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For a comparison of horses vs. cars, read Superfreakanomics[^] page 10++.
Levitt & Dubner make such colorful descriptions that you sometimes think they go too far. They do make a number of fascinating observations, though. I don't think I would base a Ph.D dissertation on the information they present (unless confirmed by other reliable sources). Nevertheless I believe that most of their facts are reasonably correct; only the presentation is made with a funny twist.
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they still arrive late, but now they tell you via app/electronic sign board
... of course not before though, only once they become overdue.
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... In ... Out? Rubbish! (7)
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Nope!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I was so tempted to say Hawkeye.
This space for rent
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I'm glad you didn't - it would have been wrong. So would Trapper. 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So tempting... The problem I have no time to waste on it (and it takes me ages to create one)...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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You should resist anything except temptation - Oscar Wilde said so!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Brexit? (Yes, I know it's only 6 letters but most of its proponents are innumerate.  )
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Nope.
And most of its opposition think democracy is fine provided it always votes their way ... but this is verging on Soapbox territory.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ah, I see it but I'll be late on parade tomorrow so won't answer.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Garbage (fill the blanks) = rubbish
What is the intended (fiance?) theme?
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You are up tomorrow! 
Theme? Whatever you want - it's broad enough to go several ways - or no theme at all, it's your decision.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No theme!?!?! What a load of rubbish! If you can’t come up with a theme we will have to trash your reputation and toss you in the bin!
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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musefan wrote: theme?
Dig up all the dirt you can an put in CCC 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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As a friend of mine always says "I like to count my blessings. Every morning I wake up and spend a few minutes locating the part of me that doesn't hurt."
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Our family doctor used to say that "after 40, if you wake up in the morning and nothing hurts, you must have died during the night."
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Yup. I have the morning handful of pills and then the nightly handful of pills + eye drops. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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Nurse: But, Doctor, he's still bleeding heavily !
Doctor1: Doesn't matter, he's got the latest Stent 3.884 feature enabled: ship him back to work.
Nurse: But, Doctor, he can't walk right !
Doctor2: What do you expect ? He's using an older version of DogLegs: that's open-source; the RC deadline requires we punt on upgrading that ... ship him back to work.
«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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I'll borrow that, I'll give it a new heading: Scrum, how it's really practised
Espen Harlinn
Chief Architect - Powel AS
Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsically doomed to fail. Edsger W.Dijkstra
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Oh, feel free
fyi: in 1993 I wrote a huge prototype Excel 5.0/VBA solution for BHP (Australia) to model the financing of construction and operation periods of power plants where there were multiple types of lenders (international, national). It ran on Mac, and PC. While I was paid (very well) for several months, and the result met the requirements, the person who hired me, and "pushed" this project got terminated for various reasons ... and the code, afaik, gathers dust somewhere.
«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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