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Quote: They were acquired by the Narrow Angle Camera on the Rosetta satellite, which had dropped the little robot towards the surface of the "ice mountain".
I find it difficult to take that sentence seriously, maybe it's just me
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In other news, The landing knocked the comet out of its current course and will now make impact with the earth 42 years from now wiping out all life on earth. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I have to wonder if the lander would have bounced off the comet if it hadn't come up against that cliff....
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I think he put so much into the Philae landing cartoon that he needed a rest!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You call it rest, I call it sedation
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Or eLead poisoning from his eInk.
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I tried to install VS2013 update 4. I got (among others) a really helpful error message:
kb2829760
Incorrect Function
Really useful - a bit like the sort of error message you'd get from a Vic20 circa 1980: something has gone wrong, but we're not going to tell you what.Should have just said "illegal operation" and have done with it.
So on to the next logical step, Google the KB article and see what the beef is. The Article[^] describes some Knowledge Base stuff, but doesn't really address the my problem. Fair enough - not what I'm looking for.
Then I notice the "Give feedback" section.
Question 1 is fine: "Was this information helpful?".
But then MS pulls a doozie "How much effort did you personally put forth to use this article?" 
Setting aside the weird 18th century phrasing, how much "effort" am I expected to personally "put forth" into "using" the article? Buy it dinner? Compose it a sonnet?* Seemingly implied in this question also is a judgement call - I assume MS is going to give less weight/ignore feedback from people who personally "put forth" very low effort. I read the article - found the information didn't help me, probably wouldn't help anyone. Reading it was almost no effort at all, except energy spent on eye movement an a tiny bit of brainpower in a tiny brain.
* This May have formed a large part of my general feedback.
tl;dr - Developer irked at Microsoft Feedback question.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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I used to love the MS QuickC errors: "Unknown error" was always helpful, I felt...
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OriginalGriff wrote: "Unknown error"
Lucky you. I used to lie awake just dreaming of getting an unknown error. You were a lucky, lucky man to know your error was unknown.
I remember when all we had were the unknown unknowns.
Microsoft SlowC Runtime error:
Unknown unknown error. Processor has halted execution, registers have corrupted buffers and you've gone completely GPF 0x0003FBEF 
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At least with BASIC you got the message ERROR AT LINE 42.
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And then they broke it by removing line numbers....
In all seriousness, there WAS value in having line numbers.
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It is a company staffed by morons.
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Keith Barrow wrote: But then MS pulls a doozie "How much effort did you personally put forth to use this article?" 
This could apply to most questions and answer in the QA section!!!
I'd rather be phishing!
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Actually, I might start using it as a response, if I ever decide to darken Q&A again.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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You couldn't darken it, some of the questioners are holding DarkLightbulbs over their heads these days...
Heck, Beiber and Wand Erection together would raise the average IQ over there sometimes.
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I've often wondered about the concept of "negative IQ": Someone who is so stupid that they reduce the intelligence of everyone in their presence just by trying to communicate. If they talk long enough everybody in the room turns into a drooling fool!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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It's not a concept, it's reality.
You clearly haven't spent too much time in meetings... 
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Trust me - I've had my share! 
To be fair, I've worked a lot at science based establishments, with lots of scientists and engineers. They have their quirks but, for the most part, they have functioning grey matter.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Even then the old adage applies: "The IQ of a committee is the IQ of the brightest member divided by the number of participants"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Aah, committees: No doubt the impetus behind "The Mythical Man-Month".
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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You need to cast the spell "Illuminati de Error". Once you do this, you should be able to go back into your game panel and see the magically revealed error message, with true cause.
Please note, this is only available to level 90+ cloth casters.
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Keith Barrow wrote: "How much effort did you personally put forth to use this article?"
I can understand why that upset you; that is such an obscurantism of what was obviously intended, which was to ask you:
"To what extent did you wax wroth trying to use this article ?"
Secretary: "The Dean is furious. He's waxing wroth."
Quincy Adams Wagstaf [Groucho]: "Is Roth out there too? Tell Roth to wax the Dean for a while."
Movie "Horse Feathers," 1932 [^]
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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Wish I could upvote twice: once for "wroth" and another time for the Marx Brothers quote.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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So some litchen walks into a party.
The host asks him if he wants a drink.The litchen says no and thanks and sits in the corner.
The host says they are going to play spin the bottle, again the the litchen says no and adds, "No I prefer to just sit here in the corner".
A drunk guy turns up and asks the lichen to a pint downing contest. The litchen refuses and says again, "No I prefer to just sit here in the corner".
Then, two really good looking Japanese twins arrive giggling and ask the litchen if it wants to dance. Again. the litchen refuses politely.
By this point the host is getting really annoyed at the fun-black-hole sucking enjoyment at the room, so he approaches the litchen.
"I don't get it", the host asks, "every time you've been asked if you want a drink, you've refused. We played a party game and you didn't want to join in. Then, absolutely smokin' twins, who were clearly into you, asked you to dance and you just sat here in the corner. What's wrong with you?"
The litchen replied "I guess I'm just not a fungi".
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
modified 21-Nov-14 7:04am.
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