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Something that's illegal in 17 of the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Norway, Lichtenstein, and on the island of Guam?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Hi All,
Semi-moan against the lack of good quality business cards and surface mount components. I went to meet an agent (?) yesterday and was given one of her business cards. Good quality card stock (0.53 mm thick!) now I need to remember what I needed a 0.55 mm shim! I know in these digital days such things as business cards are irelevant but can get retasked. My big bitch is about surface mount PCB's some times they are designed to be hard to fault find, impossible to repair, or your repair causes more damage than was present in the first place. This is at odds with the current culture of repair and reuse and no one seems to be taking issue with it. I seem to remember there was a bill placed in the US house of representives about the right to repair, I wonder how far it got?
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Current culture of repair and reuse seems to apply to things like furniture, clothes, but not to electronics where cheap Chinese imports along with the speed in which things become obsolete make things too cheap to be worth repairing.
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Yeah, but has anybody thought about the actual damage done in China and the fact that the planet is running out of Aluminium, Tantelum & other stuff, dumping the bits once all the 'useful' stuff has been removed...
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Of course not, out of sight out of mind.
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glennPattonInThePubAGAIN wrote: the planet is running out of Aluminium
That is why you must always recycle your empty beer cans so they can be melted down and turned into more beer cans. The energy required to recycle aluminum is tiny compared to amount required to smelt it from bauxite. Anything that I can do to make it cheaper to make more beer is a win-win in my book 
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Why does that bring to mind the Simpsons episode where Lisa is recycling nuts and Homer has to make the Duff cans recyclable (ie. drink them)! The classic line 'Ooh Gee Honey, Daddy can't recy-' as he falls off the chair...
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Thousands of old electronic items are sent to China every month so there is a fair bit of recycling - so not only they wreak environmental hell getting the stuff to us in the first place, but then it goes back and happens again and again.
Why china and not the local places: Biggest factor is use of super harsh/dangerous/polluting chemicals/methods to extract the 'good bits.' Next biggest factor is the tons of 'not good bits' left over.
But of course China is in the WTO (at USA's strong insistence), so surely it's not that bad - or was it always the plot to shift consumerism problems out of sight, out of mind.
(Or as they say translated English -> German -> English: 'Invisible Idiot.')
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the "Any" key may be continuate
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As the we Brits would say :'Not In My Backyard' or NIMBY...
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You're a hundred years too late to start worrying about countries being wasteful, except, perhaps, for the current phenomenal wastefulness of fossil fuels and other irreplaceable resources in the USA -- maybe you should start complaining about that.
Something about casting first stones always comes to mind, when discussing East and West.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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True, but I find it a pain why X stops working, I think oh thats probably Y component take blessed thing to bits and find the board not repairable via design...
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We bought a refrigerator a few years ago, a year after said purchase the ice maker crapped out. Called to get a replacement and got the 'it's not worth repairing, just get a new frige' response, arrrrg!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Me being Me, I would take the b*gger apart when I had time also I would look up (via boob tube & uncle Google) to see if it is a common fault and possible fixes... 
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Felmax - Chapel[^]
The REAL SOTW this time (although it's not as cool as a veggie orchestra).
Last week was a club/party/electronic music week for me.
It's been a while since I listened to that kind of music as much as I did last week.
This track kind of triggered it 
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So I had a birthday (one of so many) a month before. That very day I got home near to midnight so it was obvious there will be no party, but time went on and no-one mentioned that I became an old frat...
But then, two weeks later, coming home to find a surprise part waiting to me. I got a fantastic cheese cake all made by my daughters alone...
And behold! Yesterday they presented me with a new wallet - bought from their savings! You may say a wallet is not that much, but think about it - they spent about 80% of their income combined on that wallet (two of them do babysitting so have some money).
It's like I was buying them a present worth of $5000!!!
I'm really moved...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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So give 'em both a big kiss - and buy them something each as an "unbirthday" present... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Open the present and check if there's any note left like :
"Fill it with 2000 bucks and keep it back on my desk"
Just kidding. I know what you mean. 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Fill it up with money and do first spending from it to buy something for them.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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You have two wonderful daughters AND you should also thank yourself: if they love you so much it is obvious that, at least in their eyes, you're a great father.
Cheers ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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den2k88 wrote: You have two wonderful daughters
Actually I have 3... and hell of macho son...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I poorly understood the whole post, my fault!
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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See it as proof you did something right.
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Well, as the comedian Red Foxx said:
Momma's Baby! - Poppa's? Maybe.
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Those are the moments when you get the answer to the daily question of "Why do I have to put up with all this [redacted]?" Mine too have a nack of finding just the right lever to make me smile.
veni bibi saltavi
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After work I'm mostly at that stage and then they drop a comment or two that's so incredibly sweet you think you will get diabetes.
Then they swear, I laugh, the wife scream and it's back to normal.
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