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Congratulations and deepest sympathies !
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." Steve Jobs
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Steve's approach is to hope that the future creates a logical and consistent past?
A difference compared to what other approach? Hoping that it would be inconsistent? Yeah, I can see how that makes a difference 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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ones and zeros wrote: Why do I still feel like a deserter?
Because that's how managers, no matter how badly they treat you, want you to feel. And also, because you've lived and breathed this stuff for over 10 years. You know the people, the problems, the commute is ingrained in your muscle memory. It's actually really stressful to leave something familiar, no matter how much you hate it. Someone mentioned Stockholm Syndrome. Yeah.
Marc
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I've just given 1 years notice, going to retire, the hardest part is waiting!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Autoplay-movies, how does one ban them completely?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Depends on your browser.
For Chrome it's simple:
Click the three-bar icon upper-right corner and select "Settings"
Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and click "Show advanced settings..."
Find the "Privacy" section, and press the "Content settings..." button.
In the resulting dialog box, scroll down to the "Plugins" section.
Chose "Let me choose when to run plugin content", and click the Done button in the lower-right corner.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Depends on your browser.
Depends on the website I visit. Not all of them are arrogant enough to show a text, and play a movie at the same time, thinking I'd be interested in both simultaneous.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Vote for Bob! ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif)
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The BBC goes one worse - there's an option to automatically play the next video, and no matter how many times you turn it off, it always resets when you load another page with a video. 
"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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Have you ever watched EastEnders? That's one example of where Brits make a crises out of a drama.
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Why do they blur only some of the faces? Is it because they are suspected of causing the roof to fall? Perhaps one of them was 007?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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They may well have been asked to do so by the owners of the faces in question.
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Member 9082365 wrote: They may well have been asked to do so by the owners of the faces in question.
That was a thought but with all the cameras you got in the UK how can one possibly be always checking to see if they are in video that has been publicized? 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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They blurred the two who were directly involved with what fell, presumably some potential legal issue further down the line.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Wow. A one less sip of his morning tea and that guy would have been toast.
Marc
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Regarding the flag of a headless state leads to my departure (11)
*Not a proper cryptic crossword clue
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Regarding RE
the flag of SIGN
a headless state nATION
leads to my departure
RESIGNATION
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Yes!
Well done, your turn tomorrow. To set a clue, not to resign, can you resign when you're self employed?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Well, I'm resigned to it, if that helps...
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chriselst wrote: *Not a proper cryptic crossword clue
Why not? 
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I started getting complaints about the structure not being exactly right for a true cryptic clue that you'd find in a newspaper so started adding that disclaimer each time I set one.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I would probably have told them TGFTs.
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PompeyThree wrote: Why not?
Since you ask, in American cryptic clues all words must count so linking words (as in 'of a' and 'leads to') would be unacceptable. In both UK and American clues the definition 'my departure' would be suspect as it does not quite match the answer properly - resignation is not the me in question. Of course that could easily have been avoided by simply excluding 'my'. There are other minor issues that might have led to this being rejected by a 'proper' crossword editor.
That said, it's probably not necessary to add a disclaimer. We do all kinda assume that some 'rules' will be bent if not snapped into a thousand pieces most days. I do occasionally mount my high horse as a professional setter but only if the clue is so messed up as to make the answer no more than guesswork.
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Wow, we must go out for a drink sometime!
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