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Sander Rossel wrote: You could always take the lyrics literally and drop an atom bomb.
Not a good idea. The EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pulse) will trash all electronics for miles around, to say nothing of what the bomb will do to the property values. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Haha, this happened several years back to my brother and me, just days apart, but also 500 km apart
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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Install RAID
Sorry, couldn't resist
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I don't know which is funnier, the pun or the notion of RAID on a laptop...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Duct-tape all ports, cracks, and openings of all kinds, especially the ventilation ones. It'll get hot enough in no time at all.
Your laptop may die along with them, but you didn't mention if that mattered to you...
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I'm okay to let the notebook die, as long as I take the revenge,the right way. (chuckle) just kidding. 
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Guess what, I really did this. It worked. It's so hot now and the last set of a****le ants are running out.
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I...was kidding. 
Glad to be of help.
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Sewerslvt - Mr. Kill Myself[^]
It's been a while since I listened to some good drum n bass.
I haven't really listened to electronic music for months I think, maybe longer.
But this week I just casually clicked a Sewerslvt album and I immediately loved it.
A friend of mine said "I didn't know I needed this until I heard it."
And he shared it with a friend of his as well, who also loved it.
And now they're SOTW so I guess Sewerslvt does something right!
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What a coincidence. I was about to make a post. Okay hold on.
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That's a very nice one 
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No more stars confused space scientists (11)
(might be a little slow with confirming the correct answer, though I think you will know if you are correct)
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Astronomers
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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You know it!
Feel free to decide if you want to post Monday, or wait until Tuesday. I am sure some people will still be here on the bank holiday.
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The classic astronomer anagram is "moon starer".
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Yep, but then I would have been stuck without an obvious definition, as "moon starer" is already the definition. Maybe they kind of clues work? I don't really know
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I have read books written over a hundred years ago that had no grammar or spelling errors. That is just good editing. I sometimes take a long time in responding to emails or online questiona in an attempt to avoid errors (unfortunately they still occur). The issue I am addressing now has to do with language, syntax/grammar. At first I thought the description of movies/shows (no matter how old) was because someone with English as a second language was writing it (part of the time). Then I started to see a trend, it was not just the people writing movies description, but people writing books and news articles. The most important one being news articles. These where obviously people who grew up with the language and simply do not understand it or are unwilling to put in the effort to do it correctly. With books (and news) I understand; you just start writing and let if flow, but the misspellings and grammar issues should be corrected before publishing. But it is reaching a ridiculous extent; are their employers just ignorant or just don't care (more likely they are just as ignorant or think we are).
Sorry, that is my little rant. I just read a news article that was missing words (which required me to fill in the blanks) and also appeared to be incorrect (where's the editor?). And those responsible for verifying the validity of their statements.
Technically; I do not speak English, I speak American, but expect people writing in that language to actually understand it or at least have someone editing (verifying) that what we writ makes sense.
That's enough, I got carried away (2:59 AM), when I read something, I expect to understand without having to insert missing word, etc..
Have fun taring apart the above, as I had no editor and made now effort to correct mistakes, but I am also not publishing a (so called) professional article.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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I couldn't agree more. And for your info: It's not just English. I see the same in the Danish newspapers, and I'm really upset that nobody seems to care about spelling and grammar anymore. I blame smartphones and txtspeech... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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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
modified 22-May-20 5:44am.
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Stuff that's written online tends to be written online. So it relies on online spell checkers, but rarely grammar checks. I cringe every time I see "lead" instead of "led", "principal" instead of "principle", and worst of all "could of" instead of "could have" etc. But part of the reason, at least in the UK, is down to what is being taught in schools and universities. Once they abandoned the formal teaching of rules and replaced it with free thinking then spelling and grammar were no longer known. So you had a generation (or more than one) that never learned these things but still became employed as writers and editors.
Microsoft word has a lot to answer for. As do all similar applications.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: you had a generation (or more than one) that never learned these things but still became employed as writers and editors.
... and teachers ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I'm not even English and I cringe every time I see "there", "their" and "they're" being used wrongly.
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Exactly so, and the problem is just compounded by the fact that non-English speaking children, like you, get taught the rules. I used to support our European teams, both remotely and via customer visits in my last job. I was always impressed with the standards of spoken and written English. And when someone was not sure how to use the correct word or phrase, they would always ask first.
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That reminds me of my German teacher; she said she had to teach us English before she could teach us German.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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