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Really? I must confess I didn't listen to The Hobbit soundtrack all that much, but I don't remember it being so horrible.
I did like the Misty Mountains[^] melody and I'm pretty sure that theme comes back a few times on other tracks.
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It's not that it was "bad", it just had nothing going for it, in comparison. I never buy movie soundtracks. Had to make an exception for LotR. The Hobbit just felt like Random Soundtrack #632.
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The only way to put America first is to rename Afghanistan, Albania and Algeria.
(And possibly Åland Islands, depending on your collation.)
"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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Will it work if we put the number one in from of America (1 America/ 1 United ...)
Bryian Tan
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Not if I use the SQL_EBCDIC037_CP1_CS_AS collation!
WITH cte As
(
SELECT '1 America' As CountryName
UNION SELECT 'Albania'
UNION SELECT 'Zimbabwe'
)
SELECT CountryName
FROM cte
ORDER BY CountryName COLLATE SQL_EBCDIC037_CP1_CS_AS;
"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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Maybe we can make a new rule, count from bottom up.
Bryian Tan
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Then I'll switch to using a standard collation:
WITH cte As
(
SELECT '1 America' As CountryName
UNION SELECT 'Albania'
UNION SELECT 'Zimbabwe'
)
SELECT CountryName
FROM cte
ORDER BY CountryName DESC;
"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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A lot easier: Just put an underscore in front of it: _America. Done. You're gonna love it.
See, I'm better than Trump. Make me the president!
I'm gonna build a wall around my cubical and make Mexico pay for it!
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Bryian Tan
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If we're second, and America fails to get to #1, will that make us the #1 instead?
Or do we always stay one place behind America?
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Can always rename it [^] or push it in to Germany
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the any key may be continuate
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Why? After all Rammstein got it right:
We're all living in America, America is wunderbar
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* 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
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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If that is the type of sh*t we are wasting our government's time with, we are in serious trouble. Especially with this[^] becoming a real issue.
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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David O'Neil wrote: If that is the type of sh*t we are wasting our government's time with, we are in serious trouble Perhaps it is due to the difference in time-zones, but from here it looked like that for quite a while now. Mind you, the Eurozone is still beating you lot in terms of sinking. If there's an absolute bottom in this race, our bureaucrats will find it and they will drill baby
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I feel bad for the turd country.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: I feel bad for the turd country. The easiest solution is often the best; any other country can become a province of the Netherlands. That way only the greatest two countries would remain
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Yesterday, by mid-afternoon (local time) it was 65F (18-19 C). Lovely weather.
Today . . . we're working on 12" +/- 4 (30cm +/- 10) snow.
Am I getting a bit too political if I say this isn't even remotely normal?
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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 are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Cycles like that in the 90s made some of my best snowday memories (because the combination generally fueled heavy snowfall), along with one of my worst when after 3x 12-16" snowfalls in two weeks it went to ~60 for about a week and destroyed the massive snow fort I'd built to bluff the older boys across the street: Broad U shaped about 3x5' interior, 4-5' high, walls that were 4' thick at the base tapering to 3' at the top; but without a single throwable snowball behind the wall.
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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Sounds like the makings of a fortified igloo.
I was in Chicago for the "Winter of '79" - alas, old enough to need to go places and not play in the snow. So much, they found some still unmelted in a quarry where it was dumped - in August.
Such weather is absolutely unprecedented (in my scores of years) - not that the weather can swing over a period of a week or so - but in less than 24 hours, from record heat to below-normal temps. Oddly, the moisture's coming from the west; the ocean is to my east. That's the thing; there's more and more "rare" weather events.
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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 are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: I was in Chicago for the "Winter of '79" That was awesome, one of the very few times we had off school, and jumping off the roof into a big pile-o-snow was about as fun as it got.
"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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Do you remember the Trib (or Sun-Times?) had an iron-on for the occasion?
"I survived" and "Winter of '79" ?
Not only did I use it, but I still have the t-shirt (worn so thing it's almost transparent)!
Not being a kid, I had some really unpleasant memories about commuting on the EL from Rogers Park to Evanston, spending several hours for the few stops - and standing on the platform, above ground, in freezing howling wind, waiting for the transfer. Those heater's didn't do much.
Memories (! or ?)
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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 are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Don't recall the iron ons, the only ones I had at the time were KISS ones (hey I was in my early teens). But I do remember the political fallout for Bilandic (I had to sneak politics in somehow ). Ah `79, back when winters were winters (as an avid ice fisherman, I am lamenting the lack of ice around here currently).
"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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W∴ Balboos wrote: That's the thing; there's more and more "rare" weather events. I've read that in reality weather patterns across the globe have been in a rare "calm" for the last century or two. That things are only now returning to "normal".
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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