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Watched a documentary on Stan Lee last night, "With great power." He's 90 years old and was in his late 80s when this was made. And the guy is still a live wire.
Someone asked him about retirement and he said most people retire and say, "Now I can do all the things I enjoy." Stan followed with, "But these are the things I enjoy! Don't punish me by making me retire."
The guy is 90 years old and still a force of nature. Even if I hadn't grown up reading Fantastic Four, Spiderman, et al, he would be one of my heroes for this reason alone.
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LOVE IT!
Can't wait to hear of the , , , , and, hopefully, the responses from the Retiree!
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Ohhhh you bastard!
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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that's hilarious but evil. You better do something really nice for him lest the negative karma doesn't bite you....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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You're mean! But that's funny, too!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I just received a Code Project Offers e-mail with the subject line "Kick start your career with new dev skills".
I read it as "Kick your career in the balls".
Where's my resume...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: Kick your career in the balls
Been there, done that.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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When I read the subject, I thought that CodeProject was now offering e-mail addresses, an in <yourname>@CodeProject.com.
Thoughts anyone?
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This sounds like a good idea.
Added bonus that CodeProject is Canadian, and assuming that their servers are physically located in Canada, would be less easily compromised by the data snoopers from the NSA and FBI.
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In theory, the FBI is limited to the borders of the U.S. The NSA charter is to monitor global signals intelligence, so the Canadian border means precisely dick.
Software Zen: delete this;
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My ISP intercepts all online searches or just the ones that google don't find and pops up their own search page. Rather annoying.
So if you tell me the traffic going thru my ISP is not monitored in some way or form.......
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For us Americans, it would make the email MORE likely to be snooped.
In theory, domestic internet traffic cannot be datamined without a warrant. To get around this, the various spying agencies have been rerouting domestic internet traffic to various foreign locations, datamining it there, then routing it on to its destination. Traffic that is actually international does not need to go through this ruse, as the US courts have held that data which crosses a border is not protected, even if that traffic is intercepted within US boundaries.
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Bags bob@codeproject.com
speramus in juniperus
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Gary Wheeler wrote: Kick your career in the balls
That must have hurt
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Whatever you're drinking, it's time to share.
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Sorry, but due to federal hazardous material handling guidelines, my coffee can't be transported across state lines without prior EPA approval.
Software Zen: delete this;
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That's gotta be one badass coffee cup.
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Hampstead shoppers slam Tesco after organic porridge oats disappear from store
What's worse is that they have to live in Hampstead!
speramus in juniperus
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This headline[^] caught my eye in the More News section. I have no clue what it is about, but I couldn't help but click on it...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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It is one story you shouldn't smile about. The stupid bint was in charge of social services when a child, they were supposedly protecting, died in the most horrific way at the hands of her mother's boyfriend.
Ms Shoesmith does not deserve a penny for letting that boy die and yet she's been rewarded with a 'six figure sum'; purported to be around £250k.
speramus in juniperus
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She has been rewarded because she was scapegoated in the most blatant and stupid way by people trying use her to deflect all other blame.
It is one of those situations were nobody involved at the time deserves any credit at all, and their actions since have made everything worse.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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I agree she should not have been sacked.
She should have already resigned. It was her job to oversee children's safety, she was responsible for the dysfunctional department. A scapegoat would have been the social worker or the team manger, but not her. Sharon Shoesmith was paid a very high salary and with it went the responsibility. She failed and should not be rewarded, it is a travesty.
speramus in juniperus
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It is, but it is the failings of others that have led to this situation.
What is legal does not always equate to what is moral.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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ChrisElston wrote: It is one of those situations were nobody involved at the time deserves any credit at all, and their actions since have made everything worse. Agreed.
However, when the only one of the bunch who was even lightly punished gets rich from it, what message does that send?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Agreed that the story shouldn't be smiled at but I don't think Ms Shoesmith should be vilified in the way she has.
The reality is, the case didn't cross her desk until Baby P had died, the social workers that were in charge of the case had already undergone disciplinary procedures (blame the fact they weren't sacked on the mindset of 'public servants' anyway) and Ed Balls wanted to make himself look good so announced that he was taking action to sort the situation.
The inspectors that went into the branch were under instructions to ensure that a result could be delivered by Balls and a number of them disagreed with the way that the NHS and police were absolved of blame while all the fault lay with Ms Shoesmith. She'll likely never work again so some political point scoring could take place and I think that alone deserves her some sort of recompense.
Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
modified 31-Oct-13 8:40am.
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