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OriginalGriff wrote: You live in the future?
Thanksgiving just gets int the way of Christmas. And they have Christmas stuff on sale already, so that's good enough for me.
OriginalGriff wrote: I have a little proposition for you, involving tomorrow nights lottery numbers and a 50-50 split...
Can you do 60-40? I have some drug debts to pay off.
Jeremy Falcon
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Ok - but only because I like you, and drug dealers can be vicious little sunshines.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I actually did what I promise myself every year (get the Christmas lights up before the weather turns) last week.
Of course, I then just HAD to turn them on!
We got our first real dump last night. It's definitely beginning to feel like Christmas. Let's hope it doesn't turn out like last year (4 days without power!)
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: and it's almost Christmas time where I live! Is it different times of the year depending on where you live?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Nah man, I just think Thanksgiving can be overlooked.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Nah man, I just think Thanksgiving can be overlooked. I hear you. Walmart started putting out Christmas decorations at the end of September.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I know man. I already had some egg nog too. I'll wait until after Thanksgiving to dust off the ol' Santa hat though.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy, you really have to tell me where you are getting your drugs.
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Never! They're mine! All mine!!
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Life is a wonderful thing and such a gift. "Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
I had the pleasure of meeting a rainbow-shitting idiot at the groceries. Asked me to 'smile', because life was so 'great'. You cannot help the delusional ones.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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You got the wrong attitude bub. Life is a cycle of good days and bad ones, true. But if you never have a good day it's not life's fault - it's yours. Despite the bad times life is great. It's a gift. If you don't see that, then sucks to be you.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: life is great. It's a gift. Life is a struggle; animals and plants daily competing for the best possible ways to pass their genes. Life is not a commercial and it is not a game.
The lives of our ancestors contained mostly suffering, and so does the life of most people on this planet today.
As for the gift part; from whom did you receive it, and for what accomplishment? As far as we know, it's merely an accident.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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If you hate it so much then kill yourself and be happy. Otherwise, stop b*tching.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: If you hate it so much then kill yourself and be happy. Ah, that's not possible.
I'm a Catholic, and suicide would mean I'd goto Hell.
Still, I accept reality as is; chipmunks do not dance when they wake up, they do not sing, they look for food.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I'm willing to bet dogs, chipmunks, etc. are happier than you are. Just because we look for food doesn't mean life isn't a gift to be thankful for. You're playing a straw man and wasting my time. You're attitude is morbid and boring man. So have fun being miserable and bringing people down. I have an exciting weekend planned, and I'm gonna go live my awesome life with the awesome people in it. Tootles.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: I'm willing to bet dogs, chipmunks, etc. are happier than you are. We weren't talking about me in specific.
Jeremy Falcon wrote: Just because we look for food We do not just look for food; it is the battle of the species.
Jeremy Falcon wrote: doesn't mean life isn't a gift to be thankful for. A gift implies a gift-giver. As a catholic, I'll point out that it will be hard to explain "who" gifted it. Once you get over that, (fakkin' gift, just a coincidence) there's the question of motivation. Why would you be given a gift like that? And why does the cockroach that dies a day after seeing the first light receive the same gift?
Jeremy Falcon wrote: I'm gonna go live my awesome life with the awesome people in it. Have an awesome time!
Ebola is a form of life.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Turns out my company lost our biggest customer since many years, responsible for 50% of the turnover.
There will be some layoffs.
I'm safe, for now, but I'm going to lose some work mates that I will miss for real.
Sucks big time!
Where's my
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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Thanks, I need that today.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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Cheers, man
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Sorry to hear that, Jörgen.
/ravi
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Thanks.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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I joined a company that was in trouble and needed my expertise to pull it back on track. I was well paid and happy for a while but then I realised that 85% of the company's income came from one big client. Uh-oh! I mentioned this to the president, CEO, chairman and owner of the company (yes, he used all those titles) and he said not to worry, they had been a client for nearly 15 years and couldn't move away if they wanted to as we had all their data, blah, blah, blah. I worked 70-80 hour weeks for a few months, cut out some dead wood in the IT team, brought in competent replacements and saved the company. Tada!
Shortly afterwards I was let go. The president, CEO, etc. said it was "nothing personal but they couldn't afford me anymore". He would never admit it as he escorted off me the premises (in as friendly a way as he could considering he had given me no notice and not much severance) but we had lost the 85% client. They had begun to move copies of their data to another vendor a month before I had started and, although it took them over a year and we were up and running well again by that time, they completed the process and pulled out. All my work had really been in vain since they had already decided to move away before I had even started the recovery.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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That sucks.
The situation in my company is almost the opposite.
We had a consultant at our company that smooth-talked our boss (he's quite receptive to bullshitting) into making a new program instead of adjusting an old and quirky but functional program to the needs of our customer.
It was promised to be done in half a year. (no sh*t)
After this half a year was over and they had only finished the design, no one had had a look at the business layer at all.
I mean, how the f*** can you start with the design before you know what the program needs to do?
The consultant disappeared but it was decided to keep on building this monstrosity as it was to much prestige invested in it.
Anyway, two years later and a quite a few man-years invested the customer pulled the plug on us.
This whole business was only a minor part of the reason though. Pricing was the major problem.
Luckily I had very little involvement in it.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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