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It's not safe for anything, actually... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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Edited for the NSFW 
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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As I remember, you are a big fan of smörgåstårta. Eat a nice big piece of it. That will give you the energy to stay warm. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Not bleedin likely - not enough alcohol in smörgåstårta...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Here you go[^]. I have more of these in the refrigerator, but they don't warm you up. We usually drink them cold.
Even when it's sacrilege, you could use a beer warmer[^], like the Brits do.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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CodeWraith wrote: Even when it's sacrilege, you could use a beer warmer[^], like the Brits do.
You've got to be kidding me??? 
Even worse than what the Germans do to their Berliner Weisse[^] 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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You just have to ask to have your beer warmed up if it gets cold.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Actually, it's not so much aging as it is, at long last, getting some common sense.
Cold. Well, it sucks. Too hot can be a problem, but this is offset to some extent by string bikini's and jiggling that's not covered up by layer after layer of thick garments.
That song, by the way? It wouldn't get stuck in my head. It's been a couple of minutes and I already forgot everything but the cowboy hats (I think there were cowboy hats).
You need to age more gracefully.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Too hot can be a problem
That's why I used to love the cold more than the heat. If it's cold, you can always put on extra clothers, but if it's too hot, there's a limit to how much you can take off (depending on your location and present company of course).
But similarly, as my love of winter seems to fade, my hate of summer seems to do the same... 
W∴ Balboos wrote: jiggling
You happened to mention the only mitigating circumstance for summer weather.
W∴ Balboos wrote: You need to age more gracefully.
Now where's the fun in that?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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Johnny J. wrote: Now where's the fun in that?
Well - that depends upon your idea of what gracefully actually means.
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This Norwegian artist Odd Børretzen (who had his great brekthrough after turning 70) states in one of his talking blues tunes that "You know you are getting old if you bend down to, say, tie your shoelaces, and you catch yourself considering what else you might do, now that you are down there..."
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For each indicated starting point, a green gemstone (7)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Peridot
for each = per
indicated = I
starting point = dot
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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I'll give you that: "Indicated starting" == "I", and "point" == "dot", but close enough! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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What are the realistic expectations that one could have regarding filing a complaint against an ISP for billing procedures ?
What are some of the unanticipated consequences that one might encounter ?
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C-P-User-3 wrote: What are the realistic expectations that one could have regarding filing a complaint against an ISP for billing procedures ?
Inbox --> Deleted folder
But seriously...depends on who you're complaining to. The ISP's own billing department? The ISP's CEO? The Better Business Bureau?
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I welcome suggestions from you or anyone who has personal experience with such matters.
This provider makes it absolutely impossible to contact a living speaking human who will give the victim (known as "the customer" in most companies) a clear answer to the question: "What is the final bill ?"
When I tried asking that before, they gave me a number which I paid.
The result was to start the cycle all over again.
I turned in the modem last night, physically walking into their store.
The guy would not give me a receipt for it unless I signed a little slip of paper which stated that I agree to their terms.
I marked through that clause, signed, and got the receipt.
I remain unnerved at this moment.
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Realistic expectations of anything actually happening? Nil. That would require the FCC to actually care about people and the ISP to actually care about anything except profit.
Seems in this day and age, your best chance would be to post the complaint on social media with pictures then hope it goes viral so the company has to deal with bad PR instead.
I'm guessing based on your reply above that you recently cancelled service. I did the same about 8 months ago when I moved and was able to get cheaper (and better) service.
Called customer service and spoke with a human being, one perk of having a business account was that I was guaranteed a person would answer the phone. Asked and was told my final bill would be in the amount of X. So I took the modem to the physical store, dropped it off and was told the same amount. Seemed good so far. Was given a receipt indicating I turned it in, etc. No agreeing to terms or anything else.
Fast forward one month and a bill shows up in the mail for the previous month's pro-rated amount. Begin series of phone calls starting with confused and escalating to annoyed and finally to royally peeved.
Turns out that the amount I paid in the store which I thought was my "final bill" was only an estimate of what the final bill would to be. The amount remaining was the difference between that and the actual amount once my service was 'officially' disconnected. Because apparently when you turn in everything and close your account, they might not actually turn off your service for another few days. 
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Many years ago, I worked at a facility where the phone network, and by extension, the network was maintained by a telecom contractor. The company he worked for decided his performance was subpar and fired him... but forget his hand written notes showed where the connections were.
And... subsequently had to rehire him - he had job security of a sort.
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Myst... what memories!
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Memories? Nothing special. Just a megabyte worth of good old DRAMS. If my old Atari STs floppy had not died recently, I could dig for Myst in my disk box and start it up.
Now, where do I get an old Epson double density dual sided floppy drive?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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I'm wondering, what are your opinions on this.
My current employer uses 404 in web services when some entity cannot be found.
For example, let's say we're trying to get product x, but x does not exist.
Personally, I'd opt for a 200 with an empty response (or a response with a "product could not be found" error).
But here, they return a 404.
Why am I against returning a 404?
Because the server exists, the URL exists, the web service exists, so technically everything was found.
According to Wikipedia "The website hosting server will typically generate a "404 Not Found" web page when a user attempts to follow a broken or dead link;", but the link isn't broken!
I've ran into trouble because I don't want to throw an exception on 404, but I never know if some service could not be reached or if an invalid entity was requested.
In one case I returned the error "Product x could not be found" to a front-end, while in reality the configuration was wrong and the URL to the web service was broken.
I'd understand this on a website, where you browse to mydomain.com/product/x, but a web service?
So... Opinions?
Do you use 404 to indicate that some object could not be found (in a web service)?
I get that we did not find product x, but there must be a better way to separate functional from technical error...
How do you handle this?
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