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Okay, I give: what, prithee, is the meaning, in context, of "cattle fasteners."
A reference to "barbed wire;" the sting of rejection analogized to being "cut" ?
"What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is he gave us a way of thinking about and taking seriously and thinking in a disciplined way about phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts.
Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett
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I'm thinking more along the lines of those thingies they attach to turn bulls into steers...
Good question; inquiring minds want to know! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Bull zips?
Cow buttons?
Moo velcro?
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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Good luck, if it's what you want I hope you get it!
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HR turned on the benefits enrollment portal this morning. Not only are the benefits they're offering unchanged from last year (confirmed via email earlier); but the total rate hike I'm looking at is 19 cents/pay for the vision plan. Everything else I'm getting is exactly the same cost to me.
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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Your lucky indeed.
In July they changed our plan and the rate only went up 50 cents per pay, however out-of-pocket/co-pays/deductible all went up.
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Some questions from a normal mortal:
What is a benefits enrollment portal ?
What is the cents/pay scalar ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Rage wrote: What is a benefits enrollment portal ?
It's an internal website with delusions of grandeur that allows you to pick and choose among selectable/optional benefits. ex healthplans A, B, C, or I'm Getting My Coverage Elsewhere (Military Veteran, Spouse's Employer, Obamacare exchange, etc)? If I want a vision plan that offers discounts in designer glasses frames or not. Who the beneficiaries for my employer paid life insurance policy are, and do I want to buy more coverage than the minimum my employer is offering?
Rage wrote: What is the cents/pay scalar ?
Depending on how what you count my premiums are ~0.6% or 2.2% of my pay; with the difference being the amount I'm contributing to a non-taxed savings account to cover my share of health related expenses as a sweetener for taking a plan with lower premiums that has a higher minimum amount of expenses I have to pay before it kicks in. (This option is a good choice for someone who is young and healthy since it allows accumulating a fund for future expenses; but is more questionable for people with larger expenses.) My employer covers the majority of my health insurance as part of their total employment package; and if I was also buying coverage for a spouse/children I'd be paying substantially more because they cover a lower share of that part of the plan.
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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OK, very clear, thanks. 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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You're good to go until after the 2014 elections then it may be a different story!
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eh.
I know in advance who will win. Professional politicians; ergo it cannot but get worse. 
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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Dan Neely wrote: Everything else I'm getting is exactly the same cost to me.
You must not live in the US. 
Marc
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Noone was more astonished than I was that the price on my health coverage didn't budge than I was.  HR had indicated that some parts didn't see any increase and that the largest increase was below the national average; but I honestly figured that the 0% would end up only applying to dental or vision since both of those have much lower rates of price growth.
My employer's plans are on the generous side; so unlike a lot of people there probably weren't any major bumps from from being forced to expand coverage to things that they previously did not.
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 listen mostly to classical music, and have ripped a bunch of my CDs to listen to in my car via USB, or on my Sony tablet. The CDs were ripped using the MS standard tool to WMA.
However, I have encountered a problem. When the CDs are ripped the file name starts with the track number from the CD. Both devices play the tracks in alphabetic order from the track IDs and ignore the sequentially numbered track title. As a result, if I play, for instance, a disc-rip containing three Mozart piano concertos, they both play all the adagios first, and end with all the prestos - not how W.A.M intended.
I call this the Eric Morcambe syndrome - all the notes, but not necessarily in the right order (see the Lounge passim). I don't know what Andreas Ludwig Prewin would call it - something much ruder, I suspect.
Does anyone know a utility that can batch edit a rip the replace the track ID with the track title? I would be exceedingly grateful, and might retain my sanity* and constrain my road rage.
* What little is left, at least.
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Nice! I'd never heard of this before. I generally don't have problems with music CDs, but I've been ripping a lot of audiobooks lately. Looks like just the thing.
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Why "picard" ? Apart from a region in France - well, its inhabitants - and a star-trek captain, what other meaning does it have ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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According to their page, it is named after Captain Jean-Luc Picard from the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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 So ... indeed Star Trek.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Very many thanks for that. I shall check it out ASAP.
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Welcome! They also have a standalone one for Windows called Magic MP3 Tagger[^] and other OS versions.
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Chris C-B wrote: Does anyone know a utility that can batch edit a rip the replace the track ID with the track title?
If you add the CD Title before the Track ID, you would have all tracks grouped together and playing in the right order. If your current filename format is this "Track # - Track Title.mp3", you can easily use Bulk Rename Utility[^] to rearrange them.
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Or simply use TotalCommander.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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I use EZCD Audio Extractor from poikosoft: http://www.poikosoft.com/[^]
You can directly format how you want the filename to be generated, as well as the folder structure.
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Picard does the same thing. It also downloads ID3 info and images from the web to store in/with your songs if they are incomplete.
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