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I always got a chuckle when they did this in Singapore as the entire 67 floors had to evacuate the building by the stairwell to the local park - the CEO is on the 67th floor.
I am pretty damn certain that above about floor 60 the bloody alarm did not get tested.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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My customer is re-wiring their entire building in cat 6e or something. cat 5 was okay, but apparently someone got a wild hair some place that tickled. Monday the contractors were running around in their lifts: "beep beep beep". Not even noise cancelling headphones helped. Off to my home office.
Tuesday afternoon, the contractors were ceiling tile diving...
Wednesday morning - clean desk off of debris from ceiling. Interrupted numerous times by guys wanting to mess with wall network connectors. All to get ready for the big effort on Saturday.
3 guys disrupting 12 senior developers. Makes a lot of sense.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Quote: Developed at a cost of almost $1m in a joint project between the Zen temple and renowned robotics professor Hiroshi Ishiguro at Osaka University, the humanoid -- called Mindar -- teaches about compassion and of the dangers of desire, anger and ego.
"You cling to a sense of selfish ego," it warns worshippers. "Worldly desires are nothing other than a mind lost at sea."
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I can't remember where I lost my mind last 
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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 One thing worries me reading the article: Quote: priest Tensho Goto
is mentioned, a name like that...
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Just posted the same 
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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Crap, I was only the third 
Although I gave it a bit more of an in-depth analysis 
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Well as they say 'Great Minds think alike' Hang on I'm on that list...
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Quote: Tensho Goto
With that name...
Reminds me of someone in Q&A recently who was desperately looking for the 'Dim' command in c#. 
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: desperately looking for the 'Dim' command in c#
Must. not. snark.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Rev 13:15
The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.
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Quote: This robot will never die
Only on the next Windows update.
Quote: It can store knowledge forever and limitlessly.
Or until its HD crashes and no one bothered to store backups.
Quote: "blah blah blah" added Goto.
WHAT'S IN A NAME!?
Quote: the rest of the droid's mechanical parts are clearly visible.
Usually, those parts are only visible to choir boys, bug or feature?
Quote: "You cling to a sense of selfish ego," it warns worshippers. "Worldly desires are nothing other than a mind lost at sea."
So basically it spews cliches?
Quote: with artificial intelligence it could one day acquire unlimited wisdom
What's an AI anyway, apart from some ML algorithm, and what's wisdom, furthermore I don't think this guy knows the definition of "unlimited"[^].
Feed it a bit of input and it'll end up like that Microsoft "AI", a cursing racist and misogynist 
This one was just too easy!
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Sander Rossel wrote: I don't think this guy knows the definition of "unlimited"[^]
Nor did that guy you posted the link to. Last time I saw him, he was skydiving in the Death Star. Perhaps he found unlimited power when he impacted at the reactor core.
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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BillWoodruff wrote: Worldly desires are nothing other than a mind lost at sea."
They (the monks, I presume) need to watch something like the Dallas Texas Cowgirls for a while. Meditate on that for a while.
Man Overboard ! ! ! !
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I was thinking that Mindars could be the saviors of choir boys world-wide, but, I decided not to mention that on the Lounge for fear it might be tasteless.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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I'll wait for the version that gives gong-fu lessons.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What is the sound of one fist slapping ?
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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The family KIN
craft! SHIP
KINSHIP
Since the theme is "relations / relativity" I'm surprised that I'm up again tomorrow. Oh well, I liked it.
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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Oh sorry, I meant to post that earlier. I thought someone else would get it so I left it alone.
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Nice one I could only come up with kindred
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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V-J Day - HISTORY[^]
I was not old enough to serve but I was old enough that I remember. I think the yanks and brits were a little closer together then.
[^]VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945 on Vimeo[^]
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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It was along time ago, but we are still feeling it's affects. My Dad was in a similar situation (he told stories of being straffed by FW190's on the way to school!), on VJ Day he broke a Window trying to fly a flag (which got out hand)
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theoldfool wrote: I think the yanks and brits were a little closer together then.
It's true. The continents are separating a couple of cm each year.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Ah yes, I thought it looked about a mile further away now (versus my youth).
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Happy 2019 everyone (this being my second post of this year (equally my tally for last)).
Anyone got any experience of living and / or working in Riga?
Specifically living / working there as a middle aged Englishman who doesn't really enjoy the interaction with humans, although anything is welcome.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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