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The Water cooler!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.1 Beta tomorrow (noun): a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored.
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Hold on somone just posted a video of a cute kitten, I'll get right back to you
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Indeed, dropped it for being almost a complete waste of time.
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Luckily time wasted here only goes to billions 
modified 19-Nov-18 21:01pm.
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That logic may be even worse than my Tiobe logic...
Time was wasted anyway, people now just do it on Facebook.
It's like the music industry.
NOT every (illegal) download is a lost sale!
Many people who download would never buy a CD anyway.
And so not every minute spent on Facebook is a lost working minute!
Those people wouldn't have worked that minute one way or another...
Well, I guess the article does mention it.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: How did we waste all that time before Facebook?
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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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FaceBook keeps some idiots I know off the streets.
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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You've got a long way to go, Code Project! 
Marc
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Compuserve...
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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To quote Casablanca: Here's looking at you, kid.
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TTFN - Kent
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What's the best way to bring Agile to your team? The answer depends on just what you want to transform. Yes.
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Neither. Both are too limiting; we need to be more agile than they allow.
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"We can't know what's in the software, until we've written it." 
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Have you gone into a project where the team says the only possible solution is to start over? "The best way out is always through."
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The service helps companies manage a massive fleet of embedded devices. Hackers' new one stop shop for IoT data
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Europe's highest court is considering whether every hyperlink in a Web page should be checked for potentially linking to material that infringes copyright, before it can be used. "What do you call 5000 dead lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "What do you call 5000 dead lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?"
A good start.
EDIT: Clarified post
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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HAHAHAHAHA The article says, and I quote, "[...] may well help the CJEU come to the common-sense decision [...]"!
As if any court anywhere would EVER make a common-sense decision
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The decision mentioned earlier in the article sounds like common sense to me:
Quote:
In that case, known as Svensson, the court decided that netizens didn't need a licence from the copyright holder to link to an article that had already been posted on the Internet, where previous permission had been granted by the copyright owner.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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This is such a tricky issue, ultimately I can only see anyone being prosecuted [if the law passes] if something is glaringly obvious [like torrent links].
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Any original work has an implicit copyright, whether or not the copyright has been registered. Does this mean that the only content that may be linked to (including links via Google) is in the Public Domain?
Come to think of it, given how much the EU "loves" Google and its tax planning, maybe this is intended as a Google-killer?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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