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Vark111 wrote: On a sad side note, that whole idea - a "Change Approval Board" (with multiple members) - is not something I came up with off-the-cuff. My company actually has one. And every production change gets routed through them. Even a CSS color change.
There are contexts where this is appropriate.
A "sibling" company (same parent company) of ours makes medical laboratory clinical analyzers.
I want every change to something on which my (or my family member's) life may depend to be carefully considered before it is implemented/deployed!!!
Even CSS changes could cause something to be misinterpreted because the screen doesn't look the same as it used to...
A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.
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Agreed for medical device software. I'd even agree with, say, military software.
But I work for a marketing company. 
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Stop your bitching, a couple of our guys had to go on a 1 day course on how to raise a requisition, they just completed their first one, it took 3 weeks, was reject 3 times before they got all the i and t correct!
I just completed a workflow application to get sign off for a new product, it redused the turn around from 300+ days to a mere 90!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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If I don’t recognise a vegetarian girl, does that mean I never met herbivore?
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OriginalGriff wrote: I never met herbivore
And all those ![Sheep | [baah]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/sheep.gif) ? Aren't them herbivores? 
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My understanding is that they do like having the occasional piece of meat slipped to them, fnarr fnarr.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Yes. Possibly you will vegan a wonderful friendship with her, as well.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I never met herbivore?
Griff never met a herbivore? You've wined, dined and intertwined with them.
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Give her a BACON sandwich!
veni bibi saltavi
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Where are you getting these from? The back of a 1950's cornflake packet?
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Don't be silly, they didn't have herbivores/vegetarians back then! 
... and vegans were from the planet Vega and only appeared in SciFi magazines.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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If you had she'd have 'ung u later. (There's something to ruminate on)
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No, it means she's dumbly. Because, you know -
How do you know someone is vegetarian?
They will tell you.
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I hope I'll meat such a girl one day. We'd never have beef, but if we do I'll just liver and find another 
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Vegan all agree that when you meat, you still won't know.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I share your mourning.
Orjan Westin wrote: for our sword'n'sorcery spoof novel.
 Please elaborate...
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den2k88 wrote: Orjan Westin wrote: for our sword'n'sorcery spoof novel.
Please elaborate...
See Westala and Villtin (Wikipedia)[^] and The Tale of Westala and Villtin (TV Tropes)[^].
Terry was aware of us writing it, and when I was about to do a small print run (illustrated[^] by a RPG/fantasy/kids book illustrator), I talked to him in the bar at a convention, and by bribing him with salt liquorice, he agreed to give me a quote to put on the cover. Not having read any of it, but having talked to both of us on Usenet for years, he said:"These guys might be sane, for certain values of sane."
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Thanks, you gave me something new to read
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Orjan Westin wrote: These guys might be sane, for certain values of sane.
If Pterry said that to *me*, that would be the only sig I would use, even on a business card.
I expect to see your sig updated to read:
These guys might be sane, for certain values of sane. - Pterry [year] to self
veni bibi saltavi
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Heh. I'm not much for sigs outside usenet, but he was incredibly generous to his fans. He started out as a fan himself, and never stopped being one. He used to hang out on his fan group - alt.fan.pratchett - and participate like anyone else.
We once had a long discussion on a.f.p. about what art is, and in the end he said, IIRC, "I can live with your definition", which would be another siggable quote.
Terry even got me my only video game credit, by introducing me to his daughter, who knew someone who needed someone who could help with Vikings, Old Norse and modern Scandinavian languages.
If not for his fandom, which he did actively shape to be friendly, inclusive, honest, and inquisitive, I wouldn't have moved to the UK, and wouldn't have met almost all of my current friends.
And here I sit, lumpy-throated, in the office. I'll raise a glass to him tonight. He was a good human being.
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I have an engagement this evening but on my return to home a silent glass and little prayer will be said for his soul. I never had the chance to meet him and for that I am profoundly saddened, I picked up his writing around Equal Rites and have been firmly fixed ever since. 
veni bibi saltavi
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What an embuggerment!
Rest well, Sir Pterry, and many, many thanks for the funny and thought provoking books - you will be sorely missed. My sincere condolences to his family and friends. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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Damn.
Lot's of it.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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