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Well, I think we all know where bad ideas originate
... people talking out their butts.
... politicians who fail to consider the unintended consequences of their "great ideas".
But, I think what you really want is a way to :
Destroy Bad Ideas. 
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He clearly doesn't have a clue about the coffee houses in Amsterdam.
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I got an idea nine years ago. Waiting for the decade to complete, for it to materialize 
modified 26-Sep-15 13:09pm.
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I think it was Plato who said this but apparently every idea mankind has ever came up with has already been thought of by someone else for example wasn't it da vinci who originally came up with the helicopter and there was a man by the name of Shivkar Bāpuji Talpade who invented the airplane decades before the Wright brothers.
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It is great that you have heard of Shivkar Talpade. Not many know him in India, as there is not much publicity; and moreover, there are conscious attempts to distort history to the convenience of some 'intellectuals'.
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newton.saber wrote: How We Got To Now : Six Innovations That Made the Modern World - Steven Johnson[^]
James Burke's Connections Series (especially the first season, there are three) covers a lot of that.
Highly recommended.
As well as his other series, The Day the Universe Changed.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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Thanks, I will check those out.
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And I'm getting ready:
Helicopter cleaned, lubed and bagged... check
BEC battery charged ... check
Backup BEC battery charged ... check
Transmitter charged ... check
Transmitter battery loaded ... check
Camera checked and memory cleared ... check
Flight batteries charged ... waiting for the last two
Looks like I'm almost ready to go. For Griff I will try to get a decanted or deflagrated cow on video. If we can find a good soundtrack, I might patch together a little video clip of the results, but nobody wants to listen to the motor for a few minutes.
Edit:
Ready to go: With Ahnold's words...[^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
modified 26-Sep-15 9:40am.
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Soap it 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Weapons check ?
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I will wait with that until I have first person view. Don't tell the cows, but I did have a nice big steak yesterday. From the supermarket.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Could you please tell me if my account has been suspended? I cannot see the reputation history.
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If your account has been suspended, how could you log in?
The reputation history doesn't always appear, I am sure I have seen in a previous post it is something to do with the site load.
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Haha, just ran the traceroute myself... That's just awesome.
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while (true) {
continue;
}
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Grand National...bad for horses sometimes, but a great race 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Leaving on a 10 day vacation to Poland tomorrow morning! 
I'm taking the laptop though, so if I have free WiFi in the hotels you won't even know I'm gone...
And I'll be studying maths for an exam I've got next month...
Man, where's the time I could leave everything behind for a few weeks and just get out without worries? 
Anyway, when the hotels don't have free WiFi I'll see you all when I get back!
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What's your definition of a vacation?
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I'll be doing fun stuff during the day
And hopefully not too much studying in the evening... But I just HAVE to pass this exam, last shot
I bring the laptop just for fun. Mostly.
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I'm with Jörgen on this one, if this is a vacation what's work like?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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At work I'm not doing fun stuff during the day
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