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I was browsing the local grocery store, and ran across a brand of egg that had this slogan on its container:
Vegetarian fed hens
and I thought to myself "Where did they get the vegetarians to feed them with? Do they have a vegetarian ranch, or are they vegetarians from the wild for wild chickens?"
[Edit: spell check can't tell between vegetarians and veterinarians!]
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
modified 8-Oct-19 18:21pm.
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Same supplier that provides real Girl Scouts for their Girl Scout Cookies!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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stoneyowl2 wrote: Where did they get the veterinarians to feed them with?
It's not hard to catch vegetarians. They have no muscle and can't put up a fight. Plus, no one misses them.
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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ZurdoDev wrote: Plus, no one misses them.
I would miss Sander, regardless of his eating-habits.
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: I would miss Sander
That's adorable. 
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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Sounds like a hen that is guaranteed to not go outside, and is purely fed grains or corn.
Chickens like to dig for proteins. Can't dig through concrete, so a non-outside chicken can be guaranteed to be raised vegetarian.
Wordsmithing.
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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Chickens are vegetarians so we don't have to be.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Chickens aren't vegetarian, only if they're fed nothing else and prohibited to forage.
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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A friend of mine calls himself a "secondary vegetarian": He only eats meat of herbivorous animals.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Wordsmithing
Or "spin".
Yeah, very likely a way to put a positive light on chickens which aren't free-range.
Similarly, some years back KFC was advertising that their chicken parts were now something like a third larger than previously... which I took to mean that they were buying larger, older, tougher chickens and trying to make them sound more desirable.
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They used to grind beef and feed it to cows, which was one way "Mad Cow Disease" was spread.
These chickens don't eat other chickens I take it.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: These chickens don't eat other chickens I take it.
I read somewhere that chicken grown in 42-63 days will have very litte taste of chicken unless they are fed waste meat from other chicken. Also, to get enough calcium to develop their skeleton that fast, the feed contains the ground bones of slaughtered chicken; this also contributes to the taste.
And still, they never taste anything like a hen (as opposed to a chicken) did in the old days! Tastewise, chicken is to 95% nothing but a substrate for the taste of spices. The day I retire, I might start breeding slow-grow chicken/hens in the back yard to get myself some old style hen meat.
Same with eggs: The number of eggs per hen has almost tripled since the 1980s. So the same total amount of taste is spread out on three times as many eggs, with one third on each.
Two weeks ago I bought myself a (butchered) sheep - I do not want the mild, delicate lamb meat, but something with a firm, strong taste. Something like game. This sheep was of a special "wild" breed, with a double jacket of wool so they can live outdoors through the winter, eating wild grass, shrubs and berries. The meet gets tasty even though the are not fed ground mutton!
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Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) [^]Quote: In almost every computation a great variety of arrangements for the succession of the processes is possible, and various considerations must influence the selections amongst them for the purposes of a calculating engine. One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.
Countess Ada Day: [^] Quote: Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.
Analytical Engine:[^]Quote: The Analytical Engine might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine… Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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That sounds so familiar for a developper, and though it was written a couple of centuries ago. Brilliant mind.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Long ago, for an Air Force base not too far away, I helped develop a simulation of the F-16 STOL Maneuverability and Technology Demonstrator aircraft flight control system in the language that bears her name, Ada. I also wrote a white paper for a research effort entitled Automated Verification and Validation Test Case Generation for Ada. Very interesing stuff, in both cases.
Software Zen: delete this;
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To muse on what she might have accomplished had she been of our time...
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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Does remiss mean to fail the second try as well?
Sorry it's late, busy day and I forgot...
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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Not if you were sky diving.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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That's how you learn to fly. Throw yourself at the ground ...and miss!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It is actually the feminine term for 'divorce'. Men get divorced - women remiss!
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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No! That dialog! It's going to go "ScreeeeeePtwangWizWahahahaBleeepBleepBleepScreachWhiteNoise" at me!
And then drop the connection 40 minutes into the download ...
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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I still use hyperterminal to configure - not so old - routers and switches.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Some robots in the industry still use a derivate of hyperterminal (connect, transfer program, backups, some management functions and the possibility to execute things per command line)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Used it a while back, to get output from Temp Sensor controllers to write a syslog server. Dusted off an XP VM.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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