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As a Christian; tx, but no thanks.
Keep it.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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And for all the non-christians, Happy Easter. What Easter celebrates is for everyone.
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Wouldn't you have to believe that the events celebrated on Easter actually occurred for Easter to have any meaning for you? AFAIK, the events that allegedly occurred between the original Good Friday and Easter are central only to the Christian belief.
I'll stop here before I violate the "no religion" rule.
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: to have any meaning for you? No. Christ died for everyone, even those that do not believe.
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Yeah!
Here are some excellent examples!
This one[^]
Maybe this one?[^]
Actually, you can spend all day seeing how christians celebrated their 'god of love'.
ISIS could be said to have an historical role model.
Or, as an earlier poster put it: No Thanks !
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: ow christians celebrated their 'god of love'. Because they weren't Christians.
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I've always liked geography and I'm hooked on this game.
This is a cool web based game where you guess locations based on a google earth image (starting point)
There is a world wide mode where you have to guess location around the world (obviously) and it show me so many weird and fascinating places.
And by golly, the world is huge; when the starting point is in the middle of the prairies (USA or Canada).
GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!
I'd rather be phishing!
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I played a couple of years ago, and the best I got was "less than 2m" away IIRC.
Sometimes you get lucky - but sometimes you get a dust road in the middle of Australia, and that gets very dull, very quickly!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Quote: United Kingdom
The British Isles have been inhabited for over 30,000 years and been involved in everything from the Roman conquest to the British Invasion. It's also the poster child of fish'n chips, pubs and the weather condition commonly known as rain. God Save the Queen!
With drivel like this on the page I think I'll stick to picking oakum.
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Can you do anything on that page without creating an account...?
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The ups and downs of the temperature this week compared to the previous day...
Reaching 30 C and dropping to 11 C...
And my head exploding...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Quote: And my head exploding
That doesn't surprise me. It's enough to give you whiplash!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cool. The artist who draws that comic (Mike Peters) got his start in Dayton Ohio. He gave the commencement address when I got my bachelor's degree. I loved a story he told about a teacher who told him "Mister Peters, you will never get anywhere drawing funny little pictures!"
Software Zen: delete this;
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We were in Jerusalem at this time two years ago. I don't think the temperature ever dropped much below 20 during the day. And even warmer down around Tiberias.
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I would call this average
+ rain and snow every other day...
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two days ago we had almost 20°C during the day and 11 during the night and tomorrow we will have around 4 during the day and -3 during the night.
It is just April... (here in germany April weather is crazy)
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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You've got nothing on Denver. Two weeks ago we were close to 80 (F) on one day and the next day we had three inches of snow. Four days later we were back to the low 70s.
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Well, we'll have to ask the UTC[^] about that
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[major rant alert]. I use Google Maps a lot - for lots of reasons. Until earlier this week, it always opened to my home location, near Watford, UK. A few days ago, it started opening at a remote location - not even any roads - about 20 miles west of Aberdeen, Scotland. This is running on Chrome, Windows 10. After a lot of searching and googling, it transpires that it used to be possible to set your default location via Google Maps itself, but this is no longer the case.
Instead you can do this via Win10's settings. First you set "allow access to location", then you click "Set Default". Sounds hopeful. Except I get a non-standard, non-draggable, pop-up error that says "You'll need a new app to open this ms-default-location link". First off, I didn't click a "link", I clicked a button. Next, it doesn't tell me which new app I'll need. Further, there's a "Close" button on the dialog, but it's disabled. Clicking it does nothing. The only way to Close the pop-up is to click anywhere on screen other than the Close button.
So it seems that "Set Default" is pretty useless, at least without some "app" that MS doesn't tell me about.
Lots more googling. Seems it needs to use Microsoft's "Maps" app. So this is a Windows 10 setting, accessible and used by 3rd parties, that can only be set via Microsoft's own application. I thought that sort of thing was ruled inadmissible back in the IE vs Netscape wars?? Anyway, I uninstalled the Maps app years ago, shortly after getting this laptop. The default location has worked fine for at least 30 months, and certainly without putting me somewhere in forests of northeast Scotland.
So I google Microsoft Maps app, and I get a page that tells me it's Free, and has a big GET button, which I click. That opens (eventually) the Microsoft store "app" which has the exact same layout as the webpage, same info, and the same "GET" button - which I click. That gives me, eventually, the one word at top-left of the store screen, "Error". No diagnostics, no different options, no help, just "Error". I close MS Store and re-open it. Now instead of a "GET" button and the word "Error", I have "Install" and "You own this app."
I click Install. The "You own this app" is replaced by "Error" and intermittent circling dots (like the ones at Windows startup). Checking in Task Manager, there's no activity on the network, and CPU and disk are effectively idle, so it's not like anything's going to happen if I wait.
Eventually I close and restart the MS Store. Again, click "Install", get "Error", but this time "Install" is replaced with a button that says "See Details". Now it tells me that Windows Update is disabled, but that I can "repair" it by running the Windows Update troubleshooter in Settings. If it's disabled (which is it), why does it need "repair"?? I've been trying to disable Windows Update for years, following every piece of advice I can find. I still get nagged about updates, and I still actually get updates, usually at the time I least need them, and often end up with something no longer working that worked fine before.
I'm guessing that Windows has eventually decided this "version" is "no longer supported" (whatever happened to Win10 being the last version ever...?) and that as part of that lack of "support" it's now shutting down previous functionality (like supplying the default location to programs that ask for it). It's like MS have banished me to the Scottish woods as punishment.
Remind me how many billions of copies of this crap are running worldwide? How many trillions of man-hours wasted by people just trying to do the stuff they used to be able to do... How have these people escaped being locked up and the key thrown away...
(P.S. In the old days, the default location would have been squirrelled away in some Registry setting. I'm guessing it's not so straightforward as that any more, but if it is, can anyone tell me where??)
modified 4-Apr-21 15:45pm.
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