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MarkTJohnson wrote: I built one to throw water balloons for my wife
eek!
First time I read that I thought it said 'at my wife'.
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Seems like the device was also used to throw cows.
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And a piano. (If I recall correctly.)
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Fetchez la vache! 
"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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Yes, I made one. It's a medieval weapon.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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These days it is easier to just jump in your car and drive it through the front door of your neighbors house that you don't like.
Of course just like the ol' days much smarter of you to convince another neighbor that you don't like to drive their car. So you take out two at once.
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Yes. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Yeah, it's the non forbidden version of the ballista.
You can fire boulders at your enemy, just not missiles made of entire trees. Some pope forbade it. Imagine, a huge crossbow on your ship, capable of firing a tree that been cut as a missile.
A trebuchet is a long shot, yes. Just less effective.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"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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That was interesting.
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Ironical
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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#Worldle #595 1/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
easy
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Windows XP and it’s predecessors did pretty good at recovering when an application went kaboom, however once every two or three application crashes the OS went down together with the app.
Multithreaded Windows is tougher, you probably can’t crash the OS even if you give it a try. Both 32 bit and 64 bit OS share the RAM with the app, the common dwelling means that the app can overwrite critical OS data, running on a separate thread shouldn’t make a difference. Does the 64 bit OS have some kind of memory backup in case things go wrong?
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I would think that apps and OS run in their own virtual memory spaces, making it virtually (no pun intended) impossible for a non OS process to mess with OS memory space. Add to that different process execution rights, with user apps having no right to mess with OS memory, then the probability of a user application causing a crash by altering OS RAM contents approaches zero.
Keep Calm and Carry On
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k5054 wrote: user apps having no right to mess with OS memory
This. User space vs kernel space. Drivers might still overwrite critical OS data, as they share memory with the kernel (that's why BSODs still occur), but a user-mode application should no longer be able to do that like they did back in the Windows 3.x/9x days.
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