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What you did today

Gorth
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Sorry to hear that, majestic. Preventable deaths are some of the worst...

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Against stupidity we have no defense. Neither protests nor force can touch it. Reasoning is of no use. Facts that contradict personal prejudices can simply be disbelieved - indeed, the fool can counter by criticizing them, and if they are undeniable, they can just be pushed aside as trivial exceptions. So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self-satisfied. In fact, they can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make them aggressive. For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.

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    My sympathies, majestic.

    Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken

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    Prayers and Light to you and yours majestic

    The universe is change;
    your life is what our thoughts make it
    - Marcus Aurelius (161)

    :dragon:

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    With condolences, sympathies, prayers and light already given, you get some potatoe chips from me.

    Edited by Lexx

    "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die."

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    It's election day here in Tehran so I went out and voted first thing in the morning. 

    There used to be a signature here, a really cool one...and now it's gone.  

    Saw in the news that one of our lorries crashed on the way to our depot an hour ago. I got a really weird feeling to know what driver it is from just looking at the trailer.

    Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken

    It's election day here in Tehran so I went out and voted first thing in the morning.

    Hope not them extremist people. :>

    "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die."

    Thanks everyone.

    No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.

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    "Hope not them extremist people. :>"

     

    with "extremist", you mean the ones not going to bend over to the west?

    The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.

    Aaaaaand all of a sudden its 85F here and I'm sitting shirtless. Why cant I just live in Fiji? ;(

    We've had about 25C today, and it's going to be warmer yet tomorrow. It's frickin' May and it's already sweltering summer heat.

     

    Why can't I just live in the arctic? ;(

    Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken

    Come hang in Chicago where its now a crisp 9C. We can go sit in my garage and knock back beers. :lol:

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    It's election day here in Tehran so I went out and voted first thing in the morning.

    Hope not them extremist people. :>

     

     

    Definitely not, Lexx. Thanks for being a nice person! <3

     

    Also:

    Hassan_Rouhani_2017_official_presidentia

    We Won! To freedom <3

    There used to be a signature here, a really cool one...and now it's gone.  

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    Come hang in Chicago where its now a crisp 9C. We can go sit in my garage and knock back beers. :lol:

     

    Drove to town today to play PnP with my friends, it was about 27C according to my cars thermometer, and guess what broke off in my car? The tensioning bolt for my AC.

     

    Luckily, I had bought an extra spare part that I kept in my glove compartment together with a 10mm and a 12mm wrench so that I could fix it. I knew that Murphy would hit me and that I'd need spares, so I bought them. I'm just that damn clever. I'm pretty pleased with myself, can you tell? :lol:

     

    And we managed to complete two sections in the campaign wich netted us two levels in one evening. Then again, we'd gone 4-5 evenings without a single level since the adventure isn't built around experience points but "At this section the PC's get a level".

    Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken

    I have had some excellent work developments, I am moving into a new role as Product Manager of a really popular and strategic cloud based eDiscovery and forensics software product

     

    So my role is much more sales and business focused with the technical understanding. My work is sending several of us on mini-MBA training which looks very pertinent  8)

     

    http://reallifemba.co.za/about/

    "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”

    John Milton 

    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” -  George Bernard Shaw

    "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela

     

     

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    I have had some excellent work developments, I am moving into a new role as Product Manager of a really popular and strategic cloud based eDiscovery and forensics software product

     

    So my role is much more sales and business focused with the technical understanding. My work is sending several of us on mini-MBA training which looks very pertinent  8)

     

    http://reallifemba.co.za/about/

    Congrats!

    "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

    Thomas Sowell

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    I ordered a new laptop today. I considered switching over to Apple after what I read in consumer reports. According to them Apple laptops have an average failure rate of 9% after 3 years of ownership. Windows laptops (granted comparing one brand to many) have an aggregate average of 18% failure rate after three years. But after four years the apple rate climbs to 12% and Windows machines to 42%. Mine is 4 years old and has a motherboard and HDD issue. So i was liking Apple for the reliability but there are just so many limitations on SW compatibility. Not as bad as it used to be by any means but if you want something outside the Apple ecosystem you're kind of screwed. And Macs are very expensive. I was looking at the Macbook Pro but dressed up the way I'd want it would cost almost $2k. That is nuts. That would not even have a dedicated GPU and for me that is a must. So I opted to with an Alienware 13 R3. It has the i7-7700HQ Quad & NVIDIA 1060 with 6GBDDR5. It was a little expensive and I'm not loving a 13" display but if I had to make a trade off it would be in display size.

     

    It was quite a bit less than the Macbook Pro. Plus Dell offered $80 in rewards if I took their awful financing offer. 19% APR! That's robbery. It does have 1 year no interest. I'll definitely pay that off.

    "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

    Thomas Sowell

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    Yeah, that's the thing, you can buy a couple PC's for the same price as a Mac, so reliability is a bit of a wash. Plus Macs tend to lack backwards compatibility, so even if it lasts for 4-5 years, you will either need to upgrade the OS or get left behind.

    Working from home today, I loathe laptop screens but don't have a KVM switch here. But at least it's a calm day

    Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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    Luckily my laptop survived the first 3 years... ;)

     

     

    Thread getting a bit long, more stuff here

     

    :skull:

    “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
     

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