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I am happy for you 
I can't wait to see the pics
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Ya Gotta See The Baby!!!![^]
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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I'm with you. I had a colleague who left the company a little while ago. We were good friends and got along perfectly. But on his going away party he told me that even though he had loved working with me, he was very disappointed that I had shown no interest in the two children he had gotten while working at the company.
Excuse me, but I don't get it. So it's a big deal for him, why does it have to be for the rest of the world? What is so special? He has only done what precisely ANYBODY in the whole world can do and does every so often...
Another thing that pisses me off: I have to (indirectly through the taxes) pay for his paternity leave (and that of every other person, male of female who get children). I have deliberately chosen NOT to have any, why should I pay for everybody else? Let the people who choose to have children pay for them as well. That would be fair in my opinion.
Plus: For the next 18 years, he is allowed to stay away from work whenever he feels like it to "care for his children". Some parents may be ok with this, but I know some who deliberately abuse it (I have another colleague who's gone almost every other day, and NO children are that sick!). I of course have to work harder because they don't carry their workload... 
Rant over, anybody with children can flame me and vote abuse now, but I feel entitled to my opinion even though I know that not everybody shares it...
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
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: Rant over, anybody with children can flame me and vote abuse now...
Meh... the wife and I raised 2 kids and I agree with you completely.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Johnny J. wrote: Another thing that pisses me off: I have to (indirectly through the taxes) pay for his paternity leave
Well, his children will indirectly through the taxes pay to a certain extent for your sick care and pension.
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I don't plan to ever get sick or die... 
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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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: I don't plan to ever get sick or die...
Good plan please share how it's going.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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So far so good. I'll let you know if the situation changes... 
Reminds me of this inofficial MQOTD:
General Streck, German High Command: [talking on the phone] What is the condition of Sergeant Kruger?
[pause]
General Streck, German High Command: Very well, let me know if there is any change in his condition.
[Hangs up]
General Streck, German High Command: He's dead.
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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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Catch 22: “He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
Catch 22: Yossarian: He was very old.
Luciana: But he was a boy.
Yossarian: Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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So far, so good. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Quote: I don't plan to ever get sick or die.
That was my plan too! However, I have already failed the first part and one day will most likely fail on the second part - we all do.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: Quote: I don't plan to ever get sick or die.
That was my plan too! However, I have already failed the first part and one day will most likely fail on the second part - we all do.
I had the same plan and I'm proud to state that I won't fail, at least on the second part .... it is up to you to demonstrate to me the opposite 
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OK, you're on! First to not die wins...er, hang on, how do we know... Well, whatever!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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funny how fast such opinions change if (against all plans) you get your own baby...
I have the opinion (now ) that all those useless singles have to pay us parents for producing their pension and social system payers (Seems you don't know how expensive children are). 
At least where I live (Austria) we often hear that we have too less children, and our system will brake because at some point nearly everyone will be over 60 here. So I "decided" to be the stupid one to pay for "growing" new citizens, what you pay on taxes is nothing compared to that 
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johannesnestler wrote: Seems you don't know how expensive children are
My point exactly: You want to have children, but you don't want to pay what it costs. Well, I want a Lamborghini, but I don't want to pay what that costs, so maybe you can help me pay for it? Can't you hear how ludicrous it sounds? 
johannesnestler wrote: producing their pension and social system payers
Tell you what: You pay for your children, and I'll pay my own pension! 
johannesnestler wrote: At least where I live (Austria) we often hear that we have too less children, and our system will brake because at some point nearly everyone will be over 60 here.
I doubt that! Mankind is overpopulating and crowding the entire planet. At some time the eco system will break down because there are TOO MANY people and they pollute everything around them... The rate with which mankind grows is not sustainable by the planet in the long run (maybe not even in the short run).
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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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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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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2 kids, 4 grand kids and I still consider anyone elses kids little horrors. It also helps that I live in a different country to my children and see them only a couple of times a year so I think they are wonderful.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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if you don't love babies you just aren't cooking them correctly
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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How modest of you.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I can't disagree with anything you wrote.
There's currently over 7 billion people on Earth. They've all been babies at one point or another; some still are. It's been estimated that throughout our history, there's been over 100 billion people that lived and died. Again, that means 100 billion babies. Sounds more like an infestation than something even remotely "special".
I'm gonna stop right here before I start channeling George Carlin.
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chriselst wrote: I have absolutely no interest in other people having babies. I cannot fake interest. I am generally pleased (for them) that they have a healthy one, but beyond that.
You're not alone. It's a masculine thing, so don't worry about it man. The masculine men in the world are just wired that way.
chriselst wrote: Even more irksome is being shown a photo of a baby with half the innards still all over it and being asked "who do you think it looks like?". Well it looks like a f***ing baby, just like every other f***ing baby I've ever seen.
Jeremy Falcon
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chriselst wrote: "who do you think it looks like?"
"Boris Johnson?"
They won't ask a second time.
"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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At least that's better than Boris Yeltsin.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I wish you'd stop boring us with your lengthy diatribes about babies.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Children are fascinating. The way the learn and put things together in innovative ways. The most fascinating thing I saw was when my friend's son was 2 or 3. We had this game, where I would point to a surface and say, "What's that" he would look and then I would bash his head into it (usually a pillow) he would then do the same and attempt to smash my head into the surface. One day I pointed to a table and said, "What's that?" the gears ground away in his head and he made a novel association and began to cry.
It isn't the crying that was fascinating but the fact that he invented completely new knowledge right there based on two different types of experiences and applied them to a third unknown and derived what would happen. Fascinating.
As for liking children? Not really, they are way to messy.
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I actually do agree with you on that point. I believe if we studied children more humanity would better understand what constitutes a "genius mind." If the common man learns the most he ever learns in life within the first four years then there's a lot to be said about that stage before reality sets in to mold them.
Jeremy Falcon
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