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Started with VAX/VMS in college, then used it at my first post-college job (Fortran and FMS Forms). Having that knowledge it what landed me my next job and brough me to South Carolina. Used it there heavily for about 6 years, then the primary system was replaced with a Windows based application. The system was still around for archival data, though.
I miss the simplicity and security of it...
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Yes it was an awesome system, used it for Assembler, C and C++ over the years.
I live in Beaufort!
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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In college, it was BASIC, COBOL, PASCAL, Assembler, RPG and Ingres.
At first job, it was Fortran and FMS.
Next job, Fotran, FMS and some C.
Now, Windows based platforms, mainly using a third party application.
I live in York, work in Charlotte.
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And you've just sent an email to RSE[^] 
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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I must remember to check those bloody shortcuts. 
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You really need to up your game with these scammers. Watch a few of Troy Hunt's[^] videos to get some ideas. 
"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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My father in law tries to keep phone salesmen on the phone as long as possible.
He never buys anything; he just enjoys wasting there time.
He also gets his credit card out and flips it end over end in his hand because it gets his wife upset.
"Larry, don't you buy anything.... Larry, put that card away....", she can be heard to say.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: So I let the guy blah blah for five minutes
5 minutes? Girl.
I had one on the phone for over 30 minutes in total (he actually called back)
I started up a VM when he first called, and (after lots of chat) allowed him to remote into the machine.
what joy there was to be had as he showed me all these system errors which "showed I had a virus" and then told me they could remotely install software to not only stop all the viruses I had, but also stop any future viruses.
I told him that sounded great, and all I had to do was give him my credit card number.
So I did.
I must have read it out wrong and given him the wrong name, because it wouldn't work at his end! (I even wrote teh fake number and name down so I could tell him the same one each time)
when he told me the number wasn't right, and I told him that was what was written on my card, he started to get quite angry!
That's when I told him to go f*** himself. He hung up.
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The last call I got from "Windows" about my computer was barely audible so I asked him to repeat himself and he gave himself a different name. I fell about laughing and he hung up.
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Use to get calls saying they could reduce my credit card payments. I would ask what credit card I had and they would hangup.
Another one I asked for the name of his lawyer as it is illegal to call cell phones with that type of call, he also hung up.
How rude of people to hangup like that. 
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Quote: When you saw a handsome/a beautiful person in a party, approach and told him/her: I’m rich, marry me. You call that direct marketing.
When you send your friend to tell him/her that you’re rich and want to marry him/her, that’s what you called advertising.
When you get his/her number and called him/her the following day to say that you’re rich and you want to marry him/her, you called that tele-marketing.
And finally, when a guy told a lady that he’s rich, marry me and the girl slapped him, that’s what you called customer’s feedback.
I hope you can open the link from here[^]
She even had punchlines for 'selfies'. 
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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When you saw a handsome/a beautiful person in a party, approach and told him/her: I’m rich, marry me. You call that direct marketing.
I call that Soliciting for Sex.
When you send your friend to tell him/her that you’re rich and want to marry him/her, that’s what you called advertising.
Pimping
When you get his/her number and called him/her the following day to say that you’re rich and you want to marry him/her, you called that tele-marketing.
Stalking and Sexual Harassment
And finally, when a guy told a lady that he’s rich, marry me and the girl slapped him, that’s what you called customer’s feedback.
Assault and Battery
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: I call that...
Different points of view I think.
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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No, just awareness of law and respect of the individual.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Okay. I just want to share the humor of the Senator. So, if you didn't see it as a laughing stuff, okay. Maybe, it's not funny for the other guys in here.
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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Pay no attention to him, he thinks he owns this place just because he's racked up a zillion points by posting inane crap, using the lounge like twitter and touting his wares. He's a wannabe poitician too. 
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I'm tempted to flag this as spam/abusive, because I don't like (presumably) reputable members of the CP hiding behind sock puppet accounts because they don't have the guts to post their opinions in their own name...
But I won't, because - let's face it - I don't really care enough to bother... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I'm far from reputable, but I dislike double standards as much as the next person
Most of his posts would have been flagged as spam or abusive had they been made by a low rep member
He and a couple of others have driven out most of the former regulars of the Lounge
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Dalek Dave wrote: Assault and Battery
...or Foreplay.
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There's a difference?
Will Rogers never met me.
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Somehow I think after reading that, there is a lot that has been "lost in translation"
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Again, different points of view I think.
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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That joke's been around for years before the person the OP attributed it to regurgitated it. It's not lost in translation, merely lame.
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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Opened link, saw ad for Paris Hilton, closed link.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Third![^]
Still, held the deposit, unlike the Lib Dems.
As you can see, they do not count the labour vote, they weigh it!
Roll on 2015 and I get my home ward of Limbury!
(That is a winnable ward).
To Victory![^]
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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