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You’re not joking to parrot all those old pirate cliches are you?
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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12.5%!
12.5%!
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Michael Martin wrote: no idea if they even have any policies let alone what they are
Democracy at its best, then.
I'm beginning to understand why every time Aussie politics are brought up in the news, it always seems to be about the population being pissed off at those they elected for some bone-headed legislation that just went through.
Maybe making informed choices at election time has something to do with it, maybe not--but what do I know, I'm a Canadian and we have Trudeau to deal with anyway, so apparently we're not immune the sort of thing that got him elected.
Oh, wait. Politics, lounge--soapbox. I'll shut up now. It's probably too late already.
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Not sure the Oz version counts as politics - voting is compulsory there, so they have to vote for something or face a horrible punishment: a AU$20 fine.[^] (about CAN$18)
To be honest, you probably save money by not voting, if it's going to take you a while to do it ...
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Michael Martin wrote: I'm expecting my eye patch in the mail shortly.
AAAaargh, right after ye send them yer eyeball 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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By the Great Ghu we are f***ing idiots and Queensland (where I live) is the worst, the party that absolutely could not win 3 weeks ago is now in power. You think the US is insane with Trump, Oz is just as bad with scumo (pronounced scum o).
Apologies for politics in the Lounge but MM started it! 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: f***ing elephanting
FTFY
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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megaadam wrote: Mycroft Holmes wrote: f***ing elephant![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing
FTFY
FTFFY
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere (or simply most of the atmosphere) is somehow sucked away through what I remember as some kind of tear or rip in the sky. Many (most) people are killed. A few survive, mostly children or teenagers. Temperatures plummet.
Anyone know the title of the book? I read it many, many years ago.
I think the book may have been aimed at a teenage audience and was by a French author or was set in France, although I read it in English.
The book was set in a contemporary timeframe.
**edit**
Added additional detail.
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markrlondon wrote: Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere (or simply most of the atmosphere) is somehow sucked away
Spaceballs?[^]  
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
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Hah, no.
The one I am trying to remember was supposed to be serious. Post apocalyptic survival and all that.
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markrlondon wrote:
The one I am trying to remember was supposed to be serious. Post apocalyptic survival and all that.
A "rip in the sky". Uh-huh. So you mean it took itself seriously, rather than it being "supposed to be serious".
Good sci-fi starts with a plausible premise.
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Feel free to give the book a full review when I eventually find it.
A "rip in the sky" is my non-technical description of what I remember from reading this perhaps 35 years ago. Who knows, maybe the author had a much, much better scifi-fan-satisfying explanation that I've simply forgotten.
That said, I seem to recall that the book was told from the perspective of its teenage protagonists and they may not have had access to any better explanation than what I remember. If so, that seems like an entirely plausible storyline to me.
Stuff happens -- it doesn't always get explained to those who experience it.
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markrlondon wrote: Who knows, maybe the author had a much, much better scifi-fan-satisfying explanation that I've simply forgotten.
One would hope so. I don't know about others, but I like having a bit of science in my science-fiction. Otherwise it's called fantasy. I can enjoy both, but genres are generally not interchangeable. Otherwise you end up with the last Indiana Jones movie, which as I understand it, people hated because they had come to expect supernatural elements from those movies, but got sci-fi instead in this particular installment. It's really hard to take genre and successfully turn it into the other.
markrlondon wrote: That said, I seem to recall that the book was told from the perspective of its teenage protagonists and they may not have had access to any better explanation than what I remember. If so, that seems like an entirely plausible storyline to me.
I'll grant you that, but that sounds like a cop-out and lazy writing to me.
Maybe people enjoy that sort of thing, but like I wrote - a sci-fi writer's gotta make some effort in giving a situation a plausible element, otherwise it's non-sense to me and I won't enjoy it.
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A wild guess, but could it be something by Paul Berna[^]???
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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Thanks, good guess, although I'm not sure if it's correct. From the Wikipedia article I can't see any book titles that would match what I read.
From what I can see, 'Threshold of the Stars' ('La Porte des étoiles') and 'Continent in the Sky' '(Le Continent du ciel') seem to have a future setting whereas what I read was set in the present era.
I'll investigate this author's books a little further.
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The Bible ?
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Nah, it definitely didn't have any mammoths.
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the spambots are unleashed upon CP
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Shhhh! They are still sleeping - don't wake them up ...
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Look one thread below. 
[edit]Message below cleansed: nothing to see here, move along, move along ... - OriginalGriff[/edit]
modified 18-May-19 4:51am.
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That's just one idiot, not a flood.
He's a script kiddie - he's been posting crap like that all week, seeing what he can get through. Some did, which probably means a moderation error rather than a load of Chinese spammers.
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In an effort to factor an LL(1) grammar I was about to write a function to get the longest repeated "substring" over collections of collections.
I hate this part of my code.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I'm surprised at how often that works
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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