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Strange that you should mention it, but yesterday morning, I thought I had won an argument with my wife about how to arrange the dining room furniture...
...but when I got home later, the tables were turned! 
Ba-tish again! Don't go away, I'm here all week! 
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Johnny J. wrote: I thought I had won an argument with my wife
Unlike Tic Tac Toe and chess, and like global thermonuclear war, this is a game you can only win by not playing.
Johnny J. wrote: the tables were turned
By how many degrees and along which axis?
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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Quote: Unlike Tic Tac Toe and chess, and like global thermonuclear war, this is a game you can only win by not playing.
1. You can't win.
2. You can't break even.
3. You can't get out of the game.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Sure you can win. By not playing the game and letting them argue with reality instead of you. Getting out of the game is the easiest part if you never sign up for it.
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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Johnny J. wrote: it's because I missed my exit!
You must not live in Atlanta. In Atlanta, if one is about to miss their turn they stop in the middle of the road and wait for someone to let them over.
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You must not live in Pakistan, if you are about to miss a turn you turn anyways, if you've missed a turn you reverse and take another stab at the turn and people's lives.
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Wow. Ya, I have seen videos of other countries and it makes me want to visit even less. 
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Oh, visiting is ok. As long as you don't plan to drive yourself... 
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Johnny J. wrote: Oh, visiting is ok. As long as you don't plan to drive yourself...
or walk anywhere near the road or get in a vehicle.
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And I thought that most of the drivers here were monkeys from the zoo that accidentally were issued licenses and somehow got hold of a car. At least the police knows how to deal with them. A banana or a bag of peanuts usually does the trick.
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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Is the Pakistani test anything like the Indian one: Driving tests in India[^] or are they issued via Christmas crackers?
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I like how the test is performed on a public road instead. Here the test is performed within the premises.
It's a lot shorter here all you have to do is drive forward once on a winding road/path (edges defined by cones) and then reverse to the same spot you started from. Not as easy, since the path is always tight. However as in the video all you have to do mostly is bribe someone and get your license.
Even I don't have my license and I'm driving all the time  . After first fail I never went back! Guess I'm a lot better driver when I don't have to prove to someone. In 3 years never been in an major accident. Haven't even bumped after the first 6 months. 
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Abbas A. Ali wrote: After first fail ...
You probably forgot to include the required paperwork[^]
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You underestimate the licensing authority officers... They now go for a couple of these.
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I was in Egypt some years ago, and the guide told me how they (supposedly) manage driving tests in Egypt:
You go out into the desert and find an open, plain space of sufficient size. The instructor puts out 10 cones with sufficient space between. You then have to zig-zag the car between the cones, and if you don't hit more than half, you get the license.
I doubt it's really true, but given the way some people drive, I can believe that the majority of people in the western world have taken their driving test in Egypt...
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
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
modified 22-Oct-19 8:55am.
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... I go the whole nine yards
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Is that nine imperial yards to the metric mile or nine metric yards to the imperial mile?
I can never remember which way the conversion goes...
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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Currently there is a running challenge here on CP about Cloud based AI...
It has 10 days left and totally will be on for two months - which is a long time...
What I've noticed that almost there is no interest beyond the tutorial (which maybe because it gives you a $50 prize for almost nothing)...
Why is that so?
Do we don't like the 'cloud' idea?
Do we prefer other services than AWS used in the tutorial?
Or we just simply to bricked an old to (re)learn new/old tricks?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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AI AI AI Caramba!
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Personally, I'm just not convinced the cloud idea is a good one (handing your data over to total strangers in a different country and expecting it to be both safe and secure seems like going back to a centralised computer department to me, only worse) so I'm not that interested in learning how to do it ...
I think we need to fix some of the more evident problems with the web first, then consider data centralisation (security, identity, replacing HTML/Javascript with something real, that kind of thing).
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I was thinking along the same line - all the cloud idea reminds me the worst part of the mainframe experience... However, it seems, a lot do not even know what I'm talking about and far to lazy to learn history...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Yeah - but with the added fun and games of handing your data to a company that probably employs at minimum wage, and the employee security checking consists of "can you start Monday?".
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: and far to lazy to learn history...
They are probably doomed to repeat it then.
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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OriginalGriff wrote: handing your data over to total strangers in a different country and expecting it to be both safe and secure seems
First of all, you can get a local cloud. But the idea is that they are experts in security and hosting since it is all they do. It allows you to not have to spend time focusing on that aspect of business. If you think you know security just as well as cloud providers and you have the time to keep patching your firewalls and servers and such then the cloud may not be for you. But most people are not experts in everything.
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