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Awesome tune, Mark Knopfler is an amazing artist!
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He sure is. This was one of the very first CDs I ever bought. I don't think I bought it right when it came out, but maybe in 1986. [No, that can't be right. That's 27 years ago  ]
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Dire Straits was OK and probably helped get him where he's at but I like his other stuff better.
Irish Boy[^]
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The Long Road[^]
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If only you had been listening to Manowar Blow your speakers[^]
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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SoMad wrote: Dire Straits
 Where's that downvote button.
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No like? 
/ravi
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Quote: Dire Straits
Veni, vidi, vici.
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This is what came to mind when I read the subject line:
Joke[^]
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Ok...That is not how I roll, but whatever floats your boat. 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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LOL, that is not how I roll either. It is something I heard recently and your post resurrected it.
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Never been a congressional page, then?
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The post subject is still displayed on the CP main page, so I guess the hamsters didn't read it that way (and it never even crossed my mind when I wrote it).
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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SoMad wrote: Driving to work, the volume got cranked all the way up to the epic intro of - Money For Nothing[^] Unforgiven II.
That's feasible?
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I was on the google homepage, and noticed the birthday cake with candles Google doodle etc.
I wondered who had the same birthday as me so hovered over the Google Doodle and the pop up said "Happy Birthday Dave!" clicking the doodle takes me to my G+ profile.
Nice feature I didn't know about!
Now, shame there is no beer  and also missing Mad Friday in Aberdeen...
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That mean you missed Google 100 years of crosswords doodle?
Happy birthday Dave by the way. ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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No loss there. I'm sh!t at crosswords!
CCC is a no go area for me 
The only crosswords I'm good at involve shouting at people when they have made a right elephanting mess of something. 
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That would read as 'FaceBook Post Of The Day'.
My son who is soon three and a half years old and has just learned to speak in full sentences this autumn and can't count properly without missing out number three (in Swedish that is, in German he's doing alright), just stumped me completely today when he showed me that he was able to read maps.
How probable is that on a scale?
Or is it just me that's having too low expectations?
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If he can read a map at 3½ that's pretty awesome, IMHO. 
/ravi
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In a way it is scary to see what is happening to the youngest generation who are exposed to all of the modern devices without any background explaining what processes the devices replaced and the problems they solved. Brings to mind some of Asimov's short stories.
Dave.
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Scary? Not realy.
My grandparents likely went through the same with widespread electric lighting - flick the switch and there you are, just ignore the power stations and distribution systems behind it all.
My parents the same with the widespread car ownership.
Ourselves TV probably.
The 20~30 group today expect (and get) a level of communications that would have required miracles and unbelievably deep pockets when I was their age.
The access to computing that the toddlers of today have will bring forth it's own future: hopefully we will understand enough of it to cope!
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For one reference, see Asimov's "Profession" in the book "Nine Tomorrows". I know there is another one. but I'm still looking for it.
Dave.
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Well, I certainly need to reread some Asimov. He had some brains.
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Still hunting for the other story. As I remember it, the title did not give away the plot, I just have to hunt and maybe the story title will strike a chord... Still faster on line than my 3 bookshelves of his books.
Dave.
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Found it! "The Feeling of Power"
Dave.
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I don't remember who said it anymore, but everything you learn before the age of fifteen is natural.
Between 15 and 35ish, it's new and exciting. And when you're above 35 (give or take) it's scary and threatening and needs to be forbidden, alternatively regulated.
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