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A perfect summary. It's CP's equivalent of the daily generic news:
There's trouble in the Middle East.
In America, the pro gun lobby think everyone who's anti-gun is a communist.
In America, the anti-gun lobby think the NRA is Beelzebub's toe-jam.
The English don't trust the EU
The EU think the British are silly
A former Disney child-star has gone off the rails
Some z-list "celeb" got drunk and did something stupid.
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You forgot the *BONG* at the end of each line. And the "On the Lighter Side" item at the end.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Dear god you're not wrong. I accidentally watched the ITV news and was both frightened and angry at world within seconds.
I kept watching out of grim fascination, the transition from death, destruction and disease to something amusing they found on Reddit about kittens was about as smooth as one of the wife's gear-changes when the clutch is bust.
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* Why some (name a technology) sucks today.
* CCC
* plz hlp
* some reference to xkcd
* The Merrens Space Flight Center
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There was a time when ham and chocolate statuses were daily events.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: There was a time when ham bacon and chocolate statuses were daily events.
FTFY
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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JimmyRopes wrote: Ravi Bhavnani wrote: There was a time when ham, bacon, and chocolate statuses were daily events.
FTFY
FTFFY
Ham was a thing on the lounge back before bacon was a meme.
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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Dan Neely wrote: Ham was a thing on the lounge back before bacon was a meme.
I don't remember that. Must have been before I started going to the lounge, or during a period of inactivity.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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That has never been, he's pulling your ham. leg.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I'm okay with it as long as he doesn't try to take my bacon or chocolate.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Dan Neely wrote: Ham was a thing on the lounge back before bacon was a meme.
/ravi
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That should be in reply to Bill's post. Mine's the generic news report of the day. Saves ever buying another newspaper.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Some z-list "celeb" got drunk and did something stupid.
I didn't know that.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: In America, the pro gun lobby think everyone who's anti-gun is a communist.
Actually, we think they're democrats, which is kinda the same thing.
I'm not "pro-gun", I'm pro-Constitution, which guarantees the natural right to own a weapon that will in turn guarantee I can exercise my other natural rights.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 7-May-14 19:26pm.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Actually, we think they're democrats, which is kinda the same thing. That's one of the funniest things you've ever said.
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Not much to memorize
Nagy - eats anything just fill in the blank
Dalek - drinks everything just fill in the blank
JSOP - Drive a mustang, but shots everything just fill in the blank.
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Corporal Agarn wrote: Nagy - eats anything just fill in the blank
Drinks Gin surely?
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I know, however the OP had eat so I went with it.
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"Become"? - What's the "become" for?
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Or...
Work in the financial industry for 25 years.
*twitch*
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Engines of War[^]
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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And don't forget: Amazon[^]
It's for the same age group, after all!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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That book should be banned.
It is telling children that if they have poor body image problems and they eat lots and lots then they will become beautiful!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I couldn't find this using the Search, so I thought I'd share.
Programming Sucks[^]
A few exerpts: Every programmer starts out writing some perfect little snowflake like this. Then they're told on Friday they need to have six hundred snowflakes written by Tuesday, so they cheat a bit here and there and maybe copy a few snowflakes and try to stick them together or they have to ask a coworker to work on one who melts it and then all the programmers' snowflakes get dumped together in some inscrutable shape and somebody leans a Picasso on it because nobody wants to see the cat urine soaking into all your broken snowflakes melting in the light of day. Next week, everybody shovels more snow on it to keep the Picasso from falling over.
There's a theory that you can cure this by following standards, except there are more "standards" than there are things computers can actually do, and these standards are all variously improved and maligned by the personal preferences of the people coding them, so no collection of code has ever made it into the real world without doing a few dozen identical things a few dozen not even remotely similar ways. The first few weeks of any job are just figuring out how a program works even if you're familiar with every single language, framework, and standard that's involved, because standards are unicorns.
You can't restart the internet. Trillions of dollars depend on a rickety cobweb of unofficial agreements and "good enough for now" code with comments like "TODO: FIX THIS IT'S A REALLY DANGEROUS HACK BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S WRONG" that were written ten years ago. I haven't even mentioned the legions of people attacking various parts of the internet for espionage and profit or because they're bored. Ever heard of 4chan? 4chan might destroy your life and business because they decided they didn't like you for an afternoon, and we don't even worry about 4chan because another nuke doesn't make that much difference in a nuclear winter. Can I get an "Amen!"
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You didn't try very hard. It's on page 3[^] right now, and it was in the Insider last week.
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