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The poor planet will cry enough at some point 
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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And its tears will burn everything on their way
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?
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"Such work can identify mineral and energy resources and help assess the risks of environmental disasters, such as earthquakes and volcano eruptions."
or hit a magma pocket and cause a volcano... I seem to recall a cheesy sci-fi film about this... 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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They're due in St. Louis in 2 weeks?
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Hope it doesn't come through my basement when I'm working from home (In St. Louis). I'll keep you posted if it does.
Hogan
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Good luck.
As a side note you'll never have to worry about basement flooding!
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Mike Hankey wrote: never have to worry about basement flooding!
Lava, OTOH...
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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You live in St. Louis, Hawaii? 
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No. In Modi'in, Israel.
The local politics and security situation are already volcanic enough, thank you. We don't need the geological situation to deteriorate, as well. 😰
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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Yes, I've been reading there's been an escalation in the conflict.
Good luck, stay safe!
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Order me a kung pao bat when you see them come through...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Approx 6390 km to reach the centre of the earth from that point onwards.
Get reminded of Jules Verne's book.
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Imagine drilling a hole so deep that it takes 457 days, everything included.
Imagine drilling a hole so deep that it takes 20 years to finish, everything included - deepest hole recorded - Russian Kola Superdeep Borehole 1989 12,262 meters (according to linked article).
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Just as long as I don't have to use a vertical ladder to climb into it and out of it I am good.
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It's so they can hide their evidence quicker. 
Jeremy Falcon
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I know a lot of cavers who would love to rappel that.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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At the top of my list is corporate IT groups. What a waste of oxygen. I'm probably going to lose my contract. I was less than polite.
Years ago, the *local* IT group helped me create a VM to host our bug tracking tool. The tool loves nix more than Windows, so it was bitchy getting going. But it got done. Emphasis was on a VM so we could move it anywhere. Now I've used VMware for 10+ years and for basic VMs, it's butt simple. FFS, I have 8 sitting in front of me. But corporate IT being as anal and elephanting stupid as they are (if you're in corporate IT, I'll send you a free t-shirt), would not let me give them a working VMware machine, noooo, they had to create their own hyperV machine. Cause they were a Microsoft shop. Fast forward 6 years. They decided to standardize on VMware and now need to create a project to study my request and meetings and endless bullshit to make sure they model it correctly. Meanwhile, I'm trying to keep production running and releasing code, but don't let money get in the way of process.
All I want to do is clone a VM so I can &uck with it and have a retreat path. I'm cloning a production machine. It's not rocket science. A relatively bright junior highschool student can do it. It does not take a team. All I need is one admin to rename the clone and join the network. So, they closed my ticket. And sent me a survey. I was blunt in my feedback.
Meanwhile:
- lowes has their idiot chat bot trying to help me. Impossible to get to a human let alone an intelligent one.
- my bank has an even worse chat bot that is an imbecile. I'll be going to talk to the local branch manager, it will be easier.
- someone else is on my list
Seriously, if an asteroid was coming and I wanted IT support to run a save the world modelling simulation, we're all going to die.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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The Law of Conservation of Intelligence: The sum total of intelligence on the planet of is constant; the population is increasing.
EDIT: Typo
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
modified 6-Jul-23 6:25am.
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?? planet of constant can not by definition have anything increasing. I am sure you will have a comeback.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Fixed typo. 
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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What a difference a letter can make!
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Seen a variant of that, it was something like: The intelligence of a group of people equals the dumbest in the group divided with the number of people
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I know: The most stupid animal in the nature is a group of humans, the bigger the dumber
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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definitely at work here. They did some sort of re-org over the past few years and clustered people into groups of responsibilities. Now, to complete task A, I have to open a request, group B gets it, needs to coordinate with group C, then we need a Teams meeting to discuss requirements (copy a vm, this is hard? are you serious?), the meeting ends and the groups go back under their bushes.
Two days later, the request is closed with no explanation. In the past, we had a local IT group we could have a reasonable face to face with. With Covid, the manager disappeared, he may have retired. Of the three remaining, two have retired, and the last guy is likely looking for a new job.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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