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I don't doubt that factoid... however it's not that important in the grand scheme of things that I didn't use he/she... Do you also call manholes "maintenance person access covers"? How about chairman? Actress?
It just seems to me that society in general is more interested in seeming than doing... Getting carried away with stuff that really makes not a jot of difference in the world... Political correctness is a bit of a bugbear of mine...
:hops off high horse:
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I share your abhorrence of PC but that sentiment can be taken to the opposite extreme and can be used to justify narrow mindedness.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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pwasser wrote: I share your abhorrence of PC but that sentiment can be taken to the opposite
extreme and can be used to justify narrow mindedness.
Also a fair point. See how nicely we can discuss things? It'll never catch on in the Soapbox!!
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pwasser wrote: I have a rail pass to work on West Australian railway lines doing NDT.
Near Death Trains?
Non Disclosed Trains?
Anyone who's been to Wellington, NZ, knows the trolley buses are whispering death. Nine tons of, from memory...
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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They need loudspeakers. Loudspeakers and "Ride of the Valkyries". 
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Funny coincident with rail travel. When I went down into the station this morning, an alarm was sounding and a recording telling everyone to evacuate the station. I went straight back up the escalator, and the security guard there (they are everywhere) told me it was OK to go down, it was a false alarm. I went back down just seconds before a train arrived, which I boarded for work.
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Serious subject but funny.
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Nice XR?
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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Good chance it's an XR... looks very similar.
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Very good! One wonders if they might find themselves on the receiving end of a defamation case brought by Apple lawyers.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Since the CIA invented Facebook[^] I believe this.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Add Facebook's newly purchased Face.com facial recognition software to the mix and things get even "funnier". In my opinion - facebook is NOT too big to fail.
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That's, Made Me Smile Of The Day. The smile on the face of this baby just made me smile and I thought I'd share just in case you're having a crappy day. Source[^]
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Thats just  
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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A woman I went to high school with has had major hearing loss in both ears since she was a toddler. About a year ago she got cochlear implants. Her reaction to hearing her children's and grandchildren's voices for the first time was similar.
Software Zen: delete this;
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If he could talk, he'd be sayin' "Mommy, check my diaper; you aren't gonna believe what I just did in there!" 
Will Rogers never met me.
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I used to work on the technology for sea-to-air missiles.
I'll never get that time back to do something truly useful with it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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101% delightful. The nipper's face was joyful to watch.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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A little girl was sitting on her grandfather's lap as he read her a bedtime story. From time to time, she would take her eyes off the book and reach up to touch his wrinkled cheek.
She was alternately stroking her own cheek, then his again.
Finally she spoke up, "Grandpa, did God make you?"
"Yes, sweetheart," he answered, "God made me a long time ago."
"Oh," she paused, "Grandpa, did God make me too?"
"Yes, indeed, honey," he said, "God made you a little while ago."
Feeling their respective faces again, she observed, "He's getting better at it, isn't he?"
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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So I log onto MSDN to download some software and it seems they are giving away a Ford Fusion if you try out Azure .... then I noticed it wasn't a Fusion. Must be terrible that a super car is nearly indistinguishable visually from sub 20k vehicle.
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It does look quite a bit like the 2014 Ford Fusion[^] although the 2013 Aston Martin V8 Vantage Coupe[^] you can win on MSDN is only a 2-door.
Perhaps if you win, you can request to get the Fusion instead. 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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