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[^]Quote: ... winner of eight Hugo awards (including an unbeaten record of three short story prizes), four Nebula awards, five Bram Stoker awards for his horror writing and numerous other honours. He wrote what is widely considered to be the best episode of the original Star Trek, The City on the Edge of Forever, was a consultant on Babylon 5 and was credited for James Cameron’s The Terminator - albeit after a lawsuit.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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We were all surprised he left without an argument.
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I just got back from a week vacation in Slovenia!
Awesome country, even more beautiful than I expected.
I've seen lots of mountains and forests, some gorges (like stepping in to the lost world), a huge cave (which reminded me a bit of Khazad-Dûm), some waterfalls, and an awesome castle that was built into a mountain wall.
I'm not really one to share vacation pictures, but I don't want to keep this small selection from you: Facebook link[^] 
Really recommended for people who like beautiful nature.
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Wow, those are great pics. Kudos to the photographer too!
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That's me and my Samsung Galaxy S7!
If you shoot a couple 100 of pics you accidentally make a good one once in a while 
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Sander Rossel wrote: ou accidentally make a good one once in a whil
Talk about change induced by world 2.0 -> Before : Photographer = person who has the know-how about exposure, light, placement, ... to shoot beautiful pictures. After : Photographer = person who is able to quickly sort out and select the best out of 40,000 pictures in a limited time.
Apart from that, I am no facebooker, so no way to check out the pictures, but the thumbnails I am allowed to see without subscribing look beautiful. Nice !
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I'm also not on FB, but clicking on the Picture shows you the full Image 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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OK, thanks, I just noticed the small "not now" link on the login popup window.
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Rage wrote: Before : Photographer = person who has the know-how about exposure, light, placement, ...
That still helps!
I think bad to average photographers can now shoot decent pictures while the actual pros can shoot even better pictures than they could 10-20 years ago 
Rage wrote: so no way to check out the pictures, but the thumbnails I am allowed to see without subscribing look beautiful
Just click the thumbnail
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Sander Rossel wrote: That's me and my Samsung Galaxy S7!
One of the best cameras ever, I have it too and it makes gorgeous photos.
I gifted the S9+ to my wife for her birthday (well, a couple of months early but since we're going to Paris for honeymoon we'd like to have a second high quality camera available) and it's even better, it adapts to any lighting condition and the optical 2X zoom makes easy to fix details from a distance.
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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Yeah, it's really good!
It was the best phone camera when it came out
I was really amazed by the first picture I took with it (which was in a moderately dark room).
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Beautiful
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Looks great indeed … 2 years ago I visited Bratislava (Slovakia … ),
for a conference and a project meeting … 4 days or so, and only in the evenings
we had some time to walk along the Donau, have a tasty beer …
Such trips are quite nice indeed ...
BR
BTW Last week I was wondering about SOTW,too ,
and by coincidence I was listening to a band from
+/- this area of Europe ... (a band from Austria …)
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Tachyonx wrote: I visited Bratislava (Slovakia … )
Me too! Been there twice, not my favorite European city, but it's nice
Tachyonx wrote: (a band from Austria …)
My favorite band from Austria?[^]
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Awesome pictures!
Really love the castle.
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
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Very nice. 
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Those are some nice views! I'm currently in Norway
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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Where are you in Norway?
I've been to the Lofoten myself, very nice!
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Stavanger and Sandness mostly; been visiting friends (the ones that took me to the Ghost-concert, and yes, the idiot then was me, so you and I met without saying) and they showed me around. A very green country, with friendly people. Been on a mountain, and took a "water bus" to a fjord. I'm used to public transportation, just not to using a bus-ticket on a boat.
The difference with the Netherlands is most obvious when you're standing in a line, waiting. The people on board were allowed to get of first, whilst the people who wanted to board simply waited patiently. Came back to the Netherlands yesterday, and there was the Dutch train-boarding proces again - people entering the train by pushing, even before the first one could get out.
Very impressive country; been online once in four days, just for a few minutes, and only seen two police-cars during the entire stay.
Lofoten is more North - but next time I'll drop a hint that I may want to see the Norwegian version of Texel
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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Eddy Vluggen wrote: the ones that took me to the Ghost-concert
Friends who take friends to a Ghost concert are the best kind of friends! 
Eddy Vluggen wrote: so you and I met without saying
WE WHAT!? 
Eddy Vluggen wrote: next time I'll drop a hint that I may want to see the Norwegian version of Texel
Say "hi" to the natives for me
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Going there for a couple of days next week, on the way to Croatia.
I believe Piran is on the todo list.
Any recommendations that I shouldn't miss?
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Haven't been that far down, but I can recommend the Skocjan caves[^] (biggest cave I've ever been in) and Predjama castle[^].
That's the closest I've been to Piran 
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Why would someone build a house in that location?
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I like backups!
Came back from lunch today to find I couldn't access the network shares on the NAS - the authorisation was wrong, and it wouldn't accept the passwords. "Odd," I thought. "It's never done that before."
Even odder, it worked by the WookieTab.
So I rebooted the desktop - and it comes back with a Win 10 screen I've not seen before: "Diagnosing your PC",followed by "Repairing your PC", "Rebooting your PC", and repeating the cycle a few times before deciding it couldn't fix it.
Damnit. Something stupid has happened.
OK, reboot to PE from USB, and "Hello AOMEI" - "Restore"
Currently on 63%, and hopefully all will be well shortly - I'd forgotten how different the WookieTab keyboard is!
Only hassle is that today was backup day, so I'll lose a few links and stuff, but nothing that actually matters, hopefully. I'm just glad this happened before I backed up, not after; that would have been wasted most likely.
66% now. Ho hum.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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