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The anti-nowhere league might sum up my attitude to Christmas but since this is the lounge and I like pretty much anything by Bach I will go for: J.S. Bach - Christmas Oratorio BWV 248[^]
(his Easter music[^] is much better by the way)
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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"Zombies" by the Cranberries and the one-and-only Dolores O'Riordan.
"What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is he gave us a way of thinking about and taking seriously and thinking in a disciplined way about phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts.
Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett
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I forgot all about that song, it is awesome!
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Bulgarians are actually still quite the pagans when it comes to old traditions 
Pretty Milka[^]
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Most of what goes for culture in the UK nowadays is fairly poor.
If, when Bulgarians start moving to the UK next year, they bring some of their culture I will be more than happy to welcome them.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Yeah, I'm afraid the most likely group to move will be ethnically not quite bulgarians. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
edit:
Besides, some of Them[^] apparently moved to Scotland long time ago
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Sitalkes wrote: Not that there is anything wrong with that
I'm feeling some ambiguity in that sentence.
Are you referring to the fact that they're not really Bulgarians, or that they might be moving? 
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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Nope, I meant that the most mobile and likely group to move in large numbers would be the Roma minority. They have different cultural traditions, not that there is anything wrong with that.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Leroy The Redneck Reindeer[^]
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Pure gold!
With mullet an'all
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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To answer properly, it's probably "O come Emmanuel". (That's probably not the official name). You can sing / hum it in an echoey chamber and it's amazing.
Someone mentioned the Pogues, but there's an anemic SV set of lyrics to the same tune. I can't imagine it translating to Kirsty berating the toothless croaker about his faults.
I bought the Sanna Nielsson Christmas CD a few days ago - Some really good singing, mixed with the odd murdered cover. She just can't do high notes.
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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Christmas Eve in Sarajevo
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A Christmas Carol[^]
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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Wizards in Winter - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
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See this[^]
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I really hope not. Copyright law I think protects it as much as it possibly can, if we get into patents then where does it stop? Patenting an "if" statement?
I can't see this going very far. How would the reviewer check the validity of the patent? They would have to be programmers themselves.
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It's about damn time.
Hopefully something useful will come about from the decision rather than something to complicate software patents even further.
To know and not do, is not yet to know
http://www.codeofthedamned.com
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Software patenting has it's uses but like everything else has been taken to extremes.
I wonder if this has anything to do with trying to put a stop to patent trolling?
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Lawyers and judges don't know enough about this stuff to render decisions that are sound.
They get SuperAntiSpyware and wonder why. 
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No; it's a written work, not an invention.
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