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"Once the President gives his assent to convert the bill into law, it will be illegal to employ labour for hazardous cleaning (manual cleaning without protective gear and other safety precautions) of a sewer or a septic tank. All insanitary toilets will also have to be dismantled."
Will they be replaced with more modern ones; or will people have to do without and crap behind bushes instead?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I bought a license for UltraEdit and FileLocator Pro for my new PC. Can't live without either of these.
Haven't touched VuePrint in a while and was glad to learn it is now free.
Next I wanted to get MathCad since I was quite proficient in it a decade ago and wanted to get back into it. Man that SW is expensive. Will have to put this purchase on hold.
SmartDraw was another great and cheap one when it first came out. Now it's a tad expensive. Luckily I don't have an urgent need for it and Visio is adequate.
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About 1500€ here. MathCad is really expensive.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Once upon a time, they had different modules with separate prices. Now it seems you get everything you don't need for one fixed price.
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Improper training, obviously.
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Because guns are not locked up in a gun safe.
But then, what use is a gun in a safe when a burglar is inside your bedroom at night?
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Vivic wrote: gun safe
In a campground
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Sorry, didn't bother to read the article so I didn't know the incident occurred at a campground.
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Well, is not my fault if you married a burglar.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Darwin Award kicking in early or possibly a little late - got the wrong target.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Darwin Award kicking in early or possibly a little late - got the wrong target.
You got that right!
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Exactly!
Oddly enough, it's harder to get a gun license than a parent license, and that just doesn't make sense...
Will Rogers never met me.
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"Given the 3 million visitors we see here every year, there thankfully are very few fatalities reported in the park,"
Most of them are just quietly buried, so there's no paperwork.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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We only have to bury the bits the bears leave, happily. And that consists mainly of a few buttons and buckles, and those fancy whistles they sell at the souvenir shop to scare away bears.
Will Rogers never met me.
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The poor child possibly had the bad luck to be born to irresponsible morons. It's not hard to safely secure a firearm, even in a campground, if the owner of that gun is a responsible, safety-minded person.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the parents and friends shoved the children into a tent, proceeded to sit around the campfire getting poo-faced drunk, and never with any thought about where the guns are stashed - quite likely in the babysitting tent. Or worse, perhaps, the owner of the gun wore it to bed, in the same tent as the child, and never felt it being lifted from the holster. Who knows the details? But it will be something similar, I'm certain.
To grant a bit of slack to the parents, though, bad things do happen to kids, quite often in fact. But only when a gun is involved does it make headlines... My little brother, for instance, was quite keen at that age on stuffing assorted objects into any available orifice of his body. He got birthday cards from the Emergency Room staff at the hospital, so regularly was he in residence to have something or other removed or cut off an appendage. Any of these items could have killed him, and few of them could have been prevented by our very responsible parents, but they happened, and nobody put them in the paper, or on TV, nor demanded that pussy willows be outlawed or licensed because kids might stuff them into small, easily infected orifices.
Luckily, none of these events killed him; it took a drunk driver to do that. Oddly enough, though 35 years have passed, no one has yet proposed to take away our automobiles, nor ban ethanol. Funny ol' thing, life...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: Funny ol' thing, life...
I so want to quote Marvin now, but I'll forebear.
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Marvin was one of the clearest thinkers I've known in my life, and he is fictional. Lazarus Long was another, and one whose life I intend to emulate to whatever extent reality allows.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: no one has yet proposed to take away our automobiles
Don't give them any ideas.Roger Wright wrote: nor ban ethanol
Hasn't that already been done?
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Abraham Lincoln
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Of course, and like any attempt to legislate moral behavior, it was an utter failure. This is a Law of the Universe, and no amount of political wishful thinking will ever change that fact.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I am sorry that happened to your brother.
Reminds me of a freshman at my high school that got hit by a drunk driver going almost 100 MPH in a school zone and was sent flying about 500 feet away onto asphalt. There was an ambulance there for a demonstration on the hazards of drunk driving (ironically, the drunk driver was the student government officer that organized the event), and it was able to get him to a hospital nearby. He survived the incident, and the (quickly former) student government officer was arrested after the car stopped working and the brakes seized up.
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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It's starting to be quite the cracker! Longest rally 50 something shots. Some pretty ferocious hitting on display.
Wout
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