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You are very unfair, sir. 
--The Inuit People
Veni, vidi, vici.
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I've just started watching the second season of House of Cards, and once again, it's Macs as far as the eye can see.
The constant product placement is getting under my skin.
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It all comes down to money. Show a product in a show and it's advertising. Does the company want to pay to have their product shown in the show?
If you've seen Elementary in the U.S., you've probably noticed that Microsoft is sponsoring a few of episodes of the show with product placements for Surface.
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Product placement discussions always remind me of Repo Man[^]. 
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It angers me as well when in Zombie movies they don't follow George Romeo zombie template. Bast-rds.
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I think it's a matter of sponsorship. For example, Arrow[^] (yes, I know it's a TV series, not a movie!) has Windows 8 on every single computer.
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- Homer
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Because they don't want to have to pay licensing fees and/or the companies don't want to pay for the product placement.
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I was looking for a song and just typed "khd" in search box on home. The first suggestion was something in Arabic and layout switched to right to left.
Is this something regional or does everyone experiences it?
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Does not happen in Thailand (google.co.th).
The top entry is KHD International[^] and the whole first page is various pages on KHD website or something about KHD International.
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Just been to the shops, and the cashier caught her hand and got a paper cut.
"Ow!" she goes. "Paper cut!"
The woman behind me chimes in with "Nothing worse than a paper cut!"
Pardon? There are loads of things worse:
Being poked in the eye with a sharp stick - never tried it, but that's gotta be pretty bad.
Picking up a soldering iron by the wrong end. That's worse, trust me. And it smells.
Catching your gentleman's vegetables on the crossbar of a pushbike. That's much worse!
So why do we say things that are patently untrue?
"VB is a good programming language for the real world"
"Windows 8 is wonderful!"
"Apple are a technology based company"
And worse, why do we accept them without calling other people an elephanting moron? Guesses, anyone?
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OriginalGriff wrote: Picking up a soldering iron by the wrong end. That's worse, trust me. And it
smells.
Stop it! In the afternoon I want to solder a landing gear for the model Huey and I want to concentrate on the work without constantly thinking about frying my hand. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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You could wear big, thick oven gloves?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Great idea. That will also help me to be more precise
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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OriginalGriff wrote: "Apple are a technology based company"
Yeah that's patently untrue, it should be "Apple is a technology based company". 
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Good grief? Is they? 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: "Windows 8 is wonderful!"
Maybe as a whole it is not, but the "dism /online /cleanup-image /RestoreHealth" command that was added in Windows 8 is wonderful.
Cause it fixes the component store so that "sfc /scannow" will repair all corrupted system files.
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I've would've said that I had heard that childbirth was pretty painful.
I think that would've made the point, especially since the conversation was between two women.
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I dunno - I don't remember it hurting at all.
Mind you I was very young at the time, and my mother may have had a different opinion (particularly since I was a 13 pounder - 5.9kg - apparently!  )
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Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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dandy72 wrote: I've would've said that I had heard that childbirth was pretty painful.
That reminds me of a joke trying to determine which pain is worse childbirth or being kicked in the testicles.
The conclusion is that being kicked is worse because no man ever says in a year or two that they would like to go through it again.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
So why do we say things that are patently untrue?
Figure of speech.
It's their opinion.
It really doesn't matter.
Regardless of who's "right," it won't change anything.
Arguing just for the sake of it is pointless.
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OriginalGriff wrote: why do we accept them without calling other people an elephanting moron?
Because getting into an argument with a moron is pointless. Are you sure the other woman wasn't being sarcastic?
What annoys me are the seemingly automatic greetings (challenge/response) people use like ('How are you?' || 'What's going on?' || 'What are you doing/'). Worse, are the automatic responses to the common challenges, often with another challenge thrown in to be nice...'Fine, How are you?' (an honest answer to this challenge is mostly considered rude and in bad taste, so please just stick to the script!) && ('Nothing, What are you doing?' || 'Just working') (as if you had to ask!). One other one I hate is when someone says, 'I hate to bother you'... 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I think we say it to somehow make the person feel better but it doesn't work!
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OriginalGriff wrote: And worse, why do we accept them without calling other people an elephanting moron?
So presumably that's another shop that you're not allowed in, then? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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