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Oh Tasmania, that explains it!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I thought it was still 1957 there!
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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There is apparently no correlation between 'taking a holiday', and 'getting downvoted'.
Someone is too naive to realize the rapid changes in technology; that a solution suggested five years ago may not work today.
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There is no "I" in "holday" ?
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Nah...
That's only the effect a really slow internet connection has...
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What is that "holiday" thing?
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Taking the lappie to the beach...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And drowning it...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Nope, it is taking beach to your laptop. Laptop don't usually move, environment does.
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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I don't know what a "holiday" is, but I can tell you I do neither know about a "holday" or even "holiday"...
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Did you offend someone on your holiday?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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No, I offend people all the time.
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Don't you think you are inviting potential downvoters by publicly notifying your leisure of having holidays, thereby touching their nerve?
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Well I did very littlework for more than 40 years, so I think I have earned a little time off.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: ... someone found a QA answer of mine from more than 5 years ago and downvoted it
...and that is the first thing you notice after getting back from vacation?
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No, the first thing I noticed was that there was no wine in the house.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: No, the first thing I noticed was that there was no wine in the house
Sounds better. Though of course it was a big crisis that needed your immediate attention.
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Next time when you are even thinking about taking a vacation, you will know better
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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no, that Chris punishing you for not being on CP whilst on holiday, he has cunningly trained Hamsters to identify miscreants and to automatically down votes any of their articles
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Damn, I did not think you would notice.
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Today I learnt a new term that I wish I had known before. It can be applied to many competent and incompetent people I have come across in life:
The Dunning-Kruger effect.
Google it.
The following is all from Wikipedia:
"This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude. Conversely, highly skilled individuals tend to underestimate their relative competence, erroneously assuming that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others."
Shakespeare: "The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole"
Darwin: "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
Confucius: "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
Suddenly my confidence is very shaky!
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Old 'proverb':
He who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool; shun him.
He who knows not and knows he knows not is simple; teach him.
He who knows and knows not he knows is asleep; wake him.
He who knows and knows he knows is wise; follow him.
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and
a noise annoys a noisy oyster, but a noisy noise annoys a noisy oyster more.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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That's quite interesting, and that makes sense also. The more we learned about something, the more conscious we are of what we still ignore; I'm not sure a limit can be put on knowledge, at least a limit reachable by contemporary human brain.
Thanks a lot
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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