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Dilly Dilly! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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It is OK with me if the statement is made by a person who is really representing a group of people. If "we" could be replaces by "Microsoft" or "The xxx party" or "The soccer team", without changing the meaning significantly: "We" is correct.
I am fare more annoyed when a machine, such as my PC running MS-Word, tells me "We didn't find what you were searching for", as if MS had lined up a huge search-and-rescue team running all over the landscape with torches and heat cameras to find another occurence of the word "annoyed". An editor is not a "we"!
By old Norwegian tradition, royals (the king and such) refer to themself as "we" in all formal statements, even when he refers only to his own person (and not the Norwegain people he represents). This has lead to a common joke in Norwegian: "Only royals and people with tapeworms are entitled to refer to themselves as 'we'".
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a) yes, of course
b) indeed, the rhetorical 'we'
c) that's the pluralis majestatis, which has somewhat come out of fashion in the last 100 years and even real royals only use it on very official occasions anymore
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Just wait until some snowflake insists you start using "ze" because it's more politically correct and gender-neutral.
Excerpt from this online-dictionary:
Quote: The genderqueer community are the primary proponents of ze. One refers to a person with ze and hir typically (a) when their gender is unknown, and one wishes to avoid assuming their gender, or (b) when they are neither male nor female in gender, making he and she (also either/or terms like s/he or (s)he) inappropriate and potentially hurtful.
From the Cambridge online dictionary:
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a pronoun sometimes used instead of "he" or "she" because it does not show a particular gender
Never mind any looming natural disaster, this is how civilization is going to hell in a handbasket.
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That's not going to happen. Speech control is mind control. You can't think what you are not allowed to say, just as Orwell predicted. I know that they have some weird laws of that sort in Canada now, but I have found sarcasm works best against the little snowflakes.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: I have found sarcasm works best against the little snowflakes.
I'm not disagreeing at all. I'm the guy who will intentionally trigger the snowflakes just to get a rise out of them.
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It's their heart attack, after all. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Real nobility does not use anything as vulgar as the first or second person.
It is the third person with which one refers to oneself.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Cafe alam di bandung wrote:
The latest version of Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system blocks JavaScript by default, because this is seen as a possible source of security breaches. Most users have no idea how to allow JavaScript to run on the web pages they view.
Your text is a little outdated 
In the meantime, JavaScript has proven to be a security-nightmare, as well as a maintenance-nightmare.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I could have told them that 15 years ago, but would they have listened?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Copy'n'paste spam tester is my guess.
Check his other stuff.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ah, yes, it's amazing 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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He's been a user since... today.
Spammer.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Ahem[^]
This space for rent
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Javascript is such a bad idea that you would think Microsoft was responsible for it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Microsoft had an even worse idea, called VBScript 
"On Error Close Browser"
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: "On Error Close Browser"
My favorite is IE showing a fatal error while it tried to automatically upload an error report to MS. I had saved a screenshot somewhere...
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This morning, I dropped Herself off at work, and on the way back home I'm thinking "What should I cook for supper tonight?". My brain immediately chimes in with "Fish tacos".
I'm arguing with myself: I had to scrape the ice off the car; I'm wearing gloves because the steering wheel is so cold; we don't have any salad.
It no good, my brain just starts shouting "FISH TACOS!" at me, and now all I can think of is fish elephanting tacos and I'm hungry.
Damn it! But they say a problem shared is a problem halved - so now you are thinking about Fish Tacos as well, and I should be able to start working on other things ... sorry about that, but it's survival of the fittest round here you know. 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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The ONLY fishy taco one should consider putting in their mouth . . . never mind; KSS rules.
But that's stuck in my mind, now.
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Problem shared; problem halved!
My work here is done.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You, sir, are a very dirty old man.
Besides that, I hate fish. If there is anything that belongs in a taco shell, then it's not from an animal that swims around in the sea, nor from a theropod dinoaur.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Have you ever heard the expression "Only the good die young" ?
It's because they want to!
Dirty Old Man? AMEN!
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What do you think that says about Mother Teresa?[^]
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Mother Teresa was Catholic, correct? Masochism.
Next question
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