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Oh, don't get me started....
When my kid starts asking, "why, why, why...", I go to:
"What letter comes before Z?"
"What's another word for a fork in the road?"
"What's a good place to learn to swim?"
"What's a way to turn a train around?"
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"Y is a crooked letter and Z is no better".....
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Cute! 
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Very nice ! Khun poot pasat Thai, dai mai, Khrup ?
Sawasdee Khrup, Bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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Thank you.
Quote: Khun poot pasat Thai, dai mai, Khrup ?
I tried to convert into English but failed.
Sawasdee Khrup, Sushil
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Namaste, Sri Sushil,
It's the same (and about as bad a phonetic transliteration) as saying: "Sriman, aap Hindi bolte hai ?" 
laa gone, Khrup,
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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Quote: "Sriman, aap Hindi bolte hai ?
Yes bill, it's india's official language
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Hi Sushil,
I lived in India on a (University of California) Berkeley Fellowship (graduate social science research) for a year, 1975~1976, perhaps before you could say "garam masala" (?), and my Hindi-Urdu is quite rusty I try and remember Hindi phrases, and Thai comes out, now.
I do have a friend here (in Thailand), who, if you asked him what India's language was, would reply: the only true Indian languages are Sanskrit, and Tamil; of course he speaks fluent Hindi, and reads and writes devanagari, like most Indians.
But, another friend, from Nepal, near the border with India, a blue-eyed (!) Brahmin, would say that Sanskrit, and the dialect of Nepali he speaks, which he feels is closer to Magadhi Prakrit than others (the language-group Gautama, once Siddhartha, Prince of the Sakyas, is believed, by many, to have taught in) are the "only" real Indian languages. I haven't asked my friend Ahmed, from Jaipur, a Muslim, whose family have been jewelers and gem-dealers for centuries, his opinion, yet
chok dee, Khrup,
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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Quote: I lived in India on a (University of California) Berkeley Fellowship (graduate social science research) for a year, 1975~1976, perhaps before you could say "garam masala" (?), and my Hindi-Urdu is quite rusty Smile | I try and remember Hindi phrases, and Thai comes out, now.
 I would like to hear your pronunciation 
Quote: I do have a friend here (in Thailand), who, if you asked him what India's language was, would reply: the only true Indian languages are Sanskrit, and Tamil; of course he speaks fluent Hindi, and reads and writes devanagari, like most Indians.
Agreed, Sanskrit is true Indian language but its very ancient & over the period of time new generation derived new languages from Sanskrit. They are so many spoken languages in india, you can say every state in india has their own language like Marathi, tamil, telgu etc etc. but hindi is widely used in India.
if you ask me my first language I would say Marathi[^] & then Hindi
Devnagari is the writing script of Sanskrit & its widely used india for writing their state languages like hindi Marathi nepali.
I'm not sure about the tamil language but it has different writing script, Abugida[^].
Quote: But, another friend, from Nepal, near the border with India, a blue-eyed (!) Brahmin, would say that Sanskrit, and the dialect of Nepali he speaks, which he feels is closer to Magadhi Prakrit than others (the language-group Gautama, once Siddhartha, Prince of the Sakyas, is believed, by many, to have taught in) are the "only" real Indian languages. I haven't asked my friend Ahmed, from Jaipur, a Muslim, whose family have been jewelers and gem-dealers for centuries, his opinion, yet Smile |
In short, there are so many languages in india & thousands of dialect of that language. we have saying here, After every 60km we have different dialect for the language.
By the way I'm impressed with your knowledge about languages you made me google about it
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It appears that I won't be using youtube, any more, because they won't let me view anything until I provide my phone number.
The expression "They can go %&#@ 'emselves" springs to mind.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: It appears that I won't be using youtube, any more, because they won't let me view anything until I provide my phone number.
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Ahhh, I hate it. I guess they recently started this thing.
Don't you have Gmail account? from that cant you log in to YouTube.
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Sushil Mate wrote: Don't you have Gmail account?
I've got a google+ account, but I use my Internet name and, obviously, no address or phone number.
This is requiring me to accept either an SMS or call to confirm my ID.
I can't see why a company in the States would need this, so they must be kowtowing to their NSA overlords.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: This is requiring me to accept either an SMS or call to confirm my ID.
I can't see why a company in the States would need this, so they must be kowtowing to their NSA overlords.
Even in India they ask for phone number to authenticate your account. Reason they gave, if you forget your password or account gets hacked its easy to regenerate your password through mobile.
any chance of having facebook account? 
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Sushil Mate wrote: if you forget your password or account gets hacked its easy to regenerate your password through mobile
It's even easier to just forget the account and create a new one. If there is no personal information stored in the account, it doesn't matter if it's hacked -- that's far better protection than handing your life story over to the NSA.
American corporations and foreign governments do not need personal information about me -- and they ain't gonna get any unless it's in My interest to give it to them.
I do have a facebook account (despite my having closed it several times), but that's been a lot less trouble to maintain since I mapped facebook.com to 127.0.0.1.
If google persists with cr@p like this, their sites will end up getting similar treatment.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: I do have a facebook account (despite my having closed it several times), but that's been a lot less trouble to maintain since I mapped facebook.com to 127.0.0.1.
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I've switched gears in the past 30 days, now prototyping a new Android client to call our existing .NET services.
Whenever I query for C# or .NET, Google brings me here.
Whenever I query for Java or Android, Google takes me to Stackoverflow.
It's much less distracting, and much less fun.
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. - George Carlin
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dexterama wrote: It's much less distracting, and much less fun.
That's one of the reasons I'm not active there: they seem to have had their sense of humour removed, and a vastly inflated sense of their own importance inserted. Probably where the sun doesn't shine. They seem to be obsessed with reputation and scoring points off each other, and don't come over at all "beginner friendly".
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OriginalGriff wrote: seem to be obsessed with reputation and scoring points
And this is ultra-different than here...
Two months ago a friend of mine that manages a TI shop near my house started a new Project (a small phpbb based forum).
When he asked me about ideas I suggested a few, mostly what I feel are the best things of CP…
But, at the end I had to tell him: be nice and accessible, give a good content, but the best of it all is to give the family feeling I’ve not found anywhere else in the Internet that one can feel here…
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I think you have it about right. Of all the sites I've found this is the one I am addicted to keep coming back to.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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OriginalGriff wrote: there are some reputation obsessed folk here...
The kind of reputation I am thinking of is problematic for CP. It is difficult to explain to my mother what I do and how I do it on CP such that I reached platinum level as a "Master Debator".
Clickety[^]
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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That's why I like this place - we have so many self confessed Master Debators... 
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Exact!
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