, we miss the forest for the trees though.... you're alive (more or less), you have your health (more or less), you have humour (more or less) .. Im guessing you can still 'put bread on the family table' - so breathe deep, count to 10, 100, 1000, or more if you need, but keep trudging on. You inspire goodness in us 'out here' in CP land, with your work, so dont run away
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Garth J Lancaster wrote: we miss the forest for the trees though
Yeah, I just have to look at google news to appreciate being alive, roof over my head, employed, food on the table.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I feel like joining my cat (running away or throwing up, can't decide which.) You more or less decided already
Hope your cat gets well!
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Marc Clifton wrote: metal on metal Anvil - Metal on Metal[^]
That probably won't cheer you up, but it cheered me up.
Despite all your misfortune you made a difference today.
You matter.
You're awesome
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I feel your pain man.
In a 2 month span, I ended digging up my front yard (for the 2nd time in 11 years) to replace the sewer line to the street ($3,500), replace the garage door I backed into ($1,000), the side door to the garage that just crumbled and needed to be replaced by a custom steel door ($890), oh, and the air conditioner compressor motor controller EXPLODED necessitating replacement of the entire air con system ($3,700).
All of that put off a desperately needed new roof on the house.
...and the wife was laid off from her job two weeks before Christmas. 60% of our income evaporated.
I HATE 2015.
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