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Movie Quote Of The Day
Close is a lingerie shop without a front window.
Which movie?
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Closer is a private room with Natalie Portman in the mentioned clothing.
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The naked gun?
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
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Erotic Linux
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Rambo LIX - Full Frontal Attack
veni bibi saltavi
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Maybe Q&A does serve a purpose, prevents us from being made extinct!
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Yes, and OG has completely misunderstood what we are trying to do here 
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Do you really want an AI developed by that lot?
Now imagine it in charge of the surgical robot that's about to fix your kidney...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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In the good case you are dead...In the worst you have an other pair of hands coming out of your...head...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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"Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, this is Captain Copynpaste welcoming you aboard our flight to Miami today. Our flight time should be about Null reference exception minutes, and we should be landing at around hah hah SQL Injection o'clock local time. So let's do up those seat belts and get this underground train in the air!"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Message Closed
modified 7-Mar-16 11:43am.
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cool 
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Wow! how long before they have an Austrian accent, can wear leather jackets & shades and want the keys to a motorcycle! 
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Message Removed
modified 7-Mar-16 11:48am.
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Message Removed
modified 7-Mar-16 11:48am.
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Message Removed
modified 7-Mar-16 11:48am.
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[^] The real dog knows that thing doesn't smell right 
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Consider a young family from a conflict region, consisting of a husband in his late teens, a wife in her early teens and two or three very young children, who washes up on our shores, in a figurative sense. Until they were displaced, the husband successfully supported his family. Because of the conflict in their homeland, the possibility of safely returning home are, at best, many years in the future. The father has very little education. The mother has never been to school. Neither can read, even in their native language. They do not speak English nor (for readers whose native language is other than English) the language of your country. They have no documentation of any kind - identity cards, marriage certificate, birth certificates, passports or anything else.
What do we do with them? How can we help them? What supports can we, or even, should we provide, as a society, to enable them to adapt to their "new normal"?
When one of my great-grandfathers arrived in New York, all he owned was a change of clothes and a coat. When my mother's parents arrived in New York, they brought two steamer trunks of possessions - but nothing more. They received zero in the way of services to help them. But the world was very different then: the ethnic communities in New York welcomed the newcomers, found them jobs and social assistance.
It is not that way any more. Americans have lost the sense of ethnic community that provided this help. So how do we help these new arrivals?
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
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I let this message through from the spam filter since it's not spam per definition.
But it's political in nature and belongs in the soapbox.
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I considered the soapbox, but too often all you see are rants. I was hoping for a serious discussion, as this is an issue that should transcend politics. (Of course, then there is the old Russian expression: "Everything is politics.")
Thank you for releasing it to the Lounge community.
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
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Jalapeno Bob wrote: I considered the soapbox, but too often all you see are rants
That's politics for you.
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Jalapeno Bob wrote: as this is an issue that should transcend politics.
The soapbox is exactly the right place for people who have ideas that they know what other people should be paying attention to.
Your writing suggests you know very little about the actual immigrant experience in a global context, but, hey, why bother yourself with mere facts when you can indulge yourself in moral homilies ?
Suggested reading: "Working" by Studs Terkel; "Ragtime" by E.L. Doctorow; "12 Years a Slave" by Solomon Northrup (the book, not the movie); "How the Other Half Lives" by Jacob Riis; "Angela's Ashes," by Frank McCourt.
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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