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According to the Economist, the world's top 5 6 most liveable cities are:
- Melbourne, Australia
- Vienna, Austria
- Vancouver, Canada
- Toronto, Canada
- Adelaide, Australia
- Calgary, Canada
I'm surprised Sydney, Australia didn't make it to the top 6. Also, it's clear the Economist hasn't driven on the same roads that I drive on. 
Clickety[^]
/ravi
modified 18-Aug-15 10:39am.
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I always find these top-ten lists (most liveable cities, best beaches, happiest inhabitants, best food) amusing and essentially worthless (at best).
On the other hand, I'd not mind being paid to make up a list of top something.
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One personal thing about these lists is that I always seem to miss being associated with any entry in any list, whatsoever.
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That makes you number one on the new list of the people most disinterested in top 10 lists.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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I take it they got to 'C' in the list of countries in the world and got bored.
Also, I'd expect the Economist to be able to see that there's 6 in their top 5?
modified 18-Aug-15 9:24am.
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Wastedtalent wrote: I take it they got to 'C' in the list of countries in the world and got bored.
Or the expense account ran out.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Wastedtalent wrote: I'd expect the Economist to be able to see that there's 6 in their top 5?
Actually yet another CNN reporting error. 
/ravi
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The top 10 goes to S(witzerland)[^] and the bottom 10 extends to the U's. A graphic there shows all of the cities in the list along with thier scores/ranking. It also links to the full report which is behind a registration wall; which does give some insight into their logic.
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Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Looks like a good list, though Calgary can't be liveable in the winter. Lows go down to -30°C (-22°F).
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Have you not seen the Polar Bear's top 10 cities?
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Too many old building around. Need to be replaced with modern structures.
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Too many people, if you ask me. Roma is liveable just this month.
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Liveable city? Isn't that an oxymoron?
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I fail to see how Vancouver or Toronto made top 5...
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He has obviously driven through US.
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I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Yeah I live in one of those cities and must say the commute to the suburbs experience is apparently not part of the criteria.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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₲ᴥ»₳♯»♠
Mercury.
The clues
An enemy of that Turkish province. -> Batman -> Mad hatter -> Mercury was said to make hat makers mad.
This FSOW will drive you mad. -> Same as above really.
Alternate - Not M class. -> alternate meaning, planet Mercury -> Which is not an 'M' class planet.
Clue in the original string:
»»₳₲ "»»" is quick ₳₲ is chemical symbol for Silver. Quick Silver = Mercury.
♠ looks a bit like a y, if you don't put your glasses on. 
Tomorrow's will be easier.
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Wow, that was actually a very good one, but when i thought of Mercury right now... i thought of Freddy Mercury XD
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Me - reaches for phone opens Spotify and searches for "Night at the Opera"
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Display Name Taken wrote: ♠ looks a bit like a y, if you don't put your glasses on.
If I don't put my glasses on, everything looks like an orangey-grey blurry blob. 
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- Homer
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I'm -2.5 left eye and -3.0 right eye your sight must be a lot worse.
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Okay, so Google has announced Marshmallow v6 or whatever.
At this point, innovation almost feels like flailing.
You see, I really liked v4.4 kit kat. It worked great, did everything I wanted and still ran quite well on my older device.
Also, remember, the 80 / 20 rule applies here. 80% of the time you only use 20% of the functionality.
80% of the people only use 20% of the functionality.
It all feels like a way to make perfectly fine hardware obsolete.
Hello, Larry, Sergey... I don't expect my phone to be my desktop. Nor do I want it to be.
All in the name of innovation. Whatever.
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So, you are saying they should not release/work on new versions? 
You know that upgrade / not to upgrade is in your hands, then why should the company stop developing new things? They have given you the option to stick with the old stuff if you want.
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Right. I'm saying halt all forward progress.
No.
I'm just saying, maybe they could make the existing parts more secure but stop doing pretty stuff that makes my hardware slower and more obsolete.
For example, Google Hangouts just updated and it really slowed down on my phone running 4.1
What are the new features of Marshmallow, anyway...
Probably more stuff to share my data without me knowing. 
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