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Ok, but my post was intended to alert people to an interesting programme, but I see I've caught the eye of the grammar Nazis
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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pkfox wrote: the grammar Nazis
Just don't mention the War!
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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And a salesman asked me "How do you think we keep the cars so shiny?"
I said "Polish?"
And he said "I'm sorry sir, jak myślisz, jak utrzymujemy samochody tak błyszczące?"
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Polish jokes.
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That didn't go straight, did you put some English on it?
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I think he asked if he could fondle your buttocks.
According to Do-No^H^H-Evil Translate, it's actually correct Polish!
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... I booted GTA V Online, and went downstairs to the casino to spin the wheel - and won the Podium Car: an Übermacht Revolter, luxury 4-door sports sedan. I was expecting another damn baseball cap.
Nice. (My previous "best car" was a Issi - I'm pretty low level ...)
"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
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I sprang for a bulletproof kumara which you can unlock after doing the first heist. Incredible car for the money - well worth it. Good performance and handling off and on road, 4 doors, bulletproof.
It's basically a subaru WRX with body armor.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I haven't done any heists yet, just a couple of the challenges (Stone Hatchet, Double Action Revolver, and Action Figures) - which along with the Stunt Challenge freebie and a 40% discount gave me enough to buy a penthouse (so I can get to my helicopter - also free - without driving across town with the griefers killing me every 30 seconds) and some slightly better weapons.
Still my counterfeit currency factory is piling up the greenbacks - though I've got to steal some more supplies very soon. Then I got to delivery the stock, which ... could be difficult ...
"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
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OriginalGriff wrote: Still my counterfeit currency factory is piling up the greenbacks
Where have you been? Twice, within the last 6 (?) weeks, the motorcycle club businesses sales have been paying 2x the usual amount. Usually you only get those once every few months, so it'll be a while until these come into effect again.
Bunker sales have started paying 2x today. So what was the last thing I did last evening before going to bed? Sold the content of my bunker... I swear, they decide what gets the double pay rate based on what I just got rid of...
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My bunker needs cash I don't have to get started - so I'll just have to build up what I can and work with that.
I was trying to do the daily objectives, since they pay well for 7 days in a row, and very well for 28 days in a row, but some of them I just don't have equipment to do ...
I'll get there, eventually. No hurry.
If I was higher rank I'd suggest a CP Crew - but I'd just hold everyone else back!
"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
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OriginalGriff wrote: If I was higher rank I'd suggest a CP Crew
Now there's an idea...I wonder how many CPers are playing GTA Online...
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I had seven:
- scope resolution operator
- after a label
- after an access control (wasn't mentioned)
- before a base class list
- after
operator? - before a field width
- before a constructor initialization list
But @code-witch mentioned "to escape strings and chars!" I haven't come across that, so is it something recent? Or a joke that escapes me?
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I think she meant that you should ignore them when inside a single or double quoted string.
Mircea
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I meant when you're parsing, respect quotes and escapes such that you don't interpret colons that appear inside strings and char literals incorrectly.
I figured you probably already did, but I was more just ribbing you.
Real programmers use butterflies
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global scope operator, as in ::foo (basically a case of #1)
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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The tears are extra salty.Quote: Lonely nation: 2 in 3 Americans feel more alone than ever before, many admit to crying for first time in years [^]
While I was a weeper in my twenties ... well, histrionics were tres chic in the '60's ... I seemed to have gone dry after that.
Sixteen years ago, in the most intense part of radiation/chemo, I was at home, and, as a thunderstorm came up, I felt a catharsis coming on ... at last, I thought, i'll have a good cry, and feel a lot better ... just as I teetered on the edge of pathos, a Thai talking lizard (tookay) bellowed his nocturnal mating call [^] which can, and did, sound a lot like "fcuk you"
So, I just crawled back to my neuroses, unpurged, reminding myself that "those whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad."
Tookay: don't try this at home: the powerful, hard to escape from, bite carries a risk of severe infection: [^]
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Glad you pulled through 16 years ago.
And that tookay looks like a komodo that's no longer a juvenile!
EDIT: The second last link is a tokay, a type of gecko. I was referring to the last link!
modified 29-Apr-21 15:43pm.
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Bill's post mentions 2/3 while yours has 31% always/often/some of the time for the US, so which is it?
The Netherlands is at the bottom of the graph
But then of course I'm in the wrong statistic, so it doesn't really matter
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Sander Rossel wrote: so which is it? Exactly.
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I have noticed as I have gotten older I have become a bit of a softy. I don't think it has anything to do with COVID. I think it is more that I appreciate people and events at a deeper level than I did when I was younger. I think I live deeper too.
But then again that might just be alcohol talking.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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rnbergren wrote: I appreciate people and events at a deeper level than I did when I was younger Amen !
Perhaps there's a pendulum-swing effect where the histrionic ripens into ... on the outer levels ... less emotional display ? While the habitually less effusive ripen into more outer lability, more expressiveness ?
I think we need to distinguish sentiment from empathy, and, for any given individual, there are such complex factors that shape temperament, generalizations are weak.
imho, any way we get to compassion is a blessing.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Quote: rnbergren wrote:
I appreciate people and events at a deeper level than I did when I was younger
Amen !
C'mon guys, don't drink the Kool-Aid: it's the testosterone level going down
Mircea
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