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Space, the final frontier... 
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: Images of far distant galaxies are amongst my favorites. I wonder if humans will ever reach any of them?
Considering the time it took for one man-made craft to leave the heliosphere (let alone the solar system), I'd say it's highly unlikely we're ever going to leave our galaxy. So forget about the far-distant ones.
While Voyager 1 is commonly spoken of as having left the Solar System simultaneously with having left the heliosphere, the two are not the same. The Solar System is usually defined as the vastly larger region of space populated by bodies that orbit the Sun. The craft is presently less than one seventh the distance to the aphelion of Sedna, and it has not yet entered the Oort cloud, the source region of long-period comets, regarded by astronomers as the outermost zone of the Solar System.
(From Wikipedia)
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Considering the evolution of technology in just the last 115 years coupled with our lack of understanding of the cosmos, I have higher hopes of future generations ability to do what now seems impossible.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Well, at the very least, we'd need to be able to build vehicles that can exceed the speed of light to make it viable, come up with working hibernation or build generational ships and that's just to explore our own galaxy. Only when we can exceed the speed of light will interstellar travel become worthwhile.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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I finally have reproduced a customer's bug. And what do I get as the exception object?
$exception
This is not acceptable. Even more so because the '$' suggests I pay for it. Mexico perhaps, but not me.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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So the exception was returned as the name of a PHP object? Or another language that prefixes variables with '$' at least.
Unfortunately I can't think of an appropriate PHP joke this early in the morning, coffee hasn't kicked in.
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Nope. No PHP, fortunately. WPF, falling on its nose when trying to digest a form's XAML.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Ah, forgot that WPF/XAML uses the $exception object. Well, just need to parse that object then assuming you have access to the code. If not hopefully it returns the entire object and not just the string.
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It's just missing a resource. The original assembly has been split up into two parts for a better separation of layers and now it looks for some image resources at the wrong place. Nothing really complicated. It's only weird that nobody has noticed that for years.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Ransomware for dummies.
Pay me $$$ to fix the site.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Not a website, sorry. WPF missing a resource while loading a form's XAML, that's all. Thanks for the offer, but I will have it shot dead in a minute.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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A Taco Bell in Benton, Arkansas and that explains a lot. My wife's family is from there and she agrees with me. It's why lots of them have moved away.
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I prefer to receive the exceptional$ message
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After four years, the DBA finally got tired of having to follow the rules he set forth, and gave me Sys Admin permissions on our database servers so I would stop bothering him about toggling ownership on jobs so they'd run (or not run), and so I could run jobs with my own account (while testing) instead of using the service account.
I knew I'd wear him down.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Give him some gift! He earned it!
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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At last. Now you can rename every column.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: After four years,
would not have been easier if you had brought one of your weapons at work? Or does he have weapons too? 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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"Smith, Wesson, I and 8 rounds in the magazine vote for 'yes'!"
"Heckler, Koch, I and 20 rounds in my magazine vote 'no'.
That would not end good...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I prefer a 1911 in .45 ACP. 7+1 rounds of "can kill a truck".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Nothing against a good pistol, especially at close quarters. Outside a rifle gives you a good range.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Out of curiosity: what do you think of 10mm Auto?
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Ammo is expensive, the feds stopped using that caliber. Beyond all of that, it's not as big as .45ACP.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Agreed. I have a Kimber 1911 .45 ACP two tone. It's my daily, while my wife carries a CZ P01 9mm.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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