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When I am about to die, do I see a Silverlight at the end of the tunnel?
Or is it just the other way around?
Actually triggered by the fact that our servers must support stuff that even Microsoft wants to forget. 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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There is a Silverlight at the end of the tunnel only if it's an oncoming Microsoft Train Simulator.
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No, you see a Flash animation start, and then a message: "Your app is no longer supported," and then the blue-screen of death.
«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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We'll probably never know: Covid vaccine maker AstraZeneca 'targeted by North Korean hackers'[^]
I'd like to think the former, but I suspect the latter given North Korea's record in cyber attacks. 
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Metro doesn't like my ad-blocker and I don't feel like hacking the page.
But what I really wanted to add, along a similar vein, is that I heard some news item about the US Cyber group sending out some warning shots into Russia and other places, before the election.
The Kim Kingdom, however, is so tightly shut that back-doors that are available nearly everyplace else aren't available.
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modified 27-Nov-20 8:52am.
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There's no doubt Kim Jong-Un is bat-sh!t crazy, (although, no more so than other Presidents!), but I would have put AstraZeneca's competitors higher on the list of suspects. There has to be big bucks in this.
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Anybody / anything in the news becomes a target for everybody else. Win something. Publish something. Wear something. Say something. etc.
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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"Microwave Safe" - so it says on the package. Possibly even indelibly stamped onto the bottom of the cup before firing so it's forever in the cup's lifetime.
And the damn handle gets so hot you cannot remove the cup from the microwave oven without an oven mitt. Now this is done, as so many of you have experienced, with the vessel filled with water ( something just about all water - it is a mug, after all). Water really sucks up microwaves - that's how the whole concept was designed. The cup shouldn't - certainly not when so much water is present. I just got reminded with a 45 sec reheat from room-temperature. This was not thermal conduction from the water to the container.
There's just something wrong with this claim "microwave safe". Plain glass is pretty good on this account but ceramics, which are the material-of-choice for properly sized coffee mugs - are hit-and-miss.
They should make it required to label items that themselves get hot as "microwave tolerant", putting the safety of the user ahead of that of the cup. Yes. A new regulation. But sometimes something has to be done.
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The same with plates. How come my plate comes out of the microwave too hot to pick up and the food is only just warm?
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My microwave is like "here's that cold food in the hot bowl you wanted." 
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I don't, for several reasons:
1) I don't use ceramic coffee mugs: it's a double walled vacuum mug in stainless steel. Keeps coffee warm and drinkable for ages. It's probably not marked as "microwave safe" for good reasons, but it's also full of coffee so I'm not turning it upside down to find out!
2) I don't heat water in a microwave. Or anything else, pretty much (I do soften butter in it). It's main function in our home is as a "Cat Safe": he can't get at food inside so it can cool without being eaten ...
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I have a stainless steel mug my daughter bought me during her days as a Starbucks Barista. When I used to go into work it was the last mug I needed for, as you well know, they don't break easily. Not particularly vacuum insulated.
I don't heat water in the microwave very often (easier via several other options). I do reheat in it. Just like leftovers - although coffee gets good care to retain the flavor.
Cast Safe. That can be thought of in two way.
1 - you can limit yourself by protecting things in the microwave from cat intrusions. Only what you can fit.
2 - You can put the cat in it, instead, and everything elsewhere is safe.
Actually . . . . . maybe you should rethink your approach . . . .
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It's bad enough getting him into a cat basket for a visit to the vet, I'd lose fingers trying to cram him in the Cat Safe!
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OriginalGriff wrote: t's main function in our home is as a "Cat Safe": he can't get at food inside so it can cool without being eaten ...
Similar thing in our house, except ours is Greyhound safe. The female's not too bad, but the male can pick food off the counter without coming off his front feet.
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OriginalGriff wrote: It's main function in our home is as a "Cat Safe": he can't get at food inside so it can cool without being eaten ...
Put the cat inside the microwave, then you can leave food anywhere in the kitchen.
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If I put the cat in the microwave, Herself will ensure I leave the house. 
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Oh, c'mon...think of it as a little house for the cat. On a rotating platform, so he doesn't get bored of always getting the same view. And all the heating he can handle.
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I'll let you present that to Herself. Wear a cup!
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I'd be more inclined for the boxing gloves.
Your foota toucha my balls, back of your heada toucha the floor.
Hers wouldn't be an act of self defence. Why bother starting now?
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Eh, with comments like that, I recommend you go back to lurking...
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Hmmm. With comments like your previous one in this thread and this one, thanks, but I'll not be troubling you for advice.
One bad joke(yours) turned into another(mine) before someone (you, of all people) suggested I cease to contribute.
At least you ended with joke. 
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I think it's fairly clear, even without the joke icon, what my intent was when I responded to Griff.
The problem with your joke, is that there's plenty of people who would actually mean the sort of thing you wrote, and I took it as being kinda crass and offensive. And I don't recall you posting too much, so I'm not familiar with which type you may be. So there, you can use that as the benefit of doubt.
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It's days later and then it came to me that you were a bit vague on this point:OriginalGriff wrote: If I put the cat in the microwave,
Please clarify if she will be angry if you put the cat in the microwave or only angry if you put the cat in the microwave and actually run it for a while.
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The physical proximity will suffice.
No electrical connection need be established.
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Might I suggest you either have a crack in the mug, or the glaze has, well, de-glazed and the mug become porous? (from the outside). I've a couple of mugs that when new were fine in the microwave, with age (and a visible hairline crack in one) now get hotter than a very hot thing if inadvertently used in the microwave.
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