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You gotta love Garfield 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Today is reckoned as 24/7.
In case you have promised something to someone 24/7, then today is that day 
modified 24-Jul-19 2:20am.
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Black queen and French crown (5)
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EBONY?
E = queen (Elizabeth)
BONY (Bonaparte) French emperor
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Beret
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Yup 
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Do you get the guns too to fend off aggressive sheep ? 
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Only if they are In the Navy
(Watch 'til the end)
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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Absolutely buy that!!
I bet it comes with it's own secret facility inside a volcano that rises out of the water when needed. That is where you will escape in your helicopter when Lady Bond comes after you.
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Then you can declare yourself to be a new country and install a radio station that plays rock music to the mainland folks.
Sounds like a plan to me!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Wales _did_ produce the greatest band of the 80s -- The Alarm.
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Roger and I could buy it, move it to Lake Havasu, and defend ourselves from California.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: defend ourselves from California.
Brilliant
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You wont get planning for change of use.
All you can do with it is shoot at the French.
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And the problem? 
TTFN - Kent
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Too small, no skull shaped extinct volcano, no jungle. How am I supposed to use that for my evil plans, the ICBM launcher would take most of the living room!
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I started reading the books recently as I am too impatient to wait for the rest of the series, it is fascinating to read the level of detail that is missed in the TV series although the series does follow the book(s I have just started the 2nd book) very closely.
Corey is very readable, one of the better SF books I have read recently.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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They are indeed - but the TV series tells the same story but with bits of later books (particularly characters like Chrisjen Avasarala) being put in earlier to make it work more seamlessly. I guess the scriptwriters had the advantage of knowing where it was all going before they started writing which Corey didn't.
That they were both producers for the TV series help keep the "vision" ontrack, I think.
Yes, the TV missed out a lot - the third book in particular was very "rushed through" by the TV series, possibly because they knew they were under threat of cancelation.
Damn good SF books and TV though.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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I am pretty sure the 'Corey' entity was/is two of the proof readers/editorial assistants to George RR Martin for 'Game of Thrones' if you read them as I did side by side the writing style is very similar.
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